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than the one we saw last season.
Looks like the same makeup to me, just a different shade of blue.
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I love Ortegas. I hope she gets a bit more story in Season 2 and doesn't turn into an Owo or Detmer type character.
She's easily my favorite of the new characters.

If the show goes on long enough, I hope to see her become a mentor to Sulu.

*I think this could work especially well if they start him out in blue as he initially was with no real interest in being a pilot, but she notices his innate ability and tries to encourage him.
 
She's easily my favorite of the new characters.

If the show goes on long enough, I hope to see her become a mentor to Sulu.

*I think this could work especially well if they start him out in blue as he initially was with no real interest in being a pilot, but she notices his innate ability and tries to encourage him.

Yep, he was in biological sciences early with the plants in "Man Trap."
 
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 2 Review: A Trek As Good As It Has Ever Been

The second season of "Star Trek: Strange New Worlds" is excellent. The show remains exhilarating. The characters only continue to grow, and their relationships continue to develop in organic, interesting ways. The show's light whimsy still winkingly undergirds its sci-fi stories, and the stories themselves are playful and intriguing. There are a few moments of treacly nostalgia here and there, but they feel organic and light, not hefty and forced. This is "Star Trek" firing on all cylinders.

Not only has "Strange New Worlds" remained strong, but seems to be experiencing an upswing. It knows what makes "Star Trek" good and leans into those elements. "Star Trek" is now better than it has ever been, providing an engaging, provocative, intelligent sci-fi series that can rest right next to some of the better episodes of the franchise's heyday.
 
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Great review. I found that reviewer's Season 1 take aligned with mine, so I'm encouraged. I also very much appreciate this passage from that review, about the show's focus on legacy characters:

While audiences are clearly meant to get a thrill out of seeing these first meetings dramatized...Their first meetings are professional and casually presented. They have little ring of legacy about them. While "Strange New Worlds" takes place only a few years prior to the original "Star Trek," it has been ginger about fatalism. The adventures are being had here and now, and aren't always linking up to extant Trek canon. Sometimes "Trek" can vanish up its own posterior, vaunting the familiar and worshiping at the altar of portentousness. "Strange New Worlds" is mercifully light on its feet.
 
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