This article delves into the details of the fourth season of Star Trek: Lower Decks. There’s a risk when using the word “should” that we’re a short leap away from a tantrum to enforce the boundaries of What Proper Star Trek(™). But after watching most of the fourth season of Star Trek: Lower Decks, it feels like the show’s prospects are among the most Star Trek-ish of the bunch. Part of this is because the show is mature enough to laugh at itself, and part of it is now allowing…

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Please note that the information provided below includes spoilers for the book “Under the Cloak of War.” “Some things break in a way that can never be fixed, only managed.” It’s the last line in a powerful episode of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds. “Under the Cloak of War” presents many questions about memory, grief and redemption — echoing this season’s main obsessions — that it fails to answer. For some shows this would be a bad thing, but Strange New Worlds is becoming more comfortable living with ambiguity. Even…

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Since the announcement of the second season of Strange New Worlds, the main attraction has been the crossover episode with the animated sitcom Lower Decks. This episode features Tawny Newsome (Mariner) and Jack Quaid (Boimler) bringing their animated characters into the realm of live action. After being shown in advance at Comic-Con, the episode is now accessible for viewing on Paramount Plus. The following article contains spoilers for “Those Old Scientists”. There’s an SNL sketch where William Shatner himself tells a room full of Star Trek fans to “Get a…

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The subsequent article reveals plot details for the movie “Lost in Translation.” Late last month I got off my bike and hit the edge of my head in a pretty dramatic accident. It left me with a concussion, a bruised face and quite a bit of memory loss, including everything about the event itself. Four weeks later, I’m still struggling, and while I’m getting better every day, it’s a slow process to recovery. So it’s fitting that this week’s Strange New Worlds touches on this relationship with our memories. The…

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The article about “The Broken Circle” includes information that may reveal important plot points. The first season of Strange New Worlds may have stumbled out of the gate, but it outdid itself with each subsequent episode. Based on its backlog of episodes alone, it could easily be called the best live-action Trek of the streaming era. This feat was staggering, especially when it came with the nightmare of being a sequel to Discovery, a prequel to Star Trek, and fans who weren’t enamored of its serial stablemates. It quickly found…

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