Spoilers for “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds” follow.
An advantage of “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds” being a prequel to the original “Star Trek” is the way in which he can have bad guys from Klingon, no necessary explanation.
The show is a spin-off of “Star Trek: Discovery”, which followed the brief and brutal war between the Federation and the Klingon Empire during its first season. The characters “Strange New Worlds” Retcon Let us “Tos”, Dr. Joseph M’Benga (Babs Olusanmokun) and Christine Chapel (Jess Bush) in the veterans of the Klingon War. They specifically served together on the moon Iga, where M’Benga developed a steroid for the soldiers of Starfleet (“Protocol 12”) and even took it itself. The infamous “Boucher de M’Gal” who killed Klingons superior officers? It was actually M’Benga.
The SSPT of M’Benga therefore broke out in the “Strange New Worlds” season 2 “under the mantle of war” when the company had to escort the ambassador of Klingon Dak’rah (Robert Wisdom). Dak’rah, who defeated the Federation, took the credit of the death of his officers, claiming to be the “butcher of M’Ga”. The tension between M’Benga and Dak’rah ends slowly throughout the episode. Dak’rah claimed to be ashamed, both for past atrocities And Be a cowardly on I Galu. He wanted to make amends with M’Benga, but seemed more motivated by his own guilt than empathy for M’Benga.
In the end, M’Benga killed Dak’rah with the D’Ak Tahg (Klingon knife) which he used as a butcher of Jega. Death has been judged as a self -defense because Dak’rah attacked M’Benga, but the episode has left him ambiguous that it was really or that it is actually murder … Until now, in “Shuttle to Kenfori”, when M’Benga admits it was murder. The sins of the past of M’Benga have not died with Dak’rah.
M’Benga faces Dak’rah’s daughter in Strange New Worlds Season 3
In the final of season 2 of “Strange New Worlds” / Premiere “Premiere” Hegemony “, the girlfriend of Captain Christopher Pike (Anson Mount), Captain Marie Batel (Melanie Scrofano), fell with an infection of Grenn larvae.” Hegemony “ended with the stabilized Batel state, but not. The infection has regressed and threatens again to kill it.
The only hope of Marie is a “chimera flower”, a rare plant that on the planet Kenfori – which is located in the disputed territory of the Federation / Klingon. Pike does not let a simple treaty prevent the business from going to Kenfori. But once M’Benga lands on the planet, they encounter two big problems. First, an native plant seized Starfleet’s dead scientists and Klingon soldiers, transforming them into, as Pike maintains, “the word z”. Second, there is a group of alive Klingons on the planet chasing our heroes.
The chief of the Klingons (Christine Horn) is there to kill M’Benga and asks if he sees the face of an old enemy looking at her. “I killed too many klingons to find out which house you are,” he replied, so she turns out to be the daughter of Dak’rah. She is not there to avenge her father, no. She wanted to kill Dak’rah herself for having dishonored their house, and now she wants to kill M’Benga for having stolen her.
“Our name remains soiled unless I kill my father’s assassin,” she said, so she and M’Benga must have a duel to death. When Pike claims that the death of Dak’rah was self-defense, M’Benga reveals that he not::
“I could have stopped him, but a mass murderer gave me the opportunity to kill him … and I didwillingly. I would do it again. So yes, his blood is on my hands. Was it dishonorable? I don’t know. But there was justice. I lied to protect the monster that still lives in me, if the day came again. “”
Joseph M’Benga: Doctor Starfleet or Klingon Butcher?
M’Benga wins the duel of A K Tahg, no necessary protocol 12, but this time, he retains the “Monster” and spares his opponent. Dak’rah’s daughter finds a warrior redemption in the place, staying behind to keep the horde of zombies while M’Benga and Pike escape.
Once back in the business, M’Benga asks if Pike will return it for the murder of Dak’rah. Pike lowers the question; Since the whole mission has not been authorized, it will not submit a report on anything that happened. If he did it, “hypothetically”, asks M’Benga? “”[I’d say] I had a knife to my throat and you told a story to save my life … You’re not a monster, Joseph, just a man. “”
“La shuttle for Kenfori” ends as “under the mantle of war”, when a pike suspected M’Benga could be guilty but did not put pressure on the problem. This episode made two friends in foils; Pike, as usual, represented the idealism of the federation that even evil deserves second chances. M’Benga, who only confessed to being happy that Dak’rah died, thought that the victims deserved the justice more than the penitent.
It is therefore appropriate for Pike to be the one who learns the truth in “shuttle for kefori”. M’Benga declared in the last moments of “under the mantle of war” that Pike has “the privilege of believing in what is best among people”. In this episode, Pike chooses to apply this to his friend Joseph, because he saw M’Benga hold the monster in him on Kenfori. If our enemies deserve second chances, our friends too.
“Star Trek: Strange New Worlds” is streaming on Paramount +. New episodes are relaxing on Thursdays.
