The episode ends — in basic courtroom drama vogue — with the revelation of an ideal loophole that lets Una stick with the Enterprise. It seems she meets all the standards for looking for asylum, a course of she unintentionally accomplished by revealing her standing to Captain Pike (Anson Mount).

“It’ll be enjoyable transferring on from that,” Romijn says of Una’s post-trial life. She additionally thinks the character, who till now has been an assured and sort however pretty introverted member of the crew, could have the prospect to rework now that her secret’s out. “I believe after episode two Una actually will get freed up and is now not hiding, is now not residing in disgrace, with this shameful secret that she’s been hiding all these years,” she says, “so I believe transferring ahead that is going to be very totally different for her.” Whereas trailers for season 2 of “Star Trek: Unusual New Worlds” have teased loads of new adventures, they do not reveal an excessive amount of about what Una 2.0 may appear to be. They do, nevertheless, embody a fantastic bit the place she teases La’an (Christina Chong) for her obvious attraction to James Kirk (Paul Wesley), saying, “You have got an vitality … it is makin’ me sweat.”

Whereas it is nice to see Quantity One again with the Enterprise, co-showrunner Akiva Goldsman identified earlier this 12 months that her return is not precisely a shock. The character confirmed up alongside Pike within the authentic sequence episode “The Menagerie,” alongside the sequence’ first pilot. Hopefully, newly carefree Una could have a whole lot of enjoyable this season – earlier than the canon occasions of Gene Roddenberry’s first Trek sequence make this story a complete lot extra severe.

“Star Trek: Unusual New Worlds” streams new episodes on Thursdays on Paramount+.