Star Trek: Strange New Worlds [SPOILERS]

Ethan Peck is in Canada dropping hints that SNW will start filming soon.

https://trekmovie.com/2021/02/13/production-on-star-trek-strange-new-worlds-appears-to-be-imminent/

 

There's like a couple of frames from this that might be hints at the new series.

 

Ugh, for a nanosecond I thought there might be a glimpse of Prodigy, but nope, just the logo again.

As for SNW, hard telling if those scenes were from "Short Treks" I haven't seen that one in awhile.

 

Five new cast members added to SNW, but no word on who's playing who.

https://trekmovie.com/2021/03/12/five-cast-members-for-star-trek-strange-new-worlds-announced/

 

Obviously no Dr. Boyce there but I could see this guy as the wise counsel sort of dude they have said the Doctor will be


Some of them have "exotic features" that one could imagine could be highlighted in alien makeup.

 

All right let's play match the actor to the character list...

First on the list is Yeboah. She’s Black, in her early 20s, and fresh out of the academy. She’s a linguistics genius, bright, promising, and the youngest member of the crew and she can sound “American” or have any other accent. While this isn’t really a whole lot to go on, the breakdown does sound similar to a cross between Hoshi Sato and Travis Mayweather from Enterprise.

Next up is La’an. She’s in her late 20s – early 30s and is the head of Security. She’s badass, physical, and suffers from PTSD. She has an air of vigilance and precision. They’d specifically like someone who is East Indian, Asian, or Middle Eastern, but are open to any ethnicity. She more or less sounds like a combination of every security officer we’ve seen on screen.
There’s no species listed for the character and while the name sounds like it may be Vulcan, it’s hard to say for sure. In the book Last Full Measure, the crew of the Enterprise NX-01 meets a courier named La’an Trahve, who is only described as being “humanoid”. So, for right now, I’m going to say her species is TBD.

Our third breakdown is for Ortegas. She’s in her late 20’s, Latinx, and an experienced vet. She has kept a dry wit even with the combat she’s seen. She’s smart, funny, competitive, and is able to pivot from handling a gun to making a joke. So, maybe a Riker-type? Riker was able to pretty seamlessly swap from being dead serious to cracking a joke so she should fit right in.

The ship’s doctor is a bit of a puzzle. The name is listed as “Biodun” and the description states he is a close advisor to Captain Pike, has an air of “easy erudition”, is male, Black, in his 40s, and curiously, “from the original series”. In TOS, the doctor was McCoy, played by Deforest Kelly and in ‘The Cage’ the doctor was Philip Boyce, played by John Hoyt.
While “New Trek” hasn’t shied away from changing things, the use of a different name has me more than a little confused. After extensive research I couldn’t find any reference to a character with this name and while it’s not unusual for casting breakdowns to use codenames, it doesn’t seem likely here. So, your guess is as good as mine for this one.

Last up we have Biodun’s nurse, Miller. She’s in her late 20s – early 30s, Caucasian, heroic, charming, free-thinking, and “the beating heart” of sickbay. So, more or less, Dr. Crusher?

I'm gonna go with....

Celia Rose = Yeboah

Christina Chong = La'an

Melissa Navia = Ortegas

Babs Olusanmokun = Biodun

Jess Bush = Miller

 

I think this is right.

Here's a thought experiment: what if "Yeboah" is a cover name for.... Uhura?

 

Nope, no new footage in the video.

 

Fresh out of the Academy with Pike would square with making full Lieutenant by the time Kirk rocks up.

Would make it odd in retrospect that she never mentioned it in The Menagerie, though.

 

And it has.

 

Yeah, seems very likely that both Uhura and Chapel are in that cast list.

 

Then Biodun could be M'Benga.

 

This is just a hunch, but my suspicion is that apart from Pike, Spock, and Number One, none (or very few) of the cast members from ST:SNW is going to be anyone we already know.

 

Sadly that's been my working theory.

There was a clickbait shared on Facebook that speculated about familiar names and/or races that we might see, and through out some names that someone, somewhere, had speculated about (I knew is was a useless article when the first name was McCoy's daughter - who'd be around 10 years old or so during their first season)

So I don't ACTUALLY think any of this is likely but there is some fertile ground without just becoming a soup of fanservice.

Imagine the first scene of the first episode being Pike and Number One seeing off Lt/Yoeman Colt (or Jose Tyler, whatever) as they transfer off to their next assignment (hell make it Matt Decker's ship or some other we've previously heard of) ... 3-5 minutes of warm fuzzy just to touch base with the legacy and then move on.

