This article contains spoilers for the latest episode of "Star Trek: Strange New Worlds."
In the latest episode of "Star Trek: Strange New Worlds" (titled "What Is Starfleet?"), a young civilian named Beto Ortegas (Mynor Lüken), the brother of the hotshot pilot Erica Ortegas (Melissa Navia), has decided to make a documentary film about daily operations on the U.S.S. Enterprise and how the ship's Starfleet officers carry out a typical mission. Beto has an agenda, however. He doesn't want to merely vaunt Starfleet; he wants to confront it. He sees Starfleet as an aggressive military organization that's more devoted to conflict and violence than peace and diplomacy, despite its claims to the contrary.
Beto's suspicions prove to be disappointingly true when it comes to the Enterprise's cur