Great to see Star Trek: Strange New Worlds back today with the first episode of its second season, even if it has little of Pike, who may be becoming my favorite Star Trek captain. I should add, Strange New Worlds is already my favorite new Star Trek series.
And episode 2.1 does have Spock (Ethan Peck) and M'Benga (Babs Olusanmokun) in the spotlight. So why did I put just Nurse Chapel (Jess Bush) in the title? Because she's in the best scenes with Spock and the ship's doctor, and in fact is the glue that holds the whole episode together.
[Ok, more spoilers ahead ... ]
Spock is acting in command, and takes the Enterprise to a place in space where the Klingons and humans alternate being in control, and it's now the Klingons' turn. Spock disobeys an admiral's order to go there, and that's a good sign about what kind of leader he is becoming.
Of course, the Admiral isn't wrong that the Enterprise going there could provoke a war with the Klingons, and M'Benga and Chapel have to fight off a whole bunch of them to make good their escape. How do they do this? By taking some drug -- a guess akin to a super steroid -- that gives them almost super powers. But the drug doesn't last too long, and their fight with the Klingons starts off this second season with some fine action scenes.
They escape, barely with their lives, and the scenes with Spock and Chapel are another kind of excellent. Spock has tears in eyes as he sees Chapel survived, and what she says to Spock shows she clearly loves him. In terms of continuity with TOS, did Chapel and Spock love each other back in our 1960s? I'm not sure, but I don't care. They two are an emerging great couple now in SNW, and I look forward to seeing more of that.
Which I expect will happen, and I'll be watching and reviewing every episode.
See also Star Trek: Strange New Worlds 1.1-1.2: Great Characters, Actors, Stories ... 1.3: "Instead of terraforming planets, we modify ourselves ..." ... 1.4: The Gorn and the Wub ... 1.5 Going to the Chapel ... 1.6: Two Stories ... 1.7: The Kiss ... 1.8: Ends of the Continuum ... 1.9: Momentous! ... 1.10: Everything!
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