With a 'Lower Decks' crossover, a musical episode and lots of James T. Kirk, Captain Pike and his crew couldn't move for novelty episodes.
, the biggest factor in their longevity is arguably their ability to shapeshift into a different form every week. Their respective adventures may be populated with familiar faces, and have a tendency to begin and end in the same place. But all the bits in between have the potential to explore infinite – or thereabouts – storytelling possibilities.
It's a captivating formula that allows shows to scare the pants off you one week, before blasting off to explore some esoteric idea from the outer edges of sci-fi the next. Subsequent adventures can then venture into the realms of pure silliness – comedy is built into a holodeck's programming – before circling back to explore something more traditional.The live-action and animation crossover of"Strange New Worlds" and"Lower Decks" is an interesting watch.
The challenge for showrunners, of course, is finding the right balance, making sure a season covers all the right bases without straying too far from a show's fundamental D.N.A. The first season of"Strange New Worlds" did this brilliantly, introducing its winning crew via a smorgasbord of familiar"Star Trek" tropes, some reinvented, others not. Unfortunately, second time out of Spacedock, the voyages of the U.S.S.
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