Star Trek Strange New Worlds Season One Episode 9: All Those Who Wander

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Star Trek Strange New Worlds Season One
Episode 9: All Those Who Wander


All Those Who Wander

Uhura finishes her training and officially becomes an Ensign.  We get to see another Starfleet ship for the first time in this series.  The USS Peregrine is a Sombra class ship, supposedly a variant of the constitution class (although it looks like a constitution class).  M'Bengas statement the the Sombra class is made from Constitution class parts is a weak handwave to be honest.  I liked Hemmer likening the cold to Andoria-nice touch.  The baddie turns out to be the Gorn, which the recap at the beginning of the episode kinda spoiled.  Also not surprising regardless.  We get some more good Uhura-Hemmer scenes, which makes the ending of the episode that much more gut wrenching.  This episode does have a lot of blood and gore for Star Trek.  La'ans past with the Gorn definitely helped in this episode, and we really got some good La'an scenes.  I've never been the biggest fan of the Gorn being used in this series, but this episode is pretty good overall.  And the ending: Hemmer getting infected by Gorn eggs and sacrificing himself to save the rest of the away team.  Wow.  Just Wow.  And seeing how it affected Uhura, Ortegas and the others.  I especially liked Uhura quoting Hemmer at the funeral "That was his purpose in life: to fix what was broken.  A really good, heavy episode. 

I personally hated seeing Hemmer killed off this soon, I would have like to have seen him in more that 8 episodes (bar a couple of flashback cameos in season 2).  I kinda liked the character.


The title of this episode is obviously a quote from a poem from the Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien:

All that is gold does not glitter
Not all those who wander are lost
The old that is strong does not wither
Deep roots are not reached by the frost
From the ashes a fire shall be woken
A light from the shadows shall spring
Renewed shall be blade that was broken
The crownless again shall be king

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