8 Ups & 1 Down From Star Trek: Strange New Worlds 3.2 — Wedding Bell Blues

10. UP — The Irish!

This writer is almost contractually obliged to give this UP, Seán's eyes and the weight of his own family name boring into his soul. More to the point, Cillian O'Sullivan, Irish or otherwise, deserves praise for his brilliant performance as Doctor Roger Korby in Wedding Bell Blues.

 "First Cork man in Space [sic]! Claimed it," O'Sullivan noted on Instagram, even though, as he told the Strange New Pod last month, he wanted to play Korby in a British accent (don't shoot the messenger!) It was executive producer Akiva Goldsman who made the call to stick with Irish. As for the 'original' Korby, it was always tough to know what his accent truly was.

For this earlier version of Korby, O'Sullivan gets to make the character his own. His portrayal is as charming as it is comedic, playing beat for beat with titan of comedy, Rhys Darby. "It's DOCTOR!" might become the new tagline for "Korbs," the expert in Advanced Ancient Cultures who is also far from a fossil.