Spoilers For "Starwater Trails: Strange New Worlds" follow.

"What is Starflit?" It is the title and central question of the latest episode "Star Trek: Strange New Worlds".

/Film Whitney Seibold often describes "Star Trek" As a drama in the workplace and that description rings true, including "weird new worlds". "Star Trek" is a series of a close wicker team of competent professionals who do their jobs; Their work is simply going to lead stars and explore the universe. Like any procedural, Star Trek trusts the audience to understand and collect the procedure no matter which episode they see. "What is Starflit?" It mixes the formula by making a fresh set of eyes in the company.

Beto Ortegas (Mynor Lüken), a small brother of the pilot of Erika (Melissa Pravija), is a director who documented the crew over the past few episodes. This pays this by framing the entire episode as a documentary concrete made for the company's crew; It opens up by denying that the recording includes declassified information on the federation. Beto is the center of the story, but it is actually behind the camera and unprecedented in most of the episode, interviewing the crew and asking questions.

Mockumentary is a great hook for one episode, and the one that many other TV shows used it earlier. Sitkoms like the "Office" and "Modern Family" made a whole series out of that. The The closest comparison in science is the 2003 "Final Cross -section". which is similarly followed by a journalist who documents the crew of stars. But with "What's Starflit?", I couldn't think the episode was stuck one leg, one leg outside her premise.

Supporting "What's Starflite?" It is not a typical mission of the company. Planets wandering VII and barracks are at war, and Starflit supports wandering (reasoning is classified). The company is designated to transport the superfair to the anger of the Ocean Tachus-B. Specifically, a Iving Superweapon: A huge creature similar to a moth that can travel through space and release energy explosions. It is also sensitive and does not want to be used as a weapon.

I can see why this premise was used for the documentary episode because during it, Beto is an antagonistic interviewer. He is out to doubt whether Starfrit lives in his listed mission of peaceful research, or whether it is just a military force with a friendly veneer. So, the episode puts the crew about the orders of respect or doing what is right.

The visual language of the episode adapts to framing, such as extreme circles of lead when interviewed. Initially, the episode uses the format in some smart ways. Download an interview with Security Officer Laan (Christina Jong), where it says violence is the last resort, but the one to be prepared, to be separated by footage of her training with numerous weapons.

The episode loses its way as it continues, because the documentary cannot make justice for the central conflict of the episode. So much The episode is mounted on the company's bridge, following footage of the crew that bothered and responds to the creature through the review screen. That, and repeated wide shots of the creature flying through space. This creates the effect of a screen-in-screen that only strengthens the episode conflict removed from the enterprise itself. The segments of the interview are reduced during the middle piece of the episode, further spending on the doctor's angle. (If you want a TV episode that manages to make the most of your water on the hot seat, Can I propose a "testimony" from "Vep".)

"Star Trek: Strange New Worlds" is deliberately episoded as older Trek shows, but while those series had 20+ episodes per season, "Strange New Worlds" has only 10. That means writers are more limited in which ideas can use. "What is Starflit?" It would be best served as two separate episodes: a fax documentary-documentary current, emphasizing more personal and minor conflicts and a traditional episode for the company that intervenes in the conflicts/barracks. It feels like they had space only in the season for one of those episodes, they threw them together. I don't know for sure whether the episode is, but from what ended up on the screen, that's a logical conclusion.

"Star Trek: Strange New Worlds" moves to Paramount+; Posting new episodes on Thursday.