{"id":21661,"date":"2023-08-11T20:57:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-12T00:57:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=21661"},"modified":"2023-08-11T20:57:02","modified_gmt":"2023-08-12T00:57:02","slug":"star-trek-strange-new-worlds-season-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/star-trek-strange-new-worlds-season-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Star Trek: Strange New Worlds (season 2)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{5\/5} &#8220;In the mystery and vastness of space, we might not just satisfy our curiosity, our need for exploration, but that in it we might each also find salvation.&#8221; &#8212; Una<\/p>\n<p><strong>Star Trek: Strange New Worlds<\/strong> season 2, aired in 2023<\/p>\n<p>While the Enterprise is in spacedock, Captain Pike leaves to find a laywer for Una. When Uhura receives a distress signal from La&#8217;an, Spock is convinced that he must take the ship and rescue her &#8212; even though Starfleet disagrees. They manage to get away from spacdock with the help of Pelia, who agrees to be the chief engineer for this mission. La&#8217;an has come across people who want to restart the Federation-Klingon war.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s another stunning season.<\/p>\n<p>We find out why Spock plays the lyre.<\/p>\n<p>In &#8220;Ad Astra Per Aspera&#8221; Pike finds Una the best lawyer he can for her court martial, an old friend of hers named Neera. In &#8220;Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow&#8221; La&#8217;an travels with James T. Kirk back to the 21st century where they have to stop a Romulan from destroying the future. In &#8220;Under the Cloak of War&#8221; a Klingon ambassador comes aboard, but M&#8217;Benga and Chapel knew him when he was fighting against them in the war.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Those Old Scientists&#8221; is the first <strong>Star Trek<\/strong> crossover between a live action show and an animated show. Ensign Boimler and Ensign Mariner go through a portal and into the past &#8212; and meet their heroes. Jack Quaid and Tawny Newsome reprise their roles from <strong>Lower Decks<\/strong>. It&#8217;s astonishing.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Subspace Rhapsody&#8221; is the first <strong>Star Trek<\/strong> musical episode. If you remember what <strong>Buffy<\/strong>&#8216;s &#8220;Once More, with Feeling&#8221; was like you&#8217;ll have some idea what this is like. If not, it will be like nothing you&#8217;ve ever seen before.<\/p>\n<p>In the season finale, we gloriously run into our old friend Montgomery Scott. It ends on a cliffhanger.<\/p>\n<p>Paul Wesley guest stars as James T. Kirk, Gia Sandhu plays T&#8217;Pring, and Melanie Scrofano plays Captain Batel. Clint Howard, who&#8217;s been guest starring in <strong>Star Trek<\/strong> since 1966, shows up for one episode.<\/p>\n<p>Stars Ethan Peck, Jess Bush, and Carol Kane.<\/p>\n<p>I previously reviewed&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/star-trek-strange-new-worlds-season-1\/\">season 1<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{5\/5} &#8220;In the mystery and vastness of space, we might not just satisfy our curiosity, our need for exploration, but that in it we might each also find salvation.&#8221; &#8212; Una Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 2, aired in 2023 While the Enterprise is in spacedock, Captain Pike leaves to find a laywer for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[5,8,59,11],"class_list":["post-21661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tv-shows","tag-review","tag-science-fiction","tag-star-trek","tag-tv-show"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21661"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22107,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21661\/revisions\/22107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}