It’s been a little while since we had newest on Star Trek‘s latest live-action series, Strange New Worlds. The series recently began filming but with many of the main cast in place we still have no idea as to who they are playing.
One thing which we do know is that the series will take its cues from The Original Series with a more episodic approach to story. In a new interview with The Hollywood Reporter, executive producer Akiva Goldsman has elaborated on what they means for the fledgling series.
“It’s really episodic.” explained Goldsman. “If you think back to The Original Series, it was a tonally more liberal — I don’t mean in terms of politics, but it could sort of be more fluid. Like sometimes Robert Bloch would write a horror episode. Or Harlan Ellison would have “City on the Edge of Forever,” which is hard sci-fi. Then there would be comedic episodes, like “Shore Leave” or “The Trouble With Tribbles.” So [co-showrunner] Henry Alonso Myers and myself are trying to serve that… Strange New Worlds is very much adventure-of-the-week but with serialized character arcs.”
With Strange New Worlds essentially leading in to the classic TOS era of Star Trek Goldsman was also asked about how the production team are working to align the two shows.
“The uniforms have been adjusted slightly, the sets are slightly different. Remember the Enterprise existed as a little piece of [the show Discovery], but now it’s its own object. When you close your eyes and think of the key sets and situations that you think of The Original Series, that’s what we’re looking to do.”
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds reunites Anson Mount as Captain Christopher Pike, Rebecca Romjin as Number One and Ethan Peck as Spock. The series also stars Babs Olusanmokun (Black Mirror, Dune), Christina Chong (Tom and Jerry, Black Mirror), Celia Rose Gooding (Jagged Little Pill), Jess Bush (Skinford, Les Norton) and Melissa Navia (Dietland, Billions) in undisclosed roles.
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