Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 4 Episode 7 Recap/Review – “Like Chronitons Through the Hourglass”

“So are the days of our Enterprise.” That mischievous scamp of a Q, Trelane, puts the Enterprise crew in the middle of his own soap opera on this week’s emotional episode of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, “Like Chronitons Through the Hourglass.” Cosmic Amnesia Captain Christopher Pike (Anson Mount) wakes to find himself in Enterprise‘s Sickbay with Chief Medical Officer Joseph M’Benga standing over him. The doctor tells him he has a head injury due to a shuttle accident as he was passing through a treacherous asteroid belt. Maybe that’s why the lights seem so bright and the focus is so hazy? M’Benga can’t answer that, but he asks his captain what’s the last thing he remembers. Pike thinks for a moment and recalls the Captain’s Table he hosted. It’s worse than M’Benga imagined; that happened two weeks ago. He diagnoses his captain with… Cosmic Amnesia. Pike takes that on board as he tries to wrestle with everyone’s dramatic pauses. He also hears ambient musical tones in the background and wonders out loud if they’re back in a musical reality again. Have a Heart His question is ignored as Nurse Christine Chapel (Jess Bush) steps in to explain that, while Captain Pike may be feeling a...