Meet Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ Uhura, aka Newhura

If you’re even the slightest of Star Trek followers, you need to be at the least considerably excited concerning the arrival of Strange New Worlds, the upcoming sequence following the adventures of the USS Enterprise earlier than one James T. Kirk sat in its captain’s chair. The probability to see basic Original Series characters like Christopher Pike, Number One, Spock, and Uhura once more is tempting certainly—particularly while you get peeks like this.

Focused on Celia Rose Gooding’s younger Nyota Uhura, this oh-so-brief preview exhibits the character’s early days as a cadet on the Enterprise—early days which embrace uncomfortable alien contact, ship-to-ship fight, and quite a lot of heat fuzzies from the crew:

Here’s what I really like about this video, transient as it’s: Pike and Spock simply telling Uhura how proficient she is and the way fortunate the Enterprise is to have her, even simply as a cadet. The positivity for her is each welcome and satisfying, as is the potential positivity of Strange New Worlds itself, particularly coming after the darker, extra conflicted Trek tales of Discovery and Picard. What I really like/have all the time cherished concerning the franchise—and I’m a type of aforementioned meager followers—is The Original Series and its utopian view of the long run. That’s been out of vogue for an extended whereas in Star Trek, as each of the present TV sequence have examined the cracks within the facade of the Federation, and examined the darkish elements that facade has been hiding.

While there’s a sure… relevance these days to tales that confront the concept issues is likely to be shittier than anybody realized, I believe that leaves quite a lot of room for some form of inspirational, aspirational fiction story, and one thing akin to The Original Series would do the trick properly. I can’t think about Strange New Worlds gained’t have its darkish moments, in fact, but when everybody on the Enterprise needs to take just a few moments every episode to speak about how a lot all of them admire one another, that’d be effective by me.

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds stars Anson Mount as Captain Pike, Rebecca Romjin as Number One, Ethan Peck as Spock, Jess Bush as Nurse Chapel, and naturally Gooding as Uhura. It premieres May 5 on Paramount+.

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