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Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 2 in SFX magazine June 2023 issue
The cast of Strange New Worlds features in an article titled “Enterprising Situation” for the upcoming SFX magazine, written by Darren Scott.
Showrunner Akiva Goldsman talks about Season 2, like the upcoming crossover episode with Star Trek: Lower Decks and the challenge of blending animation with live action, and finding the right tone for the episode, and the fact he’s open to future crossovers with other series timelines. He also talks about the new Chief Engineer Pelia (played by Carol Kan), the fate of Number One, returning characters, about challenges of the show having 10 vs. 24 episodes per season, that certain characters who might not have gotten as much screentime last season, will get it in season 2, and that they’ve moved some characters around and “put some folks together who aren’t necessarily canonically together at the same time” (like Lieutenant/First Officer Kirk), while still trying to stay within established canon.
He said of Season 2: “The pitch that came for season 2 was a lot of, ‘We’re going to do what we did last year, but more’ and that’s what we did! We took to heart the fact the audience seemed to like what we liked, which was genre-jumping, closed-ended narratives with some character serialization. It was a real harkening back to the original series, when it came to the occasional O Henry-esque or Twilight Zone-like turn, and at the same time you’re in there shining a light into the nooks and crannies of canon. So we just did it again, basically. It was very reinforcing. If the fans hadn’t liked it, we certainly would have ended up doing something more traditional. So we were really happy to get to keep doing it.”
Goldsman also mentions Strange New Worlds Season 3, which has already been commissioned and announced. “You carry a couple [episodes] over. The ones you always wanted to do that you couldn’t quite get in the previous season. But then you sort of start again, because the world has shifted. Our 10 for season three are also delightful. They’re in the not-made stage, but we know what they are and it continues to be exciting.”
downside: going to have to include a picture of the Giza pyramids in the slides for the lecture upside: i get to give people a crash course in why perspective matters in two frames, because
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is such a funny sequence
i find most people who haven't seen it in person don't know that cairo is RIGHT THERE
I loved these perspectives so I took some of my own when I was in Cairo and yeah, they're literally just. Right there. Pass em on your way to work, nbd
No, y'all don't even understand.
There is literally a Pizza Hut across the street from the pyramids.
That Pizza Hut among other things is why Egyptologists laugh their asses off when we see another piece of media where the protagonists get "lost in the desert near the pyramids", because it's like... just turn around my dudes you're only a seven min walk away from the nearest fastfood shop
Yall don't know how much I adore all of this
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 2 title cards
Via Official Star Trek Twitter: “Featuring art by Bunker, @fluxartist, State, Moravia Roman, @sabeenu, @hicompadre, Brian Frank, Morphine, Kelly Bolton, @starryxm00ns, Flatwhite Motion, Bruno Brasil, and @echolab.”
Source: Star Trek Official Instagram clip, May 26 2023
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