Jess Bush’s favorite episode of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 3 is also the season’s best hour. Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 3 was a giddily deep dive into various TV genres, although it wasn’t as warmly received among a segment of Star Trek fans.
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 3 ran the gamut from its tense and action-packed premiere, “Hegemony, Part 2,” to “A Space Adventure Hour,” a holodeck murder mystery directed by Jonathan Frakes,” to Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 3’s finale that gave Captain Marie Batel (Melanie Scrofano) and Captain Christopher Pike’s (Anson Mount) romance a poignant ending.
There was a great deal of dancing that signified the growing closeness of Lieutenant Spock (Ethan Peck) and Lieutenant La’an Noonien-Singh (Christina Chong), “Four-and-a-Half Vulcans,” a farce guest-starring Patton Oswalt, and “What is Starfleet?”, an experimental documentary episode with brilliant filmmaking and editing.
However, Jess Bush named a different episode her favorite of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 3, and it is, indeed, the standout that delivered the ‘most Star Trek’ of season 3’s 10 episodes, and deep, poignant themes that point a mirror back at the audience.
Why Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 3 Episode 6 Is Jess Bush’s Favorite
Jess Bush says Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 3, episode 6, “The Sehlat Who Ate Its Tail,” is her favorite episode of season 3. Bush confirmed this on her Instagram, and in interviews, Jess said the episode makes her “emotional.”
Directed by Valerie Weiss, and written by David Reed and Bill Wolkoff, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 3, episode 6, ends with the discovery that the episode’s villainous Scavengers were actually descendants of humans who left Earth in the 21st century.
Instead of being inspired by exploring the stars, forming connections with other species, and bettering themselves, the Scavengers became a murderous horde, attacking starships, stealing technology, consuming, taking, and destroying.
The Scavengers are the dark side of what Starfleet could have been, and they are Star Trek: Strange New Worlds showing the audience what direction our real-life species could be taking, instead of embracing Gene Roddenberry’s optimistic vision for Star Trek.
Jess Bush is a talented conceptual artist who has worked with NASA.
Along with being an actor, Jess Bush is a talented conceptual artist who has worked with NASA. As a part of Star Trek, space exploration, and the right reasons for doing so, have become personal to Jess. The Scavengers are a haunting manifestation of Mankind following its worst instincts to the stars.
However, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 3’s best episode reaffirmed the most shining aspects of our Starfleet heroes. They worked together, overcame their fears and doubts, and saved their friends and each other as they defeated the Scavengers in the finest Star Trek fashion.
Paul Wesley Became Captain Kirk In Jess Bush’s Favorite Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 3 Episode
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 3, episode 6 isn’t merely excellent, it’s a crucial hour of Star Trek canon that depicts the first time Lt. Commander James T. Kirk (Paul Wesley) became acting Captain of a starship.
Acting Captain Kirk took command of the damaged USS Farragut to rescue the Starship Enterprise. Kirk achieved his first big win in the center seat while surrounded by his future USS Enterprise crew for the first time: Lieutenant Spock (Ethan Peck), Scotty (Martin Quinn), Ensign Nyota Uhura (Celia Rose Gooding), and Nurse Christine Chapel (Jess Bush).
Intriguingly, Kirk experienced a crisis of command confidence. Faced with overwhelming pressure, James’ cocksure risk-taking failed him. Chapel and Scotty even discussed removing Kirk from command before Spock took his first step as Jim’s future best friend by giving Kirk the hard talking-to that restored his mojo.
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 3, episode 6 was proof of concept that a possible spinoff depicting Captain Kirk‘s first year in command of the Starship Enterprise, dubbed Star Trek: Year One by executive producers Akiva Goldsman and Henry Alonso Myers, was viable.
Best of all, “The Sehlat Who Ate Its Tail” saw Paul Wesley become Captain Kirk in front of fans’ eyes. Wesley played various alternate versions of Kirk on Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, and Paul put the crucial pieces together in his performance that made his becoming the Kirk William Shatner originated a clear trajectory.
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 3 Was Jess Bush’s Best Season As Nurse Chapel
Jess Bush enjoyed her best season playing Nurse Chapel in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 3. Chapel saw tremendous character growth, shining moments, one of season 3’s central love stories, and Christine proved to be instrumental throughout season 3.
Nurse Chapel’s newfound romance with Dr. Roger Korby (Cillian Murphy) gave her a partner who was both her equal and adored her. Korby’s worthiness for Chapel was tested by the cosmic meddler Trelane (Rhys Darby) in the romantic and comedic romp, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 3, episode 2, “Wedding Bell Blues.”
Meanwhile, Chapel’s skills as a medic and healer helped Captain Batel survive her Gorn infection, and Christine was key to Marie’s evolution into a human-Gorn hybrid that opened the door to Batel’s ultimate destiny to guard the universe from an ancient evil in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 3.
Chapel was the driving force behind the discovery of the Vezda’s imprisonment in a dimensional prison on Vadia IX, and, as a Vulcan, Christine helped tear the house down in the comedic tour-de-force, “Four-and-a-Half Vulcans.”
Jess Bush even got to portray a hologram of long-suffering actress Adelaide Shaw, and speak in her native Australian accent, in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 3, episode 4, “A Space Adventure Hour.”
However, Jess Bush saw the same thing audiences did in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 3’s best episode, and Captain Kirk’s spotlight episode, with its thought-provoking moral message, is both Jess’ favorite and the top hour of the season.
- Release Date
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May 5, 2022
- Network
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Paramount+
- Showrunner
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Henry Alonso Myers, Akiva Goldsman
- Directors
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Dan Liu, Amanda Row, Maja Vrvilo, Akiva Goldsman, Dermott Downs, Eduardo Sánchez, Jeffrey W. Byrd, Jonathan Frakes, Jordan Canning, Leslie Hope, Valerie Weiss, Sydney Freeland, Christopher J. Byrne, Rachel Leiterman
- Writers
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Onitra Johnson
