Star Trek Strange New Worlds Season 3 Reaction: Episode 4

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  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-cutting measure) has been done before in Trek (DS9's "Our Man Bashir", "Far Beyond the Stars").  Speaking of "Far Beyond the Stars", the episodes story, a period piece commenting on the production of a 1960's scifi show "The Last Frontier" is very obviously inspired by Sisko/Benny Russells troubles publishing "Deep Space Nine", a novel about a space station called "Deep Space Nine", as well as by the creation of Star Trek itself.  The storyline is different enough from all of those to keep it entertaining.  

Other observations:  it's really nice to see some more of "new" Scotty, as some emotional depth from La'an.  Not so sure about the dancing subplot, it's giving me memories of Dr. Crusher.  I did actually appreciate the producer credits being at the end instead of the title credits.  

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