The “Star Trek” Universe uncloaked a litany of first looks during its epic panel at San Diego Comic-Con on Friday, including panels for the third season of “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds,” the fifth and final season of “Star Trek: Lower Decks” and the first television feature film in the franchise, “Star Trek: Section 31.”
This is an ongoing story and will update as the “Star Trek” Universe panel progresses.
“Star Trek: Strange New Worlds”
The Footage: “Strange New Worlds” stars Ethan Peck and Rebecca Romijn and executive producers Akiva Goldsman, Henry Alonso Myers and Alex Kurtzman debuted an extended clip from Season 3 of the series, in which several characters — Pike (Anson Mount), Uhura (Celia Rose Gooding), Noonien-Singh (Christina Chong) and Chapel (Jess Bush) — are transformed from humans into Vulcans. The chief engineer, Pelia (Carol Kane), also attempts to transform into Vulcan, but the process doesn’t take for her, much to her dismay.
Immediately, all of Spock’s now-Vulcan compatriots zero in on the fact that Spock is half-Vulcan, much to his consternation — and, naturally, hijinks ensue. Martin Quinn, as a young version of future Enterprise chief engineer Montgomery Scott, also appears in the clip — and Myers revealed he will be a series regular this season.
In an interview at the Variety Studio presented by Google TV during Comic-Con, Peck said that he enjoyed seeing his castmates become Vulcans.
“To see them in Vulcan makeup was really endearing,” he said. “I did hand out a little bit of advice, but people really brought their own flavor and ideas to it.”
Myers told Variety that the idea to transform Pike’s hair into a rigid tower came from Mount entirely. “We were talking about what different types of hair to do, and he said, ‘I have this one idea.’”
What We Learned: Season 3 of the series, which premieres in 2025, will bring back another legacy character from the original “Star Trek” series: Dr. Roger Korby, who will be played on “Strange New Worlds” by Cillian O’Sullivan (“In From the Cold,” “Vikings”). Korby is introduced in the first season of the original series and has a complicated history with Nurse Chapel.