4 Ups And 5 Downs For Star Trek: Strange New Worlds 3.4 — A Space Adventure Hour

5. LATINUM UP — The Reel World

It's two LATINUM Ups in a row for Martin Quinn, and also, this week, for Celia Rose Gooding. Quinn continues to play the younger Scotty without a false note. Rose Gooding proves her talent once more, playing the diametrically different Joni Gloss and Uhura. As in previous weeks, Quinn delights with a range of emotions in A Space Adventure Hour. At times, we find ourselves laughing. At others, we are deeply moved.

The scenes outside the holodeck are by far the most interesting of the episode, as Scotty rushes to keep program and Enterprise running. His set of 'hypotheticals' to Uhura, who plays along whilst keeping things lovingly real, make for a welcome counterbalance to the far less subtle comedy elsewhere in A Space Adventure Hour.

It is also Uhura — the "hypothetical hero" — who comes up with the idea to communicate with La'An inside the program. Scotty's then self-insertion onto the film reel for The Last Frontier is one of the best executed moments of the whole piece, and a clever nod to similar methods used in previous holodeck episodes such as Projections, and to a certain degree, Worst Case Scenario.