"Only Murders in the Building" has been quite the triumph for Short, who earlier this year won his first-ever SAG Award, for outstanding performance by a male actor in a comedy series. That same night, he and his co-stars also won the SAG Award for comedy series ensemble.

After a season of Strange New Worlds that’s mostly focused on action, comedy, romance, and horror, I’ve been craving something more intellectual from the series, one of those classic Trek episodes that really makes you think rather than just providing easy good guys and bad guys.

What Is Starfleet?' certainly asks that question, but more importantly, it asks another: what if we did an entire episode from the perspective of someone who is extremely bad at their job?