Strange New Worlds Season 3 has resolved its big, bad 2023 cliffhanger. In the first episode of the new season, "Hegemony Part II," Captain Pike (Anson Mount) and the crew of the USS Enterprise hatch a plan to make the killer lizard aliens,

Stars Jess Bush, Celia Rose Gooding, Melissa Navia, and Martin Quinn, and EPs Akiva Goldsman and Henry Alonso Myers break down the first two episodes of Season 3.

Goldsman brings up the classic TOS episode “The City on the Edge of Forever” as the ultimate example of not only a great episode of Trek but also how it’s demonstrative of the limits of the classic series. We got to know the TOS cast fairly well from 1966 to 1969, but it’s not like the characters had complete arcs.