Spoilers Strange New Worlds General Discussion Thread

[JoaquinSlowly]

Actually, he did:

That’s a bit of a surprise! ‪‪I didn’t expect that after reading the first few pages of the discussion on this thread from back then.

Small potatoes. He was wrong about everything else he posted about anyway, most of which he really hasn't been back since he was proven wrong about it.

And that’s far less/not surprising.

 

[Belz...]

Actually, he did:

Yeah, just not in the thread where it would've mattered.

 

[Avro Arrow]

Poor guy, staying a crewman for a whole 30+ years. If I were him, I'd really start reconsidering my choice of career at that point.

He started to, but then he got cold feet.

(What!? You were all thinking it!)

 

[Belz...]

Poor guy, staying a crewman for a whole 30+ years. If I were him, I'd really start reconsidering my choice of career at that point.

He's what Picard would've been if not for those Nausicaans.

 

[NCC-73515]

Seriously in the early days of Trek late 60's early 70's, Spock was often mis identified by the public as Dr. Spock. Because that book was "HUGE"....

And in at least one of the Gold Key comics

And also an iguana.

German TV magazine episode synopsis back then: Data's cat turns into a crocodile!

 

[gweeps]

Maybe they bring back Trelane somehow?

 

[Harpsichord]

New Gizmodo interview up with the cast (minus Bruce Horak). The direct quotes:

It’s a brand-new character, but her last name was a last name Gene Roddenberry had in the pilot for a character who never made it to screen. It became a different character. And so for me, it kind of became... there’s just something very symbolic about [it], as an actor and as a Star Trek fan. We’re going to be making new fans from this show, but we’re just bridging the divide, of how Star Trek connects generations. It’s been really exciting, a lot of pressure, but I think we can handle it, thanks to our amazing writers and cast.

Confirming that her name is a nod to Jose Ortegas, don't think they've come out and said it specifically before? And GOSH Melissa you mean the pitch not the pilot.

It’s been incredible to have the wealth of knowledge of where the future of the franchise is, in comparison to where we’re coming from in our series and the first season. It’s a balancing act of knowing where we’re going and what we’re doing in the present moment, so it’s been fun to have the nostalgic throwback-y set pieces with this incredibly current and dynamic dialogue and conversations about the future, like, in these moments the characters don’t know [about yet]. Uhura doesn’t know she’s going to have a future on many different starships and this is just the beginning for her. But as an actor, it’s really cool to know the future, and play the present.

I did a lot of homework and research—because I’m a new Trek fan—I did a lot of watching the original series in quarantine, and then also wherever Khan was, The Wrath of Khan, all of that stuff, and asking friends what certain words [mean]. There was a list of words and I was marking ‘I have no idea’ under each word. ‘What the hell does that mean?’ ‘What is that?’ Because, obviously, I couldn’t understand the script unless I could understand what those words were. So, there was a lot of that going on!”

I watched all of Majel’s performance and researched into Star Trek more broadly, and how she fits into that picture culturally. Distilled her essence, so to speak, and took note of her wit and humor and used that as a seedling to generate, and yield from. There was a certain level of that in performing the character which I think Akiva [Goldsman] and Henry [Alonso Meyers], the showrunners, handled really beautifully with the writing, and how we got to brainstorm together. They had their two cents, but I also had a license to explore, myself. Which I felt honored to do—it’s been a wonderful process.”

Queen Christine

We only see him in two episodes! It was trepidation, and then it was ‘Okay, I can just give him something new, something that is unknown,’ you know? That’s what I’ve endeavored to do,” the actor added. “I hope the journey we take him on and what we show of his life, and inner life is something that the fans can connect to.

I think the opportunity to make our own Trek show, our own way, was really the driving force of the excitement behind this. We knew going in we wanted to make something episodic—not just in terms of the new idea, or the big planet of the week—but, ‘What is the character of this episode? How can we encourage our directors to come in and really put a strong footprint on their episode? How can we find a different way to play every episode?’ We wanted to re-inject a sense of fun in Star Trek, and I hope we succeeded.

On Discovery, [Pike’s] leading a different crew than he’s used to on the Enterprise—there, you get to see him leading his crew. The sense of responsibility there, the sense of warmth... if I wanted to bring one thing to Pike, it’s that every time that door to his office opened and a crew member walked in, the most important thing in the room was not Pike, not the question—the most important thing was that crew member. That’s one of the few things, for certain, I knew I wanted to do.

Very encouraging. Pretty annoying when the producers (Olatunde) keep telling directors to "be cinematic" (spin the camera around).

It’s a lot. I feel like a caretaker, like a custodian of this very beloved character that really only got 14 minutes of screentime in the original, rejected pilot. And we only saw her perform a task at hand. We didn’t learn her name, we didn’t learn anything about her character. She’s got a name now—Una Chin-Riley—and it’s really fun to develop and flesh out this blank slate. We don’t take it lightly. I think all of us who were playing familiar characters know how much the Star Trek fans protect these characters and so we were all very protective of them, and... trying our hardest to take good care of these characters.

It never gets normal. It never feels like something ordinary. I think the onus is more comfortable at this point—it doesn’t feel so back-breaking. Right at the beginning, I was really afraid to squander this... this is such an important character to so many people, and my work is really important to me. Those two things combined just made for something super-burdensome. I think time has alleviated the discomfort of that and continues to, but I hope it’s never something that becomes normal, or comfortable, because I think that discomfort—and that legacy to live up to—is really a great catalyst for creativity and imagination and exploring the unknown. It’s very inspiring.

 

[fireproof78]

Maybe they bring back Trelane somehow?

And the Metron. Maybe Organians too.

 

[Belz...]

Someone needs to steal Spock's brain again.

 

[DaveyNY]

Someone needs to steal Spock's brain again.

I'd settle for just his liver going missing.

 

[Belz...]

"Spock's Liver" sure sounds like an awesome episode!

 

[Turbo]

"Spock's Liver" sure sounds like an awesome episode!

It's the only way to save the crew when they run out of canapés before an ambassadorial function!

 

[cooleddie74]

"Spock's Appendix" would be a Short Trek and clipped short to save on overrunning production costs.

 

[Belz...]

Whereas "Spock's Small Intestine"..., well, is longer.

 

[cooleddie74]

And the plot full of more...well...you know.

 

[137th Gebirg]

Spock's Duodenum

 

[cooleddie74]

Spock's Vas Deferens.

You'll notice the difference for sure.

 

[fireproof78]

Spock's Vas Deferens.

You'll notice the difference for sure.

Is it a Vast Diference?


I'll show myself out.

 

[cooleddie74]

You could say you've just gotten sacked.

 

[NCC-73515]

"Spock's Liver" sure sounds like an awesome episode!

LIVER AND LIVER WHAT IS LIVER!!!???