Not to be super reductive about, that’s what it feels like it’s about, to me. It’s essentially – the question that it asks – is, “Is the Federation good?” The good guys think it is and the bad guy does not, and the bad guy ends up alone, and the good guys end up with their family. I like this film because there’s a simplicity to the theme. Is that something you guys picked up in this?ĬP: Uh, yeah. While this remains a summer blockbuster, popcorn film, I think underneath that are some more resonant themes that are reflective of the times we’re living in. I think, you know, over the next generation, we’re going to see which way we turn as a civilisation. The other is less tolerant and more judgemental and more fear-driven and fear-based. The razor-sharp line of division that exists between political ideologies in our own country in the United States, I think it’s clear that these movements are forming – and one is more forward thinking and more embracing and more inclusive. We’re living in an increasingly nationalistic, xenophobic time, and you can see it reflected in societies all over the world – whether it’s here in the UK with the whole Brexit debacle, or in Australia where we just came from, where their most recent elections were too close to call. Do you think that’s an important thing to express right now? About the Federation bringing different races and cultures together. One of the themes in the film seems to be inclusivity. And so through that fracturing we spend a long time finding our way back to one another, and learning a lot about ourselves in the process. So yeah, it’s great to watch, and I think thematically, it says that a crew is never stronger than when they’re together. Kirk and Chekov and Scottie, and then Jaella added into the mix. Sulu and Uhura spend a lot of time together in the movie. Certainly, in the case of Spock and Bones, who spend a lot of the film together. And I think that’s really exciting for the audience, because you have an experience of these characters as you wouldn’t normally see them, and in relation to characters they might not spend the majority of their time with. It splits us apart and it splits us into groupings that we wouldn’t normally be in. ZQ: I think what this does is it takes the crew and it fractures us. It was a great collaboration.ĭo you think it’s more of an ensemble piece, this movie? Because for you, Sofia, there’s obviously loads of action for you. And Simon’s worked with us twice before so he has a great sense of what we do and do well. He was very collaborative, and this felt like, the third one in, we have a better sense of who we are as characters. And then on the day, whether he was in the scene or not, he’d be around for consultation, basically. Did you have a say in the tone of your characters in this movie?ĬP: Yeah, Simon actually called us up pretty early on and asked if there’s anything we’d particularly like to do or see in your characters. Your characters have evolved quite a lot from the young Star Fleet recruits of the first film. I thought that would’ve been really funny. We're trying to give the show a unique and specific look and feel.CP: Yeah! We didn’t really have much time for that preamble stuff, but we had a breakfast burrito version, a coffee version, which ended up staying in… I lobbied for the breakfast burrito moment, but it did not win out. It's important to us to have different genres that have different areas of emotion that we're exploring, some of them funny, some of them scary, and that one speaks to a different kind that we didn't get to see as much. Myers continued, "As a show, we probably are slightly more interested in making sure comedy is present than some of the other Trek shows, just because that's part of what we have, and that's something she happens to be very good at, so it was fun to be able to lean on her in that way. And she, of course, brought her own unique and delightful perspective to it." "We had a version of a character, and we were very lucky in that we were talking with our casting people and they were like, "What about Carol Kane for this?" And it suddenly snapped. "The big thing was we zigged in one season, and we wanted to try to zag, which was like, how can we find a person who doesn't feel like we've seen them before in Star Trek, and who might give us a unique and interesting perspective?" Myers explained. Casting Star Trek: Strange New Worlds' new chief engineer.Ĭ also had the opportunity to talk to Star Trek: Strange New Worlds showrunners Henry Alonso Myers and Akiva Goldsman about how they cast the show's new chief engineer.
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