...if you take a look at their site you’ll see that they also posted a supposed casting sheet for Strange New Worlds. We’ll see soon if these match the characters we actually get...
I see that the
Strange New Worlds stuff matches up really well.
I mean, just going by the black characters (and if this has been done already, then never mind)...
First on the list is Yeboah. She’s Black, in her early 20s, and fresh out of the academy. She’s a linguistics genius, bright, promising, and the youngest member of the crew and she can sound “American” or have any other accent. While this isn’t really a whole lot to go on, the breakdown does sound similar to a cross between Hoshi Sato and Travis Mayweather from Enterprise.
So in the middle, Celia Rose Gooding. I can see that.
The ship’s doctor is a bit of a puzzle. The name is listed as “Biodun” and the description states he is a close advisor to Captain Pike, has an air of “easy erudition”, is male, Black, in his 40s, and curiously, “from the original series”. In TOS, the doctor was McCoy, played by Deforest Kelly and in ‘The Cage’ the doctor was Philip Boyce, played by John Hoyt.
Being totally honest here, but in the back of my mind I was thinking ship's doctor for Babs Olusanmokun.
I don't know know why I was thinking that, but he just struck me as possibly being the ship's doctor. And this is the first time I'm reading this Illuminerdi article, so weird...
Of course, Babs Olusanmokun as "Biodun," the ship's doctor, would be cool as hell to me.
His nurse...
Last up we have Biodun’s nurse, Miller. She’s in her late 20s – early 30s, Caucasian, heroic, charming, free-thinking, and “the beating heart” of sickbay. So, more or less, Dr. Crusher?
Maybe the second from the right? Jess Bush. I can see that.
The other two...
Next up is La’an. She’s in her late 20s – early 30s and is the head of Security. She’s badass, physical, and suffers from PTSD. She has an air of vigilance and precision. They’d specifically like someone who is East Indian, Asian, or Middle Eastern, but are open to any ethnicity. She more or less sounds like a combination of every security officer we’ve seen on screen.
Second from the left, Christina Chong. Maybe...
Last...
Our third breakdown is for Ortegas. She’s in her late 20’s, Latinx, and an experienced vet. She has kept a dry wit even with the combat she’s seen. She’s smart, funny, competitive, and is able to pivot from handling a gun to making a joke. So, maybe a Riker-type? Riker was able to pretty seamlessly swap from being dead serious to cracking a joke so she should fit right in.
On the far right... Melissa Navia. Maybe her.
All of this assuming of course too that this Illuminerdi article is 100% on the mark.
The
Deadline stuff is from March of this year, and the Illuminerdi is from November of last year.
So hey...
