Review: Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, "All Those Who Wander" | Season 1, Episode 9
Our heroes investigate a crashed ship and find familiar monsters within
I’m used to TV shows copying from movies. It’s not as prevalent as it once was, given how much serialization has come to dominate the industry, but if you grew up watching television in the ‘80s and ‘90s (and presumably before, but I’m just talking about my age range), it was just a thing you came to expect, especially if you watched a lot of genre shows. Hell, there are multiple episodes of MacGyver that straight up use footage from the movies they’re, uh, homaging. The concept never really bothered me; at best, it was a chance to see two things I liked mashed together to create something relatively new, and at worst, it was still a pretty good time. But that sort of blithe acceptance doesn’t really work these days. With shorter seasons and more self-consciously sophisticated writing, you need to at least put a bit of a spin on what you’re stealing if you want to justify the theft.
Does “All Those Who Wander” pass the test? I’m not sure. It’s not a bad episode–the sh…