The potential for what journalism looks like in Star Trek is a heady idea that’s been around as long as the series itself. What does reporting the news look like in utopia? What does it mean that the Federation has its own news networks, alongside a host of interstellar media organizations? What does freedom of information mean in a universe that has Starfleet ? And yet, we’ve actually had very few characters appear in the series as fully dedicated journalists and reporters.

That changed a little with this week’s episode of Strange New Worlds , “What Is Starfleet?”, which, well… okay, yeah. It was pretty atrocious journalism . But Mynor Lüken’s Beto Ortegas joins a rarefied crew of professional media in Star Trek to have significant roles in the series, for better or worse.

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