It is possible to have too much of a good thing.
In terms of ”Star Trek: Strange New World’s ”Season 3 and reviews the foamy, without problems with looking at the first five episodes gives this reviewer to the inevitable conclusion. This is The show that brought fun back to “Star Trek,” that brought back Astronomical Alchemy of Gene Roddenberry’s “Original Series” and Rick Berman’s “90s” Trek “series In a way, most viewers thought they would never see again. You can hold a mirror in our community and Has a lighter, pop art -colored rush; You can inspire deep emotions along with genuine tensions.
However, the equation is missing the deep feeling from Season 3 of “Strange New Worlds”, as well as the Mirror -än despite a character that literally says in a section that sci-fi can make us take a closer look at our own world.
All that is left is the fun. Hi, who are we going to complain when it’s a show this fun? But “Star Trek” has always had the capacity to be more, and so has this show: This series has given us incredibly complex episodes that discuss our own social moment (goes so far to say that the 23rd century historians labeled US in the 2020s as in a ‘second civil war’), an exciting legal drama about personal freedom, and in “Tomorrow and Tomorrow” “one of the most soulful of all” Trek “episodes, one that really turns Kirk into a romantic hero for eternity.
Instead, during the first half of season 3, “Strange New Worlds” chooses to maintain that surface level.
The season picks up immediately after the last framework in Season 2 Cliffhanger, with a number of the company crew captured by Gornet and the ship itself was heated by Gorn Attack Craft. The action develops in an undeniably smart way-season 3 continues to be smart, but is never really thought-provoking-with a resolution on this story that feels very “hiking” and a lot of LED wall CGI Mush that feels sludge and like everyone else TV Production today. A number of stories are set from these events related to ongoing physical and psychological trauma due to Gornet, for which your interest level may vary.
The cast is uniformly amazing, as always. Anson Mount provides a structure and integrity to its cap. Pike that puts him among the best “Star Trek” series ever. Previous “Trek” series did so much to note that their leaders have life beyond the captain’s chair, have thoughts beyond their captain’s log -Picard’s love for classical music and Dixon Hill detective stories, Sisko’s role as a father and his interest in his heritage and in archeology, Arch’s Baby “Rosem The franchise started as a streaming property in 2017, Mount’s Pike is the only one that really fits in their rank. He gives so much more to the role than just the delivery of dialogue, finding gestures and expressive shades that convey far beyond what could ever be on the page alone. His romantic relationship with Captain Batel (Melanie Scropano) is a particularly good way to further explore dimensions of both characters.
Babs Olusanmokun continues to get dimension and depth, even rolled up threat, because Dr. M’Benga, whose remarkable season 2 episodes that resulted in him quite obviously flat-out murder a Klingon war criminal is rapidly passed in season 3. Jess Bush’s nurse chapel is never less than riveting, in any way fun and serves in the most perfect “trink”. Christina Chongs La’an is one of the great humor-by-way-repression characters that the franchise has ever given us.
And during Ethan Peck’s extraordinary control of the character, Spock has become everything except a Jane Austen hero, someone whose stiff control of his feelings and compliance with the most stringent code of conduct corresponds to a barely remaining sensuality. He is “Pride and prejudice” palm as a full -fledged character. (You can’t even imagine that Leonard Nimoy is doing a better job of delivering the line “I don’t need a bacchanale.”) So much of this show is now about his romantic occupations, or those who persecute him, and it works.
Spending time with these characters feels like spending time with friends. What is missing are really meaningful stories to put them in, and culminated in a very incredible section containing zombies. “Star Trek” doesn’t have to, now or ever, zombies. An archaeological excavation section “Escape Room” is also not much better.
One of the absolute triumphs in one section is the one that is just about being a lark: “Trek” should probably have its “larch” sections and then more serious sections, which gives us a lot of tones while keeping them distinct. This special “LARK” episode, Directed masterfully as always by Jonathan FrakesInvolves corporate testing of a Holodeck (not a spoiler, its distinct grid pattern was seen in the official teaser) via an Agatha Christie-style Whodunn that La’an must solve.
But it is not only a Christie style mystery, it is a set in the 1960s Hollywood and about a murder of the set of a space adventure show which is basically just a correct “original series”, with “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” style that is abundant. It is an absolute blast, and it is reminiscent that through these first five episodes we do not get enough Rebecca Romijn as the first officer number one or Celia Rose Goodings Uhura. This show has always been good at spreading wealth, so they are likely to have their moments before Season 3 covers. And wait until you see who Mount plays in the Holodeck episode.
That part is amazing, but even, hanging over all five of these sections is a whiff of “what is this show If Now? ”The relative lack of substance across the line cannot help to feel like a police officer for a show that has been able to much more. decision to wrap the series after a fifth season with six episodes Shots later this year is good.
After the five episodes that we have shown from Season 3, there are probably only 21 episodes left. Let’s hope, with a real plan, Showrunners Akiva Goldsman and Henry Alonso Myers can really make them count.
Rating: B-
“Star Trek: Strange New Worlds“Season 3 premiered at the 2025 Tribeca Festival. It will stream on Paramount+ from July 17Releases a new episode each week.
