When asked what the biggest Season 2 challenges were, Bush and Olusanmokun are tantalizingly vague.īush opens the door a crack. But he goes forward, goes forward to see what the future will bring." It is not an event that can simply be washed away with time. He's decided he's going to soldier on, shall we say, and try to find the beauty of his daughter in the rest of humanity, but it's a struggle, of course. "I believe he's still finding his way initially. Olusanmokun is thoughtful in his response. So it took quite a bit of work, but we were very excited to do it."Īfter concealing his daughter's existence inside the medical bay's transporter for much of Season 1, M'Benga was forced to let her go on Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 1 Episode 8 after a non-corporeal entity offered her a life without pain or death.Īs much of M'Benga's energy had been focused on finding a cure for his daughter, how has M'Benga's motivations changed with his daughter's absence? It was really exciting to prepare for those things. Olusanmokun agrees, 'Yeah, it was fantastic, it was fantastic. It was really important that he was there to meld those tones." "They come from this animated show, and now they're on the Enterprise, which is a very, very different tone. It helped to have yet another Number One behind the camera Romijn adds, "Having Jonathan Frakes there was very important to sort of massage the two worlds so that it was cohesive. Mount interjects, "I don't think I've ever seen guest stars come with such ownership of the material before." They took it off the page and played with it in every single take. They both have such great backgrounds in improv, and they never did the same thing twice. Romijn - whose IRL husband, Jerry O'Connell, plays Commander Ransom, the Number One on the USS Cerritos - can't say enough about working with Newsome and Quaid. One of the most highly-anticipated episodes of the upcoming season is the Star Trek: Lower Decks crossover, wherein Tawny Newsome and Jack Quaid board the Enterprise as the live-action representations of their respective characters, Ensigns Beckett Mariner and Bradward Boimler. "I think that the introduction of the relationship with Captain Batel has been a very important part of that." It's always been an aspect of the character that his challenge continues to be – and I want it to continue to be for a while – reminding himself that the journey is the destination and not the other way around. "But you want to get the navel-gazing out of the way, so we did that. "You don't want to entirely forget it because then you're leaving behind a very important aspect of the character, which I think makes him brave in a different way than we've seen every other captain. We had to deal with that, not to get past it, but to get Pike back on mission and through the existential crisis for the most part. "That was THE question that we had to deal with. Mount recognizes it as a significant part of the character's arc. The Season 1 finale saw him come to terms with that. Throughout Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 1, Mount's Captain Pike carried the weight of knowing his future self would end his days bitter, brutally mutilated, and in great pain. So we're really excited to share all these different genres we worked in." "It required us to work on weekends, and we were all so excited about it it was like this extra wind behind our sails we needed at that point in the season. they brought us this episode that was so out there. "Anson mentioned earlier that sometimes when you get to Episode 9, which is almost at the end of the season, everyone's kind of tired, everyone's sort of almost ready to go home. "We have a few episodes coming up after that are really out there, so we're very proud of them. Romijn lauds the writers with the delightful energy the season sustains right to the end. Romijn and Mount promise that Season 2 will be full of surprises for viewers. I think that we've developed this family dynamic - and I guess we're the mom and dad in a way - but I think that there's been a deep support and level of trust within their relationship that the rest of the crew." Romijn adds, "I think there's a level of family there also that bleeds down into the crew.
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