Red warning! This article contains spoilers For the latest episode of "Star Trek: Strange New Worlds".

Who knew that the time statement of the "Starflit" mission of "boldly walking where no one had passed before ..." would actually refer to the unexplored waters of the comedy genre? "Star Trek" has traditionally made a meal of keeping viewers on the fingers, never allowing anyone to settle in a familiar rhythm or routine to tell stories. However, by season 3 of "Strange New Worlds", however, we have seen that the creative team folds the boundaries of this approach to see if it can actually break. These last few weeks only, we have seen that spin-off/foretells series try the horror-zombie apocalypse, apocalypse, Homemade for existential films such as "Horizon Events" and "Prometheus", Murder-mystery hour full of hizles for holodek and even Documentary riff that set a whole square on its own basic ideas of franchise.

We did not know little that they preserve the absolute funniest episode for their last, using another story of season 2 intestines as a jumping point for this (kind) sequel. Fans will undoubtedly remember The fishermans of the fish from "Sharadi". In that conspiracy ROM -COM with a scientific twist, Spack (Ethan Peck) is looking forward to reuniting with his fiancée volcano T'Arging (Gia Sandhu), who wants to arrive with her parents to visit excellent cultural imports. Time cannot be worse, naturally, when the incident with a cheat shuttle (and a little misunderstanding by some well-intentioned aliens) turns our normal semi-human, semi-volcanic science officer into the version, by itself, without small ears and alien DNA. Uh.

The "Four and a Half Volcanoes" of Season 3 returns to this well in a full comic strip (farce?), Again using the treatment of a man's DNA/volcano to a reverse engineer situation when Captain Pike (Anson Mont) and his team on the bridge should go under the crust in volcanic masking. The mission goes spectacularly well, for once, until they realize that they cannot return to their human forms. Show some awkward moments of a relationship in the relationship, alarming activation-happy Laan (Christina Chong), and even to the guest of Patton Oswalt as the tallest volcano you will ever see, it is added to the funniest episode of "Strange News".

Leave it to "Strange New Worlds" to take one of the most famous elements in all orbest orbed orbes - constantly wisely and emotionally regulated volcanoes - And spend an entire episode lying to everything that is stupid for these foreigners. There is no denial of the huge differences between the people who and the ears and the imperfect people, and the writers do not even try otherwise. The mission of the nearby planet, host of a population of pre -war individuals, goes more smoothly and without conflict than any of we ever seen in the franchise ... to the extent that we do not even need it. Look This for ourselves. Instead, we stick with the perspective of those who maintain their positions in the company, while the guest team is out and returns to the blink of an eye. However, every "superior" kind just begs to overthrow Stip or two, and "strange new worlds" deliver a thorough stormy fashion.

For the first time in season 3, the episode devotes itself to being a direct comedy. Humor originally comes from Spack's reactions only, clearly struggling to suppress his discomfort when he sees his closest friends and associates experience life through volcanic eyes. When they are not able to transform back and return to work as "normal", well, we quickly see how obstacle it can be to process the world only through logic. Marie Batel (Melanie Sekrophano) almost immediately ends up contradicting this blur and a much less empathetic version of the captain of the company, while Spack encounters similar resistance to his former Nuri Capel (Ess Bush), who has sharply decides to stop the entire contact (Essen). Even Uhura (Celia Rose Gooding) turns into the most manipulative and toxic version of herself, forcing her own crush Beto (Minor Luken) to essentially process her own programming to serve its volcanic needs.

All this is played for laughter barrels and humor, a high wire tone that paid significantly when the true starfish of the show finally arrives: the Patton Oswalt volcano, named, incredibly enough, Doug.

Just in case someone thinks that "strange new worlds" are too subtle with their sense of humor this week, the creative team made sure to recruit the services of the literal comedian and world -renowned actor (And also a veteran "Star Trek") Patton Osvalt to provide him with probably the funniest under the episode. While everyone else is trying to keep the company working despite the sudden influx of disruption volcanoes, the number one Una-Rabecca Romine comes with a desperate solution involving a certain figure from her past. It turns out to be a spiritualist and expert in Katras ... who also seems to be a former Una from the previous (and, from the sound of it, quite gloomy) romantic entanglement.

Discovering that this is a volcano named Doug and a feature of Oswalt, from all the potential homes they could pass, it only makes this feel all the powerful (complementary). And while the novelty factor for a short, nervous man obviously encourages all this incessant lust in Una could be easily worn thinly, the fact that Oswalt commit In this performance, so inadvertently helps to maintain laughter. For some, this whole sequence could meet because the show finally jumped on the shark. But for everyone on this episode's Wavelength, Spending All this Precious Screen Time on Several Absurd Scenarios - Like Marie Flipping Out on Captain Pike and the Vulcan Admiral Starfleet Service, or Scotty (Martin Quinn) and Kirk (Paul Wesley) Conspiring to Literally Shock the War-Mongering La'an Into Submission, or Spock Wryly Instructing Doug in the Fine Art of BE AWAY Post-credit-only feels like the latest example of an ambitious room full of talented writers who decide to go broken.

Season 3 of "Strange New Worlds" continues to work at the highest levelAnd you can catch new episodes that move to Paramount+ every Thursday.