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Captain Pike and the Enterprise return to the site of the away team mission from “The Cage,” in one of the best episodes of Strange New Worlds yet.
The name and the setting are likely familiar to Star Trek fans as the very first away mission ever described in the series. The original pilot, “The Cage” — upon which Strange New Worlds is based — begins shortly after that same mission, with the aftereffects still being felt. “Among the Lotus Eaters” honors that past by giving Rigel VII a stronger and better plot.
Christopher Pike Faces a Reckoning on Star Trek’s First Mission
“The Cage” opens with the Enterprise limping its way toward a starbase in the wake of an attack on the surface of Rigel VII. Three crew members were killed in the exchange and the away team retreated. Multiple crew members still bear injuries from the attack, most notably Mr. Spock whose hand is bandaged. Pike blames himself for what happened and confesses to the doctor that he’s weary of making life-or-death decisions. Later, as a prisoner in Talos IV, he re-imagines the encounter, this time with Vina as a potential victim in need of protection.
As a direct plot device, it helps sweeten the enticement of the Talosians’ “zoo,” which would let him live an illusory life with a beautiful woman. But it also reveals the psychological burdens that Pike bears as captain and the way he processes trauma. Star Trek has returned to that theme multiple times, notably in Jean-Luc Picard’s recovery from assimilation by the Borg.
Strange New Worlds Returns to Rigel VII to Find a New Mystery
As a fulcrum for Pike’s mindset, Rigel VII does the job. The specific details remain exceedingly spare, however, revealing only that it contains a medieval culture with a warrior caste. The sequence with Vina brings a visual punch with it — using a matte painting to create the planet’s unearthly landscape — but beyond that, it stays absurdly simple. The fight exists to give the pilot a little action, and nothing more. Strange New Worlds returns to the scene with a pair of new concepts to give it all some depth.
The first concerns the planet itself, whose atmosphere contains Lethe-like qualities causing anyone exposed to it to suffer amnesia. The Enterprise itself is threatened when the crew forgets how to operate the controls, while Pike and an away team on the ground struggle to remember that they’re down there. At the same time, it connects the story directly back to the events of “The Cage” by revealing one of the “lost” crewmen still alive on the planet’s surface. He’s overcome the planet’s amnesia and set himself up as a god-king: fallout from Pike’s first aborted visit and a sterling example of why the Federation has a Prime Directive.
The combination works brilliantly and adds yet another win to Strange New Worlds‘ terrific second season. At the same time, it retroactively enriches “The Cage,” turning a throwaway plot point into an exciting and memorable story. It’s surprising how much they have mined from that single pilot. This week adds a very cool planet to the mix.
New episodes of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds stream every Thursday on Paramount+.