Star Trek Strange New Worlds Season 3 Just Quietly Updated One Character With a TOS Twist

This strategy works, and the Enterprise lives to fight another day, plus he now has a way to track down his missing comrades. We don’t know what happens next, but interestingly, this scene wouldn’t have worked without Mitchell’s quick thinking. And this is not the first time that this character has been fundamental in Strange new worlds.

In the Season 2 premiere, “The Broken Circle,” Mitchell is part of a small inner circle of officers — including Uhura, Chapel, and M’Benga — who conspire with Spock to steal the Enterprise. It was Mitchell who faked the coolant leak that allowed the Enterprise have a legitimate reason to leave space dock. In another episode later that season, she is the one who helps Spock try to make Klingon coffee, raktajino. Mitchell was also transformed into a Crimson Guard character during the storybook effect in the first season of “The Elysian Kingdom.”

The point is that, in many of the great episodes of SNWMitchell is right, even if she isn’t the main character. But maybe she’s discreet and a main character?

The SNW Mitchell continues a Star Trek tradition

Although we think of Sulu, Uhura, Chekov, and Scotty as main cast members of The original seriesthe truth is, from a casting perspective, they were guest stars. In your book of memories Beyond UhuraNichelle Nichols referred to their status as “day players.” Eventually, these characters came to be considered the most important regular characters in the series, but this is certainly not the case in every episode. Terms of Service episode. Obviously this is very similar to Mitchell in SNW now. She’s not at the top of our universe’s roster, but inside the universeshe’s clearly an essential part of Pike’s crew. In some ways, Mitchell is a bit like Chief O’Brien in The next generationwas not part of the main cast, but was on the ship since the first episode, in “Encounter at Farpoint”.

Put another way, Mitchell is the latest example of an interesting Star Trek tradition: Continue to feature a secondary “background character” and continue to give that person important tasks to perform on the ship, which creates a semblance of realism. Not all crew members can be on duty 24/7, meaning relief officers like Mitchell would be on the bridge at all times. TNG was also very good at it, often alternating commanding and operations officers to achieve a degree of realism. But with his latest quick thinking, you have to wonder if Mitchell won’t suddenly be promoted to a full-time cast member in season four.

Where no Mitchell has gone before

Finally, although this is almost certainly a coincidence, the fact that Mitchell shares the same surname with Gary Mitchell (Gary Lockwood), from the second Terms of Service the pilot episode is… fascinating. In “Where No Man Has Gone Before,” Gary Mitchell is sitting in the exact same position on the bridge that Jenna Mitchell is now occupying. This is a bit similar to the fact that Pike had a team member named Tyler (Peter Duryea) in “The Cage,” and then worked with a different Tyler (Shazad Latif) in Discovery season 2.