Logline
A time ripple damages the Enterprise, forcing young and old Uhura to cooperate and fix the timeline.
Written by: Henry Alonso Myers & Robbie Thompson
Directed by: Chris Fisher
A time ripple damages the Enterprise, forcing young and old Uhura to cooperate and fix the timeline.
Written by: Henry Alonso Myers & Robbie Thompson
Directed by: Chris Fisher
SNW was going to be cancelled at the end of this season, until the showrunner argued for another half-season to wrap things up. Which makes too much sense, since this was in many ways a shorter, breezier version of All Good Things. It even ends with a captain joining a poker game! And focussing on Uhura also works well for a pseudo-finale, since she was our focal character early in season 1 as well.
Which makes me wonder how the next season will feel. It reminds me of the Babylon 5 season 4 finale, which was written to function as the series finale when they thought they wouldn’t get renewed. And then the actual season 5 felt a little redundant. Not unwelcome, but kind of like a long addendum to the “main show”.
Regardless, an enjoyable episode. Celia Rose Gooding carried it well. They had fun with the time travel mechanics in a way that worked well enough. I think Trek relies too much on fan service, but I have to say the '60s hair tickled me, and I was delighted to see M’Ress. The Black / White Holes didn’t feel scary enough by far, but it seems like they weren’t exactly the real thing, so maybe that’s okay.
I’ve been thinking about that lately. I see a couple of possibilities:
A single, six-episode arc (which doesn’t really seem like this show’s style).
Standalone episodes with significant time-jumps in between (seems more likely to me).
Of course, there are other possibilities (maybe a bunch of two-parters like ENT season 4?), so who knows?
Even better, the actual series finale was filmed at the end of season 4 and withheld until season 5 ended (which is why Ivanova is in it instead of Lochley, for example). So season 4 sort of had two finales.