Spoilers for "Star Trek: Strange New Worlds" to follow.

"What if we just did 'Star Trek'?" That was the pitch for "Star Trek: Strange New Worlds," according to series co-showrunner Henry Alonso Myers. The show's parent series, "Star Trek: Discovery," had instead tried to update "Trek" for the prestige TV era. That meant serialized storytelling, a darker tone including more violence and morally compromised protagonists, etc.

Compare that to "Strange New Worlds." The series has episodic stories, an optimistic tone, and an Enterprise crew who are paragons of the "Star Trek" utopian future. That crew also includes many faces from "Star Trek: The Original Series," such as Spock (Ethan Peck), Uhura (Celia Rose Gooding), Nurse Chapel (Jess Bush), Scotty (Martin Quinn), and the future Captain

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