Star Trek Strange New Worlds Season 3 Reaction: Episode 5

Star Trek Strange New Worlds
Season 3 Reaction: Episode 5

 

Through the Lens of Time

I like the log entries/POV at he beginning from a junior officer's perspective.  We haven't seen something like that in trek for quite some time (Lower Decks notwithstanding).  An away team going down to archaeological dig and actually discovering stuff is a refreshing change at this point in the series.  It's episodes like this where the show actually lives up to it's name, showing the ship and crew exploring Strange New Worlds.  Sadly, such episodes are becoming too rare at this point in the series.  The away team getting trapped/separating and having to science their way out or their predicament is also very classic trek.  The fight in sickbay between possessed Ensign Gamble and possessed Batel definitely gives me vibes of DS9's "The Reckoning" with prophet-possessed Kira and Pah Wraith possessed Jake Sisko.  Sad that in the end they had to kill the nurse/ensign (Gamble) to defeat the entity.  I would have liked to have found out more about the being or force that possessed Batel and what it's potential connection to the Gorn is.  A sequel to this storyline might be cool.

Observation: modern trek has an annoying tendency to drag out ongoing storylines/threads to the point they just get tiring.  The current season of season of Strange New Worlds is already doing this with the Chapel-Spock-Korby relationship/triangle, as well as the Batel-Gorn storyline.  I miss the old days of truly episodic storytelling sometimes.