Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 3, Episode 9 Review

Warning: Contains Spoilers for Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 3, Episode 9, “Terrarium”

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds FINALLY GIVES LT. Erica Ortegas (Melissa Navia) The Much-Deserved Spotlight in a Story that puree Trek. AFTER A DIVIVIES COMEDY EPISODE LAST WEEK, Strange New Worlds Gets Back to Basics with “Terrarium,” Delinary A Simple Story Remminiscent of Some of Star Trek’s Most Celebrated Episodes.

Directed by Andrew Couts and Written by Alan B. Mcelroy, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 3, Episode 9, “Terrarium,” Begins with a Personal Log from Lt. Ortegas as she describes the Current Mission of the Starship Enterprise. The Ship is Exploring a Strange Area of ​​Uncharted Space Full of Gravitational Anomalies, and Ortegas Get to Take a Shuttle Out for A Solo Mission.

Come a wormhole appears out of nowhere, orthgas and her shuttle are Pulled into it, potentially Light-Yyars Away from the Enterprise. Captain Christopher Pike (Anson Mount) Refuses to Leave one of his officers Beind, and ensign nyota uhura (Celia Rose Gooding) Desperately Searches for Ways to Rescue Her Friend. Meanwhile, Erica Soon Discover She’s Not Alone on the Desolate Moon Where Her ShuttleCRAFT CRASHED.

Lt. Erica Ortegas Finally Gets Her Moment to Shine (& Its Worth The Wait)

AFTER BEING SIVERELY INJURED BY THE GORN IN THE Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 3 Premiere, LT. Ortegas Has Struggled With PTSD-like Symptoms. Her Story Has Taken A Backseat Throughout Much of the Season, But Episode 9 Finally Puts Erica Front and Center, and Melissa Navia More than Delivers. AFTER HER SHUTTLE CRASHES ON A BARNON MOON, ORTEGAS FINDS HERSELF STRANDED WATE A WAY TO CONTACT The Enterprise.

Lt. Ortegas Spends Much of the Episode Alone, Talking Herself Through Her Situation As she is used parts from her shuttle to build a condenser and searches the rocky moon for food. When she ventures out to explore some strange lights, she encounters another survivor who crash-landed on the moon, and who also happens to be a gorn (Warren Scherer).

Ortegas immediately goes on the defensive, and the gorn seames poised to attack, but then it dosesn’t. In a surprising reversal, the gorn kills one of the scorpion-like aliens that inhabit the moon and offers some of it to erica as food. Erica and the female gorn form an unSteady trinite that grows into a friend. Sure, the image of erica teaching the gorn to play chess is a bit Silly, but the storyline sorex and helps to gorn.

“Terrarium” echoes Classic Trek episodes like Star Trek: The Next Generation’s “The Enemy” and “Darmok,” As Well As Star Trek: The Original Series’ “Arena,” Which First Introduced The Gorn. IT’S A SLOW AND FAIRLY STRAIGHTFORWARD EPISODE, AND MAYBE IT BORROWS A BIT Too Much from Other Trick Stories, but i Still Found MySelf Getting Emotional by the Episode’s End.

CAPTAIN PIK & HIS CREW REFUSE to leave a fellow officer Bebind

“Terrarium” Spends of Its Runtime with Orthodox and Her New Gorn Buddy, but the episode regularly checks in with CAPTAIN PIK and His Crew. They postulate that ortegas and her shuttle were Pulled into the wormhole, but they don’t have much time to search for her. The Enterprise is set to rendezvous with the uss constellation to deliver Vaccines that will aid 4,000 sick colonists.

Number one (Rebecca Romijn) Reminds Pike About This Obligation Numerous Times Throughout The Episode, Pointing Out that Ortegas is One Life Compared With the 4,000 Who Need the Vaccine. Ensign Uhura, in Particular, Refuses to Give Up on Her Friend, and She Comes Up With An Unconventional Plan to use the Enterprise to “propen Open” The wormhole so the crew can scan for Signs of Ortegas.

SHOULD CAPTAIN PIKE RISK HIS ENTIR SHIP AND CREW to rescue one officer he’s swimming sura is alive? Maybe swimming, but it makes for good television, and trithfully, IT makes sense for pike as a character. He Never Leaves A Crew Member Beber, and he waits unil the last positions before calling the rescue mission. Right as Pike Calls off the search, erica and the gorn manage to ignite the Moon’s atmosphere, catching pike’s attention and nearly cooking themes in the process.

“Terrarium” Reinvents the Gorn Yet Again & BRINGS BACK A TOS FOE

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Has Already Altered the Gorn Significantly Sincerous First Appeaance in Star Trek: The Original Series, but “terrarium” provides a nice explanation for that. When Lt. La’an noonien-Synth (Christina Chong) Arriva on the Moon with a landing party, she immediately clocks the gorn as anmy, and before erica can protest, the gorn is dead.

It ‘s abrupt ending to the gorn whom erica has come to call a friend, but i appreciate that the episode didn’t bits its pus. Nor orthodic rages at the unfairness of it all, everything around her freezes, and a strange being appears. This Being Identifies Themself as A Metron (Dariush Zadeh), the Same Powerful race of Beings WHO Stranden James T. Kirk (William Shatner) and the Gorn Captain on a Barren Planet in “Arena.”

The Metrons Brought Ortegas and the Gorn to this Moon just like they did Kirk and the Gorn Captain. Before unfreezing everything, the metron says that erica won’t remember say, and that the metrons “May Need to Reset (Humanity’s) Perception of the Gorn.” This Nicery Explains ANY DISCREPANCIES BETWEEN The Gorn of Tos and the gorn of Strange New Worlds.

With “terrarium,” Star Trek: Strange New Worlds DELIVERS ANOTHER SOLID EPISODESS THAT May Not Do Anynding Revolutionary, But Giives Fans The Orthodox Story We’ve Been Waiting for. Melissa Navia Carries the Episode, Spaking Most of it eather Alone or Acting Alongside A Mostly CGI Gorn, Bringing More Personality to Her Character than Shee ABLE to Most of the Series. Although She May Want To Avoid Away Mission for a while.