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Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Releases Full Trailer

By Jordan Hoffman

‘Star Trek Strange New Worlds Releases Full Trailer

Paramount+ dropped some matter, anti-matter, and dilithium crystals into the intermix chamber of its promotional warp core on Sunday, spreading anticipation of its next Star Trek adventure at superluminal speeds. Star Trek: Strange New Worlds , the forthcoming (and somewhat retro) new series, leaves Spacedock on May 5.

The new series, which stars Anson Mount as Captain Christopher Pike, is a spinoff of the second season of Star Trek: Discovery, which just ended its fourth season. The character of Pike was originally played by Jeffrey Hunter in the Star Trek pilot in 1964. It never aired, but footage was repurposed on the show’s first season in 1966. Bruce Greenwood played the part in the first two of the recent rebooted films.

Strange New Worlds is set a few years prior to the events of the original William Shatner -led Star Trek , but features many familiar characters. Rebecca Romijn plays Captain Pike’s first officer Una (also known as Number One) and Ethan Peck is science officer Spock. Both are reprising their roles from Discovery .

Paul Wesley will play Captain James T. Kirk in the series’s second season, which has already begun shooting.

Also in the mix are Celia Rose Gooding as Cadet Nyota Uhura and Babs Olusanmokun as Dr. M’Benga (both characters from the classic show) plus Jess Bush as Nurse Christine Chapel. Interestingly enough, both Number One and Nurse Chapel were originally played by Majel Barrett-Roddenberry, but on different ships. Star Trek can be confusing sometimes. Christina Chong is also appearing on the show as La’an Noonien-Singh, a character with some yet-to-be-revealed relationship to the interstellar baddie Khan Noonien-Singh (played by Ricardo Mantalbán and Benedict Cumberbatch in different realities.)

This makes the fourth Star Trek series on Paramount+. In addition to Discovery , there is Star Trek: Picard , currently in its second season, plus Star Trek: Prodigy , an animated series aimed at kids on a mid-first season pause, and the animated comedy series Star Trek: Lower Decks , created by Rick and Morty and Solar Opposites alum Mike McMahan , readying its third season.

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Preview Of Star Trek For 2022: What We Are Most Anticipating

| December 31, 2021 | By: TrekMovie Editors 80 comments so far

After reflecting back on the year that was , we now take a look forward to the new year. There is a lot to look forward to in the world of Star Trek in 2022. In no particular order, the following are what the TrekMovie team is most excited about…

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds

2022 will see more Star Trek: Prodigy , along with new seasons of Picard and Lower Decks , all of which are highly anticipated. But the Star Trek Universe is about to get a bit bigger with the arrival of the first season of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds , a brand new series set on board the USS Enterprise under the command of Christopher Pike. Anson Mount returns to the role following his run in the second season of Star Trek: Discovery along with Ethan Peck as Spock and Rebecca Romijn as Number One. There is a new cast, some playing familiar roles like Dr. M’Benga and Nurse Chapel. The series is designed to be different from the two other live-action Paramount+ shows, with a lighter tone and more traditional episodic “planet of the week” format, designed to satisfy old-school Trek fans.

Star Trek: Resurgence

Also coming this spring is Star Trek: Resurgence , a brand-new adventure game set within Star Trek’s 24th century Prime Universe. It’s been a while since the last launch of a PC and Console video game, so this is a big deal—and the focus on story and the pedigree of the team behind it make this a potential highlight for the year.

Star Trek: The Motion Picture Director’s Edition 4K Update

His Trek film famously rushed to theaters for its 1979 theatrical release, the late Robert Wise worked with Paramount on a Director’s Edition with a new edit and new special effects for a release in 2001. Two decades later, Paramount has brought the team back together to bring Wise’s vision into the HD era with a new 4K Ultra HD edition, including newly rendered visual effects and updates. The 4K TMP will debut on Paramount+ first, and we just can’t wait to see it.

The return of Playmates Toys

In Star Trek’s heyday of the 1990s, Playmates Toys dominated with a constant stream of affordable and collectible figures and toys spanning the franchise. But that all came to an end in 1999, except for a brief return for the 2009 Star Trek movie. In 2022, Playmates will return with a new line promising “attention to brand detail, authentic portrait sculpting, and new product innovations.” Details are sparse but Playmates is expected to be offering kid-friendly toys and figures tied to Prodigy , other new shows, and legacy Star Trek.

Mission: Chicago

In 2022, ReedPop (who runs the Star Wars Celebration events) is taking over the Star Trek convention license in the US and is set to hold their first new “Mission” in Chicago with a four-day event starting April 8. Working closely with ViacomCBS, the event organizers promise “celebrity guests, exclusive merchandise, and exciting announcements.” It is expected that ViacomCBS will use this event as a showcase and opportunity to make some news about their Paramount+ shows and possibly even Paramount feature films. The only caveat is there are only a handful of guests announced so far, and the latest COVID wave could have an impact on this, which is coming up in just a few months.

Star Trek: Picard: Second Self

In May, Pocket Books is releasing its next Star Trek: Picard novel tie-in, and this time it is set to bridge the gap between season one and season two, which also arrives in early 2022. Written by the always reliable Una McCormack, Second Self will focus on Raffi Musiker, who finds herself torn after the events of season one, trying to decide if she should return to Starfleet. The novel promises espionage and intrigue and could help add some context to Raffi and other characters before season two.

Alien Spotlight

IDW Publishing is returning their gaze to Star Trek aliens with a planned series of extra-long one-shot comics, each focused on a different iconic species. The first issue is due in February with a focus on the Klingons, and tells the story of Kahless, the legendary Klingon warrior and founder of the Klingon Empire. Future issues later in the year will focus on the Ferengi, Vulcans, Trill, and others.

To The Journey: Looking Back at Star Trek: Voyager

The team behind a series of popular Trek documentaries is following up their 2018 DS9 doc What We Left Behind with a deep dive into Star Trek: Voyager. Work started in 2020, and following a record-breaking crowdfunding campaign in early 2021, the team went back into production to shoot more interviews with the people who made Voyager and beyond. The doc promises some surprises, and based on their track record, this should be a highlight of the year assuming they hit their goal of a late 2022 release.

