Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Episode 3 Review

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It was bound to happen at some point but Star Trek: Strange New Worlds finally ran across an episode that was good, but not great. In fact, the episode felt a bit rushed, which is strange considering that each episode of this Star Trek spinoff are long enough that there's usually plenty of room to jam in plenty of story. It doesn't bode all that well that it only took three episodes for Strange New Worlds to deliver a less than impressive episode, but the show can be forgiven somewhat because even a subpar episode is better than quite a bit of other television these days.

While Captain Pike and company seemed to be offering something that wasn't as good as its first two weeks, it was going up against the season finale of a Halo series that had been pretty good, right up until the last episode of the year. So far, this new show is boldly going where no sci-fi show has gone so far this year and that's to a place where even when a show isn't all that good, it still has something to offer up to the diehard fans of the franchise who have been hoping to see a program that appears very, very close in tone to the original journeys of the Enterprise.

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This time around the crew of the Enterprise has been dispatched to try and save a planet of aliens that want to join the Federation but aren't being allowed to because they tend to genetically modify themselves. It's not explicitly laid out but this appears to be a direct reaction to the Eugenics Wars that are well-known canon when it comes to Star Trek. It is, after all that period of time in earth's history that birthed none other than Khan. It's been obvious from very early on that the Eugenics Wars were going to play a part in the show since