Star Trek: Strange New Worlds - The RANDY Awards: Category V, season two

 We celebrate the world of Special Effects with category V.  Season one gave the nod to "The Ghosts Of Illyria" with it's amazing plasma storms, non-coporeal Illyrian ghosts, glowing immune systems and chunks of planetary core beamed aboard the Enterprise!  It felt like an easy choice.

Season two's winner was not.  In fact, several of the traditional categories felt difficult to award via a degree of superiority over other episodes.  Having said that, I chose "Charades" with a critical consideration to the expressions of the Kerkov culture.  

Charades was written by Kathryn Lyn and Henry Alonso Myers.  It first aired on July 13, 2023.