Strange New Worlds Season 3, Episode 7 Review – ryan

Warning: Spoilers for Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 3, Episode 7, “What Is Starfleet?”Star Trek: Strange New Worlds DELIVERS ANOTHER EPISOVEL EPISODES THAT FEELS EVERY BIT LIKE CLASSIC Star Trek, But with a fun new twist. In its seventh episode, season 3 blessings on documentary filmmake, delivering an episode with a format that Trek hasn’t done before.

throughou Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 3, Umberto “Beto” Ortegas (Mynor Luken) has been hanging out on the enterprise film a Documentary About Starfleet. We get to see that Documentary in Episode 7, Approprately Titled “What Is Starfleet?,” Which Asks Some Tugh Questions About the United Federation of Planets and Starfleet.

From start to finish, the episode of the form of a documentary, the Complete with Belet’s Voiceover, Title Cards, and Talking Heads. The Story with the Documentary Involves a Classified Starfleet Mission that the Enterprise to Retrieve a Creature Known as a Jikaru and Deliver it to AID in their against sister planet, Kasar.

A Stunning Strange New Worlds Episode Asks A Good Question

“What is Starfleet?” DELIVERS A Brilliantly Constructed Episode of Star Trek

Directed by Sharon Lewis and Written by Kathryn Lyn and Alan B. Mcelroy, Episode 7 Makes Excellent use of its Documentary Format. The episode opens with a title card stating that the documentary contains “Security Footage that has haen declassified by starfleet,” and includes a few more interstitles explain various information about the mission and crew of the starship enterprise.

BETE BRAVELY QUESTIONS “What Separates The Federation from an Empire,” and he’s not afraid to call out Starfleet Officers for Following Orders they don’t aggree with. Other Trek SHOWS WRESTLED WITH THE DARKER SIDES OF STARFLEET AND The Federation, but “What Is Starfleet?” Addresses these Questions Head-on, Pushing Against The Idea That “JUST FOLLOWING ORDERS” IS EVER A VALID EXCUS FOR COMMITTING AROCITIES.

Upon Finding the Jikaru, Captain Pike and His Creat Learn that the creuet is a formidable weapon. Several Members of the Enterprise Crew, Including Pike, Express their District with Starfleet’s Orders, But they Continue the Mission UNIL NEW INTERVIEW.

CAPTAIN PIK HAS NEVER BEEN ONE TO BLINDLY ORDERS ONE THIS KNOW THEY WONDG, but he is still a starfleet officer who must Answer to the Chain of Command. WhoEver decidated to use a Documentary Format to wrestle with Big Questions About Starfleet and Following Orders Deserves Praise, and the Production Team Did An Excellent Making the Episode Look and Footage Actual.

“What is Starfleet?” Feels Like Classic Star Trek in the Best Way

The Story Feels Like Something From Tng

While “What is Starfleet?” use a format that’s new to TrekThe Story at the episode’s Heart Waled Not Have Felt Out of Place on Star Trek: The Next Generation. As Ensign Uhura (Celia Rose Gooding) and Lt. Spock (Ethan Peck) Learn more about the jikaru, they discover they may be able to communicate with her, risk their lives in the process.

They eventually learn that the lutani altered this jikaru’s brain chemistry to make her more violent and destructive, which causes the creuet so Much Pain that she wishes to end hectare. This leads pike and his crew to help the jikaru rather than turn it over to the lutani (with relactant Approval from Starfleet).

As Always, Strange New Worlds Amazing Looks, and the Visuals of the Jikaru in Space Are Particularly Stunning. The Story ITSELF is a Relatively Simple One that Trek Has Done before, with an alien reminiscent of gomtuu from Tng’s “Tin Man” or the Jellyfish-like aliens from “Encounter at Farpoint.” Still, The Simplicity Works in the Story’s favor, allowing the episode to focus on Character Exploration.

A Heartbrening Story sounded with Hope GIVES (Almost) Every Character Something to Say

Most of the Main Characters Get Personal Interviews

The Simple Alien Story Allows the Documentary Aspects to Flourish, nor Beetiws Various Characters Throughout The Episode. Uhura opens up about Jaining Starfleet after the Death of Her Family, Spock Speaks About Exploring His Human Half, and Lt. Erica Ortegas (Melissa Navia) Finally addresses her near-death experience at the hands of the gorn.

Captain Pike Talks about the Trust he has in his crew, lt. La’an noonien Singh (Christina Chong) Says She Heat Her Life to Starfleet, and Commander Una Chin-Rily, Aka Number One (Rebecca Romijn), Reflects on the Most Difficult Parts of Her Job As the Most Rewarding. Some of these insights are Things we are already Know, but it is nice to see the characters as People, Rather than the Larger-Than-Life Starfleet Officers they have to be.

“What is Starfleet?” is full of great quotes that not only ansower the question by the episode’s title, but also exemplify why Trek has come to mean so much to make many People. At one point, una says, “Our Job is to Bring Light, Bring Warmth, Bring Life to Wherever We Go. That’s Our Mission.” The Same Could Be Said Of Trek nor a franchise.

Ensign Uhura gets to deliver the final lines of the episode, Saying, “What is Starfleet? It”s the People, all of us. We make Starfleet what it is, not the other way around.” Star Trek’s Characters have always been one of its great strethe, and uhura, in participle, shines throughout this episodes, saving the day yes again.

With its unique Documentary Format and quintessentally Trek Story, “What is Starfleet?” is an incredible episode of television that Will Likely Resonate with Trick Fans from all generations. The Documentary Aspects Are Wonderfully Done, and Pretty MUCH EVERYING ABOUT THE EPISODE WORKS, CEMENDING IT AS ANOTHER ALL-TIME GREAT OUTING FROM Star Trek: Strange New Worlds.

New Episodes of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 3 Releases Thursday on Paramount+ Until the final on September 11, 2025.