It’s a few days late, but I’m still beating my average timing for a Season Review. Spoilers for Season 3 of Strange New Worlds.
Overall this was a season with some very good Star Trek episodes. It’s quite experimental, with things like the ‘show within a show’ documentary, the holodeck malfunction origin episode, and a lot more ‘funny’ episodes than we’re perhaps used to. Maybe there should have been more funny episodes, as the biggest miss was probably the ‘Zombie Klingon’ episode.
The other quibble with the season was the arc pacing – it’s very heavy in episodes 1, 5 and 10, and otherwise a bit forgotten. It suggests a lot of the writing was going on fairly independently, and there wasn’t time to pepper through the arc related bits (other than occasionally justifying why Batel was still on the ship that is).
Still, overall a fun season that bought a Strange New Worlds flavour to classics like ‘trapped on a planet’, ‘super intelligent aliens’ and ‘holodeck malfunction’. I’m going to put this into the second bracket, but right at the top.
The very best of Trek (top 8):
- SNW Season 1
- PIC Season 3
- PIC Season 1
- SNW Season 2
- TNG Season 6
- DS9 Season 2
- PRO Season 2
- PIC Season 2
Strong performers (next 11):
- SNW Season 3
- PRO Season 1
- LD Season 1
- DS9 Season 5
- TNG Season 3
- TNG Season 5
- TOS Season 2
- DIS Season 2
- ENT Season 3
- TNG Season 4
- VOY Season 4
Mixed bag (middle 16):
- TOS Season 1
- DS9 Season 4
- LD Season 3
- LD Season 2
- LD Season 5
- DIS Season 1
- DIS Season 5
- LD Season 4
- ST Season 2
- DS9 Season 1
- ENT Season 4
- DIS Season 3
- ST Season 1
- VOY Season 5
- ENT Season 1
- VOY Season 1
- TNG Season 7
Not good (second worst 9):
- DS9 Season 3
- DS9 Season 6
- DIS Season 4
- VOY Season 6
- VOY Season 3
- TNG Season 2
- ENT Season 2
- TAS Season 1
- VST Season 1
Really just awful (the bottom 6):
- VOY Season 7
- VOY Season 2
- DS9 Season 7
- TOS Season 3
- TAS Season 2
- TNG Season 1
Now for a break of unknown length, while we wait for whatever is next – probably the Academy series, which I have misgivings about.