- Title: Star Trek: Strange New Worlds – Lift Us Where Suffering Cannot Reach
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“Lift Us Where Suffering Cannot Reach” has the feel of a mix between a classic Star Trek episode (with the captain making sweet, sweet love to an alien woman) and one from Star Trek: The Next Generation (dealing with alien customs in conflict with Starfleet directives and human morality) when Captain Pike (Anson Mount) is reunited with a woman he saved years ago. Saving Alora (Lindy Booth) again leads to problematic discoveries about her idyllic world involving a chosen child (Ian Ho) who is destined to save their world albeit by paying a terrible price which is hidden from Starfleet for most of the episode.
While not as strong as the previous couple of episodes, “Lift Us Where Suffering Cannot Reach” still fits well into the First Season of the show as it fills in a bit of Pike’s past (and offers more references to his future). We also get the return of Rukiya (Sage Arrindell) who gets to play wit the young First Servant before returning to the transporter buffer. The Enterprise’s encounter with Majalis also leaves Dr. M’Benga (Babs Olusanmokun) hopeful that a cure for his daughter may be possible.
