As you all know, or should by now, I am a huge Star Trek fan. I have been since I was 5 years old and saw the very first episode. I was transported to a different world, a different time, a future with immense possibilities.
Since then Star Trek has continued to never disappoint, with its many movies and spinoffs. New generations continue to discover the greatness that I have always known.
The newest incarnation, Strange New Worlds gives us amazing insight to beloved characters. A glimpse of their origins, we finally get the fully story of Captain Pike, we first heard of him in Star Trek the Original Series.
The Menagerie gave us all a small inkling of what came before. Before Captain Kirk, Spock, Uhura, Bones, Chekov, Sulu and even Nurse Chapel.
What formed the Enterprise we all know and love, what made Spock, well, Spock, the unrequited love Christine Chapel had for him. That just didn’t happen overnight, and now we know.
This series gives us the answers we never knew we needed. Anson Mount as Christopher Pike is a breath of much needed fresh air. We all know this series has an experation date and it does not skirt around that. It comes back to it time and again, we know what happens to him. If you are new to the Star Trek world please watch the Original series, you will love it.
This show is well written, well acted, well directed and the story lines honor our beloved series that started everything.
We have finished the second season of Strange New Worlds and it just keeps getting better and better.
I don’t want to give too much away, but there is a musical episode that rivals Buffy the Vampire Slayer’s Once More with Feeling. So much so that I had to google if anyone from that world was in the writing room. No one that I can find so far, there is a throwaway line about bunnies. If you know, you know.
We see Spock as a science officer, not the captains number one, we see Uhura as a newly minted communications officer, we see Christine Chapel as the amazing nurse she always was.
The characters are as we love them but more nuanced, we get background information that we never knew we needed. But we did and we love it. We also get to see Number One, the one in the Menagerie, she is, of course, a move well rounded character than we first met.
When I say it is literally one of the best spinoffs of the Original, that is not hyperbole, that is fact.
Pike knows he has an expiration date, he know what will happen to him in the future and he is not trying to change his fate. Refreshing in a show that delves into time travel and changing the past and the future.
One of the best parts is directing each episode with my nephew, Todd. He has insights that I missed and sometimes I have to rewatch the episodes to see what he caught that I didn’t. Before you think he is young, he’s older than I am and retired military. He looks at the show with different eyes than I do and catches things I don’t and I hope vice versa.
I look forward to the writers and actors strike to be done as Season 3 has been given the green light.
Until then I urge you to watch, it is on Paramount +, the only reason I pay for the subscription is they have ALL of the Star Treks. Well worth the price of admission.
Angie World 