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Strange New Worlds Is the Star Trek We Need Right Now — Review
It’s a bold new era for Star Trek on Paramount+ and with Star Trek: Strange New Worlds we finally get something perfectly familiar.
A little more than a dozen years ago, J.J. Abrams told the world he was going to be taking his talents to Star Trek. It had been a few years since the last of the “Next Generation” series went off the air. (The criminally underrated Enterprise, or the one with that theme song.) Since then, we’ve gotten a lot of Star Treks: Discovery, Picard, Lower Decks, Prodigy, and Short Treks. These series tell different sorts of stories, strike different tones, and have made Star Trek a fresher and more diverse franchise than ever. Yet, with Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, we are all finally getting the show we wanted. A bunch of pretty people on the USS Enterprise exploring space week to week, getting into scrapes, being brave, and giving speeches. Looking to the stars and making the folks at home feel like the future is bright and exciting.
Akiva Goldsman and company have finally cracked the code to how to do that given the tumultuous state of Trek fandom at the moment. Fans of things with “Star” in the name usually can always find something to complain about. That said, Strange New Worlds feels like it could be a phenomenon from back in the 1990s glory days. While this could be said about all…
