Star Trek: Strange New Worlds
Every verdict, newest first. 44 on the record.
Mr. Know-It-All has scored Star Trek: Strange New Worlds 33 times on the Know-It-All Index, averaging 8.3 out of 10, from a low of 5 to a high of 10.
The reviews
10/10 Reviews Star Trek: Strange New Worlds The Original Series Finally Got Its Finale
Two Uhuras, a time ripple, and a bridge that has already been struck. The season 4 finale is not the show finally becoming serious. It is All Good Things, built for the one ship that never got an ending.
September 24, 2026 →
9/10 Reviews Star Trek: Strange New Worlds The Gimmick Episode Is the Real Star Trek
Everybody spent the season calling these episodes gimmicks. Go count the original series. The fantastical hour is not the detour, it is the spine, and this one gets spent on the only person on that bridge whose ending nobody has written.
September 18, 2026 →
Reviews Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Two Weeks of Handing Somebody Else the Check
I almost turned off episode 7, and then a man opened a cookbook in a bar. Two hours, two weeks, one move: the show keeps running up a bill and sliding it to somebody else.
September 15, 2026 →
7.5/10 Reviews Star Trek: Strange New Worlds The Night Scotty Became Scotty
A bottle episode that reaches back forty-two years to build Montgomery Scott, and then puts him in the B slot. A craft read on Strange New Worlds season 4.
August 27, 2026 →
8/10 Reviews Star Trek: Strange New Worlds The Puppet Episode Is the Most Important Hour of This Era
Six months of build, a hired puppeteer crew, and a standing set that still had to shoot every other week. Everyone is arguing about whether SNW should have done the puppet episode. The better question is why anybody would bother.
August 20, 2026 →
7/10 Reviews Star Trek: Strange New Worlds The Hangover in Space Has an Empty Chair Problem
The jokes land, Foley's great, Pike's tattoo is a gift, so why does SNW's comedy episode still feel like it's wrestling the show it lives in? A craft read on season 4, episode 3.
August 6, 2026 →
8.5/10 Reviews Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Scary vs. Empty Is the Wrong Fight
Star Trek handed an episode to a real horror director and got out of her way. A craft read on season 4, episode 2, from a reviewer who does not do horror and got got anyway.
July 30, 2026 →
8/10 Reviews Star Trek: Strange New Worlds The Retcon Is Not the Point, the Translator Is
The biggest canon swing in 60 years of Star Trek might be the least interesting thing in this episode. A craft read on the season 4 premiere, the widower scene, and why the tonal chaos critique doesn't hold.
July 23, 2026 →
Reacts Star Trek: Strange New Worlds When a Season Starts Looking Like an Audition Tape
Pike, Spock, Kirk, a release date, ten episodes: this should be modern Trek's easy win. So why does the season 4 marketing feel like it's selling a future nobody has actually ordered?
June 24, 2026 →
The Files Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Why Season 4 Must Choose Between Science Fiction and Performing Star Trek
A pre-flight check on three seasons of Strange New Worlds, one standard for judging every episode, and the question of whether the show can still carry the torch.
January 26, 2026 →
8.5/10 Reviews Star Trek: Strange New Worlds A Really Good Ending to a Really Rough Season
"New Life and New Civilizations" brings the Vezda back, closes a pile of dangling threads, and writes a main character out with a lifetime in minutes. The gamble mostly pays off, even if the season around it didn't.
September 13, 2025 →
6/10 Reviews Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Passable, But Definitely Derivative
Season 3 keeps going back to the well of the original series, and Terrarium is the clearest example yet. A functional episode built on a tired trope, executed better elsewhere.
September 4, 2025 →
5/10 Reviews Star Trek: Strange New Worlds The Most Absurd Episode This Show Has Aired
Four crew members go full Vulcan overnight and the crisis is solved in ten minutes flat. A review with two scores, because the critic and the fan did not walk out of this one agreeing.
August 30, 2025 →
7.5/10 Reviews Star Trek: Strange New Worlds The Answer Is Fine, The Question Is the Problem
SNW builds an entire episode out of an in-universe documentary, and it mostly works. Then one very modern word falls out of a 23rd century mouth and knocks the whole thing sideways.
August 21, 2025 →
9/10 Reviews Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Kirk Sits in the Chair and Starts to Belong There
The Enterprise gets swallowed whole, Kirk gets the captain's seat on the Farragut, and the show does for him what it's already done for Scotty, Spock and Uhura. A first-blush review of the hour where he starts to earn the chair.
