Christina Chong knew little about Star Trek before being cast in Paramount+’s Star Trek: Strange New Worlds. It wasn’t part of her childhood in the United Kingdom, growing up as the daughter of a Chinese immigrant and his English wife. Now she’s part of the Star Trek family, her character the legacy of Khan Noonien-Singh, one of Star Trek’s most iconic villains. Chong plays La’an Noonien-Singh, the USS Enterprise’s Chief Security Officer, in Strange New Worlds. While most of the Enterprise crew grew up in the full promise of the United Federation of Planet’s utopian future, La’an has a different history. She grew up aboard a colony ship that became the target of a Gorn raid, its inhabitants brought to a breeding planet for consumption. La’an was the only survivor, found by the Una and the crew of the USS Martin Luther King Jr.
