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Star Trek Strange New Worlds Season 3 Reaction: Episode 4

    Star Trek Strange New Worlds Season 3 Reaction: Episode 4 A Space Adventure Hour The music in the opening is very TOS-esqe.  Also the alternate opening us obviously based on TOS famous opening.  Star Trek Discovery played around with holographic technologies (waaay before they should have existed in the Star Trek Universe...), and yes, The Animated Series had one episode with a "recreation room" that was essentially a proto-holodeck.  The yellow empty holodeck grid is a nice callback to TNG's holodeck (the actual first holodeck), as is characters becoming trapped in the holodeck and out of communication with the ship (TNG's "The Big Goodbye" and "Ship in a Bottle".  Creating a holodeck mystery based on a period novel is very much derivative of TNG's "Elementary, Dear Data" (my all-time favorite holodeck episode BTW).  Also, using the main actors to play alternate characters as well as their own characters (partly as a  cost-cuttin...