You could feature first contact with the Deltans, or the Commaloids(sp) both of which might make interesting storytelling

You could do something involving the Aprils

You could do a little arc about the events surrounding Garth losing his sanity

You could maybe connect to something from TAS

Again, tell a story that involves Matt Decker

And you could always bump into Harry Mudd on occasion. THAT would have the TOS feel to it.

One other thing, and this will NEEEEEVER happen because of off-screen complexities, I think it would be cool to rework some of the better "non-canon" Trek fiction into TV scripts, particularly stuff from back in the day when stories tended to be told in a TOS storytelling style.

 

The guy in this video claims that previous descriptions describe one of the characters as a "re-imagining of a character previously seen in The Cage ...I've not heard this elsewhere.



He also said Ceilia Rose Gooding is trans...though there's nothing saying she'll be playing a trans character which - in a sense it's the sort of thing that shouldn't come up in the 23rd century anyway, save for very specific situations. That said, i think he's wrong, a quick Google search including her wiki page says no such thing.

He also speculates, re that re-imagining thing, that "Miller" may actually be JM Colt.

 

We already saw Colt on Disco, in the episode Such Sweet Sorrow.




Here's the actress that played her, Nicole Dickinson.

 

Production announcement. Hmm, I initially thought @GhostEcho was right that no other established characters will be in this series, but I'm thinking now that maybe Uhura will be cast. I base this on the look of Celia Rose Gooding. She looks like a passable Uhura. Also, Jess Bush looks she could be Colt.

 

Yup, if we go back to the casting summary:

Uhura was in her early 30s during Kirks first 5 year voyage, so the age lines up. Uhura obviously handled communications and was a skilled translator, and while she originated from the United States of Africa she played the role with a fairly generic American tv accent.

 

A friend of mine is working on the show and says they're returning to a more episodic format versus the overarching storyline we've seen in more recent Trek series.

 

Show numberings used to be so easy in the olden days when they were released years apart.
BUT, Prodigy and SNW are both dropping this year.

I'm gonna go ahead and guess, since Prod has recorded all its audio, and they've released images, and Mulgrew has seen footage, and that SNW only just started shooting, that Prod is series 9, and SNW is series 10.

OR series 10 and 11 if you're one of those that counts TAS as a series instead of an addition to TOS.

 

Young Uhura/Spock was such a big part of the Abrams movies, it'd make sense for them to do a version of it with pre-TOS Spock.

 

Rebecca Romjin teases that there'll be lots of TOS Easter eggs in SNW.
Well DUH!
Yeah, yeah, these kind of interviews are for normies who don't follow every scrap of the franchise like we do.
Still, can't hurt to pass it on.

https://trekmovie.com/2021/06/02/re...n-with-spock-on-star-trek-strange-new-worlds/

 

*Wibble*

 

The finale is shooting.

https://trekmovie.com/2021/07/07/an...-trek-strange-new-worlds-begins-finale-shoot/

 

Let me guess, thousands of ships facing off each other, some sort of universe ending threat being stopped, lots of convoluted plot points being tied up, Spock crying/being stopped from going ape-shit on someone, Pike being given permission from a female subordinate (Number One) to Captain the ship and be a leader to the crew, Number One does a lot of action sequences that a woman of her size and age shouldn't be able to pull off, a ship (The Enterprise Perhaps) crash landing and finally the crew hugging and crying and a familiar TOS character (Kirk most likely or Bones) showing up at the end, you know, the same basic formula we've seen since 2009.

 

Instead of crying about Kurtzman, who do you fucking want producing Star Trek?
Let me narrow the choices for you...
Roddenberry is dead.
Berman is retired.
Braga is disgraced.
Bryan Fuller thinks he's too good for every show he's on, even ones he creates.
And if you say Chuck Lorre, I'll eat your guts.

 

Great, since you already know how it ends, you don't need to watch it or come here to bitch about it, right?

Oh wait, of course you fucking will.

 

Vince Gilligan
Joel Fields and Joe Weisberg
RDM and ISB
Manny Cotto
Naren Shankar
Seth McFarlane
John Wirth who was the show runner on Hell on Wheels starring Anson Mount

If nobody else can do it, kick out Kurtzman and bring in Orci instead and bar him from rehiring Kurtzman or any of his team with the exception of Walter Mosely who quit early on because the snowflakes in the writers room couldn't handle a story about someone using the N word so the snitched on him.
Personal Fan Pick: Robert Meyer Burnett

That's just the top of my head, I'm sure I'm missing a few other good ones.