A Woman’s Trek

Deep Space Nine star Nana Visitor is currently hard at work on a new book for Hero Collector called A Woman’s Trek, set to come out sometime in 2022. The book will take a frank look at what it’s like for the women who have worked on Star Trek in front and behind the camera throughout the franchise. Visitor has been conducting a series of honest, hard-hitting interviews that are also being filmed for a potential documentary as well, working with the same team behind To the Journey .

The Orville: New Horizons

Yes, it’s technically not Star Trek, but we here have embraced it as part of the family and we have been waiting for a long time for The Orville, Seth MacFarlane’s loving homage to The Next Generation , to return. Jumping to the Hulu streaming service (and Disney+ Star internationally), the third season is being branded The Orville: New Horizons; producers say it’s “more ambitious” and “much bigger in scope” than before. The 10-episode third season kicks off on March 10.

2023 Movie News

We are still waiting to hear about what’s next for Paramount+’s growing Star Trek television universe. There’s a possible Starfleet Academy show, maybe the Section 31 project will finally move forward… but the news we are most starved for is about the big screen. Since the release of Beyond in 2016, Paramount Pictures has had a series of stops and starts with various Star Trek feature film projects. However, they actually staked out a movie release date in this year, setting a film to premiere in December 22, 2023. Producer J.J. Abrams has hired WandaVisions’s Matt Shakman to direct with a script co-written by Captain Marvel screenwriter Geneva Robertson-Dworet, which is reportedly already completed. The new studio chief has touted the importance of feature films for the Trek franchise, and indicated that multiple films are in the works. If this is all going to become a reality, we should learn much more in 2022 about the holiday 2023 movie, including who is in it and how it fits into the larger Star Trek multiverse.

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I’ve been keen on a Pike-led Enterprise since I first saw The Cage decades ago, so SNW is firmly at the top of my list for 2022.

With the possibility that the Academy series might be set in the 32nd century, I’m intrigued.

On the movies, I just can’t get interested until there is word that production is happening. I feel we’ve been reliving the 70s, when there were frequent rumours of a show being revived, but nothing materialized until TMP was almost missing its committed theatrical release date. I believe something will eventually emerge, but when and with which creative team I’ll believe when it’s in production and 6 months from scheduled release.

So, I have to say that I was surprised that you put movie news at the top of the TrekMovie list. While I recognize that this site is literally called TrekMovie, I find it surprising how seriously you are taking each announcement.

Well yes it is in our site name but it’s a bit more significant because for the first time since BEYOND they have actually set a release date. Also the favorable comments from the new studio head all add up to this being a serious thing. So this project is further along than others and being taken seriously, although that doesn’t mean it’s going to 100% happen.

Mr. Pascale,

I, for one, really appreciate your focus on the next movie, and I also agree with you that this seems much more real this time given the new merged studio and it’s brand new management team seems to have their act together, and the new studio is much more financially stable versus four years ago when bankruptcy was at least in the conversation. So I think comparing this to the previous on-again, off-again movies misses this key point. That former studio mgmt team was indecisive, was cash poor, and were the clowns that botched the marketing of Beyond — they are gone now (thank goodness).

Keep up the good work. Thanks

Will the new movies use an existing Enterprise design or will we get yet another iteration?

Agree with you 100% about the next movie. It’s really hard to get excited when we been jerked around for 5 years now lol. I know there are some people here who has faith (of the heart) this time it’s REALLY happening due to changes inside the company, but yeah we have heard all of this before too. The Tarantino project was DEFINITELY happening. How can it not? Even if Tarantino doesn’t direct it himself, the studio really really wants a Star Trek film with his name on it somewhere…and then poof! ;)

Yes a premiere date for it bolds well, but I’ll still only believe it when they announce the cast and a filming date. Not a day before then. The fact that they already moved the date without a single announcement of what I just mentioned doesn’t feel too positive either. And lastly they announced the director and writer months ago but not a single peep from either of them since. When the first Kelvin movie was announced you had JJ Abrams, Kurtzman and Orci talking small tidbits about it constantly in the press even when they were still just writing it. All those articles are still here on Trekmovie dating back to 2006.

But it’s been very very quiet with these new guys.

I recently received a call about doing some on-set work in early 2022. A movie is, in fact, happening.

So there’s a script? An actual script? If true that would be awesome news!

That’s good news. I still won’t overly think it until there is actual casting and a filming date though.

I think like most fans, I’m excited for SNW the most! It’s still crazy we haven’t even gotten a trailer for it yet. To The Journey definitely second on my list. Orville is third I guess. The others I’m curious about but since I’ve never read many books or played any of the games it’s more of a passing interest.

But it is really cool to see Playmates making toys again. That company was part of my childhood and I would buy a lot of Trek figures and ships. And such great quality at that. It’s really a shame the Kelvin movies didn’t have a stronger merchandising line up when the first film came out and kind of killed off the toy line from that point on. So it’s nice to see this side of the franchise coming back.

(nuff said)

Looking foward to:

Definitely SNW… I very much like DSC S4. It’s become wonderful Trek now. But a return to the one and only true Enterprise is definitely way more exciting :-)

PIC S2 is also a highlight. In a way it’s a chance to start anew and improve upon the less than stellar S1.

I’m also looking forward to finally being able to watch PRO on P+ in Europe…

Hoping for:

P+ should announce and introduce a new format: a series of live-action streaming movies releasing at least twice a year (First Contact Day and Star Trek Day come to mind). I would call that format TREKBUSTERS. Set in different eras, that movie format could explore many lost and brand-new opportunities without having to commit to a full series format: Pre-ENT Ringship Enterprise, Excelsior, Stargazer, Titan, Voyager-J, or even adapting some novel series such as Vanguard.

My second hope is that we may at some point get a time travel show, exploring different eras of Klingon, Vulcan, Borg, T’Kon, Iconian etc. history… But that’s even more unlikely :-)

i’d love a new TNG movie, a deep space nine movie or even a film that had both casts. But its a fan dream and it won’t happen. Its like wanting season 5 of Enterprise or a continuation of TOS with a new cast, it isn’t happening.

