Star Trek: Strange New Worlds - S3 • E1 - Hegemony (2)
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds
TV-PGS3 • E1Jul 16, 202549m
Pike leads a risky rescue behind enemy lines as the landing party flees a deadly enemy.
Jacob O’Neal reviewedJuly 18, 2025
They say that a hero is only as good as their villain in storytelling. So let me give the villains of Star Trek, the writers, some advice - Stop trying to make the Gorn into the big bad of Trek! It’s not working. As far as silent killing machines go, they are no Borg. They’re not even the Breen. I don’t even like Seth McFarlane, but The Orville understood Star Trek better than Alex Kurtzman and Akiva Goldsman. Each is captor good storytelling. Kurtzman’s show Fringe got better when they brought in Goldsman. But they don’t get Trek. It’s obvious from Discovery on. This season premiere showed that all over. I’m a Star Trek fan and they sometimes get it right. Then we get Discovery seasons 1 and…well, most of the episodes of the other seasons as well. Picard was weak for 2 seasons before it finished on a high note. Lower Decks was good, but that was likely due to Mike McMahon running that series. Strange New Worlds started with a lot of potential, the cast is good, the music is amazing with just enough Alexander Courage influence, but the storytelling lacks. I don’t feel connected to any of the characters. A season premiere is meant to be a way to bring in new viewers, not turn them off.
Again, a hero is only as good as its villain. We know the villains of Trek are currently Kurtzman and Goldsman. We just don’t have the hero of the story yet.