# Star Trek Strange New Worlds season three {summer 2025} **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** star-trek-paramount\ **Created:** [April 2, 2025, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-strange-new-worlds-season-three-summer-2025/1016541 "2025-04-02T21:07:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 9
**Author:** ![DSeid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dseid/32/20194_2.png) [@DSeid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSeid)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2025, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-strange-new-worlds-season-three-summer-2025/1016541/161 "2025-09-07T13:45:31Z")
> [@Quimby](#): > > I wonder if this is a set up for some kind of X-Files type Star Trek show? Q forbid! ---
**Author:** ![Horatius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horatius/32/3572_2.png) [@Horatius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatius)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2025, 11:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-strange-new-worlds-season-three-summer-2025/1016541/162 "2025-09-08T11:44:42Z")
> [@DSeid](#): > > Q forbid!- Star Trek: Division 12: Everything is Q. Every episode, no matter what it is, turns out to be Q just messing with them. Every few episodes, there’s a fake-out where it looks like it’s really Space Ghosts or Space Yeti or something, but then, “Surprise! It’s just Q!” The sixth season is just the entire Division 12 crew day-drinking while waiting for Q to get bored and reveal himself. They just ignore whatever’s happening around them, even as non-D12 people are freaking out. “That Space Chupacabras just sucked out all the Captain’s blood! Why aren’t you _doing something?!?!_” “I _am_ doing something, I’m making a Bloody Mary with gin instead of vodka. Chill out, Q will put him back together in about an hour…” ---
**Author:** ![rocking\_chair](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocking_chair/32/2918_2.png) [@rocking\_chair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rocking_chair)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2025, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-strange-new-worlds-season-three-summer-2025/1016541/163 "2025-09-08T20:30:16Z")
today is star trek day. live long and prosper. ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2025, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-strange-new-worlds-season-three-summer-2025/1016541/164 "2025-09-08T21:08:28Z")
“September Ninth Be With You!” Just rolls off the tongue, don’t it? ---
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2025, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-strange-new-worlds-season-three-summer-2025/1016541/165 "2025-09-11T18:43:31Z")
They really need help with the pacing of this show. The finale wasn’t bad but it was very slow. It didn’t help that every beat was obvious and you just kept waiting for the show to catch up. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2025, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-strange-new-worlds-season-three-summer-2025/1016541/166 "2025-09-11T18:50:55Z")
Pike didn’t get to learn to play a wind instrument. ---
**Author:** ![de\_Worde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/838e76/32.png) [@de\_Worde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/de_Worde)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2025, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-strange-new-worlds-season-three-summer-2025/1016541/167 "2025-09-11T19:58:25Z")
Pelia: “Remind me to tell you about the time I spent with the time-traveling Doctor I once knew” ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2025, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-strange-new-worlds-season-three-summer-2025/1016541/168 "2025-09-11T20:23:10Z")
> [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](#): > > If I had to rank all of the episodes of SNW, this may well be last on the list. Monologuing isn’t easy for any actor, but the actress who plays Ortegas is particularly unconvincing at it. And is there anybody who’s seen the TOS Gorn episode who didn’t guess the identity of the lights in the distance and what they were up to? I guess I’m alone in this because I liked the episode. Also I only recently watched the original TOS Gorn episode so it’s probably one of the only references I’ll ever get. But this seemed like standard Star Trek fare to me. Neither great nor terrible. Things seem a little all over the map this season. > [@DSeid](#): > > My main complaint is that giving your captain false information, risking the ship and thousands of other lives, is a big deal. Tolerating that without major consequence? No. Absolutely agree. Why put it in there if there are no consequences? ---
**Author:** ![simster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/simster/32/1047_2.png) [@simster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/simster)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2025, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-strange-new-worlds-season-three-summer-2025/1016541/169 "2025-09-12T00:53:39Z")
> [@Spice\_Weasel](#): > > Absolutely agree. Why put it in there if there are no consequences? It was a character moment for Uhura - Pike knew the entire time she fudged it, but the fact she did showed something. ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2025, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-strange-new-worlds-season-three-summer-2025/1016541/170 "2025-09-12T01:29:53Z")
It showed she would risk the entire crew to save one crew member. And that Pike would look the other way. I mean damn. ---
**Author:** ![DSeid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dseid/32/20194_2.png) [@DSeid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSeid)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2025, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-strange-new-worlds-season-three-summer-2025/1016541/171 "2025-09-12T03:25:12Z")
> [@de\_Worde](#): > > Pelia: “Remind me to tell you about the time I spent with the time-traveling Doctor I once knew” I think some are taking that, along with the Tardis spotting, as evidence of The Doctor existing in the Trek Universe. I don’t. It seemed to me like she was about to say something about time travel of the sort that Pike experienced and is secret, so she switched. It is only evidence that she lived through when the show Doctor Who existed, and that the writers like being cute. Fair ep. Just fair. ---
