Night of the Hats

  Star Trek: Strange New Worlds: Season Three An element of Strange New Worlds ’ 10 episode seasons is that it can never seem to find a status quo. There aren’t really any episodes where the crew arrive on a planet and solve a problem, and any character storylines are a C-plot that has them thinking about the next step. This has come fully to the fore in this season, where every episode feels like multiple characters confronting their past; having to make big choices that effect the future; and/or has a big weird gimmick that consumes the whole episode. This leads to curiosities such as the show being 10% about Spock’s lovelife*. He spends more time dealing with his relationships with Christine Chapel and La’an Noonien-Singh than solving science problems (his nominal job) the bulk of the rest being putting him in scenes with Jim Kirk (first officer of the Farragut and once and future captain of the Enterprise) to see what kind of chemistry they have together (fine). The purp...