Star Trek Day keeps on giving, as today we not only got our first look at the forthcoming second season of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, but a surprising new casting announcement fills an open position aboard Captain Pike’s Enterprise.

After the death of Aenar engineer Hemmer in “All Those Who Wander,” Strange New Worlds showrunner Henry Alonso Myers said his replacement would come in the form of “a very different person, a completely different type of engineer” — and today we know who that very different person is going to be: the legendary Carol Kane.

The Academy Award nominee and Emmy Award winner will be portraying “Pelia” in Strange New Worlds Season 2, and is described as “highly educated and intelligent, this engineer suffers no fools; Pelia solves problems calmly and brusquely, thanks to her many years of experience.”

In addition to the new casting, Star Trek Day also brought a new clip from next season’s long-awaited episode focused on Erica Ortegas (Melissa Navia), as the helm officer prepares to join an undercover landing party headed to an alien planet.

With the large regular cast, the Ortegas character did not get a spotlight episode in Strange New Worlds’ first season — but as promised, Season 2 is going to deliver “more-tegas” to the pilot’s devoted fanbase.

Strange New Worlds is in post-production now and a specific Season 2 date was not announced during the Star Trek Day presentation, however it is expected to arrive on Paramount+ in the first half of 2023.

Along with regions where Season 1 has already debuted, the first season of the show is expected to arrive on Paramount+ in Italy, France, Germany, Switzerland and Austria “later this year.”