The creator of Star Trek, the late Gene Roddenberry, has arrived in the form of a holographic, nervous, nebbish man, embodied by the usually heroic Anson Mount. “Anson [Mount], when he read the script, really wanted to lean into that being Gene,” director and Star Trek legend Jonathan Frakes tells Inverse. And is Star Trek’s new metafictional version of itself, The Last Frontier, really Star Trek-inside-of-Star Trek? “A Space Adventure Hour”Strange New Worlds uses a Hollywood murder mystery to get meta on Star Trek itself. Has the cultural memory of what the 1960s Star Trek felt like been replaced with what it really was?