Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Episode 8 Review

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One of the most impressive things about the first eight episodes of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds is that there haven't been many «dud» episodes. Unfortunately, it appears that the series was due. «The Elysian Kingdom» is a bit of a diversion from the rest of the season as the crew suddenly finds themselves donning some rather garish costumes and forgetting entirely who they are. As has been the case with other episodes of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, the story is very reminiscent of the original series and for that alone, it gets some high marks. The show has done a marvelous job of capturing the feel of the original series and what made Star Trek so popular so many years ago.

However, even the original Star Trek wasn't a home run episode every single week. There were some stinkers, and it appears in even this regard, Strange New Worlds is paying a kind of homage. That doesn't mean that «The Elysian Kingdom» was a particularly bad episode. There were even some touching moments. The episode simply wasn't all that interesting, and there were definitely some rather major plotholes when it came to the science and the medicine involved in the story.

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Things start out innocuously enough, as the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise is checking out a spacial body that even Captain Pike believes is about as benign as can be. He even makes a comment that he's looking forward to having a nice quiet time after spending several weeks in all kinds of different missions. Of course, as is usually the case, any character that says this kind of thing is bound to jinx the issue. The show does make a rather humorous joke where Spock even comments that it appears Pike did jinx the ship when it suddenly