One of the many criticisms that emerged from Star Trek: Strange New Worlds ‘ uneven third season was that the show struggled with the effective balance it had maintained in its first two seasons between classical action-adventure episodes in the vein of Star Trek ‘s past and more outlier (and largely lighter-hearted) one-off episodes that put zany premises over building on character arcs and a broader seasonal narrative.

Those episodes are clearly not going away as we get closer and closer to Strange New Worlds ‘ end —after all, we are getting an episode where the crew becomes puppets next season—but they may become a bit more sparse as the show tries to make the most of the time it has left with these characters.

“We’re making season five now, we’re trending towards that,

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