Previously announced co-stars Celia Rose Gooding, Jess Bush, and Babs Olusanmokun will all play young versions of classic Star Trek characters. Gooding is Cadet Nyota Uhura, the legendary future comms officer of Kirk’s Enterprise crew, played by icon Nichelle Nichols in the original show. Bush, meanwhile, will embody the role given to Trek legend Majel Barret after Number One was cut from the original series pilot: Nurse Christine Chapel. Joining Bush in the sickbay will be Olusanmokun’s Dr. M’Benga, the physician who would become acting Chief Medical Officer aboard the Enterprise while Dr. McCoy was on away missions.
The entirely new characters for Strange New Worlds include Bruce Horak as Hemmer, from the albino Andorian subspecies called the Aenar; the previously-cast Christina Chong plays the very intriguingly named La’an Noonien-Singh (which will set alarm bells ringing considering she shares a family name with the Trek villain Khan); and Melissa Navia will play Lieutenant Erica Ortegas. Star Trek: Strange New Worlds is expected to hit Paramount+ sometime in 2022.
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