In Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 2, Number One is on trial. Their fight is said to be hopeless. Back in the ’60s, “Star Trek” creator Gene Roddenberry fought a losing battle for the role.
- Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 2 has launched on Paramount+.
- Una must fight to stay in Starfleet. A “lost fight”?
- Already in the 60s, the role had to fight a losing battle to stay in the “Star Trek” universe.
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At the end of the first season of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, Una Chin-Riley (Rebecca Romijn) was arrested. This is because she is an Illyrian and they are biogenetically optimized by culture. But such experiments are forbidden in Starfleet and the Federation.
In the Paramount+ premiere of “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds” Season 2, this story continues and Una is prepared for her court hearing. Pike (Anson Mount) takes a journey to help her. Una’s fight is described as “hopeless”. And in the 60s he was too!
The role of Una Chin-Riley began in the 1965 pilot for Starship Enterprise. Gene Roddenberry, creator of the “Star Trek” universe, wanted Pike’s number one on board the Enterprise even back then. She was played by Majel Barrett, but even then the big institutions wanted to keep Una away from the Enterprise.
Back then, however, it wasn’t the Federation who had prejudices against a certain group of people, it was the studio bosses who had sexist reasons for banning Una from the bridge. A female first officer was simply too much for the studios at the time.
Gene Roddenberry’s fight to keep Una on the bridge of the Enterprise was indeed “lost at the time”. Nice that times have changed. And as we already know from the trailer, times have changed for Una as well: she will return to the Enterprise.
It’s a nice reference to the rocky road that the role of Una aka number one had to travel since the ’65s to finally be appreciated and finally take its place in a series.
Weekly, always on Fridays, new episodes await us in the Paramount+ novelty program. “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds” season 2 consists of ten episodes again. After the season finale, continue with other Star Trek releases!
Rate Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | |
Genre | Sci-Fi & Fantasy |
first airing |
05.05.2022 |
First broadcast in Germany |
08.10.2021 |
Homepage | paramountplus.com |
More sources | |
networks | CBS All Access, Paramount+ |
Production |
CBS Television Studios, Roddenberry Entertainment, Secret Hideout, Weed Road Pictures, H M R X Productions |
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