Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 3 delivers an action-packed finale that wraps up several storylines, but sometimes feels more like fantasy than science fiction. Captain Christopher Pike (Anson Mount) and his Enterprise crew have encountered everything from monstrous Gorn to malfunctioning holodecks throughout Strange New Worlds' third season, and the finale gives everyone something to do.
Directed by Maja Vrvilo and written by Dana Horgan and Davy Perez, "New Life and New Civilizations" continues the story that began in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 3, Episode 5 , "Through the Lens of Time," which introduced the Vezda and their mysterious prison. That episode hinted that the Vezda would return, and the finale keeps that promise, sending the Enterprise to a new planet