Spoilers for episode 4 of "Star Trek: Strange New Worlds" season 4, titled "A Space Adventure Hour," episode follow.

The newest episode of "Star Trek: Strange New Worlds" — "A Space Adventure Hour," written by Dana Horgan & Kathryn Lyn — features the show going back to the past. Except, it's not a time travel episode. To test a prototype holodeck, La'an (Christina Chong) crafts a murder mystery story set in mid-20th century Hollywood where she's the detective, Amelia Moon. And the suspects are the cast and crew of a space adventure series, "The Last Frontier," that's about to be canceled.

The episode has enough metatext to fill the whole Enterprise, because "The Last Frontier" is a clear stand-in for "Star Trek: The Original Series." However, the writers weren't just thinking about

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