The Best Trek In Decades Doesn’t Miss A Beat

For 60 years, “Star Trek” has been stubbornly and stunningly refused to be one thing. Ask three fans what they value Gene Roddenberry’s science fiction universe, and probably get very different answers, probably delivered with great, length. It is a world built to inspire a deep passion – it is extensive enough, deep enough to be fascinatingly and sufficiently inconsistent to keep all of the chosen and nitpecking, because only true lovers were able to.

The beautiful and inspiring thing in the “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds” movie is how it circulates the needle. Yes, it is a prequel series set at a certain time and place and has to constantly be bent back to fit the established canon, but it makes such a gentle, relaxed mercy that newcomers can enjoy it without problems. At no time does it seem to be trying too hard to appeal to old school fans and beginners, even though it does so with apple. It’s a series with no flop sweat. It is rare to watch any television program and experience a clean, rich feeling of joy. Not only over the storytelling and the characters, but also how it respects and loves the universe in which it is placed. This is a show designed to appeal to the three fans described above to an equal extent.

“Star Trek: Strange New Worlds” season 3 does not interrupt or stumble even for a second, taking an amazing, fun and refreshing second season with the confidence of the exhibition that knows that it is as good as it is. Earlier seasons confirmed this as the best “Trek” series from the 90s (with all respects to the magnificent “Star Trek: Lower Cover”), and season 3 is like an experienced athlete at the top of his game. Damn, he is good and too charming and humble even remotely.

As expected, “Strange New Worlds” must be wrapped in a dramatic rock exchanger from the 2 finals of the season before it returns it best: telling you one -off space adventures that range from the shade to genre to the episode, offering a similar whip that has always been a defining feature of the “Trek” series. Season 3 enjoys the opportunity to mock the audience in one direction in another. Strong, action -driven war stories give the way to the playful, silly character comedy. Dark stories about ethical problems that come home to the roost leads to limiting the canon to metascuses about the nature of the series we look at. And after all, why No A giant dose of cosmic space horror used enough fear to get HP Lovecraft to rise from their grave?

The show that plays so fast and loose in voice could be the perfect chaos (sometimes “Strange New Worlds” is deliberately chaotic), but it wisely focuses on all the largest swings around a stunning, charming and yes, exceptionally photogenic actor. Anson Mount’s Captain Christopher Pike, this season, is a surprising new floor that shocks some “Trek” fans, is still one of the best wires that the show has ever seen, and his “business relaxed” behavior and positive masculinity provide a unique taste that differs from the wild and Picard like Picard. As a young spock, Ethan Peck continues impossible by constantly reminding us of why everyone loves Leonard Nimoya, carving their own path. Not every actor can capture dead humor and false deliveries that get the best Vulcan characters in life, and Peck is there with his best.

The rest of the actors still shine when Rebecca Romijn, Christina Chong, Jess Bush, Celia Rose Gooding and Babs Olusanmoku all reinforce that this is a bridge crew (and yes, worthy of fan fiction and cosplay positions). And after two seasons, when it is largely allowed (colorfully and cheerfully) in the background, season 3 finally gives Melissa Navia Ortegas to the season -long spotlight that she is so desperately needed.

As much as I miss the seasons of 26 episodes, it cannot be denied that “Strange New Worlds” is a series that enjoys every penny to the screen during shorter seasons. For decades after Kirk and Spock stumbled through the cardboard and fought for monsters made from blankets, the slippery production values ​​of this series will never cease to influence, especially when they re -create familiar ones. Starfleet uniforms have never looked so good, the company has never been so cool, and every foreigner and creature, either implemented in practice or through digital effects, is a pleasure to see. I never get used to the “Trek” application, which seems to cost real money, but the mix of standing series and virtual backgrounds is completely successful and usually feels more convincing and concrete than the average episode of “Mandaloria”. (What was, “Trek” fan, I’m not going to take at least one swipe in a prestigious competition?)

But maybe the most interesting element of season 3, now that the show is so nice to be what it is, is how it covers the new one. Without going to spoilers, the series continues to utilize old thugs (some scary, some cheerful), but it also introduces a new threat that is as shocking as anything we have ever seen at the “Trek” event. At the risk of Hyperbole, it seems that the show has finally found Borg or its control, a new threat that can allow, to give the screen a whole new, fully cooling antagonist to call its own. Even looking at it “Strange New Worlds” is looking forward to.

Critics were submitted to the first five “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds” episodes, and when I was deliberately finished once a day to last, I was annoyed that “Star Trek” would end. This is a good and perhaps even the best problem for every show. “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds” season 3 is hopeful and funny and exciting and stupid and thoughtful and scary and strange and wonderful … and I can’t wait to watch more.

/Movie rating: 9.5/10

“Star Trek: Strange New Worlds” season 3 Premiers in two periods on July 17, 2025 in Paramount+.