Star Trek Strange New Worlds S1 E6 Lift Us Where Suffering Cannot Reach Review

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Qapla' all... Star Trek Strange New Worlds has begun. Have they finally listened to fans and restored episodic trek we all loved? Does Anson Mount continue playing Captain Pike like many loved in Star Trek Discovery? Does Rebecca Romijn as Una (AKA Number One) still like cheeseburgers? Does cadet Uhura live up to the class Nichelle Nichols brought to the role? We'll see. Spoilers abound!

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Wikipedia Plot...
The Enterprise receives a distress call from a shuttlecraft under attack from a warship while returning to the planet Majalis. Uhura uses the Enterprise's phasers to destroy the warship. The crew beams aboard the shuttlecraft personnel: a boy designated the "First Servant", his father and physician Elder Gamal, and Alora, president of Majalis, who is an old flame of Pike. Alora enlists Pike to help find a traitor in her administration. Uhura and Pike investigate the warship's wreck and discover its origins in a rebellious colony of Majalis, and Gamal's involvement in a rebel plot. Gamal attempts to fake his son's death to get him to safety, but Enterprise destroys another rebel warship and the Servant decides to beam down to Majalis anyway. Gamal advises M'Benga on his daughter's condition, and leaves Enterprise for the colony. Alora reveals the reason behind the escape attempt, and the rebellion: the planet's basic needs are met by computers powered by the Servants, a line of children selected by lot to sacrifice themselves. She invites Pike to the ceremony. Pike attempts to intervene, but is subdued by a guard, and ruefully watches the Servant swap himself for his predecessor's corpse.

Wiki Cast
Anson Mount as Christopher Pike: captain of the USS Enterprise. The writers took Mount's own leadership style as inspiration for the character. Co-showrunner Akiva Goldsman explained that Mount liked to find consensus within a group, and so a table was added to Pike's quarters where he could convene the crew and cook for them.
Ethan Peck as Spock: science officer aboard the Enterprise
Jess Bush as Christine Chapel: a civilian nurse on the Enterprise. Co-showrunner Henry Alonso Myers felt the character's portrayal in The Original Series came from a "very different conception of women and of marriage and what people would do in their jobs" that present-day audiences would not expect, and sought to tell new stories with a character inspired by Bush's strengths.
Christina Chong as La'an Noonien-Singh: the Enterprise's newly assigned chief of security and a relative of Ricardo Montalbán's Star Trek villain Khan Noonien Singh
Celia Rose Gooding as Nyota Uhura: a cadet on the Enterprise specializing in linguistics. Despite the character's important role throughout the Star Trek franchise, the writers felt that there was a lot still unknown about her that could be explored.
Melissa Navia as Erica Ortegas: the Enterprise's helmsman. Her surname is a reference to the original Star Trek pitch which included a navigator named Jose Ortegas.
Babs Olusanmokun as M'Benga: the Enterprise's chief medical officer
Bruce Horak as Hemmer: the Enterprise's chief engineer. Hemmer is an Aenar, which are an albino subspecies of Andorians that are generally depicted as blind; Horak is blind in one eye with limited sight in the other.
Rebecca Romijn as Una Chin-Riley / Number One: first officer of the Enterprise and second-in-command to Pike

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