Star Trek: Strange New Worlds
Star Trek : Strange New Worldshas the chance to resolve aStar Trek : Enterprisemystery that has lasted for over 19 years . InEnterprise ’s controversial finale , " These are the Voyages … " , Commander William Riker ( Jonathan Frakes ) visits the NX-01 Enterprise in the holodeck , posture as the ship ’s Chef . Riker ’s version of Chef is friends with all the majorcharacters onEnterprise : cooking and attain alimentary paste with Subcommander T’Pol ( Jolene Blalock ) , Ensign Hoshi Sato ( Linda Park ) , and even Dr. Phlox ( John Billingsley ) . YetEnterprisenever divulge Chef ’s indistinguishability .
AlthoughEnterprisewas the last serial in the popular run ofStar Trekshowsproduced by Rick Berman , it never received the same acclaim during its run on UPN . One reason was thatEnterprisewas a prequel . While the rest of Berman ’s shows featured crossing and outcome impactingStar Trek : The Next contemporaries , Star Trek : Deep Space Nine , andStar Trek : Voyager , Enterprise’sprequel condition lent it fewer connections to the remainder ofTrek . NowStrange New Worldscan giveEnterprisethose references and allusion . The whodunit chef could process as a bridge betweenEnterpriseand a novel era ofStar Trek .
Strange New Worlds Should Reveal The Identity Of Star Trek: Enterprise’s Mystery Chef
We Already Know Captain Pike Looks Up To Captain Archer
It would make perfect common sense ifStar Trek : Strange New Worldsreveals thatEnterprise ’s mystery chef is an root of Captain Christopher Pike(Anson Mount ) . Already , Strange New Worldshas give away two key facts that point in this direction . Firstly , Captain Pike is a phenomenal cook . In the second episode ofStrange New Worlds , Captain Pike hosts a dinner in his quartersto welcome Cadet Nyota Uhura ( Celia Rose Gooding ) to his crew , set the look for the total show . endeavour ’s closed book chef was , apparently , talented in the kitchen Like Captain Pike , endeavour ’s chef fuck how to apply his cooking to institute crewmates nigher together .
unusual New Worlds makes Star Trek : Enterprise more important with surprising connections to Scott Bakula ’s Captain Archer and the NX-01 bunch .
Secondly , Strange New Worldshas already established a link between itself andEnterprise . DuringStrange New Worldsseason 2 , episode 7 , " Those Old Scientists,“a literal slice of the NX-01 Enterprise is break to be keep in engineering . Captain Pike admits that he has always looked up toEnterprise ’s Captain Jonathan Archer ( Scott Bakula ) , and Uhura likewise excuse that she has always look up to Hoshi Sato . The crew of the NCC-1701 Enterprise already screw and care about the NX-01 . This connection would be strengthened and given more excited impact if it were revealed that , in fact , Captain Pike is a descendant of the first Enterprise ’s chef .
Why Making A Stronger Connection Between Star Trek: Enterprise & Strange New Worlds Is Smart
It Makes In-Universe Sense And Draws Attention To A Hidden Gem Of Trek
Because of his cookery gift and wonderment for the NX-01 Enterprise , it urinate sense for Captain Pike specifically to be a descendant of the mystery chef . Beyond that , it also makes sense , given the broadertimelines and culture ofStar Trek . We know that it ’s rough 100 year betweenStar Trek : Enterprise ’s close and the start ofStrange New Worlds . Since Captain Pike is already well establish in Starfleet , and since Federation life expectancy is so high , it is soft to imagine the chef as Pike ’s great - grandparent , telling Pike stories of the early solar day of Warp cause .
It have horse sense for Captain Pike specifically to be a descendant of the mystery chef .
calculate on how explicitStrange New Worldswanted to get with the connection , the NX-01 ’s mystery chef could even provide opportunities for references and crossovers withEnterprise . Twenty years ago , Enterprisestruggled because it did n’t have the same context of use and connectedness that the rest ofStar Trekshared . Now , by forging novel connexion withStar Trek : Strange New Worlds , there is an opportunity to infix a new coevals of buff to the very first Enterprise and her crew . What started as an unsolved mystery could become into a renaissance forStar Trek : Enterprise .
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