Star Trek: Unusual New Worlds Season 1 is out on Blu-Ray and DVD proper now, and it will not be an excessive amount of longer earlier than we’ll have the ability to watch Season 2 with our Paramount+ subscriptions. Season 2 has been hyped to be even higher than the much-acclaimed first season, and it is partly as a result of followers will get extra details about the beloved Captain Pike and his Enterprise crew. We all know how the story ends for Uhura and plenty of different characters, however how does somebody like actress Melissa Navia deal with the unknown of what is going to turn out to be of her Erica Ortegas?
I had an opportunity to talk to Melissa Navia to have fun the discharge of Star Trek: Unusual New Worlds on bodily media, and we talked concerning the questions that followers have concerning Erica Ortegas’ future in Starfleet. I requested Navia if she discovered herself asking questions on the place Ortegas’ story was going when she obtained scripts for Season 2, and the actress confirmed as a lot, whereas additionally noting she’s used the present’s story as a method to deal with it:
I do, yeah. One thing that I discover that’s simply so fantastic about Unusual New Worlds is that Captain Pike is aware of his future. He is aware of how a lot his life goes to vary, and what do you do with that information figuring out that…Each in my profession and my private life, Star Trek simply retains placing issues into place like puzzle items. The place it’s like that’s okay to not know what’s going to occur and to know that each one kinds of issues are going to occur, however you actually should stay within the current, otherwise you will be unable to operate.
Star Trek: Unusual New Worlds has a mixture of actors enjoying legacy characters with outlined futures in Star Trek going ahead, however Erica Ortegas just isn’t certainly one of them. Melissa Navia is clearly interested by what is going on to occur to her character in the long run, however as she confirmed to CinemaBlend, she’s used Pike’s story as a method to assist her deal with the unknown that comes together with her position.
Melissa Navia added that whereas she’s interested by what is going to turn out to be of Erica Ortegas in Unusual New Worlds, she additionally enjoys the thriller. Navia spoke about how she likes the truth that followers are nonetheless questioning, and the way her character has influenced the franchise to date:
I find it irresistible that Ortegas just isn’t on the Enterprise [when Kirk is there]. Everybody is basically like, ‘What occurs?’ Does she go off to do one thing else? Is she not with us on this realm? All of that’s attainable, however to me, it makes it extra thrilling to see the subsequent script and to place my every little thing into that episode and what occurs there. What occurs sooner or later? What she has performed in Season 1 and a couple of have made an influence and can proceed to make an influence. So, actually I’ve been processing that.
We do not know a lot about what to anticipate from Star Trek: Unusual New Worlds Season 2, although we do know just a few issues to look out for. Paul Wesley will return as Captain Kirk, and there is a fairly wild crossover deliberate with the animated sequence Decrease Decks. We have additionally heard from Melissa Navia in a earlier dialog that the upcoming season is even higher than Season 1, which units a fairly excessive bar. We’ll have to attend and see if the sequence can stay as much as the problem, although hopefully not for an excessive amount of longer provided that it is on the schedule for upcoming Star Trek reveals.
Star Trek: Unusual New Worlds Season 1 is accessible to buy proper now on DVD and Blu-Ray, and Season 2 will stream on Paramount+ (opens in new tab) in some unspecified time in the future in 2023. Keep tuned as we get nearer to the top of Picard for extra updates on when it could arrive and a few potential footage of the much-anticipated new season. With First Contact Day not too far off on Wednesday, April fifth, I would not be shocked if now we have a trailer within the subsequent couple of weeks.
