Babs Olusanmokun discussed Dr Joseph M’Benga’s dual role as a compassionate Enterprise doctor and a former Starfleet special-forces soldier in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds. He said the character’s inner conflict, between healing people and possessing lethal skills, was a major attraction of the role and gives M’Benga greater complexity.

The interview focuses on the episode “A Case of Chiaroscuro”, in which M’Benga advises Uhura and Una during a covert mission on the Klingon-occupied planet Mat’aar XII. It also revisits the character’s wartime past, including Protocol 12, the drug that temporarily made M’Benga and Chapel super-soldiers, while Olusanmokun reflects on filming the show’s final episode without viewing it as a definitive ending.