The ensuing Gorn attack is brutal and swift, destroying the transport freighter and causing severe damage to the Enterprise as well, wounding both La’an and Number One (Rebecca Romjin). When 100 of the colony’s survivors are found on an old ore freighter, Enterprise docks with the ship to bring the survivors aboard - but as a child describes the colony’s destroyers, La’an immediately recognizes that they’ve just fallen into a Gorn trap. The action begins when (as happens so often in Star Trek), the colony doesn’t reply to the Enterprise’s hails, and a landing party’s trip to the surface reveals the grisly site of a massacre. She’s clearly uncomfortable with the practice, as made clear with her terse interactions with Number One when asked about her former ship SS Puget Sound La’an no intention to relive the past, either in a commemorative or therapeutic sense. It’s also Starfleet’s ‘Remembrance Day,’ an occasion leading much of the crew to wear little badges memorializing lost Federation starships - a tradition in which La’an Noonien-Singh (Christina Chong) has no interest participating. This week’s tale begins as the Enterprise is en route to deliver supplies, including a new air filter, to the Finibus III colony. The stakes are high, the emotional core is strong, and despite a lot happening, it doesn’t feel crammed at all, allowing viewers all the time we need to process everything and enjoy an exceptional hour of television. I have certain biases that inform this view - as some readers many know, I’m a sucker for starship combat action - but beyond that, this week’s new Strange New Worlds is simply spectacular.
“Memento Mori” may just be the best episode of Star Trek since the franchise returned to television in 2017.
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