Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, Season 3

Sorry! She's not the navigator: she's the pilot.

Looking forward to it. It has some flaws but it's nonetheless enjoyable to watch. Of the latest crop this is certainly the best. (I did enjoy the TNG season on Picard even more. But that was just one season.)

well hiss on you OP... you excluded Rebecca Romjin as Number 1. She's amazing. I have loved Romjin - as much as a gay man can love a woman - for years and years.

Dr. Roger Korby--with an accent I could not place (Scottish? Northern English)--makes a guest appearance in episode 2, and so does another surprise visitor from TOS (though they never identify him by name, but the actor they got is a dead ringer for the actor who originally played him).

Lt. Ortegas is even more like Che Diaz than ever this season. Soon she'll be finger-banging Lt. Uhura and delivering stand-up comedy routines about how she's fucked every woman on the Enterprise.

I looked online, and the accent of both Roger Korby and the actor who plays him is Irish.

The premiere episode was a pretty good ride. La'an blowing a Gorn's head off with a phaser (set to kill -- one of the few times in the franchise that's happened) was wild. For a moment, it seemed like Ortegas was going to join Tasha Yar.

The second episode was a good throwback to the original show. I didn't know SNW would bring back Trelane, so that was a great twist. John De Lancie voicing his dad confirms Trelane is a Q; it also makes the Peter David Next Gen novel "Q-Squared," which features Q and Trelane, sort of canon.

I just finished season 1 on Pluto? and really liked it. Plenty of references to TOS. The season finale was a time jump to TOS era, Kirk was captain of the Farragut. There was an engineer heard off screen with a Scottish accent. My favorite callout was in an earlier episode with T’Pring and standing behind her was a guy who could be immediately identified as the one her character conspired with in Amok Time (I think that was the episode). His 60s haircut was unmistakable.

I think they do a good job of mixing different series like “No 1” was in the TOS Pilot and she had long dark hair but it turns out she’s one of the forbidden genetically modified humans that was an episode of TNG (I think).

One thing I absolutely hate is the implacable villain, the Gorn. Just a more primitive Borg. So boring.

I have never been in favor of retconning everything to tie series into each other. But I am surprised that they didn't attempt to link the Gorn as an evolutionary origin to Species 8472. Their appearance is rather similar, and based on what I have seen so far in TOS and SNW, the Gorn aren't very communicative with humans either.

[quote] One thing I absolutely hate is the implacable villain, the Gorn. Just a more primitive Borg. So boring.

It's disappointing that in this season opener they defeat the Gorn the exact same way they did with the Borg in the second part of the famous "Best of Both Worlds" two-parter on TNG: by tricking them into going dormant.

The best part of this new series is the character development, but the actual plotting often evokes too many storylines we've seen before.

Well summarized! Plots are the weaker link of the show while character description is not too bad.

The first two episodes were okay. Honestly, I loath the Chapel/Spock plot line it's way too soap opera. Like really, in the middle of a massive crisis trying to save Pike's girlfriend Spock and Chapel spend 5 minutes talking about their relationship troubles?