Star Trek: Strange New Worlds delivered its third comedy episode of the show’s 10-episode third season this week. Along the way, the series redid its opening credits with a new monologue from a very different version of Captain Pike.
The episode is called “Four-and-a-half Vulcans.” It centers around transforming Pike, Chapel, Uhura, and Noonien-Singh into pseudo-Vulcans for an away mission. The away mission only takes a few minutes; the bulk of the episode involves them being stuck that way and unwilling to return to being human.
After the cold open in which the crew is given pointy ears, the show’s credits sequence kicks in with a new narration. Anson Mount does the narration as a Vulcan and delivers the show’s “Space, the final frontier…” without emotion. Hear it in your non-pointy ears by pressing play below.
Pike’s narration isn’t the only change. They’ve also added the space-faring butterfly, which first appeared in “What Is Starfleet?”, the seventh episode of season 3. It’s called a Jikaru dragon, and the first one the crew encountered killed itself to avoid being used as a weapon.
Below is a close-up shot of the new Jikaru dragon.
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds opening credits before the new addition.
The show has been taking a lot of heat for its propensity to make joke episodes. Out of 8 episodes released in season 3, this marks the third episode played for comedy. If I were a Vulcan, this is 37.5% of all available episodes. Whether those episodes are good or not, such an unbalanced percentage seems most illogical.
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