Holy SHIT, Strange New Worlds!
As if it hadn’t excelled enough in its debut season, Strange New Worlds saved its most brilliant and bold idea for last. Not just the surprise early arrival of Paul Wesley’s Captain James Tiberius Kirk, well ahead of his previously announced season two debut, to be a fascinating, challenging and yet complimentary foil to Anson Mount’s Captain Pike. No, it did so in an episode that was also a fantastic re-interpretation of the greatest episode of Star Trek ever made: “Balance of Terror.”
Going toe-to-toe with Trek’s finest hour to tell an incredibly personal, brilliantly framed moment of growth and acceptance for this take on Captain Pike was a ballsy move, and Strange New Worlds pulled it off with aplomb.
