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Spoilers For “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds” follow.

“What is Starfleet?” This is the title and central question of the latest episode “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds”.

/Witney Seibold “Star Trek” often described As a drama in the workplace, this description is correct, including “strange new worlds”. “Star Trek” is a series on a coherent team of specialized professionals who take their jobs; Their job occurs only to manage the heroism and exploration of the universe. Like any procedural, “Star Trek” trusts the audience to understand and capture the procedure regardless of the episode they see. “What is Starfleet?” The formula is mixed by bringing a new set of eyes to the institution.

Beto Ortegas (Mynor Lüken), the little brother of Enterprise Enca (Melissa Navia), is a movie director who documented the crew during the past few episodes. This one pays this by framing the entire episode as a documentary film made about the crew of the institution; It opens with the evacuation of responsibility that the shots include the union’s secret information. Beto is the center of the story, but it is actually behind the camera and invisible for most of the episode, where he interviewed the crew and asked questions on them.

Mockumentary is a great hook for the episode, and those used by many other TV programs before. The comic series, such as “The Office” and “Modern Family”, made a full series Outside it. the The closest comparison in science fiction is the “final clip” of 2003 “BatTlessar Galactica”, “ Which follows a journalist documenting the star crew. But with “What is Starfleet?” I could only think that the episode was stuck in one foot, and one of its hypothesis was presented.

Support “What is Starfleet?” It is not a typical institution’s task. Lutani vii and Kasar planets in war, and Starfleet supports Lotani (thinking has been classified). The Foundation has been appointed to transfer a super weapon to Lutani from Ocean Tychus-B. Specifically, a Livelihood Exclusive weapon: a huge creature that resembles a luggle that can travel across space and release energy explosions. He is also emotional and does not want to use it as a weapon.

I can see why this hypothesis was used in the documentary episode because it all, Beto is an enemy interview. It is outside to ask whether Starfleet amounts to the level of its declared mission of peaceful exploration, or if it is just a military force with a friendly crust. Therefore, the episode places the crew in the link between obedience to requests or doing what is true.

The visual language of the episode adapts to the frame, such as the extreme close to the expected customers when interviewing them. Initially, the episode is used to coordinate in some smart methods. Take the CHRISTINA ChONG security officer’s interview, as it says violence is the last resort but it is one to prepare for it, as footage of its training is divided with many weapons.

The episode loses its way as it continues, because documentary shots cannot do justice to the central conflict of the episode. a lot The episode was set on the Enterprise Bridge, after footage of the crew watching and interacting with the creature through the display. That is, the repetition of wide shots of the creature that flies across space. This creates an effect on the screen inside the screen, which only enhances the conflict feeling in the episode of the institution itself. The interview slices decrease throughout the middle part of the episode, which istes the corner of the document. (If you want a TV episode you can make the most of its strands in the hot seat, May I suggest a “testimony” from “VEP”.))

“Star Trek: Strange New Worlds” is intended to be intended as the old “Trek” shows, but although this series has more than 20 episodes in each season, “Worlds News Worlds” only contains 10. This means that the book is more limited in ideas they can use. “What is Starfleet?” It was better to serve as two separate episodes: documented a nozzle that includes more personal and small conflicts, and a traditional episode about the institution that interferes in the Lutani/Kasar conflict. It seems as if they had space only in the season for one of these episodes, they threw them together. I do not know the certainty if this is the way the episode appeared, but from what it ended on the screen, it is the logical conclusion.

“Star Trek: Strange New Worlds” flows on Paramount+; New episodes on Thursday.