Strange New Worlds Reveals Doctor Who Connection In Season 3 Finale
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 3's finale contains another surprising connection to Doctor Who. Directed by Maja Vrvilo and written by Dana Horgan and Davy Perez, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 3, episode 10, "New Life and New Civilizations" wraps up the season's storyline about what's happening to Captain Marie Batel (Melanie Scrofano).
TV Insider shared an exclusive clip from Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 3's finale. As the Starship Enterprise warps Captain Batel back to Earth for her promotion ceremony as Starfleet's new Judge Advocate General, Captain Christopher Pike (Anson Mount) hosts a dinner party for his girlfriend.
After Scotty (Martin Quinn) arrives overdressed for Pike's party, conversation turns to Batel leaving the Enterprise for her new position. Spock then discusses the "challenging few months" the Enterprise has had, which led Commander Pelia (Carol Kane) to make a surprising reference to Doctor Who.
Read the quotes below and watch TV Insider's clip in the link above.
Spock: "Additionally, we will take the opportunity to run shipwide diagnostics. Enterprise has had a challenging few months."
Pelia: "Challenging, schmallenging. Remind me to tell you about the time I spent with the time-traveling Doctor I once knew."
Doctor Who's References In Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Explained
The offbeat Commander Pelia is a five-thousand-year-old Lanthanite who lived on Earth for centuries before joining Starfleet and becoming the USS Enterprise's Chief Engineer. Pelia occasionally offers dollops about her peculiar past. Pelia now claims she met an incarnation of the Doctor, and she's probably not exaggerating.
Star Trek and Doctor Who began collaborating in 2024, with International Friendship Day between the two franchises on July 30 that followed a San Diego Comic-Con panel shared by the heads of the two franchises, Alex Kurtzman and Russell T. Davies, respectively. Star Trek: Strange New Worlds' Doctor Who shout-outs are in the spirit of franchise unity.
Our Take On Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Referencing Doctor Who
Star Trek is a multiverse, and it's easy to conjecture that the Doctor has the ability to cross over into the Star Trek universe. Taking Commander Pelia at face value, she met some version of The Doctor at some point in her incredibly long and colorful life.
It's clear that Doctor Who exists and can breach into Star Trek's universe. Time will tell if Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 4 will deepen its connection to Doctor Who.
Rachel Recchia Discusses Dating and Reveals If She’ll Ever Go Back on Reality TV
Keeping it real.
Bachelor Nation fans have gotten to know and love Rachel Recchia on “The Bachelor,” “The Bachelorette,” and “Bachelor in Paradise.”
Rachel recently gave love another shot on Season 3 of Netflix’s “Perfect Match,” where she coupled up with someone, but they ultimately didn’t work out.
Since her time on the shows, Rachel has been keeping fans updated with her life on social media.
Now, she is opening up about her dating life on the “Trading Secrets” podcast with Jason Tartick and revealing whether she’ll ever go back on reality TV.
She shared, “I’ll always take the call and see, but I don’t know. It’s really hard for me because I feel like I have such a different personality than what reality TV is… I’m perfect for ‘Bachelor’ and that side of things. But it would have to be very different and unique for me to want to do it. I don’t know.”
Rachel continued and revealed that she’s unsure if this is the end of reality TV for her.
She said, “I mean, I never want to say the end because I said the end after ‘Paradise.’ I mean who knows, really, what’s gonna come up? But I don’t see another, something like ‘Perfect Match’ or anything like that again. Who knows… If it makes sense with my job [in aviation], because I really do need to start focusing on that more. So, we’ll see.”
The Bachelor Nation star then got candid about her dating life and discussed the difficulties she has faced.
“The more you do this sort of a thing like TV, it feels like the smaller your dating pool gets,” Rachel admitted. “I’ve tried to date people outside of this space and sometimes people are too private, they don’t want it, they can’t understand, and it can be a lot. So I feel like you’re kind of in this position where now like, ‘Who can I date that will kind of get what I’ve been through and kind of get me?’ It’s been really hard, honestly.”
We always love hearing from Rachel and we’re sending her our love. We know she’ll find her person!
