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Big Swings!
Episode 23518th January 2026 • The Ready Room: A Star Trek Podcast • TFM
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Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 3

When Star Trek: Strange New Worlds premiered as a spin-off of Star Trek: Discovery, many fans were over the moon with the return to episodic televisions with tie-ins to The Original Series. For a time, it felt as if Trek's golden age was back. But as the series evolved, the producers and writers began to see it as a playground for experimental storytelling within the Roddenberry framework.

In this episode of The Ready Room, hosts C Bryan Jones and Larry Nemecek look back at Season 3 and ask how well the limited 10-episode canvas was used and how the writers' strike impacted the quality of the stories and continuity of the stories as we examine each episode one by one.

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Intro (00:00:00)

Initial Thoughts (00:01:16)

The Writers' Strike (00:10:42)

There Are Ten Slots (00:16:08)

Writing for a Wrap-up? (00:27:57)

"Hegemony, Part 2" (00:31:27)

"Wedding Bell Blues" (00:39:01)

"Shuttle to Kenfori" (00:52:42)

"A Space Adventure Hour" (00:57:58)

"Through the Lens of Time" (01:10:19)

"The Sehlat Who Ate Its Tail" (01:23:11)

"What Is Starfleet?" (01:31:39)

"Four-and-a-Half Vulcans" (01:36:45)

"Terrarium" (01:48:06)

"New Life and New Civilizations" (01:54:46)

Final Thoughts (02:06:50)

Closing (02:19:21)

Hosts

C Bryan Jones and Larry Nemecek


Production

C Bryan Jones (Editor and Producer) Matthew Rushing (Executive Producer)

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