“or a continuation of TOS with a new cast,”

While not being a “continuation”, SNW is the closest thing we could get. It’s direct prequel to TOS. It’s the original Enterprise! So yeah, I think we are getting that, sort of…

ENT S5… I think it’ll happen, just not being called ENT S5… They may eventually do a FEDERATION series, with Archer as Admiral or President and Shran getting command of the NCC-01 Refit :-)

New TNG movie… nah… but a reformed S3 of PIC may do the trick…

If SNW has proven one point is that these PTB are actually listening and we may be getting more of those “fan dreams” than you could even imagine…

Agreed. I would love to see a TNG or Deep Space Nine movie (even one with both casts). Michael Dorn and Colm Meaney were already in both. Or as mentioned by Garth Lorca, another season of Enterprise. However I also agree with you both it is unlikely.

I would really like to see a re-boot of DS9. That was my favorite Star Trek, along with TNG.

I’d be happy with a Star Trek series that’s on par with DS9 or at least within spitting distance. I really can’t stomach what they’ve done with Star Trek, and that’s coming from somebody who slogged thru almost all of Voyager and Enterprise, so my tolerance levels for Bad Trek are fairly high. It would be great to see some of the best old characters – Kira, Janeway, Worf, Garak – back in action but only if they can hire some decent writers.

I so agree!

P+ has committed to two new movies per month going forward. At least a couple per year should be Star Trek.

Is this going to be the first year ever that we are going to get new Trek series pretty much continuously throughout the year? We know that Prodigy and Discovery will take us through March or April. Picard season 2 is happening after that. Then Strange New Worlds? That would take us through August when the next season of Lower Decks is expected. That would go through September or October. Then a new season of Discovery or Prodigy?

I actually made a post about this in another thread. This is how I see the next year going (but prepared to be wrong as usual) starting next week:

Prodigy episodes 6-10
Discovery 8-(13?)
Picard season 2 (which as stated was announced for February but maybe it will be bumped to March)
Strange New Worlds season 1
Prodigy season 1 second half 11-20
Lower Decks season 3
Picard season 3

This is everything that’s been confirmed so far. Assuming everything on that list is on time then in theory we are looking at a new show every week until early 2023. This may not happen as shown and they can take breaks between shows but I have a feeling 2022 will have the most Star Trek content we have ever gotten.

And we know Prodigy has been confirmed for season 2 and basically sounds like both Discovery and SNW are getting another season as well, so 2023 will probably be filling up pretty soon too.

That list has me excited. Thanks!

The only thing I would question might be the order. It would seem that SNW might end up in the summer based on that order, especially if Picard is pushed back to March as you said it might. I doubt they would want to do that. So maybe SNW is Sept, and then Picard S3 is Nov-Feb with a holiday break (and the animated shows run in the summer before)?

Or maybe we will have several weeks in April-May when we have both Picard S2 and SNW eps at the same time?

You’re welcome!

And sure that’s possible, but I don’t think streaming really has the same issue of holiday/vacation breaks. And I think the point is to keep people on the hook all year long. But you’re right, they could air PRO in the summer and it would make sense as kids will be mostly home then. They already said SNW would air in the Spring, but yes that’s before all the changes made, so who knows. I would love it if both Picard and SNW ran at the same time though! I think we all would. ;)

Tony/Laurie

I’m looking forward to 3 things:

1. Strange New Worlds

2. Star Trek XIV News

3. Spending saturday mornings listening to All Access Star Trek. I really enjoy listening to both of you. You make me laugh and keep me up to date on Trek news.

Happy New Years!

Happy New Year, KevinB! You made my morning. So happy you enjoy the podcast!

What i wish for is a 4th Kelvin timeline film, or Deep Space Nine and Voyager remastered in at least 2K res like TOS and TNG. What i’m anticipating is Picard season 2. Waiting on the news of Disco season 5 i still have hope the show will get better.

I too would like to see a fourth Kelvin movie with the same cast. I think the cast had just started to grow into the characters and the interrelationships between their characters in Beyond. I know a lot of fans did not like the movie but do all of the fans like all of the movies. Star Trek and Star Wars fans in my opinion are probably some of the most critical in the world. No studio can produce a hit with every offering. With a good script I think this cast could produce a good film. As far as television Trek, I do not like Paramount’s TV Star Trek. Picard was never a favorite of mine and I do not like Anson Mount as an actor. I have seen him in other features and just do not like his performances. I guess what I am trying to say about the TV side is that so far Paramount has not given me a reason to subscribe to Paramount+. I also feel the same way about the film side. I have been a fan of Trek since the first show in 1966, but if I am honest my excitement about another movie has dimmed due to all of the delays, cancellations and hype over the movie. Whether I see it or not(that is if it even gets made) will depend a lot on the characters involved. If you are going to make a Star Trek movie after an extended break, then I would suggest it would be better to use known characters rather than a completely new cast. Just think what would have happened to Star Trek if Kirk, Spock and McCoy had not been the focal characters of The Motion Picture. Would we even be having this conversation or would Star Trek just be a faded memory.

I think for me it definitely has to be SNW. I would even go as far as to say that casting Anson Mount as Pike was the best casting decision ever made by Trek and SNW should be a hoot.

Yes, awesome casting, but Nimoy I think is in level by himself in that category.

I just find that promo shot of Mount in that awful uniform as just so uninspired, it feels cheap as hell, like all new trek. You look at the promo shots from TOS, and the uniforms look GOOD, unlike the ill fitting, strange ripoff SNW seems to be giving us. It’s pretty much the only show I’m even marginally interested in, and everything I’ve seen is it so far has seriously tempered my optimism. If 2022 trek resembles the past 5 years of it, then I won’t be tuning in, like I haven’t since 2020. I miss intelligent and engaging writing, and cool looking ships and uniforms… Is it so much to ask for?

Remember that promo shots in general are styled a LOT. There’s stuff you can’t see like clips and safety pins in back to tighten up fabric, special angles and poses to minimize unflattering aspects, mini combs to fluff up hair, lighting tricks, wardrobe steamers nearby so they can de-wrinkle anything, etc.

While we live in the age of Photoshop, in the 1960s all commercial photography was hand-airbrushed or dodged/burned in the darkroom to get rid of wrinkles, seams and shadows. I guarantee that whatever TOS photography you’ve seen has been edited.

