I just want to spend a couple minutes to post a quick bit about how much I’ve been enjoying this third season of Strange New Worlds as of late. Yes, we had another wacky Spock episode that these people like to write because they’re such uncreative hacks (with another one on the way – fuck me), but beyond that, there have been some decent episodes.
Naturally, the season premiere puts the Gorn to bed so that we can forget about them… except not really because of Captain Plot Device and the Gorn babies in her. We introduce a new guy in the second episode for the sole purpose of killing him in the fifth. We have an episode that gives us Jim Kirk’s first taste of actual command and it goes about as well as you’d expect… hell, even the holodeck episode was actually a fun little romp.
Yes, there are some things that is keeping on yellow alert when it comes to this show. And apparently, my Paramount Plus subscription goes up just in time for them to lay down the other comedic Spock episode because the universe hates me… but otherwise, I can safely say that Season 3 is a far deal better than the second season and its atrocious swings at stupidity.
That, and no musicals… good job.
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