On Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 1 Episode 10, Pike (Anson Mount), Sam Kirk (Dan Jeannotte), and Uhura (Celia Rose Gooding) take a long look at Spock (Ethan Peck)
On Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 1 Episode 9, M'Benga (Babs Olusanmokun), La'an (Christina Chong), and Pike (Anson Mount) agree on a plan forward.
No matter how many stars there are in the sky. No matter how many galaxies swirl beyond our own. No matter the mathematical probabilities or the number of times we say, 'We are not alone in the universe,' our first visit from the stars is always the province of children's stories and science fiction. First contact with aliens always lives squarely in the impossible. First contact is just a dream until one day, it isn't.