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Star Trek: Strange New Worlds

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Generally favorable reviews based on 14 Critic Reviews

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Star Trek: Strange New Worlds

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Paramount+ | Release Date: May 5, 2022

Summary: The Star Trek: Discovery spinoff follows Captain Pike (Anson Mount), Science Officer Spock (Ethan Peck) and Number One (Rebecca Romijn) as they explore the galaxy on the U.S.S. Enterprise.

Creator: Alex Kurtzman and Akiva Goldsman and Jenny Lumet

Genre(s): Drama, Action & Adventure, Science Fiction

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Critic Reviews

90

Paste Magazine

Terry Terrones

May 2, 2022

Season 1 Review: Smart, addictive and flat out fun, Strange New Worlds is the best Star Trek series since The Next Generation and acts as a faithful love letter to the original. Old fan or new, this is a trek you’ll certainly want to take. Read full review

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IndieWire Christian Blauvelt

May 2, 2022

Season 1 Review: Somehow the way “Strange New Worlds” addresses our present moment feels the most effective narrative choice to date. Read full review

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Los Angeles Times

Robert Lloyd

May 4, 2022

Season 1 Review: What “Strange New Worlds” brings back is some of the Buck Rogers brio of the original series. ... There is enough of William Shatner’s puckishness in Mount that one may easily forget that this is the Pike and Spock Show, and not the Kirk and Spock Show. ... It is in the “Star Trek” way of things to get a little cornball, a little goofball, a little silly. This is more feature than bug. Earnestness has the edge over sense; science, if you want to call it that — it often amounts to magic here — just serves the drama, the philosophy and the themes. Read full review

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TVLine

Dave Nemetz

May 2, 2022

Season 1 Review: [Star Trek: Strange New Worlds] gets back to basics, closely hewing to classic Trek with an old-school vibe and an episodic alien-of-the-week format. (It even brings back the traditional uniforms and opening narration from the original series.) It’s a throwback, to be sure… and a welcome one. Read full review

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Entertainment Weekly

Darren Franich

May 3, 2022

Season 1 Review: This latest Trek marks the fullest embrace of the canon's history ever, really. ... Mount was already delightful as Pike on Discovery, and this show leans into his charm. Read full review

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San Francisco Chronicle

Zaki Hasan

May 2, 2022

Season 1 Review: While existing within that canon, “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds” leverages audience familiarity in a manner that’s welcoming rather than suffocating. As the title implies, this is a loving throwback to the spirit of exploration and derring-do so intrinsic to the brand over the past six decades (right down to Mount reciting a version of the “Space, the final frontier” narration that both Shatner and Stewart had a go at in previous incarnations), while pointing toward a future full of possibilities. Read full review

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Empire Owen Williams

Jun 22, 2022

Season 1 Review: Comfort blanket Trek with a great cast, snappy writing and plenty of strands to unwind in future episodes, Strange New Worlds achieves everything it intends. But there’s a lingering feeling that there’s perhaps not quite enough that’s strange or new. Read full review

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Wihglah

Jul 6, 2022

How is this show so good when Discovery is so bad? Easy - it's episodic and written by competant writers who aren't consumed by highlighting the plight of emotionally broken people. Probably because they aren't emotionally broken or surrounded by them 24/7. Spock Amok was genius.

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rysawalker

May 10, 2022

Loved it! Excellent writing and dialogue, as well as characters who pull you in with the very first episode. Probably the best first episode of any Star Trek series.

9 of 23 users found this helpful914

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Terri44

May 6, 2022

Wow! The characters have Chemistry and Charisma. There is HUMOR. I think the writers must actually have seen and liked Star Trek at some point in their life. Original characters we think we know, with more depth and new characters to be developed. Must there be a criticism? Fine: whatWow! The characters have Chemistry and Charisma. There is HUMOR. I think the writers must actually have seen and liked Star Trek at some point in their life. Original characters we think we know, with more depth and new characters to be developed. Must there be a criticism? Fine: what is up with the red neon on the bridge???… Expand

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MikeTheHuman

May 14, 2022

Time will tell if this show will be truly excellent, but at the moment at least I can say that it IS STAR TREK. The first episode (which is brought to us by the people behind the failed CBS Treks) is much much more heavy handed than I would have liked, but overall a decent enough start.Time will tell if this show will be truly excellent, but at the moment at least I can say that it IS STAR TREK. The first episode (which is brought to us by the people behind the failed CBS Treks) is much much more heavy handed than I would have liked, but overall a decent enough start. Episode 2 is where it really starts to feel like the kind of Star Trek I've been waiting for. Critically the characters really shine on the whole. Chapel is probably the only character I dislike from what's out so far. Its impressive how good the characterization is in 2 episodes compared to multiple seasons of Discovery and Picard especially since we're supposed to already really "get" who Picard is from 7 seasons of TNG. Pike is wonderful as are Number 1, Uhura and Spock (mostly). Overall I just wish this was the show we got instead of discovery years ago, and it is unfortunate that that show's continuity plays into this one (albeit in minor ways). I hope that it is successful and the people at CBS take that success as reason to move away from the Kurtzman style of Trek.… Expand

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jjnoahjames

Jul 26, 2022

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wantedtolikebut

May 16, 2022

I wanted to like this show so much. I like the cast quite a lot. And the first act was great. But when they left for the surface of the planet it all fell apart and became a tedious lecture. Bad writing. Humor falling flat. Nurse Chapel's character, as written, doesn't work. Even theI wanted to like this show so much. I like the cast quite a lot. And the first act was great. But when they left for the surface of the planet it all fell apart and became a tedious lecture. Bad writing. Humor falling flat. Nurse Chapel's character, as written, doesn't work. Even the background actors were badly cast throughout. PLEASE: going forward, if there is a season 2 -- be a serious sci-fi space opera. Because this is disappointing. Not as bad as the woke disaster Discovery, but not good sci-fi.… Expand

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theirrelephants

Jan 7, 2023

Strange New Worlds shoe horned the Jan. 6th protest as being the cause of World War 3 into the very first episode. Lmao.

More Alex Kurtzman/Goldman trash.

It's gotten so bad that it now has good user reviews on metacritic because NO ONE IS EVEN WATCHING IT ANYMORE.

5 of 7 users found this helpful52

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Series Overview
Season 2

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  Air Date: June 15, 2023
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  Air Date: May 5, 2022