Star Trek Strange New Worlds Season One Episode 7: The Serene Squall

Star Trek Strange New Worlds Season One
Episode 7: The Serene Squall

The Serene Squall

Starting out with more Spock and T'Pring stuff.  Ok.  Gia Sandhu is pretty good as T'Pring.  And a little more Spock and Chapel.  Ok.  The pirate story is interesting, and not thing Trek as done in quite some time.  Spock's lines about his issues with hunches is similar to his making a guess in Star Trek IV.  The Enterprise being lure into the trap and captured is not the most original for trek, (see TNG Rascals, VOY Basics, among others) but still fun.  Jesse James Kaitel as Dr. Aspen/Angel is pretty good, the twist of her being the pirate captain and betraying the Enterprise crew is not wholly original.  Pike's "get the hell out of my chair" got a little chuckle from me.  Captain Angel escaped, leaving the door open for a possible return. Again, not unexpected.  Interesting including S'tonn from TOS Amok Time.  "Xaverius" being Sybok is an interesting choice, especially given the historically "mixed" reactions to Star Trek V.  I like Chapel's reference to Sybok being one of the V'tosh ka'tur (Vulcans without logic), first established in ENT "Fusion".  This is something that I for one had long speculated.