Star Trek: Strange New Worlds: Season 3

Did Ortegas die or not? Biggest unanswered question.

Anson Mount's performance at the end by Batel's bedside was pretty freaking great. We rarely used to get stuff that realistic and great from the old Star Trek stuff. It felt like a real-person reaction.

Martin Quinn is a series regular. Not digging this early version of Scotty so far. He lacks guts.

It's been awhile since we've had a Star Trek Season Premiere with the teaser ending with "And now the conclusion". It is to the show's credit that they understand how big a moment that is.

I liked it. 4 stars.

Officially making Trelane a Q is long overdue, but the fun thing is the "father and son" bit ties it back to Star Trek: Voyager. Making the dad John De Lancie ties into all sort of canon mischief, not just from The Original Series and The Next Generation.

I like Korby more than I probably should. That fact annoys me.

La'an teaching Spock to dance was great.

I'm glad Ortegas survived, but she clearly isn't out of the woods yet.

"Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go" is WHY the Kurtzman era is great, and I don't care what anyone else says. It's a proper wedding reception song, and Roddenberry and / or Berman would have had them playing Fur Elise or something like that. I wish Star Trek had always been this easy to believe in and enjoy. It's clearly not the big freaking ordeal the first five Star Trek shows made it out to be.

Scotty isn't much of a drinker. The canon is gonna have to fix that, I think.

I'm with Spock in thinking Sam's mustache looks terrible. I guess that's the joke, but it doesn't stop it being ugly.

I've missed this show and Star Trek in general. 4 stars.