Talk:Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 2

Cast for the season
Keeping track of the cast to help determine who is recurring as well as credit order:


 * Main
 * Anson Mount as Captain Christopher Pike
 * Ethan Peck as Science Officer Spock
 * Jess Bush as Nurse Christine Chapel
 * Christina Chong as La'an Noonien-Singh
 * Celia Rose Gooding as Cadet Nyota Uhura
 * Melissa Navia as Lt. Erica Ortegas
 * Babs Olusanmokun as Dr. M'Benga
 * Rebecca Romijn as Una Chin-Riley

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 * 201
 * Adrian Holmes as Robert April 201 202 210
 * Carol Kane as Pelia 201 203 206 207 209 210
 * Izad Etemadi as Burly Inspector 201
 * Rong Fu as Jenna Mitchell 201 208 209 210
 * Emma Ho as Oriana 201
 * Andrew Jackson as Captain D'Chok 201
 * Alex Kapp as USS Enterprise Computer 201 202 204 205 206 208 210
 * Kyle Kass as Kr'Dogh 201
 * Noah Lamanna as Chief Jay 201 204 210
 * Cihang Ma as Livian 201
 * Tiffany Martin as Senior Chief 201
 * Jamillah Ross as Lukata 201
 * Samer Salem as Inspector Gilan 201
 * Hannah Spear as Jen 201
 * Alex Spencer as Greynax 201
 * Nicolas Van Burek as Klingon Extremist 201
 * Abbas Wahab as Ror'Queg 201
 * Laura Wilson as Stell 201
 * Russell Yuen as Commodore Tafune 201
 * Holmes, Kane; Etemadi, Fu, Ho, Jackson, Kapp, Kass, Lamanna, Ma, Martin, Ross, Salem, Spear, Spencer, Van Burek, Wahab, Wilson, Yuen

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 * 202
 * Yetide Badaki as Neera Ketoul 202
 * Melanie Scrofano as Batel 202 204 209 210
 * Jim Annan as Una's Father 202
 * Anna Claire Beitel as Young Una 202
 * Catherine Black as Una's Mother 202
 * Eugene Clark as Vulcan Judge 202
 * Nicky Guadagni as Admiral Javas 202
 * Beth Hornby as Guard 202
 * Graeme Somerville as Vice Admiral Pasalk 202
 * Iain Stewart as Jag Defender 202
 * David Benjamin Tomlinson as Tellarite Judge 202
 * Kimberly-Ann Truong as Illyrian Assistant 202
 * Badaki, Holmes, Scrofano; Anna, Beitel, Black, Clark, Guadagni, Hornby, Kapp, Somerville, Stewart, Tomlinson, Truong

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 * 203
 * Paul Wesley as James T. Kirk 203 206 209
 * Adelaide Kane as Sera 203
 * Dennis Barham as Chess Player #1 203
 * Noah Lamanna as Chief Jay 203
 * Caeden Lawrence as Security Ensign 203
 * David Leyshon as Chess Player #3 203
 * Luke Marty as Police Officer 203
 * Sean Meldrum as Denobulan Cadet 203
 * Brian Quintero as Store Security Guard 203
 * Robin Schisler as Woman in Store 203
 * Randy Singh as Institute Guard #1 203
 * Desmond Sivan as Young Khan 203
 * Mish Tam as Chess Player #2 203
 * Allison Wilson-Forbes as Agent Ymalay 203
 * Christopher Wyllie as Grey-Suited Man 203
 * Wesley, A Kane, C Kane; Barham, Lamanna, Lawrence, Leyshon, Marty, Meldrum, Quintero, Schisler, Sings, Sivan, Tam, Wilson-Forbes, Wyllie

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 * 204
 * Reed Birney as Luq 204
 * David Huynh as Zac Nguyen 204
 * Trevor Coll as Afraid Crewmember 204
 * Tarek Gader as Shirtless Crewmember 204
 * Emeka Menakaya as Tiko 204
 * Simon Northwood as Rak 204
 * Birney, Huynh, Scrofano; Coll, Gader, Kapp, Lamanna, Menakaya, Northwood

