Strange New Worlds’ latest episode, “The Sehlat Who Ate Its Tail,” features a scene in which the TARDIS from Doctor Who is visible floating around in space behind the Enterprise. The context for the TARDIS’s presence is that the Enterprise has been swallowed by a salvage ship that sucks in other starships and rips them apart for fuel.

Strange New Worlds ’s willingness to break with the expected episodic format has almost become an expectation at this point, particularly after “ A Space Adventure Hour ,” which opened with scenes of the show within the show.