Lead actors / cast get their uniforms entirely custom-tailored by the wardrobe department. They’re as close to a perfect fit as you can get.

I don’t really see any problems with the uniforms we’ve seen to date on Discovery from a quality perspective, and it’s hard to judge SNW’s uniforms based on one relatively low-resolution internet trailer.

I mean, if you want to see sloppy uniforms, there’s dozens of fan films where the cast are wearing off-the-rack cosplay costumes that haven’t been tailored to fit or didn’t fit in the first place. Bags and sags and wrinkles all over the place!

You might not like the design and that’s your prerogative of course, but it’s not cheap.

I myself wasn’t a fan of those weird asymmetrical collars, which are thankfully gone.

I’m neither here nor there on the current SNW designs, which to me seems a little too close to a baseball jersey or cycling top with that semi-raglan sleeve design, with the patterned yoke and the V neck. Most visible on Nurse Chapel’s outfit. Plus there’s a shape mismatch with a V neck on top and crew-neck T shirt underneath.

But I’m guessing as we progress through the series we’ll see some evolution towards a more detailed version of the classic TOS design.

I personally would love to see something more like the ST:Beyond high-collar design, but bringing back the laser-textured patterning and vibrant colours from the 2009 version; or something more like the 2009 version, but with a crew neck on the coloured overshirt, so there isn’t that weird mismatch of V-neck and black undershirt mock-turtleneck.

Yeah well said, I definitely am just not a fan of the design, I’m sure they’re quality garments at any rate. But I really would love to just see the TOS uniform done with modern resolution standards in mind – not an interpretation of the uniform, like the Kelvin timeline films and Disco, but actual, authentic, faithful re-creations of the original uniforms, with better quality fabrics and a metal Starfleet delta, like the Beyond uniforms without the high collar. That’s it, that’s all they have to do. Instead they keep trying to change it.

Yeah, that would be interesting to see.

The hyper-detailing on costumes in general as a trend from the early 2000s onward is an aesthetic choice, for sure, ostensibly to make things seem more dimensional and real, less “cartoonish”, and to show off just how sharp your theatre’s Barco 6K laser projector is.

It’ll be interesting to see when, if and how filmmakers dial down the detail levels once this “look” is no longer in vogue. Once audiences have been used to a kind of look it’s hard to go back, though.

Could you do a new Superman film with Christopher Reeve’s simple, almost 2D costume? It works for those first movies because of the emotional and tonal character of the film. There are no shades of grey, just good vs evil with interesting character moments. Technically the lighting is a lot flatter and brighter due to the way film stock worked back then – you couldn’t shoot low light as well as we can today, so the palette was more limited.

Part of the problem with Reeves blue suit was it had to be a different shade of blue from the blue screen in back of him. There are times when it just looks off to me. But still, Donner made a fantastic film.

that was fixed with the dvds, blu rays

I have the upgraded BD. They did their best but it still looks off to me.

henry cavill actually wore the reeve suit to audition for MoS and got the role. nick cage also wore it when tim burton was planning to direct a ‘superman’ movie in the 90s.

I’m not anticipating any news about the beginning of production on Trek 14 for theatrical release. There’s little to suggest the studio isn’t doing much beyond looking at concepts that can be made for around 100MM.

I’m more excited about Star Trek: The Motion Picture – The 4K Director’s Edition, to be honest. Happy 2022, everyone!

Glad I’m not the only one! Well, *technically* I’m more excited about Strange New Worlds, I guess, but if I could only pick one thing from the entire list to actually happen, it would be the TMP director’s cut upgrade.

Here as well but I am hoping that they put out a BD of it. So far there is no word on that whatsoever. If it is just for streaming then I’m not interested whatsoever. I want a Blu Ray. HD. No need for 4K.

Only SNW holds any interest at all for me. If only the same people weren’t behind it as the other feeble offerings.

Bingo. What worries me about SNW is that the problems with Disco and Picard have to do with showrunners and writers. They simply aren’t any good. Unless there’s a different creative team working on SNW, why wouldn’t it have the same issues? The three lead SNW actors are well cast but they can’t rewrite the scripts. Maybe they should try.

I’m looking forward to most of the new content as well as, TMP The Directors Edition but I really want 2022 to be the year we get the announcement of remasters for Deep Space Nine and Voyager.

Yeah I second that for DS9 and Voyager. It just seems to be the right thing to do. If the studio are making money on the new shows then surely they can take on a short term financial hit with putting out DS9 and VOY on HD. It will be an expensive project but it seems right that they’d invest in this to future proof those two shows for the next several decades or whatever it is.

With disc sales continuing to decline they’d have to put it on Paramount Plus / streaming services (at first anyway) but they can still make the money back after several dozen years I’d think. Make a few Star Trek movies make there money back there.. there are ways!

I hope they bring back Sofia Boutella as ‘Jaylah’ to replace Anton Yelchin (who sadly died) in Pavel Chekov’s Navigator/Security/Tactical officer position at the Helm.

Ditto! She’d be fun as the new “baby” at the helm.

I say have Star Trek run into the Empire of Star Wars!!! LOL

Pretty telling that Picard Season 2 doesn’t make the list for the site editors or most of the commenters. I know Season 1 was a mixed bag, but with Betty White passing, it makes me realize that we likely don’t have much time left with Sir Patrick, so I’m looking forward to seeing him on screen as Picard as many times as possible before all good things come to an end.

Patrick Stewart is still in incredible health for an 81 year old man. He still seems to walk mostly unaided for one and still seems quite switched on in a mental sense. Of course we don’t know the exact details of his health as that’s private to him but it’s great he’s still working and happy to play Picard again for us fans.

Thought the same thing when i heard of Betty White passing. Also made me think that they should have some fun with William Shatner while he is also very active.

The list is essentially picking one thing per category and the copy makes it clear picard season 2 is highly anticipated. If you listen to our weekly podcast we talk about it all the time and how we’re very much looking forward to it especially from things we’re hearing about it and the new showrunner. It’s only that snw is something new and even more geared towards fans that makes it the most anticipated season coming up in 2022

After watching the wretched Picard S1, they should let Sir Patrick go quietly into retirement and not sully our memories any further.

