A review of this week's Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, "Off-Hour" — with spoilers — coming up just as soon as I'm stronger than a piano...
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds recap, Season 4, Episode 5: ‘Level-Five Transporter Accident’
The crew turns into puppets in another strained comedy episode
Alan Sepinwall
Well, hallelujah! It's the first Strange New Worlds of the season that I enjoyed almost unreservedly. Not coincidentally, it's the first installment in weeks that doesn't really qualify as a gimmick episode. Playing things straight down the middle doesn't automatically mean perfection — both the time-traveling premiere and the haunted house episode had pacing issues, among other things — but based on the last season and a half, I think it's safe to say that Strange New Worlds is on much firmer ground this way.