Uncanny Treks: Star Trek- Strange New Worlds S3E7 (2025, TV)

What is Starfleet, anyway? Bob and Matt tackle the Strange New Worlds episode that asks the question outright — an in-universe documentary shot by Beto Ortegas, who starts the episode thoroughly unimpressed with the whole enterprise. The mission: transport a Jikaru, a giant sentient space creature, for the Lutani's war with the Kasar — until Spock's mind-meld and Uhura's communion reveal the creature was tortured into a weapon, and it chooses the sun over servitude. Beto's conversion mirrors the audience's. Matt's a sucker for the thesis statement; Bob grades the execution.