Strange New Worlds Solves A 56-Year Old Star Trek Mystery
Warning: SPOILERS for Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Episode 3 — «Ghosts of Illyria»
After 56-years, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds has finally solved the mystery of Number One's (Rebecca Romijn) backstory. As the First Officer of the USS Enterprise, Number One AKA Lt. Commander Una Chin-Riley joins Captain Christopher Pike (Anson Mount) and Lt. Spock (Ethan Peck) on a new five-year mission of galactic exploration. ButStrange New Worlds episode 3 is the (very) long-awaited episode centering on Una that finally answers questions about Number One that Trekkers have wondered about for over five decades.
Number One was created by Gene Roddenberry and she was part of his original pilot for Star Trek, «The Cage.» Number One was a role embodied by Gene's future wife, Majel Barrett, and, as the female First Officer of a starship, she was a revolutionary character for 1966. Too revolutionary for NBC, as it turned out, as the network requested both Number One and Spock (Leonard Nimoy), to be cut from the second Star Trek pilot NBC requested. Wanting to keep an alien on the bridge of the Enterprise, Roddenberry was forced to drop Number One and he gave her cool, logical, emotionless traits to Spock, which would come central traits of the Vulcan and his entire race. Outside of "The Cage's" footage incorporated into the Star Trek: The Original Series two-parter, «The Menagerie,» which made the characters of the original pilot canon, Number One vanished for decades until she was reimagined for Star Trek: Discovery season 2, and now, Strange New Worlds.
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Number One's fascinating backstory has finally been revealed by Star Trek: Strange New Worlds. Una Chin-Riley
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