A new clip from Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 3 has shown just how awesome an all-Vulcan Starfleet ship would be. After the explosive cliffhanger of Strange New Worlds season 2’s ending, audiences have been eagerly awaiting any news of the upcoming season 3. Thanks to San Diego ComicCon, the Star Trek franchise has given everyone their first look at the new season, through a sneak peek clip that was screened during the Hall H panel for Strange New Worlds on Saturday, July 27th, 2024. The full clip can be viewed below:

The clip shows several members of Strange New Worlds‘ main cast, including Captain Pike (Anson Mount), Ensign Uhura (Celia Rose Gooding), Lt. La’an Noonien-Singh (Christina Chong), and Nurse Chapel (Jess Bush), being turned into Vulcans for an away mission. The scene suggests that the episode may act as a sequel to Strange New Worlds season 2, episode 5, “Charades,” where Spock (Ethan Peck) was turned fully human after an accident. However, the main thing demonstrated in the clip is the sheer efficiency of an all-Vulcan crew.

Strange New Worlds Season 3 Shows A Starfleet Ship Of Vulcans Is Awesome

Vulcan efficiency is demonstrated well in Strange New Worlds season 3

During the away team’s mission, a job that should have taken a few hours only takes seconds, allowing Strange New Worlds season 3 to show that a fully Vulcan Starfleet crew would be the most effective ship in the fleet. With Spock accompanying them, the team comes to four-and-a-half Vulcans, but Commander Pelia’s (Carol Kane) prediction of how long repairs should take is quickly proven wrong when the Vulcan crew manages to do it in no time. The clip shows the entire bridge crew astonished at how fast the repairs were completed.

This astonishment adds another humorous element to an already funny scene, but more importantly, demonstrates how much wasted potential there has been in the Star Trek timeline not showing an all-Vulcan crew before. Given the turn-around time Pike and the others accomplish, it seems an all-Vulcan crew would take a fraction of the time to complete tasks that a normal Starfleet crew comprised of mostly humans would. Although Starfleet and the Federation pride themselves on being multicultural, there’s something to be said for efficiency, and Strange New Worlds is demonstrating just how impressive Vulcan efficiency is.

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There are some all-Vulcan ships in Starfleet

While the usual Starfleet crew has a mix of human and aliens, Star Trek has teased that there are all-Vulcan crews as part of the fleet. While an all-Vulcan non-Starfleet crew was shown during the Star Trek: Lower Decks episode “wej Duj,” one of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine‘s most popular episodes introduced an all-Vulcan ship. DS9 season 7, episode 4, “Take Me Out to the Holosuite,” featured Captain Solok (Gregory Wagrowski) of the USS T’Kumbra and his Vulcan crew, who engaged in a rivalry with Captain Sisko (Avery Brooks) and the DS9 crew over a game of baseball.

Solok’s ship proves that Starfleet is aware of a Vulcan crew’s level of productivity and has used that to its advantage in the past, but also brings up the issue that the franchise has never shown that efficiency until Strange New Worlds season 3. If Vulcan crews have really been able to accomplish such impressive feats in short amounts of time, then it’s almost puzzling that all Starfleet ships don’t have more Vulcans onboard. Hopefully, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 3 will also shine a light on these inconsistencies during the episode.