The new trek movie ( cast announcements:kelvin//prime actors, title/early teaser trailer) :

all other concerns are secondary. you understand..

You’re not…… holding your breath now….are you?

Breathe deeply, it’ll be a while.

LaVar Burton, Grand Marshall of the 2022 Rose Parade. It’s all good!!

I’m most looking forward to the 4K UHD release of the remaining movies 5 thru 10.

Any word on when that’s coming?

There were rumours of Feb 22, but no announcement has been forthcoming

SNW by far. I just hope it’s more like the old Trek and less like current Trek.

How about likable or at least tolerable characters for starters and a lot less crying. And a new writing staff.

You’re right about the crying. How many times did Kirk cry? When Spock died, maybe? And Picard cried after the Sarek mind-meld and being torturued by a Cardassian, but I think that’s it. And Sisko cried as Benny Russell, not sure about Janeway or Archer. My point is the crew of the previous Trek shows did not cry or have as many “kumbaya” moments of sharing their feelings. The Disco crew does not have the “feel” of the older Starfleet crews I knew, they are much less formal. But, that’s just my very humble opinion.

Personally I don’t have as much of a problem with the tears than I do with the fact that every time they did it, as an audience member, I did not feel what the character was feeling. Meaning those moments were unearned and perhaps even over emoted. If the moment felt genuine then a character’s tears can be totally justified and the viewer can be drawn in it with the character. But so far on Star Trek Discovery there has been none of that. It’s always forced.

It’s odd because other shows are able to do it. I just watched the final season of Lost in Space and the emotion in that final episode was completely genuine. I found myself thinking, why am I connecting with these characters but not one from Discovery? What are the LiS writers doing that the Star Trek Discovery writers aren’t?

Can’t wait to see anything Trek on the big screen! Christmas 2023 we should be in for a treat.

Strange New Worlds is first on the list. But “excited” is just too strong. I look forward to it with cautious optimism. Optimism that became possible due to Star Trek Prodigy not only not sucking but actually being above average! It showed that, unless Prodigy was just pure accident, (and it might be) that Secret Hideout is indeed capable of making at least mediocre Trek when they try!

PS… Also looking forward to (hoping, really) improvement in streaming tech. It still sucks to have to watch stuff on streaming services for a handful of reasons. It seems that there is always something from failure to forward or rewind, to closed captioning getting in the way of images, to software glitches, menus that are not intuitively obvious… The list just goes on and on. It’s just annoying because every time one issue is fixed another one pops up. It’s got to get better, right?

Really looking forward to finally getting some more Orville. It started out a litttle derivative but got better by each episode. So I hope, it can finally really stand on it’s own this time. It would be fitting, since season 3 was the sweetspot for a lot of trek shows.

As for P+ offerings, I will have look at SNW, since Pike was pretty much the only good thing to come out of Discovery, but pretty pessimistic about it. It’s the same thing they promised for every other Season of their shows and they just got worse and worse.

Strange New Worlds is the most promising of the new shows. It is most like my favorite Treks (TNG, Deep Space Nine, Enterprise, Voyager and the Original). Discovery was a real disappointment. The biggest problem was the cast (except Michelle Yeoh who was fantastic!!!). They came across as a the ship of the mental misfits. All the crew would talk about feelings, and want to have group hugs during battles. Tilly was the Reginald Endicott Barclay III, but unlike the Barclay, she was promoted.

Also cartoon star treks are nice for the kids, but I am looking froward to someone developing a Star Trek that I can enjoy, similar to the ones that made the series one of the greatest sci fi stories of the past 55 years.

I do like the new shows in general even if I have my issues with a few of them, but I agree with you and hope that SNW is closer to classic Star Trek is and more standalone adventures with 90% less crying. ;)

I just got TOS on BR so I can finally watch with the original effects and not the cheap plastic CGI on the streaming services – and it’s just so, so intelligent, so refreshing to see ADULTS handling things like ADULTS without CRYING and still managing to joke amongst themselves. That’s the mark of good writing – being able to have credible people behave like professionals, not acting like spastic immature teenagers in charge of a starship. I seriously think Trek peaked in the 60s.

TOS is still too old to be appealing for a great many people under about 35 or 40 today. I’ve tried to watch it myself and it doesn’t hold my attention to see it through. I love the TOS movies but the TV series is just too old for me. It’s a bit like watching an old stage-play or something and everything is slower and big on hammy acting which was more the standard for TV of that era I know.

Crying isn’t the problem mind, but it’s probably the amount of it that is. Its not realistic to have a professional starship crew that is too sensitive. You wouldn’t stand a chance in the military like that. They’d have you thrown out as you’d be deemed a danger to yourself and your teammates. I mention the military because starfleet has basically been compared to a military, albeit one that is purely defensive and passive in nature, similar to a futuristic NATO alliance or something I guess.

Given how often Starfleet gets into battles, they should have shaped themselves into a military mindset a long time ago. TOS, DS9 and TNG all maintained that balance in a believable way.

You may not have seen a lot of TOS, but frequently it would start like this: the crew is placidly doing something like scanning a new nebula for science reasons and then the giant space amoeba attacks or there are Klingons off the starboard bow.

The science/exploration part of Star Trek was often in the background and the story starts when a crisis hits. So, we need characters who are good at handling one crisis after another, generally involving phasers set to kill. These people can’t be crying and hugging all the time.

DS9 was great in its own way. I see TOS and DS9 as the pinnacles of Star Trek thru the years. TNG hasn’t aged well, VOY and ENT were painful but wow, the new shows are worse than I could have imagined. I’ve finally given up trying. I know we’ll never have a TOS like show again but could we return to DS9, with well-crafted, compelling and likable characters (even the villains were likable or at least fun to watch!) and gripping plot arcs? And I totally agree about the hugging and the crying. Geesh.

Frankly I didn’t even like Yeoh on Disco. The only characters that were okay: Saru and Jett Reno. That’s just not enough, especially when the writing also sucks. Picard was even worse. I did like how they revitalized Seven although I’m confused about when she became a lesbian. Not objecting to it, just seems shoehorned weirdly in.

PS, I forgot: the Romulan siblings were also good on Picard. On Disco, I liked the Ash plotline even though the big twist was telegraphed with all the subtlety of a bat’leth through the skull.

