![]() ![]() Nurse Chapel (Jess Joho) continues to harbor feelings for Spock (Ethan Peck), and together they offer incredible updates of these characters played by the legendary Majel Barrett Roddenberry and Leonard Nimoy on “The Original Series.” Joho, whose Nurse Chapel hides a reservoir of emotion with the kind of breeziness Barrett Roddenberry specialized in conveying, can use her eyes to convey a flick of emotion that’s as deep as a gorge on Vulcan. Melissa Navia as Ortegas and Christina Chong as La’an. The fact that “Strange New Worlds” decided in Season One not to make her a villain was such an inspired choice, and the emotion Chong brings to how La’an confronts her heritage fuels one particular episode of tremendous power. There’s La’an Noonien-Singh (Christina Chong), a direct descendant of Khan, who’s never been able to shake his legacy, even as much as she’s tried. The way her story unfolds dramatizes how fighting for an individual and fighting for a cause may be very different things. Number One (Rebecca Romijn), now imprisoned for hiding the fact that she’s genetically altered (something the Federation is strongly opposed to because of Khan Noonien-Singh trying to establish a master race of genetically engineered supermen on Earth in the 21st Century). There’s first officer Una Chin Riley, a.k.a. Anson Mount as Pike and Rebecca Romijn as Una (a.k.a. But the ground-up, from the inside-out characterizations give each story a vastly deeper emotional charge. It’s not repetitive of that time, because it can’t be: these characters are different, these interpretations are different. They achieve this by being singularly focused on character first, with each episode putting one of the ensemble in focus in just way the Bermanverse “Trek” of the ‘90s did. The result, in “Strange New Worlds” Season 2, is a number of instant-classic episodes - three, by my reckoning, out of the first six screened for critics - that’ll stand alongside some of the best the franchise has ever given us over the past 60 years. ‘The Bear’ Season 2: Let’s Talk About That Ending, Carmy’s Arc, and Providing Joy - Spoilers ![]()
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