La’an and Spock take the holodeck for a test run through a murder mystery that lets the SNW cast poke fun at Star Trek’s origins.

Anson Mount’s Capt. Pike tasks Christina Chong’s La’an to run the nascent program through the wringer to see how it holds up. La’an, who loves a 1960s murder mystery series featuring an investigator named Amelia Moon, has Martin Quinn’s Scotty upload those stories into the holodeck’s programming, which then creates a new mystery for her to solve.

Strange New Worlds season 3 episode 4, giving a homage to classic detective stories and TNG, Lieutenant La’an Noonien‑Singh tests a prototype holodeck, asking the program to generate a m