8 Ups & 1 Down From Star Trek: Strange New Worlds 3.2 — Wedding Bell Blues

3. UP — One Hundred Candles Need A Bigger Cake

Federation Day looks like a lot more fun than Frontier Day. Both occasions celebrate the pioneering exploits of Captain Archer and crew, who've already enjoyed a few mentions in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds. For this, the centennial of the founding of the Federation, it would have been the cherry on top of that wedding cake if T'Pol had shown up. We hold out hope.

Pike's awkward speech about 'awkward interactions' to mark the occasion was a spectacle to behold. Cut to two Bolians: Is he talking about us? "And the bar is open" to our first ever live-action Edosian and master mixologist with the multiple appendages. Just don't drink the Alanni Rye if you are fond of your oesophagus! It looks like this Edosian has also bagged a gig aboard the Enterprise.

This was a moment of shared joy for the crew, especially post-Gorn. Joy is an accurate descriptor for the episode as a whole, transmitted through the screen as Wham!'s 'Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go' begins to play. For one member of the crew, however, events had taken a much darker turn.