Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 4 Episode 9 Recap/Review – “Once La’an a Time”

Enterprise Chief of Security Lieutenant La’an Noonien-Singh (Christina Chong) has been struggling with herself this whole season. She punched a dinosaur, impaled Farragut First Officer Commander James T. Kirk (Paul Wesley), and even dumped Enterprise Science Officer Lieutenant Spock (Ethan Peck), but she’s no closer to finding the answers she’s looking for than she was before. That is, until the Boltzmann Brain cosmic entity that turned the Enterprise and her crew into characters from the story Chief Medical Officer Dr. Joseph M’Benga (Babs Olusanmokun) was reading to his daughter, Rukiya (Sage Arrindell), decides to help. The crew once again finds themselves trapped in The Kingdom of Elysian in this week’s episode of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, “Once La’an a Time.” Stardate 2355.6 Enterprise Captain Christopher Pike (Anson Mount), Communications Officer Lieutenant Junior Grade Nyota Uhura (Celia Rose Gooding), Pilot Lieutenant Erica Ortegas (Melissa Navia), Spock, and La’an are beaming back to the ship after representing Starfleet at a Benzite dignitary’s wedding. Something is clearly off, since everyone is in their dress uniforms except La’an, who decided on a classic standard...