It’s a truth universally acknowledged that even the best television shows have average episodes. Star Trek: Strange New Worlds fans are more spoiled than most, simply because we don’t get them very often. In fact, subpar episodes of this series tend to just be straight-up bad before they’re anything as pedestrian as mediocre. See also: Last week’s weird faux documentary , which easily clocked in as the worst episode of the season. Happily, “Four-and-a-Half Vulcans” isn’t nearly as irritating. But unfortunately, that’s also not the same thing as saying it’s good.

Maybe it’s that we already saw the episode’s central reveal—four of our favorite Enterprise crew members suddenly become Vulcans—as part of a package of Comic-Con clips released back in 2024 and have had far too lon

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