This discussion and review contains spoilers for Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 2, episode 2, “Ad Astra Per Aspera,” on Paramount+. “Ad Astra Per Aspera” certainly has its flaws, but it is the best live-action episode of Star Trek in the past five years. A large part of that is because it finds a deeper purpose to the show’s nostalgia for the 1990s era of Star Trek overseen by Rick Berman. It justifies its decision to go back and revive the format, conventions, and structures in a world and industry that have moved on. “Ad Astra Per Aspera” is […]