Category V of my "Randy" awards for Star Trek: Strange New Worlds is Special Effects. This has always been an important aspect of Star Trek episodes and since the iconic USS Enterprise first "zoomed" through the stars, to the CGI revolution that is currently the State-of-the-Art go to. In considering the special effects from season one of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds I wanted to acknowledge the episode that featured the most interesting and atypical use of special effects. In other words, exploding ships and stars and asteroids...old hat. I also wanted to look beyond the straight up creation of CGI aliens. Certainly this iteration of the franchise does it better than any of its predecessors, but it isn't really anything new.
In selecting the "Ghosts of Illyria" I was most impressed by the use of light, distortion and finally, but to a lesser extent, the grand imagery (the Illyrian science lab, the crazy plasma storms on Hetemit IX. The "Ghosts of Illyria" written by Akela Cooper and Bill Wolkoff, first aired on May 19, 2022.
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