On Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 2 Episode 10, Mitchell (Rong Fu), Una (Rebecca Romijn), Spock (Ethan Peck), and Pike (Anson Mount) wonder who the new helmsman is.
No matter how many stars there are in the sky. No matter how many galaxies swirl beyond our own. No matter the mathematical probabilities or the number of times we say, 'We are not alone in the universe,' our first visit from the stars is always the province of children's stories and science fiction. First contact with aliens always lives squarely in the impossible. First contact is just a dream until one day, it isn't.
