Review: Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, "Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow" | Season 2, Episode 3
A time-hopping adventure has the show at its goofiest and its most charming
If you’ve been wondering what the logic is behind how I refer to specific characters, well, you're not the only one. Spock is easy, thank god, and Pike is also straightforward enough, given that “Christopher” isn’t particularly distinctive. But I spent most of last week’s review calling Una Chin-Riley “Una,” and I’m still not sure if that was correct. A long time ago, an editor pointed out that calling characters by their first or last names can be a way of indicating a level of respect. Using the first officer’s first name can feel a bit like I’m trying to diminish her, even if that’s in no way my intent. It’s just that hyphenated last names jostle around in my head for some reason. I want the purity of “Riker” or “Picard,” because that’s how those characters are often addressed. No one calls Una “Chin-Riley,” although Pike often refers to her as “Number One.” No one calls La’an “Noonien-Singh,” either, although the issues with that are maybe more obvi…