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Season 10

July 18, 2022

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds S1 E10 ”Quality Of Mercy”

In the season finale of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, Pike travels forward in time to a future where he has avoided the disastrous explosion that the time-crystals of Boreth showed him. He is sent there by his future self to learn how that alteration t...

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July 4, 2022

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds S1 E 9 ”All Those Who Wander”

NO ONE DIES IN THIS EPISODE. I PROMISE.    The above statement is a lie. In this penultimate episode of the season, Enterprise is called to an L-class planet to rescue a Federation ship that has crashed there. A landing party goes down, it's icy and cold...

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June 29, 2022

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds S1 E8 ”Elysian Kingdom”

Sometimes you just need to get away from it all. Sometimes, you're working so hard on a cure for your terminally ill child that you're just worn out to the bone. Sometimes, a noncorporeal god-like entity living inside of a massive nebula makes the story-...

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June 20, 2022

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds S1 E7 ”The Serene Squall”

So... how do we feel about pirates?!!? Cool pirates with face tattoos and a stunning command of language and charisma who are, incidentally, posing as an aid worker in order to lure Enterprise out of Federation territory and take over the ship and sell t...

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June 6, 2022

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds S1 E5 ”Spock Amok”

Shenanigans! Rigamarole! HIJINKS!!!   That is the basis of this fifth episode of the season. Enterprise is docked at Starbase 1 for some much needed repairs and also much needed R&R for the crew.    Spock has big ideas of spending some *quality time* wit...

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May 24, 2022

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds S1 E3 ”Ghosts Of Illyria”

Everybody's got secrets! As the Enterprise explores an abandoned Illyrian colony planet for evidence of what happened to the gene-experimenting people, Spock and Pike are trapped down on the planet by an ion storm and the Enterprise is beset by a strange...

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May 16, 2022

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds S1 E2 ”Children Of The Comet”

Cadet Uhura attends a dinner at the captain's table with a bunch of senior staff and other officers during which she admits that though she beat out several thousand applicants for the job on Enterprise, she might not be "all that Star Fleet."   Meanwhil...

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May 11, 2022

Star Trek Strange New Worlds S1E1 ”Strange New Worlds”

It all begins with Una (AKA Number One) goes missing on a routine First Contact mission. Pike, who has been roughing it out in the wild with a beard and a lady-friend, gets the call to return to the Enterprise and find out what went wrong. Then he calls ...

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