I’m most looking forward to the next season of Lower Decks – that show has had the best hit-to-miss ratio of P+ era Trek for my money. It seems like every time I think I’m in love with the live-actions shows, I get kicked in the teeth (looking at you, PIC S1), so I’m waiting for the reviews on the new seasons of those.

Amen! Love Lower Decks!!!!

Really hoping Picard improves next season.

Disgusting, please get that Orville trash off our viewscreen.

I’m looking forward to Strange New Worlds, but we really don’t need that “old school fans” descriptor for fans of Star Trek. Instead, it’s the shmegeges who have memorized DS9, but ‘can’t get through TOS’ that are the subset of fans to be siloed.

You mispelled PICard.

Sounds like you should be the one that is siloed.

Just because you don’t like something, doesn’t mean it doesn’t have worth to others. You honestly didn’t have to say anything at all, it’s not like YOUR opinion is going to change the course of a Television show or franchise. Go take your toxicity to some other dark corner of the internet, where you can whine about what others like and dislike and how it gets your underwear in a wad.

Your negativity is not welcome here and is quite intolerable . Heck, I don’t like Discovery and what they’ve done to Picard, but at least I tolerate others that like them. You can’t even be bothered to be civil: you want to section off what kind of “Star Trek Fans” are appropriate or not.

Frankly, I think we could do with less of YOUR type of fan. The fandom would be better for it.

“Anson Mount returns to the role [of Captain Pike] following his run in the second season of Star Trek: Discovery along with Ethan Peck as Spock and Rebecca Romijn as Number One. There is a new cast, some playing familiar roles like Dr. M’Benga and Nurse Chapel.”

Hey, Number One and Nurse Chapel are supposed to be played by the same person.

You forgot the computer’s voice ;-)

I’ve finally given up trying to like Disco or Picard. The writing. Is. TERRIBLE.

I’m hoping against hope that SNW might be the exception. I hope it has different writers and showrunners. Please. Let Star Trek be good or at least tolerable again.

Looking forward to the 2022 efforts of Exo-6.com. They have come out of the gate at a gallop in the 1:6 scale action figure space with quality and speed, shipping 4 museum-grade figures within weeks of pre-order, including First Contact Data & Picard and Voyager’s Janeway and EMH. Pre-orders have been taken for Mirror Spock and previews have been presented for several more, including Judge Q and Locutus of Borg for 2022! There are expectations for 14 plus releases in 2022. This crew is just getting started and is already turning heads. The intent is to finally do Justice to Star Trek in the 1:6 space and they are making it so!

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Star Trek Day 2022 | Carol Kane Joins Cast of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 2

Also unveiled is a first look clip from the upcoming season!

Promo photo of Carol Kane as Pelia on Season 2 of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds

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Paramount+ today announced during the global live-streamed Star Trek Day celebration that incomporable Academy Award-nominee Carol Kane will join Season 2 of its hit original series Star Trek: Strange New Worlds with a recurring role as Chief Engineer Pelia. Highly educated and intelligent, the Enterprise 's new senior engineering officer suffers no fools. Pelia solves problems calmly and brusquely, thanks to her many years of experience.

In addition to the promotional photo of Kane as Pelia, Paramount+ also debuted a first look clip from the upcoming season during the celebration.

First Look | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds - Season 2

The Star Trek: Strange New Worlds conversation at the Star Trek Day celebration featured cast members Rebecca Romijn, Celia Rose Gooding, Jess Bush, Christina Chong, Melissa Navia, and Babs Olusanmokun. This year's Star Trek Day celebration is available for fans to live-stream worldwide for free at StarTrek.com/Day and on YouTube ( Paramount+ and Star Trek Official pages), Facebook (@StarTrek), Twitter (@StarTrekonPPlus) and TikTok (@ParamountPlus). It is available to stream for free in the U.S. only on Paramount+’s Twitch page . After the initial airing, the conversation portions of the event will be available on-demand on Paramount+ .

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds is based on the years Captain Christopher Pike manned the helm of the U.S.S. Enterprise . The series features fan favorites from Season 2 of Star Trek: Discovery — Anson Mount as Captain Christopher Pike, Rebecca Romijn as Number One and Ethan Peck as Science Officer Spock . The series follows Captain Pike, Science Officer Spock and Number One in the years before Captain Kirk boarded the U.S.S. Enterprise , as they explore new worlds around the galaxy.

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds also stars Jess Bush as Nurse Christine Chapel , Christina Chong as La’an Noonien-Singh, Celia Rose Gooding as Cadet Nyota Uhura , Babs Olusanmokun as Dr. M’Benga and Melissa Navia as Lt. Erica Ortegas .

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds is produced by CBS Studios, Secret Hideout and Roddenberry Entertainment. Akiva Goldsman and Henry Alonso Myers serve as co-showrunners. The series is created by Goldsman, Alex Kurtzman and Jenny Lumet, who also serve as executive producers along with Alonso Myers, Heather Kadin, Frank Siracusa, John Weber, Rod Roddenberry, Trevor Roth and Aaron Baiers.

Stream the critically-acclaimed first season of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds now!

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds streams exclusively on Paramount+ in the U.S., U.K., Latin America, Australia, and South Korea, and airs on Bell Media’s CTV Sci-Fi Channel and streams on Crave in Canada. It will also stream exclusively on Paramount+ in Italy, France, Germany, Switzerland and Austria later this year. The series is distributed by Paramount Global Content Distribution.

Stay tuned to StarTrek.com for more details! And be sure to follow @StarTrek on Facebook , Twitter , and Instagram .

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‘Star Trek’ Cast, Including Chris Pine and Zachary Quinto, Returning for Fourth Film

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They’re boldly going back.

Paramount is planning to enter negotiations for “ Star Trek ” stars Chris Pine , Zachary Quinto , Zoe Saldana, Karl Urban, John Cho and Simon Pegg to return to the Enterprise for their fourth tour of duty in the venerable sci-fi franchise.

The announcement was made by J.J. Abrams during the Paramount Investors Day Presentation on Feb. 15.

