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'Star Trek: Strange New Worlds' season 2 is a classic sci-fi adventure

Beloved characters and eye-popping special effects return in this adventure-of-the-week format.
Ethan Peck as Spock and Rebecca Romijn as Una.

As the second season of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds debuts today on Paramount+, one question stands above all others:

Can they do it again?

Because in the show's first season last year, helped prove to producers of Paramount+'s new-school series something they should have known from the start — when you're telling stories from a nearly 60-year-old franchise, it makes more sense to embrace that legacy than to shy away from

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