Warning: SPOILERS for Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 3Star Trek: Strange New Worldsis back for season 3 after a two-year wait. Rebecca Romijn and Christina Chong are excited for fans to see what’s next for Number One, Lieutenant La’an Noonien-Singh, and the crew of the Starship Enterprise.
InStar Trek: Strange New Worlds, Rebecca Romijn and Christina Chong play best friends. Lt. Commander Una Chin-Riley is the perfect First Officer, andLa’an is the Enterprise’s no-nonsense Chief of Security. However,Una and La’an undergo some changesinStrange New Worldsseason 3’s genre-bending episodes.
ScreenRanthad the pleasure of chatting with Rebecca Romijn and Christina Chong atStar Trek: Strange New Worldsseason 3’s press junket about Una being outranked in real life, La’an’s new dance partner, and dancing andsinging onStar Trek: Strange New Worlds, on screen and off.
Rebecca Romijn On Number One Finally Becoming A Captain
“Una’s Story Is Still Developing”
Lt. Commander Una Chin-Riley is famed as the best First Officer in Starfleet, but Number One also gets more time in the USS Enterprise’s Captain’s chair inStar Trek: Strange New Worldsseason 3.“I feel like we’re seeing little hints of Una in command and the type of captain that Una could potentially be,“says Romijn about Number One.
Number One’s future is new canonical ground forStar Trek, andStrange New Worldswill answer the nearly 60-year-old mystery of what happens to Unaby the time ofStar Trek: The Original Series.However, those answers will come whenStar Trek: Strange New Worldsends in season 5. In season 3, Rebecca Romijn hints,“Una’s story is still developing. We’ll see. Let’s see where that goes.”
Rebecca Romijn’s Number One Is Now Outranked By Jerry O’Connell’s Captain Jack Ransom
“He Reminds Me All The Time That He Outranks Me”
Rebecca Romijn and her husband, Jerry O’Connell, areStar Trek’s first couple, asthey both played First Officers in Star Trek on Paramount+ series.O’Connell voiced Commander Jack Ransom onStar Trek: Lower Decks, but at the end of the series, Jack was promoted and became Captain Jack Ransom.
When Jerry thinks that he can outrank me, he never lets me forget it.
Meaning,Jerry’s character now outranks Rebecca, and he loves to remind her:“When Jerry thinks that he can outrank me, he never lets me forget it,“says Romijn.“Let me tell you, he reminds me all the time that he outranks me.“It may take untilStar Trek: Strange New Worldsseason 5 for Rebecca and Jerry to both be Captains simultaneously.
Christina Chong Reveals La’an Has A New Dance Partner - And A New Love?
“Where That Leads, Who Knows?”
Lieutenant La’an Noonien-Singh vowed to “change her paradigm"duringStar Trek: Strange New Worldsseason 2’s musical episode.True to her word,La’an has a new lightness inStrange New Worldsseason 3.As Christina Chong explained,“Having fought the Gorn, she survived, and she’s loosening up a bit.”
La’an also found a literal new dance partner in Lieutenant Spock(Ethan Peck). Chong says,"[La’an] finds a dance partner in Spock, and he’s a great dance partner. And where that leads? Who knows. But that was super fun. All the dancing and rehearsals, and the extra hours we put in was all worth it.”
Christina prefers “La’ock” to “Spa’an,” which to her sounds like “Spawn.”
As for whetherLa’an and Spock become a couple, Christina and Rebecca teased that it might be the case inStar Trek: Strange New Worldsseason 3. They both had fun postingSpock and La’an’s couple portmanteau.Christina prefers"La’ock"to"Spa’an,“which to her sounds like"Spawn.”
La’an Will Speak With An American Accent In Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 3
“They Were Like, ‘Yeah, Let’s Keep The American Accent”
Rebecca Romijn and Christina Chong agreed that their favoriteStar Trek: Strange New Worldsseason 3 episode is the Hollywood murder mystery set in the holodeck, which was directed by Jonathan Frakes.Chong normally speaks with her native British accent as La’an,but Christina explained that La’an will sport a new American accent in Frakes’ holodeck outing.
They probably thought, ‘Oh, she probably can’t do an American accent…’
Chong explained, “Originally they didn’t want me to do an American accent… I just read it, and I was like,‘Oh, that sounds like an American noir accent the way it’s written.‘And so I just assumed it was.“When Christina checked with the writers, she recalled,“They were hesitant about it at first… They probably thought, ‘Oh, she probably can’t do an American accent… So I did it for the read-through. And they were like, ‘Yeah, let’s keep the American accent.’
There’s More Singing In Star Trek: Strange New Worlds
More Singing On Screen And Off
Rebecca Romijn and Christina Chong are both standout singers inStar Trek: Strange New Worlds’cast.Chong launched her music careerand released an EP to coincide withStrange New Worldsseason 2.For season 3, Christina is again dropping new music:“Ethan Peck is on the new single that’s coming out Friday, July 25,“Chong announced,“It’s called Baby Blue Day. He co-wrote it as well. So yeah, check it out, kids.”
Although Rebecca Romijn isn’t singing on Christina Chong’s new album, she did hint that"In season 4, there may or may not be some more Una singing.“Romijn originally revealed Number One’s musical chops and her love of Gilbert & Sullivan in aStar Trek: Short Treksepisode. Una’s whimsical side looks like it’ll make a comeback inStar Trek: Strange New Worldsseason 4, which is in production now.
