Anika and Liz don their cheapest wigs and TOS costumes to travel a year into the future: 1966. It's the Star Trek: Strange New Worlds fourth season finale, "Tomorrow's Enterprise", and don't be alarmed, but we actually like this one!
This is the same plot as "Once La'an A Time", which is the same plot as "Like Chronitons Through The Hourglass"
We've been on the "Pike is bad at his job" train since season 1, but at this point it feels like he's being deliberately written to make Kirk look good
Doubles and doppelgangers and split screens: this season has something consistent going on … but why?
27 minutes in: "Okay, now let's talk about what we did like."
They're setting up a nice fridge for La'an
Hey, SNW remembered that Gary Mitchell exists!
It's wild that Uhura changes so much in a year, but then she gives all the credit to Pike? And Kirk? (Everyone knows that if Black female characters evolve without the aid of a white man, they're just a sparkling Mary Sue)
THE TONAL SHIFT! The writers realised they were doing Good Star Trek and had to throw in some self-conscious post-Whedon dialogue about space babies
22 Sept 2026
245. Starring Paul Wesley as Chris Pine (SNW 4.09)
Anika and Liz put on their prettiest fairytale costumes and settle in to discuss "Once La'an A Time" -- an episode which Liz hated and Anika loved! Let's fight!
(We're not gonna fight.)
Looking back, "The Elysian Kingdom" was a gimmick episode - and this follow-up suffers from being one of so many gimmick episodes
This is an episode of Once Upon A Time wearing a Starfleet uniform, and Anika is okay with that
This is the same plot as "Like Chronitons Through The Hourglass"
Making Benny Russell a white woman is a … choice. A bad choice
Pike is replaced by a smarmy, cowardly duplicate and no one notices the difference
This has been a whole season of daddy issues and we're not into it
15 Sept 2026
244. The Penny Wong Concern-O-Meter (SNW 4.08)
Anika and Liz take command of the Enterprise and discuss Star Trek: Strange New Worlds' "Orders of Magnitude". And Anika goes on a journey from "It's a good episode but I don't like it" to "Actually, maybe it's a bad episode?"
Finally we're back to proper Strange New Worlds: a deeply regressive and problematic story, competently told
Why are we talking about the war like it was 20 years ago?
Is SNW lightly criticising the IDF after a couple of seasons of pro-genocide subtext, or are we just taking a strong stance against the 2003 invasion of Iraq?
M'Benga sacrificing his career for Kirk is … bad optics to say the least
La'an has been single for all of thirty seconds, now she can pursue Jim
SIBLING MUTINY!
"It was a good episode for Kirk, but why is this episode about Kirk?"
The B plot: Temu Shran versus Starfleet's Worst Captain, while Uhura learns that killing is super cool and fun
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