Paramount Plus dropped its big Star Trek crossover episode early

There won’t be any actors or big casting bulletins at San Diego Comic-Con this yr, however Paramount Plus did discover one method to shock followers. It’s dropping the subsequent episode of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds 5 days early. The episode additionally occurs to be the very anticipated crossover episode that includes the live-action model of a number of the solid of Star Trek: Lower Decks. Having already seen this episode, I can verify that is all precisely as pleasant because it sounds.

With the actors on strike, SDCC has been far more muted than in earlier years. There aren’t as many star-studded panels and nil main casting bulletins. This has meant studios must depend on one thing apart from the labor of actors to advertise their reveals, and Paramount Plus settled on this shock drop.

Episode 7, “Those Old Scientists,” is obtainable proper now and manages to convey the characters of Lower Decks, a really frenetic animated present, into the extra conventional Star Trek world of Strange New Worlds remarkably properly. Jack Quaid and Tawny Newsome transfer seamlessly between the 2 mediums, and far of their outrageousness is well defined away as a result of, you understand, they’re from the long run. Things are simply weirder sooner or later.

The characters of Strange New Worlds battle to match the vitality of the Lower Decks characters, however the actors enjoying them develop a straightforward rhythm that basically helps bridge the 2 very totally different reveals properly. Even when it’s supremely goofy, all of it looks like Strange New Worlds, not like a bizarre and compelled crossover.

That took me unexpectedly after I tuned in. I’d been tentatively enthusiastic about this episode since they introduced it final yr at SDCC. I used to be curious how they’d pull it off. One present is a few group of extraordinary heroes who journey the celebrities and save the universe. The different is a steadily raunchy comedy concerning the individuals who hold the ship operating whereas the heroes are out heroing. Meshing these two tones collectively might have been disastrous, however Strange New Worlds has all the time been good at hopping from style to style and tackling bit tonal shifts with aplomb.

Also, it seems that once you put a bunch of actually good and actually dedicated actors on a sound stage collectively, they’ll work some magic.

With episode 7 now airing at present, the remainder of the remainder of the season might be airing a bit of sooner than anticipated. Strange New Worlds episode 8 will air this Thursday, July twenty seventh. Episode 9, the musical episode, will air the Thursday after that, and episode 10, the season finale, will air on August tenth.