Season 3 – Star Trek: Strange New Worlds

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Brian A WTF, this is not the Star Trek I know and love. Silly bull, dumb shhhittttt, WTF Rated 0.5/5 Stars •  Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 08/03/25 Full Review Josh R So far this season, there have been two unbearably silly call-back episodes and two quasi-horror-show episodes that were meh at best. With a ten-episode season, four misses is hard to defend. Audiences love the show's first two seasons because they returned to Star Trek's roots with serious, unself-conscious sci-fi. Sure, elements of horror, romance, or comedy would arise in TOS, TNG, and DSN, but when they indulged in full genre shifts the outcome was always an unwatchable episode (no biggie if that happened once or twice in a 26 episode season!). Sci-fi can be serious social commentary. SNW writers and producers, please, I beg you, let that be enough! Rated 1/5 Stars •  Rated 1 out of 5 stars 08/03/25 Full Review Audience Member I love Strange New Worlds in so many ways & there will be way too few episodes each season. But, to the creators I beg, please don’t waste episodes on nonsense trash! Season 3 episode 4 is embarrassing, foolish, and silly! This is NOT what I watch any trek for. It may be the “Spock’s Brain” of this incarnation of trek. The season opened with a good start. It left me wanting more. Then it stumbled with nurse chapel finding a new guy in her life. Then there was that episode before with everyone singing their way through it. Not funny! That’s at least two wasted episodes after we wait so long. Anson Mount is the perfect Captain Pike. Each episode could be terrific and most are. But stop the foolish stuff. Yes, the original series had its light hearted banter at time each episode but then they got down to business. No version of trek should be a musical! Uggg! I sit down to watch a story & let it fire my imagination looking forward to each fantastic episode, yet somehow they slip in stupidity, foolishness, goofy plots, bad acting, a dumb plot, and worse and I kill the power and ask myself why and vow to never watch that episode again. And, of course the terrible thought comes to my mind. What if the creators of strange new worlds actually are delusional enough to think these farcical episodes are some stroke of genius on their part? What if there are more entirely wasted episodes like these? Roddenberry forbid! Strange New Worlds had the potential to be the best trek ever! Are they going to wreck everything? Are they already out of ideas? I can handle a bit of corniness. But, new worlds has a fantastic cast! It has great special effects! Almost everyone fits perfectly together! Don’t give them garbage episodes, stupid plots, etc… The cast has already proved the combined aggregate total of all of them adds up to formidable story telling, compelling action, and leaves its viewers with a burning desire wishing it was all real! Don’t cheapen it with lazily written dumb scripts and storylines as 6 year old could have written. Use imagination but temper that with the respect Star Trek deserves. Treat every episode as if the franchise depends on it because it does! Give your actors respect, not junk! Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 08/03/25 Full Review Lou D Lots of negative audience reviews, why? It's a great show, looks great and entertainment as hell. Lots of complaints about what is or isn't " Star Trek" this has been going on since the first episode of The Next Generation aired back in the 80s, relax Trek people, it's all good. Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 08/03/25 Full Review Andy C I’m OK w one episode of silliness, but they have totally lost it. Terrible and disappointing. I’m not sure what the critics are liking. I loved the first two seasons. I felt like it was the more adventure/serious offshoot. Rated 0.5/5 Stars •  Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 08/03/25 Full Review Rich S What happened?!?!?? Season 1 and Season 2 were practically perfect, but Season 3 has gone from mediocre to mean-spirited. It’s like they just fell off the wagon, drunk on the success of the first two seasons. Now they are teasing a Muppet episode for Season 4 (and I love the original Muppets) but with SNW’s ability to tell a good story in the toilet, the idea makes my stomach turn. This recent “murder mystery / Star Trek – spoof” episode is downright mean-spirited. Besides Paul Wesley‘s mocking of Shatner’s speech pattern, there is a line said at the very end during more TOS-spoofing that I think is very unkind to both Shatner and the original cast. At that moment, Paul Wesley‘s Shatner character is complaining that another cast member was given a line that he should have been given. This is a nasty joke regarding a behavior attributed to Shatner that may have caused a lot of pain and fractured relationships between him and his fellow cast members. Making light of this, on a Star Trek show, is unkind. I celebrate Shatner, and the entire TOS cast, let’s not make light of their personal struggles. If it weren’t for them there would not be a Star Trek. I was surprised that this episode was directed by Jonathon Frakes. I’m surprised that Star Trek would stoop to being so nasty. I’m surprised that Paul Wesley would be so vicious toward his predecessor. I am canceling Paramount+ as this show is the only reason I subscribed. Rated 1/5 Stars •  Rated 1 out of 5 stars 08/02/25 Full Review Read all reviews

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