“We are thrilled to say that we are hard at work on a new ‘Star Trek’ film that will be shooting by the end of the year that will be featuring our original cast and some new characters that I think are going to be really fun and exciting and help take ‘Star Trek’ into areas that you’ve just never seen before,” Abrams said. “We’re thrilled about this film, we have a bunch of other stories that we’re talking about that we think will be really exciting, so can’t wait for you to see what we’re cooking up. But until then, live long and prosper.”

The six actors first stepped into their respective iconic roles as Kirk, Spock, Uhura, Bones, Sulu and Scotty in 2009’s “Star Trek,” directed by Abrams, which reset the “Trek” timeline and allowed for the reboot to exist unencumbered from the hundreds of hours of “Trek” continuity that had come before. The actors returned in two sequels, 2013’s “Star Trek Into Darkness,” also directed by Abrams, and 2016’s “Star Trek Beyond,” directed by Justin Lin.

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Abrams is producing the new, as-yet-untitled film through Bad Robot, with Matt Shakman (“WandaVision”) directing from a screenplay by Josh Friedman (“Avatar 2”) and Cameron Squires (“WandaVision”) based on a earlier draft by Lindsey Beer (“Sierra Burgess Is a Loser”) and Geneva Robertson-Dworet (“Captain Marvel”).

Paramount was close to bringing back this cast once before: In 2018, S.J. Clarkson (“Jessica Jones”) had signed up to direct a sequel that would have reunited Pine’s Kirk with his late father, played by Chris Hemsworth reprising his performance from the 2009 “Star Trek.” That film never materialized, however, after Paramount reportedly couldn’t close a deal with Pine and Hemsworth.

Since then, insiders say the studio has done market research to determine audience interest in the rebooted cast, given the long wait period between “Beyond” — which lost money for Paramount — and a prospective new “Trek” film. Execs determined that there was still lasting audience enthusiasm for Pine, Quinto and the rest of the cast in their established roles, which allowed the studio to feel comfortable with moving forward with bringing them back.

Paramount has also explored several other avenues for “Trek” features, none of which seem to have ultimately borne fruit. Quentin Tarantino reportedly cooled on a “Star Trek” script he was pursuing with “The Revenant” screenwriter Mark L. Smith. In late 2019, Paramount tapped “Fargo” and “Legion” creator Noah Hawley to write and direct a “Trek” movie that Hawley planned to feature new actors playing new characters. But when Emma Watts became president of the Paramount Motion Picture Group a few months later, insiders say she paused all “Trek” development, including Hawley’s film , to decide how best to move forward with one of the studio’s crown jewel franchises. With Watts’ departure from Paramount in September, it’s unclear what the current “Trek” film portends for other development for the franchise, including a screenplay by “Fear the Walking Dead” co-executive producer Kalinda Vazquez .

Bringing the 2009 “Trek” cast back could prove a challenge given they’ve all had busy schedules since “Beyond.” Pine added the “Wonder Woman” franchise to his resume and he’ll next appear in Olivia Wilde’s thriller “Don’t Worry Darling” and the black-ops film “Violence of Action.” Quinto headlined the AMC series “NOS4A2,” and starred in the Broadway revival of “The Boys in the Band” and its 2020 Netflix film adaptation. Saldana continued her run as Gamora in several Marvel Studios films, including “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2” and “Avengers: Endgame”; she’ll star in “Avatar 2” this year and in “Guardians Vol. 3” in 2023. Urban appeared in 2017’s “Thor: Ragnarok” and he’ll continue his performance as Billy Butcher on Season 3 of Amazon’s “The Boys” in June. Cho starred in acclaimed indies “Columbus” and “Searching,” and he starred in Netflix’s live-action adaption of the anime series “Cowboy Bebop.” And Pegg starred with Nick Frost on Amazon’s horror comedy series “Truth Seekers,” and he’ll reprise his role as Benji in “Mission: Impossible 7” in 2023.

One member of the 2009 “Trek” cast, however, sadly cannot join them. Anton Yelchin, who played Chekov, died in an accident in June 2016, a month before “Beyond” opened in theaters. At that film’s premiere at San Diego Comic Con, the cast, filmmakers and invited guests sat in a full minute of silence in tribute to the late actor.

Brent Lang contributed to this story.

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Paramount Announces New Star Trek Movie To Begin Production In Winter 2022

Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Zoe Saldana and more to reprise their roles in a third movie within the Kelvin timeline.

By Mason Downey on February 15, 2022 at 2:49PM PST

The Star Trek universe is a busy place. Paramount has announced today that they plan to continue the movie franchise that was originally launched in 2009, otherwise known as the "Kelvin Timeline" helmed by J.J. Abrams.

According to Deadline , the new film is looking at a production start in the winter of 2022 and intends to reunite the cast from the first three films in the series, including Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Zoe Saldana, Karl Urban, John Cho, and Simon Pegg.

Details about the tentative plot are being kept strictly underwraps, but Abrams himself confirmed that the film is being planned out during an investors call for Paramount today, though he will only be on board as a producer. Matt Shakman (WandaVision) will direct with a script laid out by Mark L. Smith and Noah Hawley.

The last film in the series, Star Trek Beyond, was released in July of 2016 and was directed by The Fast and The Furious's Justin Lin with Simon Pegg and Doug Jung on the script.

A release date for this new project has yet to be announced.

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‘Star Trek’ Origin Story Movie Will Be Set Decades Before 2009 Film

CinemaCon 2024: The new project will be produced by longtime “Star Trek” steward J.J. Abrams

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Paramount Pictures is ready to boldly go (again).

After rumors circulated earlier this year, Paramount officially announced a new “Star Trek” prequel film on Thursday, this time taking place decades before the original 2009 “Star Trek” feature.

“Andor” director Toby Haynes will direct from a script by Seth Grahame-Smith (who is also writing another hotly touted CinemaCon title, the third “Now You See Me” film). J.J. Abrams is returning to produce.

But then again, we’ve heard about a new “Star Trek” movie before.

During the run-up to “Star Trek Beyond” in 2016, it was revealed that a fourth film would reunite Chris Pine’s Captain Kirk with his deceased father (played, once again, by Chris Hemsworth). A year later, Quentin Tarantino approached Paramount about doing a “Star Trek” movie – this time as an R-rated gangster movie (based, in part, on the 1968 episode of the original series “A Piece of the Action”). In 2018 S.J. Clarkson, a TV vet who would eventually direct “Madame Web,” was hired to direct the fourth film in the Abrams-verse, but salary disputes led to Pine and Hemsworth leaving the project. That version was canceled in 2019 and Tarantino stated in 2020 that he wouldn’t be making his “Star Trek” either.

