STAR TREK: STRANGE NEW WORLDS' TOS Parody Episode Was Cosmically Cringe, and Has Us Worried

We here at Nerdist love Star Trek: Strange New Worlds . We don’t mean to disparage other modern Star Trek iterations like Discovery or Picard, which all have their virtues. But SNW was a breath of fresh air, a return to the classic kind of storytelling, born out of a 1960s “New Frontier” style optimism, in a way we hadn’t seen in a long time. The excellent cast , led by Anson Mount, Rebecca Romijn, and Ethan Peck as Spock, became instant fan favorites. It was also a return to stand-alone, “adventure of the week” episodes, which had gone away with the advent of the streaming era. It created a lot of new fans, and brought back a lot of lapsed Trekkers. But for us, Strange New Worlds has stumbled in season three. This stumble is most evident in the recent episode “A Space Ad