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

7. UP — Cha-Cha-Cha Chief Of Security

After the high-octane, gut-wrenching stakes of Hegemony and Hegemony, Part II, La'an was always due a break. It had been three months since she had helped send the Gorn packing at the end of a phaser rifle. For her, the induced hibernation also meant the end, however temporary, of a lifetime of worry about the Gorn's return.

We knew Christina Chong could sing, as in, really really sing! We'd also caught a glimpse at her dancing abilities in Subspace Rhapsody. In Wedding Bell Blues, Chong gets to show off a lot more of her moves when La'an takes on the task of teaching Spock a few steps before the centennial celebrations, and then again pre-wedding when reality is changed.

The result is delightful — a moment of calm mixed with humour. It is surely a nod to a certain 'Dancing Doctor' and her equally stiff and logical student of another Enterprise. Data needed to stop staring at his feet. Spock needed to loosen up those shoulders.