Star Trek Strange New Worlds S1 E7 The Serene Squall Review

Qapla' all... Star Trek Strange New Worlds has begun. Have they finally listened to fans and restored episodic trek we all loved? Does Anson Mount continue playing Captain Pike like many loved in Star Trek Discovery? Does Rebecca Romijn as Una (AKA Number One) still like cheeseburgers? Does cadet Uhura live up to the class Nichelle Nichols brought to the role? We'll see. Spoilers abound!

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Wikipedia Plot...
The Enterprise travels to a far-flung colony under attack from space pirates, and per Counselor Aspen's advice, rendezvouses with their ship Serene Squall, which Pike suspects is trafficking the colonists. Pike and a landing party beam over to the ship, only for its crew to board Enterprise and take the Starfleet officers hostage. Number One and Ortegas stall the pirates while Spock and Aspen escape the bridge, but Aspen reveals themself to be the Serene Squall's captain, Angel, and forces T'Pring to warp over for their ultimatum: T'Pring releases Angel's husband, a prisoner she is attempting to rehabilitate, or she lets Angel kill Spock. T'Pring chooses the latter, but Spock pretends to break their engagement and kisses Chapel. Angel tries to fire on T'Pring's ship, but Pike warps in aboard the Serene Squall, having used his culinary skills and the threat of dealing with the Klingons to encourage a mutiny, and Number One locks Enterprise's controls. Angel flees; the other pirates surrender. Spock reassures T'Pring and tells Chapel their friendship is strictly platonic, disclosing that he thinks Angel's husband is his half-brother Sybok.

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Plot...
The Enterprise receives is at the edge of Federation space helping Dr. Aspen, an independent relief aide worker on some missing colony ships. It turns out they may have been taken by space pirates and Dr. Aspen fears the 200 civilians may already be sold into slavery. Pike and the Enterprise catch up with the pirates but due to an unexpected betrayal actually lose the Enterprise to the pirates. In the end only Spock and nurse Christine Chapel are left on board as the plot was to kidnap Spock, the Enterprise was just extra. The pirate plan is to use Spock as bait to force T'Pring to free a Vulcan criminal she works with. Despite the complete illogic that a Vulcan would even take a call from a pirate T'Pring comes dangerously close to...

Wiki Cast
Anson Mount as Christopher Pike: captain of the USS Enterprise. The writers took Mount's own leadership style as inspiration for the character. Co-showrunner Akiva Goldsman explained that Mount liked to find consensus within a group, and so a table was added to Pike's quarters where he could convene the crew and cook for them.
Ethan Peck as Spock: science officer aboard the Enterprise
Jess Bush as Christine Chapel: a civilian nurse on the Enterprise. Co-showrunner Henry Alonso Myers felt the character's portrayal in The Original Series came from a "very different conception of women and of marriage and what people would do in their jobs" that present-day audiences would not expect, and sought to tell new stories with a character inspired by Bush's strengths.
Christina Chong as La'an Noonien-Singh: the Enterprise's newly assigned chief of security and a relative of Ricardo Montalbán's Star Trek villain Khan Noonien Singh
Celia Rose Gooding as Nyota Uhura: a cadet on the Enterprise specializing in linguistics. Despite the character's important role throughout the Star Trek franchise, the writers felt that there was a lot still unknown about her that could be explored.
Melissa Navia as Erica Ortegas: the Enterprise's helmsman. Her surname is a reference to the original Star Trek pitch which included a navigator named Jose Ortegas.
Babs Olusanmokun as M'Benga: the Enterprise's chief medical officer
Bruce Horak as Hemmer: the Enterprise's chief engineer. Hemmer is an Aenar, which are an albino subspecies of Andorians that are generally depicted as blind; Horak is blind in one eye with limited sight in the other.
Rebecca Romijn as Una Chin-Riley / Number One: first officer of the Enterprise and second-in-command to Pike