The funniest episode of Strange New World Season 3 is a series of a story of season 1

Red alert! This article contains spoilers For the last episode of “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds”.

Who knew that the starfleet mission statement attractive to “go boldly where nobody went before …” would really refer to the unexplored waters of the comedy? “Star Trek” has traditionally made a meal while keeping viewers on their guard, never allowing anyone to settle in a familiar pace or routine. It is not before season 3 of “Strange New Worlds”, however, we saw a creative team fold the limits of this approach to see if it can really break. In recent weeks only, we have seen the Spin-Off / Prequest series attempt an apocalypse zombie tinged with horror, a tribute to existentialist films like “Event Horizon” and “Prometheus”, an hour of Murter-Mystery full of Hijinks Holodeck and even a documentary riff which has placed a target outright on the founded ideas of the franchise.

We did not know that they had saved the absolute most funny episode for their last, using another press scenario of season 2 as a starting point for this (sort of) suite. Fans will undoubtedly remember the mangances of the fish out of the water of “Charades”. In this Rom-Com intrigue with a science fiction torsion, Spock (Ethan Peck) impatiently awaits a meeting with his fiancée Vulcain T’Pring (Gia Sandhu), which should arrive with his parents for a visit to a great cultural import. The timing could not be worse, of course, when a bizarre shuttle incident (and a little misunderstanding by well-intentioned extraterrestrials) transforms our scientific agent normally half human and half vulcan into a version itself without pointed ears and extraterrestrial DNA on the eve of their dinner date. Oops.

Season 3 “Four and a half Vulcans” returns to this well-in-law well (farce?), Succeeding in the healing of human / vulcan DNA for retro-engineer a situation where Captain Pike (Anson Mount) and his bridge crew must go under cover in Vulcan disguise for a distant mission. The mission becomes spectacularly well, for once, until they realize that they cannot return to their human forms. Cue several clumsy moments of the relational drama, an alarming-spanching (Christina Chong), and even an invited appearance of Patton Oswalt as the most attractive Vulcan that you will never see, which is added to the funniest episode of “Strange New Worlds”.

Leave it to “Strange New Worlds” to take one of the most legendary elements of all the “Star Trek” traditions – the Vulcans always and emotionally regulated – and spend an entire episode to all -Giclé. We cannot deny the big differences between pointed people and imperfect American humans, and writers do not even try it otherwise. The mission on a neighboring planet, hosting a population of pre-war individuals, takes place more easily and without conflict than everything we have ever seen in the franchise … insofar as we do not even need to actually see This for ourselves. Instead, we stick to the perspective of those who manage their positions in the company while the outside team radiates and retreats in the blink of an eye. However, any “superior” species is simply supporting one or two ankles, and “Strange New Worlds” offers in a very noisy way.

For the first time in season 3, the episode is devoted to being a simple comedy. Humor initially comes from Spock reactions alone, clearly fighting to remove his discomfort from seeing her friends and closest colleagues live life through Vulcans. When they cannot transform themselves and return to work as “normal”, well, we quickly see how it can be an obstacle to treat the world through logic alone. Marie Batel (Melanie Scrofano) finds herself almost immediately in contradiction with this bunter and much less empathetic version of the captain of the business, while Spock meets a similar resistance with her former nurse-chapel (Jess Bush), who suddenly decides any contact (Platonic and Romantic) with the others on behalf more effectively. Even Uhura (Celia Rose Gooding) is transformed into the most manipulative and toxic version of herself, forcing her own stroke of crush (Mynor Luken) to rewrite his own programming essentially to meet her Vulcan needs.

All of this is played for barrels of laughter and humor, a high -thread tone act that is bearing fruit substantially when the real show star finally arrives: Patton Oswalt Vulcan, incredibly named, Doug.

Just in case someone thought that “Strange New Worlds” was too subtle with his sense of humor this week, the creative team made sure to recruit the services of literal actor and world renowned actor (and also “Veteran Star Trek”) Patton Oswalt to undoubtedly provide the most hilarious sub-lifestyle of the episode. While everyone does their best to keep the business on the move despite the sudden influx of disruptive Vulcans, the number one Una Chin-Riley (Rebecca Romijn) offers a desperate solution involving a certain figure of their past. This turns out to be a spiritualist and an expert from Katras … who also happens to be the ex of the una of a romantic tangle (and, quite hot).

The revelation that it is a Vulcan named Doug and played by Oswalt, all the potential cameos with which they could have gone, only feels the most silly (free). And while the novelty factor of a short and cheesy apparently fueling all this frantic lust in Una could easily have slim, the fact that Oswalt commitments To this performance, so shamelessly, helps keep laughter. For some, this whole sequence could have appeared as the show that finally jumped the shark. But for all the others on the wavelength of this episode, spend all this precious screen time on several absurd scenarios – like Marie turning to Captain Pike and the Vulcan Admiral in charge of her return to the Starfleet service, or Scotty (Martin Quinn) and Kirk (Paul Wesley) conspired to literally shock the La’an from adhesion to admission to admission From the fine of the Enan in the damage to the damage of the ENAN in the infringement of the ENAN in the infringement of the ENAN in the infringement of the ENAN in the infringement of the ENAN in the infringement of the adaptation to the damage to the adaptation to the damage of the ENAN in the damage, or Spock or Spock, in Doug. Human throughout a prolonged post -writer label – only looks like the last instance of an ambitious room full of talented writers deciding to go to break.

Season 3 of “Strange New Worlds” continues to operate at the highest level, and you can take new streaming episodes on Paramount + every Thursday.