August 14, 2025 →
8/10 Reviews Star Trek: Strange New Worlds The Most Classic Star Trek Hour in a Long Time
A dead civilization, an ancient temple, and one bright-eyed ensign who looks into a glowing orb. This is the first Strange New Worlds in a long time that felt like a TOS episode, and it earns an 8 out of 10.
August 9, 2025 →
7/10 Reviews Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Strange New Worlds Season 3 Episode 4 Review: The Holodeck Is an Anachronism and the Writing Got Lazy
A fun murder mystery with the greatest Shatner impression ever, built on a holodeck that looks exactly like the one from The Next Generation and breaks down the exact same way. That's the problem.
July 31, 2025 →
8.5/10 Reviews Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Pike Saved Her Life and Didn't Trust Her Choice
Pike and M'Benga fly into forbidden Klingon space for a flower, and what they find is moss zombies, a Klingon with a grudge, and a knife duel on a roof. Top tier Trek horror that ends on a betrayal dressed as love.
July 26, 2025 →
Reviews Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Strange New Worlds Season 3 Premiere Review: A Perfect Part Two and the Most Original Series Hour Yet
Hegemony, Part II drops you right back into the Gorn fight and resolves it the way a Star Trek two-parter is supposed to. Then Wedding Bell Blues turns 180 degrees into a Trelane wedding comedy cut straight from the original series template.
July 19, 2025 →
9/10 Reviews Star Trek: Strange New Worlds They Did the To Be Continued, and It Worked
The season 2 finale ends on the one thing every Star Trek fan remembers hating, a to be continued. The Gorn, the wreck of the Cayuga, a very clever Scotsman, and a cliffhanger that comes in a close second to The Best of Both Worlds.
August 10, 2023 →
8.5/10 Reviews Star Trek: Strange New Worlds A Musical Is Where You Draw the Line?
Everybody came out of the gate calling the musical episode a gimmick. It was fun, it explains itself, it follows its own rules, and it moves every plot on the ship forward.
August 3, 2023 →
8/10 Reviews Star Trek: Strange New Worlds The Star Trek Story With No High Road
A Klingon ambassador comes aboard the Enterprise, and M'Benga, Chapel and Ortegas have to sit at dinner with the war they never left. A much darker hour of Star Trek, and it's a good one.
July 27, 2023 →
10/10 Reviews Star Trek: Strange New Worlds The Crossover Is Us Meeting Our Heroes
Boimler and Mariner fall out of a cartoon and onto Pike's Enterprise, and the Lower Decks crossover turns out to be the most reverential hour Strange New Worlds has made. A 10 out of 10, and it made me want to rewatch Enterprise.
July 24, 2023 →
8.5/10 Reviews Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Uhura Works the Case Like an Auditory Sherlock Holmes
Season 2, episode 6 hands the hour to Ensign Uhura and lets her reason her way through a first contact nobody else can hear. A little messy in some bits, but the parts that hit, hit well.
July 20, 2023 →
7/10 Reviews Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Canon Is a Rope, and Spock and Chapel Just Tied a Knot in It
Spock wakes up fully human the day before his Vulcan engagement dinner, and the hour turns into the best look at Vulcan and human culture in years. A respectable 7, and a kiss that doesn't break anything.
July 13, 2023 →
8.5/10 Reviews Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Pike Goes Back to Rigel VII to Clean Up His Own Mess
Season 2, episode 4 sends Pike back to the planet from "The Cage," takes everybody's memory away, and lets Erica Ortegas remind the whole ship who flies it. Fun, campy, and writing between the lines of the original series.
July 6, 2023 →
Reviews Star Trek: Strange New Worlds The Episode That Finally Explains the Eugenics Wars
La'an gets thrown into a timeline where Kirk captains the Enterprise for the United Earth Fleet, then into present day Canada, and the show uses the trip to hand us the best explanation yet for why 1992 came and went without Khan.
June 29, 2023 →
9/10 Reviews Star Trek: Strange New Worlds The Courtroom Episode We Were Waiting For
The trial of Una Chin-Riley is a dry courtroom hour that plays like a heist, built out of original series design and a civil rights lawyer the galaxy already knows by name.
June 22, 2023 →
8/10 Reviews Star Trek: Strange New Worlds The Time-Honored Tradition of Stealing the Enterprise Starts Here
Pike leaves for three days, tells Spock not to break anything, and Spock steals the ship. The season 2 premiere brings back the Klingons, hands Carol Kane a character she can chew on, and points Spock straight at the man he has to become.
