Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 4 Episode 10 Review: Tomorrow’s Enterprise

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, Season 4, Episode 10, “Tomorrow’s Enterprise,” sees Uhura navigate a tangled web of timelines to save Scotty (save the engineer, save the universe) in a wonderful showcase for the equally wonderful Celia Rose Gooding. We’ve sorely needed another Uhura-centric outing, and the season finale delivers in spades. 

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, “Tomorrow’s Enterprise” 

This series is at its best when it offers a profoundly resonant lesson served with a side of humor and heart. While I enjoyed the “gimmick” episodes this season more than most, nothing beats a serious Trek affair like “Tomorrow’s Enterprise.” 

“Time” has been the collective albatross around everyone’s neck on this show. Whether it’s La’An haunted by her traumatic past and her fear of who she’ll be in the future or Pike’s knowledge of his inevitable fate, time is the inescapable (and annoyingly overexuberant) scare actor in the haunted house they didn’t pay to attend. 

The Weight of the Future 

Both Future and Present Uhura seek guidance from the two crew members who understand the pains of time travel all too well: Pike and La’An. Those scenes are particularly strong. “Tomorrow’s Enterprise” also asks us, “What would you do if you knew what would happen in the future?” How would you carry that knowledge? Would it really change how you behave in the present? 

That’s been Pike’s plight in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds. Ultimately, he decides to live in the now, understanding that his future is a fixed point in time. Meanwhile, La’An carries the weight of what she experienced in Season 2’s “Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow,” of loving an alternate Kirk who died in front of her and encountering her infamous ancestor as a child. 

Uhura learns the valuable lesson of being present—what will come to pass will come to pass, whether we like it or not. Uhura’s penchant for keeping one foot in the future and the other in the past is wholly relatable. That’s why her encounter with Future Uhura packs an emotional punch. We’ve all been there in some capacity. 

Ground Control to LTJG Uhura 

Visually, “Tomorrow’s Enterprise” is a spectacle. Even the music swells and soars here, with both Uhuras’ heroics in the third act feeling very cinematic. Who knew that delivering an invisible space baby would be so high-stakes yet heartwarming? 

I love that Star Trek: Strange New Worlds is also laying the groundwork for Uhura and Scotty’s romance later in their lives, making it less out of left field than it was in Star Trek V: The Final Frontier. Gooding and Martin Quinn, who plays Scotty, boast an easygoing, sweet chemistry. There’s something so hopeful about their burgeoning bond—it’s enough to make even the most jaded just a smidge more romantic. 

“Tomorrow’s Enterprise” pays homage to the series that started it all while kicking the double doors wide open for the fifth and final season. We’re planting seeds for these beloved characters. Some of their futures are guaranteed; we already know where they’re going. Others, like La’An, are a mystery. The show is clearly teasing La’An’s fate. (I’m optimistic that what we learned in the future scenes isn’t set in stone.)  

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds closes out Season 4 with a solid finale, one brimming with derring-do and a fantastic turn by Gooding. Here’s to boldly going into the final season (that, fingers crossed, leads to an announcement of a Star Trek: Year One spin-off). 

Stray Observations: 

• Uhura mentioning Bones made my soul levitate outside my body. I hate that we have to wait until the series finale to meet him and Sulu, but we’re inching ever closer to TOS. 
• Are we to assume that Pelia is staying on the fantasy world, and that we won’t see Carol Kane in Season 5? If so, that’s an unceremonious exit, The Princess Bride connection aside. 
• Eagle-eyed viewers undoubtedly caught M’Ress in the background in the future timeline. She’s the Caitian officer from Star Trek: The Animated Series. 
• I hope Mitchell returns for the final season. After all, we now know she’s related to Gary Mitchell. 
• “Tomorrow’s Enterprise” is a nod to Star Trek: The Next Generation‘s “Yesterday’s Enterprise.” It’s all in the name. 

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Star Trek: Strange New Worlds is now streaming on Paramount+.

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