APRIL 3, 2022 - If you’ve been tagging along the last few weeks, we’ve been keeping track of the new (and newly reembodied) crew members of the USS Enterprise under Captain Christopher Pike from the upcoming Star Trek: Strange New Worlds. By way of character teasers dropping on Twitter from Star Trek on Paramount+, we have so far met Cadet Nyota Uhura and Lieutenant La’An Noonien Singh. 

Since then, teasers have dropped for six more of our heroes, along with an additional one for Christopher Pike. Scroll down for quick descriptions and links to the original tweets, or check out our thread of the clips on Twitter.

First up, meet the Enterprise’s pilot, Lieutenant Erica Ortegas, played by Melissa Navia. In Ortegas’ teaser, her confident repartee with Captain Pike soon gives way to a chance to prove her piloting skills through some battle situations and anomalous phenomena. Oh, and it looks like Ortegas can handle a phaser, too.

The Aenar engineer, Hemmer, played by Bruce Horak, is next, and fortunately for the Enterprise, he is a genius. Or at least he believes himself to be. He does impress his shipmates with his transporter fixes as a landing party is in danger. Hemmer is also blind (as is Horak) with superior other senses and lives his life according to a purpose, which is “to fix things.”

While we have seen Dr. M’Benga serving as a ranking medical officer under Dr. Leonard McCoy, M’Benga is this Enterprise’s chief medical officer and is portrayed by Babs Olusanmokun. He has a way with innovative medical solutions, as Spock discovers in M’Benga’s teaser. He is a busy man in his lab and responding to the needs of the crew, looking for “another way” to overcome prejudice, disease, and suffering.

Alongside Dr. M’Benga (as we see in the doctor’s teaser), but also very confident and capable on her own is Nurse Chapel, portrayed by Jess Bush. When she isn’t messing with La’An’s genome, climbing through a Jefferies tube, or going hand-to-hand with a nasty alien, we see something of the relationship between her and Spock – which, in this case, includes a playful slap upside Spock’s head, about which he admits he “feels I should have seen that coming.”

Of course, Spock, played by Ethan Peck, needs no introduction, but he gets one anyway. As he explains who he is, we see quite a few scenes from his life on Vulcan, as well as on the Enterprise. He explains that he had to prove himself on Vulcan, and we see what appears to be the Koon-ut-kal-if-fee. He also mind melds with and kisses a Vulcan woman, so while he might be “simply Spock,” we will be further exploring this rather complicated science officer.

And next to last but not least – in fact, it’s Number One, played by Rebecca Romijn. With Una Chin-Riley we get a bit of a tour of the Enterprise, wide shots of the bridge and corridors. The first officer is also capable of going into action, including a phaser battle on that same bridge. She and La’An are apparently in for some “fun” together as well.

Finally, we get a further introduction to Captain Christopher Pike, personified by Anson Mount, and he is getting a constant reminder of who he is going to be. Pike has seen his future, which we have known since the Star Trek: The Original Series season one two-part episode, “The Menagerie.” Number One notes his “playing fast and loose with the rules” and Pike wonders how his future will affect his present as we see him transporting into dangerous situations and having his ship fired upon.  

Now that we have met the more prominent crew members of Captain Pike’s USS Enterprise, we can but wait for the adventures to begin. Star Trek: Strange New Worlds premieres May 5, on Paramount+.