Bruce talks about make-up for his different characters, what roles he'd love to play in the future, and reveals whether he's in season 3 or not.

https://openpike.com/episode/bruce-horak-interview-2-goblin-mode

Question: What office or Organisation did the Tellarite on the panel belong to? I could not figure it out.

Tomorrow Cubed establishes that The Eugenics Wars/all that nonsense was 'delayed' due to multiple temporal shenanigans by multiple parties across multiple centuries. Fine.

Khan is 8 or 9 in 2023. Lets be generous and say 30 years from then, he's conquered a quarter of the world, and WW3 kicks off a few years after that. Around 2058?

First Contact is April 5th 2063. How in the hell does that still happen if WW3 is raging? Which by this new timeline, it would... have to be. Right? By my understanding, that Vulcan scout ship wasn't hanging around the system forever, and I mean... if they pick up the telltale signs of a prolonged nuclear conflict on this world, why would they hang around the system at all?

So if First Contact is delayed past 2063 (which it basically has to be at this point)... when does it happen? And how? And with who?

The ramifications of Tomorrow Cubed are staggering.

It's 9:30pm and I have work tomorrow, so naturally I started thinking about my predictions for the rest of Strange New Worlds (as one does).

• We will eventually see a young Carol Marcus, and maybe even a baby David.

• At least one of the main cast who never appears in future Trek material will die (Una, La'an, Ortegas, Batel)

• We may see a pre-fascist Cardassia. If I recall my Trek timeline correctly, Cardassia at the time of Strange New Worlds has not yet fallen into military dictatorship. Strange New Worlds doing a side story about a democratic Cardassia backsliding into fascism would (probably) fit with Trek canon and would also be disturbingly topical to modern day society.

• The show will take a page out of Better Call Saul's book, and the final stretch of episodes will take place after the events of The Menagerie on the Original Series.

• Following up on the last point, Christopher Pike's fate after he begins his new life on Talos IV is completely open. I don't see him as the sort of guy to just retire and live out the rest of his days in relaxation. Being the highly driven guy he is who truly embodies the Federation's highest ideals, Pike will become the Federation's official ambassador to Talos IV, with the Talosians using their illusory mind powers to make every visitor to their world see Pike as he wishes to be seen, not his injured body. Despite his grievous injuries, Ambassador Pike will play a pivotal role in the normalization of relations between the Talosians and the Federation.

Hi,

I've just finished the second season of SNW. (And it's my first post here - hi!) For some time I've got a feeling that Sam Kirk is really bad as a xenoanthropologist.

We see him on a few field trips:

1. In Children of the Comet he started nicely by encouraging Uhura but then almost got himself killed because he wasn't cautious.
2. In All Those Who Wander he panicked (in front of a new alien species) and then shouted racially loaded comments toward Spock. Saying racist things is morally wrong, don't do that. Saying racist things to your superior is not only morally wrong but also plain stupid. Saying racist things as a xenoanthropologist suggests you have contempt for other species and thus are not well-suited for your job.
3. In Hegemony he wanted to join the landing party 'to study the Gorn' which meant 'to study how to kill them'. While understandable in these circumstances, again not what I would expect from Starfleet in general but even more from a xenoanthropologist. The only ones in this episode that play with the possibility that the Gorn are not entirely evil are April and Pike.

Do we know his credentials? The only thing I'm aware of is that Pike requested him and they are friends. So he wasn't a crew member before. It's not clear how much it was a personal preference or how much Pike believed him to be the best person for the job.

The only useful thing he did (that I remember) in his scope of expertise was helping Nyota in Lost in Translation but even then she did all the legwork and made final connections. At the end of that episode, Sam said he may write a paper on the topic. Now, I don't know how academia works in 23rd century but nowadays writing that paper without Uhura would be seen as a breach of ethics.

(On that topic, it seems to me that in Season 2 Uhura had solved more scientific problems than Sam and Spock combined. It seems illogical that Spock doesn't try her to switch fields)

Am I missing something that would show him in a better light as a scientist? Not as a brother, friend or a human being, I'm mainly concerned with his job here.

I’m on season 2 episode 4 and can this show just please stop making me fall in love with relationships that I know are doomed?! La’an and Kirk? Spock and Chapel? Friggin Spock and T’Pring??? Never in my life did I expect that I would be rooting for Spock and T’Pring to fix their relationship. Just stop it, it’s not good for my mental health 😭😭🙈🙈

https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Marie_Batel

so not only is she a starship captain (captain rank)

she commands a constitution class ship (uss cayuga) which is as old as the enterprise one of the fabled 12

almost made commodore

but she's also a officer in the JAG?

she's also much younger than pike too?

so this makes her even more badass than pike.

Here's an interview we did with the super charming Martin Quinn! He talks about how he went from local theater to the Engineering Room of the Enterprise, his history with Star Trek, his thoughts on Doohan and Pegg, and teases season 3 with the word: "Aldentium." I think is how you'd spell it? Not sure, you'll just have to listen. :)

https://openpike.com/episode/martin-quinn-interview-the-scottish-hello

Yes, I know there are only 10. I was so shocked at the step down in quality in the first episode I watched that I don't think I can stomach an entire season. I've heard "Those Old Scientists" and "Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow" are the best ones - Can I just jump straight to those without missing much? Any others worth watching?

We’ve already been introduced to Kirk, Spock, and Scotty. Will they introduce Sulu’s dog?

Who's the better helmsman Ortega from snw or detmer from discovery?

seeing that Lower decks is getting axed at season 5 do you think SNW will at least get a season 5 or season 4 will be the last?

what do you think?

So, we’ve got Uhura, we got Spock, we’ve seen Jim. Can we see another character show up? Young Mr Sulu? Or maybe George Takei as Admiral Sulu Sr? I like the idea of a family that is has a history of service or Mr Reed jr?

Now that the wee lad has arrived home, I was thinking about that trick Scotty did on TNG: Relics (6/Ep4)… could he have learned that from the Doc?

Season 6 Episode 26 Captain Sisko is awarded the Christopher Pike Medal of Valor for his acts of personal bravery displayed during the battle to retake Deep Space 9. (Also remember when seasons were 20+ episodes!)

I wonder if the later seasons of Strange New Worlds is going to further explain the circumstances leading to the creation of this award

First there's the SNW Sickbay set shown in the "This season on" with Terran Deltas, and then later it shows a Connie that shows the 1701 registry. Considering the shows are both filmed in Canada, it's more likely that a cameo could be possible.

Who's the most likely SNW character we'd get, if any?