"Star Trek: Strange New Worlds," more than anything, exists as a fun experiment in genre. Unlike many of the streaming era "Star Trek" series, "Strange New Worlds" is presented in an episodic format, with each week's story concluding at the end of the hour. Its showrunners have been exploiting that format to the utmost of their capabilities, trying to rotate through as many genres and subgenres as they can with each 10-episode season. One episode may be an intense personal drama about the lingering impulses toward violence after suffering wartime PTSD, while the next is a lighthearted satirical murder mystery in the Agatha Christie vein. "Strange New Worlds" has more straight-up comedy and novelty episodes than any other "Star Trek" show to date as well, having made both a musical episode

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