Star Trek: Strange New Worlds - The RANDY Awards: Category VI

 Category VI has been inserted into the Randy Awards for the first time in the second season.  It is meant for a category of recurring actors between seasons--in other words, actors who reprise the same character from a previous season, which necessarily negates the possibility on an award offered in the inaugural season.  Throughout the history of all Star Trek franchises, actors have help recurring roles outside of the credited main cast.  They have provided a sense of continuity that has contributed to the essential nature of a show about a crew of individuals.  From Lt. Kyle (John Winston)'s 11 appearances as the Transporter Chief across all three seasons of the Original series to Lt Mitchell (Rong Fu)'s 12 appearances as Helmsman on Star Trek: Strange New Worlds across the first three seasons--recurring supporting characters are the bedrock of creating a larger reality on any series.

Like other Randy awards, this one is tiered.  There are Gold, Silver and Bronze level winners.  The inaugural Gold Award goes to Paul Wesley as Captain James T. Kirk in the episode "Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow" written by David Reed and Onitra Johnson.  It first aired on Jun 29, 2023. 

The Silver Award is also for the performance of Carol Kane as Pelia in the same episode.  The genius of her portrayal of Pelia the Lanthenite is that she feels spontaneous in her dialogue and actions.  

The Bronze award goes to Gia Sandhu's T'Pring from the episode Charades.  Written by Kathryn Lyn and Henry Alonso Myers, it first aired on July 13, 2023.  Sandhu's interpretation of this one episode character from the original series has been a revelation over the first two seasons of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds.  In the first round of Randy Awards, she walked away with the Gold Award for Best Featured Actor making this her second trip to the podium in as many seasons.