Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 2 Episode 1 The Broken Circle
A distress call from Lt Noonien-Singh compels Spock to disobey orders and take the USS Enterprise and its crew into disputed space, risking renewed hostilities with the Klingons in a bid to aid their shipmate.
am not the kind of Trekkie who deems certain series and movies to not be “real” Star Trek. But even so, as Strange New Worlds season 2 began, I felt a kick from my hindbrain saying, “At last! Real Star Trek.” Strange New Worlds feels refreshingly familiar, like a throwback to classic Trek shows like The Next Generation and even The Original Series. In the hands of a less skilled crew, SWN could’ve felt derivative and unoriginal. Instead, it feels fresh and familiar at once.
At the risk of overthinking it, I think SNW succeeds because of the philosophy behind the show. Where Star Trek: Discovery views the history of the franchise as a resource to mine for story ideas and Easter eggs, SNW views that history as…history. SNW doesn’t copy or refer to what’s come before, but builds on it.
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds review, Episode 201, “The Broken Circle”
The season 2 premiere, “The Broken Circle,” has to reinforce those strengths and remind us why we want to watch. Keeping in mind its throwback spirit, SNW has mostly featured episodic adventures that wrap up neatly in an hour or so, but there is still a larger continuity. At the start of “The Broken Circle,” the Enterprise is in spacedock for inspections after the events of last season’s finale. Lieutenant La’an Noonien Singh is off finding the parents of the little girl who they rescued from the Gorn and Captain Pike is off finding a lawyer for Number One, who was arrested at the end of last season for lying about her species in her Starfleet application, leaving Spock in command of the Enterprise. That’s when Uhura receives a vague message from Noonien-Singh indicating an imminent anti-Federation threat somewhere in the Kojitar system.
The Kojitar System is home to a dilithium mining operation that the Klingons and the Federation take turns running month by month (bit weird). A Federation starship turning up during a Klingon month would be considered an act of war. So because Starfleet can’t give our heroes permission to check the message out, they obviously have to steal the Enterprise.
But first, they have to get those pesky inspectors off the Enterprise by faking a warp core breach. But wouldn’t you know it, the inspector Pelia is an expert on warp core breaches. She sees through their ruse, but she lets them do it anyway because she’s bored.
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds
Season Number: 2
Episode Number: 1
Episode Title: The Broken Circle
Air Date: Jun 15, 2023
Language: English
Subtitle Language: English
Source: Star.Trek.Strange.New.Worlds.S02E01.1080p.WEB.H264-ETHEL
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