But Strange New Worlds is presented as a canon Star Trek show. Season 1 set itself up to be taken seriously, especially with events like the encounter with the Gorn and death of Hemmer. Or Pike's discovery of his fate in the final episode. For it now to turn itself into an Orville-like parody of itself is jarring, and disappointing. I hear I have a Scrubs-style musical episodes to look forward to, on top of this one. Yay.