Today’s Star Trek is not like your granddad’s Star Trek . Gone are the shaky sets, the wildly incorrect science, and the scenery-chewing acting. But if you tuned into “A Space Adventure Hour,” this week’s episode of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds , that is exactly what you saw. This hour features tape-driven computers, a view screen that is clearly just a hole in the wall, and a puppet alien demanding “brain cells to power their radiation” before firing “nuclear lasers.”

As if all of that wasn’t enough, Paul Wesley, the actor who has made the role of James T. Kirk his own with his thoughtful and understated performance, appeared to be doing … a William Shatner impression?

“Yeah, but boy he leaned into it didn’t he?” says Jonathan Frakes, who directed the episode. “He was working

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