Episode
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds: Children of the Comet
Overview
While on a survey mission, the U.S.S. Enterprise discovers a comet is going to strike an inhabited planet. They try to re-route the comet, only to find that an ancient alien relic buried on the comet’s icy surface is somehow stopping them. As the away team try to unlock the relic’s secrets, Pike and Number One deal with a group of zealots who want to prevent the U.S.S. Enterprise from interfering.
Details
- Series
- Star Trek: Strange New Worlds
- Season
- Season 1
- Episode
- Episode 2
- Air date
- 2022-05-12
- Runtime
- 53 min
Episode context
Children of the Comet is Episode 2 in Season 1 of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds. It aired on 2022-05-12. The runtime is 53 min.
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Episode 1: Strange New Worlds
When one of Pike’s officers goes missing while on a secret mission for Starfleet, Pike has to come out of self-imposed exile. He must navigate how to rescue his officer, while struggling with what to do with the vision of the future he’s been given.
Episode 3: Ghosts of Illyria
The U.S.S. Enterprise encounters a contagion that ravages the ship. One by one, the entire crew is incapacitated except for Number One, Una Chin-Riley, who must now confront a secret she’s been hiding as she races to find a cure.
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Episode 4: Memento Mori
While on a routine supply mission to a colony planet, the U.S.S. Enterprise comes under an attack from an unknown malevolent force. Pike brings all his heart and experience to bear in facing the crisis, but the security officer warns him that the enemy cannot be dealt with by conventional Starfleet means.
Episode 5: Spock Amok
It’s a comedy of manners when Spock has a personal visit in the middle of Spock and Captain Pike’s crucial negotiations with an unusual alien species.
Episode 6: Lift Us Where Suffering Cannot Reach
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Episode 7: The Serene Squall
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Episode 8: The Elysian Kingdom
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Episode 9: All Those Who Wander
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Episode 10: A Quality of Mercy
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