While Star Trek: Strange New Worlds is a series that’s largely known for its sunny optimism, hopeful determination, and communal can-do spirit, it’s also a show that can get pretty darn dark when it wants to. From war stories that reveal hidden emotional traumas to grim alternate realities that explore bleak possible futures, the show has told stories about everything from child sacrifice and survivor’s guilt to PTSD and murder.

“Through the Lens of Time” is another surprisingly dark installment, a story of discovery that takes a hard swerve into a meditation on the nature of evil and what it truly might mean for a civilization to live forever, if only because of the inevitable horrors you’re likely to encounter along the way. Perhaps it’s that this episode arrives fairly closely on t

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