There is a brilliant cast, genuinely good writing, extraordinary puppetry, and an enormous amount of craft behind “Level-Five Transporter Accident”. I can admire all of that while admitting the same thing after a second watch: I hated watching it.
Strange New Worlds returns with dinosaurs, ancient Martians, and an impossible moral choice. “Valles Marineris” is ambitious, funny, visually impressive, and far too eager to explain the entire history of the Solar System in one hour.
