Star Trek isn’t any stranger to crossovers, starting from the varied Authentic Collection alums who stopped by The Subsequent Technology, to the tribute-filled episode “Kobayahsi” in Prodigy Season 1. Star Trek: Unusual New Worlds, nonetheless, is delivering a very bold crossover by this franchise’s requirements, as in a while in Season 2, Jack Quaid’s Brad Boimler and Tawny Newsome’s Beckett Mariner from the animated Star Trek: Decrease Decks, won’t solely meet Captain Pike and the crew of the Enterprise, but additionally be depicted in live-action, as seen above. Whereas talking with CinemaBlend, forward of the SAG-AFTRA strike, three of Unusual New Worlds’ lead actors puffed up what this particular episode, titled “These Previous Scientists,” is delivering to followers, together with teases of “Spoimler,” a very “improvised” scene and simply normal “hijinks and silliness.”
Let’s begin with Ethan Peck, who not too long ago received to play a completely human Spock within the episode “Charades.” Whereas he’s now again to his regular half-human, half-Vulcan self, Peck’s Spock will discover himself within the uncommon predicament of assembly two Starfleet officers from greater than 100 years sooner or later who’ve someway been transported to roughly half a decade earlier than the occasions of The Authentic Collection. Right here’s what Peck needed to say to me about Quaid and Newsome stopping by to mess around with the Unusual New Worlds solid:
Each Tawny and Jack are really fantastic. Nice actors, fantastic individuals, I had a lot enjoyable with them off-camera and on-camera… I’m so excited for individuals to fulfill Spoimler, which is the hybrid of our names… which Jonathan Frakes cash. ‘Spoimler, man!’ Jack and I had been so charmed by that and flattered, and he and I had a lot enjoyable filming a few of the scenes that we do collectively. And there’s a scene I’m pondering of particularly that you simply’ll simply have to attend and see.
We received our first style of “Spoimler” within the Star Trek: Unusual New Worlds Season 2 trailer launched in late Might, with Spock telling Brad Boimler to “Reside lengthy and prosper,” just for Boimler to fail in repeating the identical sentiment earlier than being transported away. As anybody acquainted with the trendy Star Trek panorama is aware of, Decrease Decks is a comedy sequence, so though Quaid and Newsome will likely be taking part in their characters in live-action moderately than solely voicing them as per common, that received’t cease them from delivering laughs and amusing moments in “These Previous Scientists.” That features Spock and Boimler being in sufficient scenes collectively that director Jonathan Frakes (additionally fairly well-known for taking part in William Riker) determined to affectionately be a part of their names collectively.
Subsequent, we now have Jess Bush, the actress behind Christine Chapel, who reached a significant romantic milestone with Spock on the finish of “Charades.” After I introduced up the Unusual New Worlds/Decrease Decks crossover together with her, Bush shared that one in all her scenes really got here collectively actually simply hours earlier than she was purported to shoot it. As she recalled:
It’s so enjoyable. It was so nice having Jack and Tawny are available in to that episode, with us. Their vitality is so totally different to what we’ve had usually on the present, and it actually injected this new vitality into the solid that was actually enjoyable to play with. Yeah, my favourite a part of that was there’s a scene within the crossover episode that I used to be written into the morning of taking pictures. I used to be within the make-up trailer, they usually’re like, ‘Oh, are you able to do that scene at present?’ And so they wrote it whereas I used to be sitting there. So it was virtually fully improvised. It was actually enjoyable, really, to exist in that house. So yeah, wait and see that one.
The Unusual New Worlds/Decrease Decks crossover was introduced virtually an actual 12 months in the past through the 2022 San Diego Comedian-Con, and now followers are lower than two weeks away from attending to expertise it, with “These Previous Scientists” set to be the previous present’s seventh episode of the season. Now clearly Brad Boimler and Beckett Mariner received’t have the ability to get fairly as wacky right here in comparison with Decrease Decks provided that they’ll be in live-action moderately than depicted of their conventional animated types. Nonetheless, Celia Rose Gooding, who performs Nyota Uhura, assured followers that the episode received’t be missing in comedy, saying:
I’m so excited for followers to see the extent of comedy, the extent of hijinks and silliness that Decrease Decks has within the dramatic world of Unusual New Worlds. I believe that Tawny Newsome and Jack Quaid and Jonathan Frakes introduced such a brand new layer to the present. I discover that Unusual New Worlds, whereas it does have comedy, I believe Decrease Decks is the true comedic laborious hitter of our franchise proper now, particularly within the new era of Trek. So to have them carry that to our very severe present was simply pretty. I believe followers are gonna admire the vary that these three delivered to our present, and simply the vary of storytelling that they pull from us as a solid. I believe after that episode, we, as a solid household, simply felt like we had a little bit of room to strive new issues, a bit extra permission to actually go for it with regards to the comedic moments and the foolish issues. As a result of identical to we now have deep dramatic moments, there’s a necessity for deep comedic moments, and we received these in that Decrease Decks episode. So I’m actually excited for followers to see it.
Following the airing of “These Previous Scientists,” there’ll solely be three episodes left in Unusual New Worlds Season 2, however the excellent news is that the present has already been renewed for Season 3. In the meantime, not solely will Decrease Decks return for its fourth season someday later this 12 months, Season 5 has additionally been greenlit. As for what particularly unfolds in “These Previous Scientists” that results in these corners of the franchise colliding, and bringing so many shenanigans, Paramount+ subscribers will merely have to look at the episode for themselves to seek out out.
New episodes of Star Trek: Unusual New Worlds drop Thursdays on Paramount+, with “These Previous Scientists” on July 27. Bear in mind to look via upcoming Star Trek reveals information to study what else this franchise has arising on the small display screen facet of issues, in addition to our 2023 TV schedule for data on present and soon-to-arrive reveals.
