In Star Trek: The Original Series, Nurse Chapel had a creepy ex-finance obsessed with robots, and Dr. M’Benga played second fiddle to Dr. McCoy. But for the current cast of Strange New Worlds, the baggage of their characters is the furthest thing from their minds. “We’re not really too worried about it,” Babs Olusanmokun tells Inverse of his portrayal of M’Benga. “We’re really forging something new — with respect, of course, to what came before.”