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 * 205
 * Mia Kirshner as Amanda Grayson 205
 * Michael Benyaer as Sevet 205
 * Dan Jeannotte as George Samuel Kirk 205 206 209 210
 * Ellora Patnaik as T'Pril 205
 * Gia Sandhu as T'Pring 205
 * Anjuli Cain as the voices of Yellow and Blue 205
 * Ryan Taerk as Durik 205
 * Kirshner, Benyaer, Jeannotte, Patnaik, Sandhu; Cain, Kapp, Taerk


 * 206
 * Bruce Horak as Hemmer 206 Garkog 209
 * Michael Reventar as Ramon 206
 * Wesley, Horak, Jeannotte, Reventar, Kane; Kapp


 * 207
 * Tawny Newsome as Beckett Mariner 207
 * Jack Quaid as Brad Boimler 207
 * Noël Wells as D'Vana Tendi (voice) 207
 * Eugene Cordero as Sam Rutherford (voice) 207
 * Jerry O'Connell as Jack Ransom (voice) 207
 * Greg Bryk as Harr Caras 207
 * Newsome, Quaid, Wells, Cordero, O'Connell, Bryk, Kane

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 * 208
 * Robert Wisdom as Dak'Rah 208
 * Clint Howard as Buck Martinez 208
 * Saida Ali as Jix 208
 * Ryan Allen as Polk 208
 * Carolyne Das as Lead Pilot 208
 * Kyle Gatehouse as Lieutenant Va'Al Trask 208
 * Jose Gutierrez-Solana as Ensign Alvarado 208
 * Brendan Jeffers as Ensign Inman 208
 * Vanessa Smythe as Harper 208
 * Wisdom, Howard; Ali, Allen, Das, Fu, Gatehouse, Gutierrez-Solana, Jeffers, Kapp, Smythe


 * 209
 * Wesley, Scrofano, Jeannotte, Horak, Kane; Fu

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 * 210
 * Martin Quinn as Montgomery Scott 210
 * Matt Jensen as Ensign Appel 210
 * Quinn, Holmes, Scrofano, Jeannotte, Kane; Fu, Jensen, Kapp, Lamanna

- adamstom97 (talk) 23:08, 11 August 2023 (UTC)

Episode article redirects
-- Alex_ 21 TALK 01:23, 3 July 2023 (UTC)

Notable guests
In an edit summary, @Adamstom.97 said that "notable guests" encompasses "actors or characters returning from previous Star Trek media". This is pretty opaque. Why shouldn't the heading encompass guest actors who are themselves notable, or guest actors who play major roles in their episodes? Clint Howard has been on Star Trek before, but he's not particularly well-known and plays a minor role in the episode. If the list is a list of guest actors with past Star Trek connections, then that's what the list header should say. AJD (talk) 17:33, 29 July 2023 (UTC)


 * This is the criteria that was agreed upon for Discovery and there have been no issues with it for all of those seasons as well as all of the Picard and Lower Decks seasons. The only reason it wasn't done here at first is because the first season of Strange New Worlds does not have enough guest stars total to need filtering down like this, but the second season does now. I think any discussions about changing this criteria is going to open a can of worms for all of these articles, going from objective criteria to subjective arguments over who is inherently notable or has a major enough role in an episode to meet the criteria. I'm not against adjusting the header to be more descriptive but we would still want it to be concise if possible. Another suggestion would be to add a note explaining the criteria, though at that point I would argue that the criteria for the list is much less important to the readers than it is for us. We could also put an FAQ section at each season's talk page to explain the criteria for anyone who cares enough to go to the talk page. - adamstom97 (talk) 20:47, 29 July 2023 (UTC)


 * Agree by whom? I'm going to assume we're all familiar with WP:OWN here right? AlistairMcMillan (talk) 09:09, 3 August 2023 (UTC)
 * Wow, that is a silly accusation to just make off the bat without even trying to contribute constructively to the conversation first. This criteria has been used across all of the Star Trek season articles for the last five years, I haven't just now decided to go around removing guest stars I don't like if that is what you are insinuating. - adamstom97 (talk) 09:17, 3 August 2023 (UTC)
 * @AlistairMcMillan I'm going to assume we're all familiar with WP:AGF and WP:NPA here right? -- Alex_ 21 TALK 11:56, 3 August 2023 (UTC)