June 15, 2023 →
10/10 Reviews Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Balance of Terror With Pike in the Chair
The season 1 finale drops Pike seven years into a future where he dodges the accident, puts him in the captain's chair for Balance of Terror, and shows him what it costs Spock. Kirk showed up, too. I called it.
July 7, 2022 →
10/10 Reviews Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Our Very First Star Trek 10 Out of 10
Episode 9 is a straight horror story with the Gorn, it costs the Enterprise its chief engineer and its chief of security in one hour, and I didn't bump into a single thing I'd change.
June 30, 2022 →
8.5/10 Reviews Star Trek: Strange New Worlds The Magic Entity Episode, Done Right
The Enterprise turns into a bedtime story and only two people aboard know it. A fun fantasy romp with one of the most powerful endings of the season, and one thing I wish it had shown me sooner.
June 23, 2022 →
Reviews Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Space Pirates, Amok Time and the Glory of Star Trek V
Mrs. Know-It-All joins me for Trek Talk Tuesday. We break down The Serene Squall and Captain Angel, I make her watch Amok Time and Star Trek V, and the comment section corrects me on Long John Silver.
June 22, 2022 →
10/10 Reviews Star Trek: Strange New Worlds The Episode Where Strange New Worlds Found Its Voice
Pike meets an old flame, a child volunteers to carry a whole planet's suffering, and Mrs. Know-It-All has feelings about it. I couldn't find a flaw in this one.
June 18, 2022 →
7/10 Reviews Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Pirates Are Gonna Pirate, and Sybok Is Coming
A humanitarian run to the edge of Federation space turns into a pirate takeover, a fake doctor turns out to be the captain, and the ransom is a name out of Star Trek V. A fun hour, a traditional one, and a 7.
June 17, 2022 →
10/10 Reviews Star Trek: Strange New Worlds The Episode Where the Show Found Its Own Voice
Pike's past walks onto the Enterprise, a holy child gets plugged into a machine, and Star Trek asks whether a whole society's prosperity is worth one kid's suffering. The first hour where Strange New Worlds really stepped into its own.
June 9, 2022 →
Reviews Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Strange New Worlds 'Spock Amok' Review: The Body Swap a Lesser Show Would Have Milked
Mrs. Know-It-All joins Trek Talk Tuesdays for Spock Amok. The body swap stays secondary, the costumes go up a level, your comments get read live, and we go frame by frame on next week's trailer.
June 9, 2022 →
Reviews Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Hemmer Earned His Moment, La'an Got Hers Too Quick
Trek Talk Tuesday with Mrs. Know-It-All on the submarine episode: La'an's abrupt shift, Hemmer's top marks for Uhura, the comments, the Spock Amok trailer, and a call about Kirk in the chair.
May 31, 2022 →
8/10 Reviews Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Ghosts of Illyria, La'an's Khan Problem and the Gorn on the Way
Your comments on Ghosts of Illyria, worked through one at a time: two kinds of Illyrians, the shuttlecraft nobody thought of, whether tying La'an to Khan makes Star Trek smaller, and the Memento Mori trailer.
May 28, 2022 →
Reviews Star Trek: Strange New Worlds The Gorn Set a Trap and Pike Trusted His Ship
The Gorn finally show up, and they never say a word. Episode 4 is a cat and mouse game in a gas cloud, a second straight La'an hour, and one torpedo that got some lazy writing.
May 26, 2022 →
8/10 Reviews Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Number One Is Not Who You Think She Is
A contagion that travels on light takes the Enterprise crew down one by one, and the only person left standing is the one hiding the biggest secret on the ship. A really good hour, and one dummy away from a 9.
May 19, 2022 →
8/10 Reviews Star Trek: Strange New Worlds The Best of Classic Trek Returns
Episode 2 hands the hour to a cadet who isn't sure she belongs in Starfleet, parks a temple on a comet, and ends on something science can't explain. That's the original series, and I enjoyed the heck out of it.
May 12, 2022 →
Reviews Star Trek: Strange New Worlds I Think We're Getting the Gorn
The series premiere gave me chills the second Pike said the words, and the season trailer that ran after it has me calling my shots: the Gorn this year, and Kirk in the chair down the road.
May 10, 2022 →
Reviews Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Finally, the Trek We Deserve
The pilot puts Pike back in the chair with ten years on the clock, shows a planet its own future, and lets three officers sit in a room and debate. It's episodic Star Trek, and I've missed it.
May 5, 2022 →