…some big-time gore the likes of which we haven’t seen since Star Trek: Discovery Season 1, when that show was flirting with how far it was willing to push the sex and violence factor in the new-for-the-franchise streaming space.
Episodic storytelling is what sets it apart from Star Trek: Discovery, and in this case, that’s a good thing.
But Strange New Worlds has never been serialized in quite the same way as Star Trek: Discovery or, especially, Star Trek: Picard, the latter of which essentially told one big story each season.
…since we know that class of ship wasn’t introduced until after the war (as seen in Star Trek: Discovery’s second season).
…the vision of the terrible future that Christopher Pike (Anson Mount) saw in Star Trek: Discovery…
His fate is one that he foresaw while picking up the time crystal during season 2 of Star Trek: Discovery.