In November 2019 “Fargo” creator Noah Hawley was hired to write and direct a new “Star Trek” film based on his version of the series. A year later, this movie was canceled by new Paramount Pictures president Emma Watts. In 2021 “Star Trek: Discovery” writer Kalinda Vazquez was hired to write a version based on her original pitch, but a separate script was being developed by Lindsey Beer and Geneva Robertson-Dworet. The studio even set a summer 2023 release date for a new “Trek” (which “Trek” was the question).

In 2021 that release date was pushed to Christmas 2023, under the direction of “WandaVision” director Matt Shakman. Josh Friedman and Cameron Squires were brought on to retool the script. In early 2022 it was announced that the stars of the three previous “Star Trek” installments in the Abrams-verse would all be returning, although it was later reported that the actors had not entered negotiations to return.

In 2022 Shakman left “Star Trek” to join Marvel Studios’ “The Fantastic Four.” But just last month Steve Yockey was hired to write a fourth “Star Trek” movie.

Now, we are finally getting word of another film in development, with another writer/director team. But it’s not the first time that a “Star Trek” prequel script has been floated, as Erik Jendresen, cowriter of “Mission: Impossible: Dead Reckoning,” had submitted a script for “Star Trek: The Beginning” before J.J. had taken over and pitched his 2009 version. It depicted the Earth-Romulan War.

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Renowned science fiction actor Callum Keith Rennie leads the USS Antares as Captain Rayner in Star Trek: Discovery's fifth and final season.

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Callum Keith Rennie debuts in Star Trek: Discovery as the Kellerun Captain Rayner.
Known for his role as Leoben Conoy in Battlestar Galactica, Callum Keith Rennie brings depth and experience to Star Trek: Discovery's final season.
Rennie's role as Captain Rayner adds connection and nostalgia to Star Trek: Discovery, overlapping with Battlestar Galactica

Accomplished actor Callum Keith Rennie joins the fifth and final season of Star Trek: Discovery . Star Trek: Discovery season 5 sends Captain Michael Burnham (Sonequa Martin-Green) and the USS Discovery on a hunt for an ancient technology with the power to create life itself. Introducing Callum Keith Rennie as Captain Rayner, a strait-laced and commanding character of alien origin , Discovery season 5 sets the stage for a gripping showdown and sends Burnham and the USS Discovery and the USS Antares commander on an epic quest for an ancient treasure.

Perhaps best recognized for his standout roles in Battlestar Galactica and Californication , Callum Keith Rennie joins the Star Trek: Discovery cast for their last adventure, delivering a wealth of experience from earlier genre-defining roles. Rennie’s portrayal of Captain Rayner reportedly promises an intriguing counterpoint to Burnham underscoring Rayner's great potential with a mysterious backstory set to unfold over the course of the show’s fifth season. With the revelatory Captain of the USS Antares looking very much to be a vital – perhaps pivotal – addition to Starfleet’s impressive body of commanding officers, here’s a look at the award-winning Callum Keith Rennie.

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Callum Keith Rennie joins Star Trek: Discovery season 5 as Captain Rayner, the fierce commander of the USS Antares . Driven and dedicated to his mission, Rayner draws distinction between himself and his crew. A member of a little-known species first introduced in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine , Captain Rayner is a Kellerun , and his backstory is crucial to his mission and character. Described as gruff, tough, and intelligent, Rayner is a war hero struggling to acclimate to peace post-Burn, but dedicated to serving the greater good. In search of a hidden, ancient power source, Rayner's challenging and somewhat antagonistic relationship with Captain Burnham echoes a brash, if benevolent, professional demeanor.

Callum Keith Rennie is a UK-born Canadian veteran actor with an impressive 25-year career history in movies and television.

Best known for his roles as Leoben Conoy in Battlestar Galactica and Lew Ashby in Californication , Callum Keith Rennie is a UK-born Canadian veteran actor with an impressive 25-year career history in movies and television. Regularly cast in antagonistic roles, Callum Keith Rennie’s first international recognition came from his casting as Detective Stanley Raymond Kowalski in Due South . Rennie’s varied roles and character portrayals reflect his artistic interests, with the actor also starring in The Umbrella Academy, Marvel's Jessica Jones, The X-Files, Impulse, The Firm, 24, The Butterfly Effect, Jigsaw, Case 39, Memento, Fifty Shades of Grey, and Fifty Shades Freed.

Kelleruns first appeared in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine , season 2, episode 13 - "Armageddon Game."

Callum Keith Rennie In Star Trek: Discovery Is A Battlestar Galactica Crossover

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Callum Keith Rennie’s casting in Star Trek: Discovery follows his success as the ambiguous, obsessive Leoben Conoy in Syfy's Battlestar Galactica created by Ronald D. Moore. Introduced in the 2003 miniseries as an arms dealer, Rennie’s Conoy was initially a guest character in the show’s first two seasons, graduating to a series regular in the third and fourth. Adeptly portraying multiple iterations of the Cylon model Number Two , Rennie brought a philosophical complexity to the manipulative and important character , in turn posing a significant risk to the Cylon and Human factions. Rennie’s rich performance played with themes of identity and morality, adding layers of exploratory character depth and enigmatic ambiguity to the series.

There is a degree of overlap with Callum Keith Rennie’s compelling casting in both high-profile science fiction shows, echoing multiple crossovers between Star Trek and Battlestar Galactica . Many actors appear across the franchises, inspiring characters, reflecting the longstanding history of similarities originally stemming from showrunner Ronald D. Moore. Recognized for his compelling portrayal of the Cylon model Number Two, Callum Keith Rennie brought nuance and intensity to Battlestar Galactica – traits that also resonate with Star Trek: Discovery 's Captain Rayner. The characters’ similarities underscore the enduring join between the two series , with Rennie’s inclusion in both lending familiarity, nostalgia, and a sense of connection.

Star Trek: Discovery is available for streaming on Paramount+.