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See Just How Close Strange New Worlds Recreated Star Trek’s Greatest Episode
We’re all big fans of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds here at Gizmodo, whether we’re obsessed die-hards or just dipping our toes back into the venerable franchise. And we were all delighted to learn, one way or another, that last week’s SNW finale was a retelling of the Original Series’ “Balance of Terror,” arguably the…
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Jesus Goddamn Christ, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds
Strange New Worlds has prided itself in its first season on a somewhat sense of ephemerality — that even at its direst of stakes, our enterprising heroes would come out the other side and move on to the next big adventure. This week’s penultimate episode of the season proved just how scary and incredible the…
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Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ Space Pirate Episode Was Y’aaarsome
After last week’s attempts at more moral complexity didn’t quite hit the mark, this week Star Trek: Strange New Worlds re-centered on what’s worked for it in the past: a camp, tropey bit of action hung around a central member of the Enterprise crew. This time, Ethan Peck’s Spock took the limelight again — and…
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Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ Shore Leave Farce Was a Delight
Any good episodic TV series knows how to deal with often dramatic tone shifts that, in our era of heavily serialized programming, might seem tone-deaf or jarring. Star Trek, of course, is no exception to this having been episodic for so much of its 50+ year history — some weeks you fight god, some weeks…