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Strange New Worlds Wrapped a Classic Trek Morality Tale in a Medical Crisis - Gizmodo
May 19, 2022 1 min, 55 secs
Three weeks in and Star Trek: Strange New Worlds is already settling into a satisfying groove: one part riff on a formula that Star Trek loves, one part focus on a singular character, one part classic morality tale.

But it’s not like Star Trek’s apocryphal material hasn’t tried to shine a light on Number One in those many generations off-screen, and now Romijn’s take on the character—headstrong, confident, and supportive to Pike and the crew around her—gets a chance to bridge the gap between the Trek universes that have existed on screen and in books parallel to each other for years.

Well, we’ve got the fan-favorite stranded Away team members when Pike and Spock, investigating a seemingly vanished colony of Illyrians—a minor but important Trek race, having appeared on-screen just once in Enterprise, but evolved a new life in Trek novels as a race of bio-engineered humanoids looked down upon by the Federation for genetic augmentation—after a dangerous encroaching ion storm cuts them off from transport with the rest of the Away team.

Of course, it doesn’t take long for the virus to spread all over the Enterprise, and things get a bit “Macrocosm” with a dash of “The Naked Time,” as a seemingly unaffected Number One finds herself one of the sole people remaining on the ship who can function.

Throw in the occasional attempts by an inhibited Chief Engineer Hemmer and Security Chief La’an almost destroying the ship by trying to open up incredibly dangerous sources of light (a beamed-in segment of the planet’s mantle and a warp core breach, respectively), and it almost seems like there’s a bit too much going on.

It all begins to dovetail together rather elegantly though with the big twist: Una was affected by the light virus, but her body created anti-bodies for it naturally because she herself is an Illyrian—a canonical acknowledgment of explorations made in novels like “Vulcan’s Glory” and “Child of Two Worlds” decades and decades ago that fleshed out Number One’s unseen backstory.

It’s the idea that not only are the elite beings of utopias like the Federation not all perfect, they’d be better off not trying to maintain that illusion of enlightened perfection.

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