STAR TREK: STRANGE NEW WORLDS Season Three

Where someone has gone before

- Richard Edwards

What is Strange New Worlds' core mission? If the Discovery spin-off's prime directive is to provide an origin story for James T Kirk's legendary crew, then season three delivers. But fulfilling those famous promises to seek out new life and new civilisations? Not so much. Based on the evidence presented here, the final frontier is a very small place. During this particular assortment of voyages, Captain Pike and co regularly bump into familiar faces, including the Gorn, chip-off-the-old-Q Trelane and Nurse Chapel's soon-to-be-late fiancé Roger Korby. Throw in a young Montgomery Scott taking up residence in engineering, and you can't move for legacy characters.