A few weeks ago in Strange New Worlds ‘ up-and-down third season, “ A Space Adventure Hour ” delivered a deeply unsubtle paean to the creation of Star Trek . This week, Strange New Worlds does much the same: but this time the birth of Star Trek is within the text itself, making for a much more interesting lens on the birth of an icon.

From the moment that it opens, it becomes clear that “The Sehlat Who Ate Its Tail” (named for a Vulcan idiom that Spock uses later on) is not going to be a typical episode of Strange New Worlds . Not in that “oh, something’s going to be kooky and fun!” way that you might expect after last week’s dire-stakes episode and the season’s general back-and-forth in tone swaps so far, but because we do not open on the Enterprise , or with her cre

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