‘Strange New Worlds’ & ‘Lower Decks’ Casts Finally Dish on Crossover Episode Together


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  • The
    Star Trek: Unusual New Worlds
    &
    Decrease Decks
    crossover allowed voice actors to play their roles in live-action roles for the primary time.
  • The mixing of tone from each reveals was difficult however finally rewarding for the solid & crew.
  • The crossover was successful with the solid, followers, and creators.


Final yr, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds and Star Trek: Lower Decks went someplace the franchise is sort of recognized for going: crossovers. In Season 2, Episode 7 of Star Trek: Unusual New Worlds, “These Outdated Scientists,” Decrease Decks voice actors Tawny Newsome and Jack Quaid bought to play their characters in reside motion for the primary time. Their characters, Beckett Mariner and Brad Boimler, had been despatched again to the twenty third Century, assembly Christopher Pike (Anson Mount) and his USS Enterprise Crew. As a result of author’s and actor’s strikes final yr, selling the episode wasn’t actually potential. Now, at San Diego Comic Con, the solid and crew of each reveals are dispensing what went into making the crossover from animation to reside motion a rousing success.


Talking with Editor-in-Chief of Collider, Steve Weintraub on the Collider Media Studio at SDCC, Decrease Decks creator Mike McMahan says “We did not know what we signed up for,” once they determined to crossover with Unusual New Worlds. Akiva Goldsman, showrunner for Unusual New Worlds, says he and McMahan had been on the cellphone loads in preparation for the crossover. Essentially the most troublesome half, Goldsman says, was getting the merged tones of the 2 reveals proper. “It was actually exhausting,” Goldsman tells Collider. “Essentially, it appeared like, ‘Properly, they will simply come over.’ However it seems that they are animated, and we’re actual, and now we have completely different tones in our present. The mixing of their tone and our tone was a full-on job.



‘Unusual New Worlds’ and ‘Decrease Decks’ Crossover The Most Enjoyable The Forged Has Ever Had

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McMahan says that the solid response matched the constructive fan reception. “All the pieces I heard from each casts was, ‘That is probably the most enjoyable we have had.’ It was a synergistic impact. It was exhausting, nevertheless it was attending to have probably the most enjoyable doing each reveals directly that we could not have gotten individually, which I believed was actually cool.”

“A crossover episode is a basic Star Trek component, and we actually wished to try this, and we love their present a lot.”

If one crossover wasn’t sufficient, followers at SDCC bought to witness a second certainly one of types, when the solid and crew of Unusual New Worldscrashed Collider’s interview with Decrease Decks solid and crew.


With the added group of individuals, some assembly for the primary time, the added component gave them the chance to speak extra in regards to the crossover. “It was actually enjoyable watching Jack and Tawny make these minute changes to repair tonally what was the divide between animation and actual,” says actress Rebecca Romijn who performs Lt. Commander Una Chin-Riley. “It was actually enjoyable watching you guys.”

There have been issues that shocked everybody engaged on the crossover, “the best way that Boimler walked?” Goldsman explains. “When Jack did that, we had been like, ‘Properly, now we have to make use of that shot as a result of he is really doing the stroll,’ which he is by no means gotten to do in actual life earlier than, so I believe it excited him.” McMahan explains there was actually solely time to have Quaid and Newsome, however they wished extra, “we actually wished we might have discovered a approach to completely have everybody there.” Decrease Decks is heading into its final season, however might we see that dream come true on Unusual New Worlds?


Each Decrease Decks and Unusual New Worlds can be found to stream on Paramount+ within the US. Keep tuned at Collider for the most recent from San Diego Comedian Con.

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