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The Star Trek franchise continues to expand on Paramount+ with the upcoming prequel series, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, which debuts in May. The show’s executive producers and key cast members were on hand this week for a virtual panel discussion as part of the 2022 Winter Television Critics Association (TCA) meeting. In addition to unveiling the poster art, the panel revealed that one of the characters will have an (as yet unspecified) connection to one of the franchise’s most famous wrathful villains.
As we’ve written previously, one of the highlights of Star Trek: Discovery‘s second season was the appearance of classic The Original Series (TOS) characters Capt. Christopher Pike (Anson Mount), Number One (Rebecca Romijn), and Spock (Ethan Peck). The actors reprise their roles in the new spinoff series Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, created by Alex Kurtzman, Akiva Goldsman, and Jenny Lumet. It’s a prequel to TOS, as Pike and his crew navigate the USS Enterprise through the galaxy, exploring new worlds along the way.
Paramount+ hasn’t let many details leak about the new series. We didn’t even get an official teaser during Star Trek Day last year, although there was a video introducing all the main cast members. In addition to Mount, Romijn, and Peck, Babs Olusanmokun plays Dr. M’Benga; Celia Rose Gooding has the unenviable task of filling Nichelle Nichols’ shoes as Cadet Nyota Uhura; Jess Bush plays Nurse Christine Chapel; Melissa Navai plays Lieutenant Erica Ortegas; Bruce Orak plays an Aenar named Hemmer; and Christina Chong plays La’An Noonien-Singh. The latter apparently is related to the classic revenge-obsessed Star Trek villain Khan, according to Goldsman, although he didn’t offer any specifics about what that connection might be.
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