The “Star Trek” franchise celebrated 55 years of boldly going where no one has gone before with a three-hour live presentation of all five ongoing “Trek” series for Paramoun…
” and “Star Trek: Lower Decks” . Along with retrospective looks at past “Trek” series from actors of color who starred in them, the “Star Trek” Day event also is featuring first looks, trailers, and major announcements for the ongoing series.
“I know there’s been a lot of conversation about Starfleet Academy, which we are very excited about,” he said. “When we talked about, there’s this new generation that’s going to inherit the problems of the old generation, what are they going to do to make the world better to solve it, how are we going to avoid the mistakes of our elders, and how are we going to learn from the wisdom of our elders — that’s a really wonderful thing to consider when you think about something like Starfleet Academy.
Celia Rose Gooding will play Cadet Nyota Uhura, the role first played by Nichelle Nichols on the original “Star Trek” series. Jess Bush is stepping into the role of Nurse Christine Chapel, first played by Roddenberry’s wife Majel Barrett on the original “Star Trek.” And Babs Olusanmokun is playing Dr. M’Benga, a medical officer first played by Booker Bradshaw on two episodes of the original “Star Trek.
“There’s a great thing that episodic television does, and ‘Star Trek’ did it greater than most, which is to teach while, as my late wife would have said, sugaring the pill, not letting the audience know that what we’re doing is telling a story with a moral,” Goldsman said. “‘Star Trek’ came, not incidentally, in the late ’60s, at a time where we could really have used a lens on our behavior, our society, our hopes for the future and the present we were living in.
Cruz revealed that the promise at the end of Season 3 that Dr. Culber made Gray — who was a non-corporeal entity attached to his beloved, Adira — that Gray will get a corporeal body will be realized in Season 4. It’s all part of the found family that Culber and Stamets made with Adira and, in effect, with Gray.
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