On any series that isn’t Star Trek: Strange New Worlds , you’d be forgiven for getting a bit nervous when the fourth episode of a new season kicks off with a neon-colored 1960s-style parody sequence featuring characters who clearly don’t exist within the world of the show you’ve been watching. But on this series, it’s pretty much par for the course, and no one will be surprised when I say that “A Space Adventure Hour,” which begins with a segment from an obvious Star Trek send-up, is the best episode of the season so far, and likely destined to join the ranks of such Strange New Worlds classics as “ Subspace Rhapsody, ” “ Those Old Scientists, ” and “Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow.”

One part love letter to science fiction storytelling, one part gentle spoof of Star Trek:

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