Beam me up, Scotty.
The “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds” cast stopped by PvNew’s Studio, presented by Google TV, at the 2024 Comic-Con to discuss the critically acclaimed Paramount+ series.
Rebecca Romjin (Una Chin-Riley) and Ethan Peck (Spock) were joined by showrunners Akiva Goldsman and Henry Alonso Myers to tease what fans can expect about the upcoming third season, including what genres they’re looking to tackle and Season 2’s cliffhanger ending.
“We have a bunch of ideas for the kinds of genres ‘Star Trek’ can accommodate. And we continue to try and stretch those boundaries,” Goldsman said. “We are trying to, dare I say, go where we have not gone before when it comes to genre. Besides the tried and true, which is some sci-fi adventure and certainly our attempt to remember the cadence of at least regularly, there must be a moral to the story. We’re spreading our wings, and we hope you’ll like it.”
Licensing Your Movie & TV Content for AI Training: Can You? Should You?
Schoolboy Q Suggests Opening Night of His Tour Was Canceled Over Drake and Kendrick Lamar Beef: 'Low-Key Hilarious'
Peck joked that he had no reason to worry about “job security” until he realized that Season 3 would see the majority of the cast turn into Vulcans—the extraterrestrial humanoid species that attempt to live by logic and reason with as little interference from emotion as possible.
“I did not have to worry about job security until that. I was kind of shocked to see everyone as Vulcans because I know them so intimately, having worked them for several seasons,” Peck said. “So to see them in Vulcan makeup was sort of endearing. I had this really bizarre and surprising sense of ‘this is family’ because I’ve been sort of isolated as a Vulcan on the show for the most part.”
In addressing questions about the Season 2 cliffhanger and whether Season 3 would bring resolution to the Enterprise’s botched rescue mission, with the crew attempting to rescue a planet of human colonists from the villainous Gorn, Alonso Meyers said they were trying to do something that was “classic to Trek.”
“When you come back for the second part of a two-parter, it always says ‘The Conclusion Of,’ so, come season three, I promise you, you will see ‘The Conclusion Of.'”
Watch the full interview above to learn what’s on the cast and crew’s watchlist and what their favorite episode of “Star Trek” is.
