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Strange New Worlds Recap and Review: 'And Then They Go and Die on You'

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Strange New Worlds Recap and Review: 'And Then They Go and Die on You'

Spoilers follow for Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 4, Episode 6, “Off-Hour.”

Now that’s more like it. After the past several weeks of high-concept/low-impact Strange New Worlds episodes, the show finally gets back on track with a good old space adventure. Sure, it’s still a concept episode in its way (or two, I suppose, doing The Poseidon Adventure in space alongside an hour of Jack Bauer-style, real-time 24 action), but it’s one that works in spades and is never over-shadowed by its concepts.

“Off-Hour” certainly benefits from its focus on two of the show’s best characters, Dr. M’Benga (Babs Olusanmokun) and Nurse Chapel (Jess Bush), and the relationship that has been established between the two over the course of the past three and a half seasons. But beyond that, the episode also gives us some nice Scotty (Martin Quinn)/Pelia (Carol Kane) interplay. And it’s also just a cracking good hour of drama, action, and sci-fi spectacle.

When the Enterprise gets stuck in a slipstream wormhole, the devastation wreaked on the ship is abrupt – and fatal for some. Then there’s the crewmembers like M’Benga, who survives the initial blast but is mortally wounded; the doctor specifically is trapped behind a medical bay table, which has crashed into him and essentially severed his body at the midsection. Once the table is moved, he’ll be dead. But that’s where Chapel comes in…

I just mentioned in my interview with Olusanmokun a couple of weeks ago that the thing about Dr.


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