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Star Trek: Strange New Worlds – Memento Mori

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“Memento Mori” has the feel of a submarine battle deep under the ocean which also works as a callback to the memorable space battle in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. We begin on Starfleet Remembrance Day with the Enterprise arriving to offer support to a settlement that has been attacked, unaware the survivors are only bait left by the Gorn. Offering a tense and action-packed episode, “Memento Mori” follows the trend of using the story to explore the past of a specific member of the crew. This time its Lieutenant La’an Noonien-Singh (Christina Chong), one of the few victims of the Gorn ever to make it out alive.

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Star Trek: Strange New Worlds – Ghosts of Illyria

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“Ghosts of Illyria” offers a couple of classic Star Trek themes with members of the away mission trapped on the planet and a mysterious illness sweeping through the starship after members of the ship visit the abandoned colony on Hetemit IX. With Pike (Anson Mount) and Spock (Ethan Peck) trapped on the planet during a storm, command of the ship falls to the capable Number One (Rebecca Romijn) who is revealed to be a genetically-altered Illyrian like those who once lived on the colony. Because of her advanced physiology, she is able to burn through the infection quickly but the rest of the crew isn’t nearly as lucky.

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Star Trek: Picard – The Star Gazer

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Despite his enjoyment in the stars last season, Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart) has returned home to his vineyard and awkward relationships. But not to fret, a new menace (which just coincidentally involves several of the characters from last season) has happened deep in space and Starfleet pulls the admiral back into action once more. “The Star Gazer” is mostly set-up, focusing on Picard’s life back on Earth and teasing just what the threat may be. The reveal turns out to be something as a red herring as the characters aren’t going to fight what come through the hole in space but instead the new lives in which they find themselves trapped in an alternate timeline far different than they remember.

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Star Trek: Strange New Worlds – Children of the Comet

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Our first real episode of seeing the crew of the Enterprise on a mission involves the crew’s attempt to divert a comet from hitting an inhabited world in the Persephone system only to discover defenses on the comet and a ship of highly-advanced aliens who worship it and refuse to let anyone alter its divine path. The episode is most notable for giving us Cadet Uhura‘s (Celia Rose Gooding) first away mission and exploring a bit of her path towards Starfleet. While not certain she’s found a permanent home in Starfleet at the beginning of the episode, she’s far more comfortable with her choices and role aboard the Enterprise by the episode’s conclusion.

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Star Trek: Discovery – Kobayashi Maru

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Our first look at Michael Burnham (Sonequa Martin-Green) in the captain’s chair offers a pair of risky adventures for the U.S.S. Discovery as well as introducing a new looming threat for the season arc. In the shorter opening segment, diplomacy gets a bit tricky for Michael and Book (David Ajala) with the butterfly people of Alshain IV which Michael solves with a risky proposition that ultimately pans out. Later she’ll need to make similar calls when Discovery is sent on a rescue mission from a Federation Space Station spinning out of control after its encounter with some kind of spatial anomaly. Along for the longer mission is the new Federation President (Chelah Horsdal) who tags along to evaluate the ship’s captain.

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