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Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Silliest Episode Might Also Be Its Most Emotional
Although it has largely treated its characters with great care in its debut season, Star Trek: Strange New World’s general sense of episodic breeziness has also given those characters a light touch — moments of highlights, but nothing too deep with our crewmates. This week’s episode changes that, wrapping up one of its most sincere…
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Strange New Worlds Went Full Star Trek Disaster Movie, and It Ruled
So far, so Star Trek: Strange New Worlds has given us a really solid formula between riffing on classic Trek premises and taking one of its main characters for a little deeper dive along the way. This week is no exception, but with an especially great riff: What if modern Star Trek did its own…
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Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Uses Ukrainian Protest Footage to Depict Alien Riot
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds heads to the franchise’s past to tell adventure stories for a bright, optimistic future — but its very first episode has looked to our own recent history to provide a proxy that has some very unfortunate connotations.
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Strange New Worlds’ Opening Titles Are a Star Trek Nostalgia Assault
Ironically, by being so different from all the other Star Trek shows going on right now, Strange New Worlds’ wholehearted embrace of the nostalgia for the original Star Trek is what’s making it stand out from the pack — and its new opening titles are no exception, a gorgeous riff on classic Trek in a…