[TV]
STAR TREK: STRANGE NEW WORLDS
“I like what you’ve done with the place”: Pike (Anson Mount) surveys the Enterprise.
★★★ OUT NOW (PARAMOUNT +)
EPISODES VIEWED 3 OF 10
SHOWRUNNERS Akiva Goldsman, Alex Kurtzman, Jenny Lumet
CAST Anson Mount, Ethan Peck, Jess Bush, Christina Chong, Celia Rose Gooding, Rebecca Romijn
PLOT Captain Pike (Mount) is brought out of his reclusion and back to the Enterprise. Along with officer Number One (Romijn) and Spock (Ethan Peck), his five-year mission to seek out new life and new civilisations continues.
FROM THE outset, the agenda is clear: Anson Mount intoning the famous “five-year mission” speech over Alexander Courage’s classic Star Trek fanfare, followed by Jeff Russo’s devoted homage to the original theme. Where Discovery disappeared hundreds of years into the future for its third season, and Picard went dystopian, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds is ‘Nostalgia Trek’: colourful, fun, and boldly going where everything ’s comfortably familiar. A prequel to a show from the 1960s, but also a spin-off from another 2020 prequel to the same series, Strange New Worlds beams in with a lot of baggage, but to its credit, you don’t need a degree from Starfleet Academy to keep up.