59 Years Later, Star Trek Just Created A Twisty, Metafictional Version Of Itself

59 Years Later, Star Trek Just Created A Twisty, Metafictional Version Of Itself

Paramount+The creator of Star Trek, the late Gene Roddenberry, has arrived in the form of a holographic, nervous, nebbish man, embodied by the usually heroic Anson Mount. Could Next Generation fans in the 1990s have imagined Patrick Stewart playing a metafictional, pseudo-version of Roddenberry? It’s hard to picture, but in a new episode of Strange New Worlds Season 3 — “A Space Adventure Hour” — that’s essentially what has happened: The lead of…

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds' Holodeck Episode Began As A Tribute To A DS9 Masterpiece

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds' most meta story originated as something closer to Far Beyond the Stars, one of Deep Space Nine's most famed episodes.