**Author:** ![zbuzz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e19b73/32.png) [@zbuzz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zbuzz)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2025, 8:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-strange-new-worlds-season-three-summer-2025/1016541/172 "2025-09-12T08:45:53Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > Pike didn’t get to learn to play a wind instrument. I was thinking the same thing. The flute, btw, was auctioned off last week for $400,000. That was about $3.2 million less than Darth Vader’s Return of the Jedi lightsaber, but almost $100,000 more than the neuralyzer used by K in Men in Black. ---
**Author:** ![zbuzz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e19b73/32.png) [@zbuzz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zbuzz)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2025, 8:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-strange-new-worlds-season-three-summer-2025/1016541/173 "2025-09-12T08:54:43Z")
I had mistakenly thought the Muppet episode was supposed to be from this season, not next season. So since this was the season’s final episode, I kept waiting for them to turn into Muppets. Kind of a weird episode to watch while you’re expecting something like that to happen. ---
**Author:** ![Scoobysnax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c4cdca/32.png) [@Scoobysnax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scoobysnax)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2025, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-strange-new-worlds-season-three-summer-2025/1016541/174 "2025-09-12T13:36:59Z")
That was definitely an end to an overwhelmingly meh season. She was the chosen one because her DNA is mixed with a few other species? They basically turned her into the Fifth Element to destroy the immortal evil creatures. Is removing your eyes a necessary step before you can be possessed? ---
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2025, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-strange-new-worlds-season-three-summer-2025/1016541/175 "2025-09-12T14:39:11Z")
The more I think about this episode the more I dislike it. The whole idea that these aliens are PUUUUURE EVVVVVVILLL!!! is as anti Star Trek as it gets. Star Trek often has wonky science but this is just straight up Fantasy with chosen ones and destiny and evil demons. DS9 dipped its toe in this sort of thing but at least they could say they have aliens that see the future as easily as the past so the idea of prophecy makes sense. ---
**Author:** ![Horatius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horatius/32/3572_2.png) [@Horatius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatius)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2025, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-strange-new-worlds-season-three-summer-2025/1016541/176 "2025-09-12T14:47:50Z")
> [@Scoobysnax](#): > > She was the chosen one because her DNA is mixed with a few other species? They basically turned her into the Fifth Element to destroy the immortal evil creatures. And it was particularly annoying because that whole “explanation” kind of came out of left field. It went from implausible speculation to absolute certainty in about 30 seconds. You’re going to risk your life on that? Even Uhura’s fudging the numbers gambit was better thought out. ---
**Author:** ![sciurophobic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cab0a1/32.png) [@sciurophobic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sciurophobic)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2025, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-strange-new-worlds-season-three-summer-2025/1016541/177 "2025-09-12T18:06:01Z")
It’s hard to care about the Pike/Bartels relationship when we know he ends up with Vina. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2025, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-strange-new-worlds-season-three-summer-2025/1016541/178 "2025-09-13T12:37:41Z")
My main takeaway over 3 seasons of this show is I still prefer the stand-alone episodes to the overall story. Anyway, I felt like the ending to this season seemed like they weren’t even sure if they were renewed. The way it ended with them “Star Trekking” again felt like a launch you’d see in a series finale. Anyway, an adequate show. Even really fun sometimes. Will be back for season 4. ---
**Author:** ![Face\_Intentionally\_Left\_Blank](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/face_intentionally_left_blank/32/288_2.png) [@Face\_Intentionally\_Left\_Blank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Face_Intentionally_Left_Blank)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2025, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-strange-new-worlds-season-three-summer-2025/1016541/179 "2025-09-13T15:48:01Z")
> Pelia: “Remind me to tell you about the time I spent with the time-traveling Doctor I once knew” I wonder if Pelia was about to spill the beans about La’An and Kirk visiting her in the past, and changed what she was going to say - and the writers like to make cute but meaningless references, like the one they made to Primanti’s sandwiches a couple episodes back. I was afraid they were gonna make this another cliffhanger like Hegemony. At the end of seasons one and two, I loved the show. Now, I’ll still watch every episode and look forward to it, but I’m betting that, by the series end in season five, I’ll be ready for it to end. EDIT: Ack!, was that a time-and-universe jumping episode? These timelines get so confusing. ---
**Author:** ![DWMarch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dwmarch/32/1010_2.png) [@DWMarch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DWMarch)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2025, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-strange-new-worlds-season-three-summer-2025/1016541/180 "2025-09-17T04:17:38Z")
> [@Quimby](#): > > There was a reference in this episode to something called Division 12. The implication is they investigate paranormal stuff. As far as I know this is the first time it was ever referenced in Trek before. I wonder if this is a set up for some kind of X-Files type Star Trek show? Lower Decks had a Division 14, a Starfleet department dedicated to weird medical problems: > **[Division 14](https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Division_14)** > > Division 14, also known as D-14, was a specialized Starfleet division that handled mysterious science- or medical-related problems afflicting its personnel. Division 14 maintained a spa on Endicronimas V known as "The Farm" to give the best care... [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-strange-new-worlds-season-three-summer-2025/1016541.md?page=8) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-trek-strange-new-worlds-season-three-summer-2025/1016541.md?page=10)