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