Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Episode 7 Review

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One of the really fun things about Star Trek: Strange New Worlds being set in a timeline that's long before James T. Kirk and the rest of the crew of the enterprise that fans know so well take the helm, is that space can be portrayed as a kind of wild west. Of course, this particular time, the space of Strange New Worlds is more like a Pirates of the Caribbean or even Guardians of the Galaxy movie. In fact, the seventh episode of this season, titled «The Serene Squall» looks quite a bit like the last Guardians of the Galaxy movie with all the pirates that were involved.

There was also a comedic element to some of this episode of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds that might have actually worked a little better because GOTG came before it. The episode is most fun because the gang of pirates that briefly take over the Enterprise is a truly eclectic group that all look a bit weird. They are also clearly not all that smart, which is also why the episode doesn't work quite as well as one would hope when it comes to an episode of Star Trek. GOTG was fun because it was supposed to be a comedy. Strange New Worlds is supposed to be a bit more grounded and less slapstick.

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The crew of the Enterprise starts off the episode believing they are going on a rescue mission after a spunky doctor tells them that she was with a group of colonists that were attacked by pirates. However when the crew ends up going to where the colonists were, Captain Pike and the rest of the away team are taken prisoner, while another team of pirates are able to seize control of the Enterprise in what is actually a pretty good plan.

Of course, the pirate takeover is only part of a bigger plot that involves what