The Enterprise goes back in time and doesn't prevent a genocide, but Anika and Liz would like to go back in time to prevent this episode from ever being made. Oh, did the fourth season premiere of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds displease us? It sure did!

"Don't overthink it!"

• This episode provides more evidence for our argument that Pike is bad at his job
• Words we use to describe this episode: "nonsense", "dreadful", "terrible", "morally broken", "anti Star Trek", "almost clever"
• Why does SNW want us to hate La'an?
• Leaning into the biological determinism with this Kha'an arc
• The Martians and Spock are totally incurious about each other, because this is The Least Curious Star Trek
• "Let's not worry too much about that genocide we facilitated" is … not a great twist in 2026. Or ever.