Welcome back, after several weeks, way too many weeks.
I was hoping I can do this series of videos more regularly, but there are way too
little news coming out from CBS about the new Star Trek show.
But this week we FINALLY got some news about Star Trek: Discovery.
For those of you who don't it a new live action Star Trek show is being prepared right
now, it's called Star Trek Discovery and will be available in the USA on CBS All Access
and the rest of the world on Netflix, sometimes later this year.
Since my last video 6 new actors have been announced for Star Trek Discovey, 4 of them
this week.
1)Let's start with the most obvious : Sonequa Martin-Green.
She has been rumoured to be on the show since the beginning of this
year, and now we have FINALLY the official confirmation.
She will play the lead character, originally supposed to
be just "Number One", as a tribute to the late Majel Barrett, who played a character
known only as "Number One" on "The Cage", the first Star Trek pilot from 1964.
However after the showrunner Bryan Fuller left, or
as some sources claim - got kicked out, the character got a name, Michael Burnham.
I don't know what do you think about it, but I personally think it's a very stupid
name.
Seriously, why does she have to be called "Michael" and not for example "Michelle"?
Yes, I know that the name Michael is sometimes used also for women, but it's so rare...
The only thing I can think about when I hear her name is "wow, what a strange name", that's
not a very good thing considering that she's our main character.
It's not something what would kill the show for me,
it's just something I personally think it's a dumb decision.
2) Rainn Wilson, the actor from NBC's The OFfice is a very surprising addition
to Star Trek Discovery.
He will play - Hartcourt Fanton Mudd.
Yes, you heard it, he will be playing Harry Mudd.
Why?
I personally think it's a HORRIBLE idea to have Harry Mudd on the show, just like it
was a horrible idea to have Sarek.
This show takes place just a couple of years before
TOS so it makes absolutely no sense to have Harry Mudd also here!
And he won't be there just for an episode, according
to IMDB he will be featured in 9 of the 13 episodes.
It's kind of ... sucky.
3) The third actress announced is Rekha Sharma.
If you watched the rebooted Battlestar Galactica, you should know her she was as
the presidents right hand Tory Foster.
She was also in the rebooted sci-fi show V, and if you watch also the Star Trek
fan productions you could see her in the fan show called Star Trek Continues, in
the 2017 episode Still Treads the Shadow.
You can watch the episode on youtube, I will leave a link in the description.
Now on Star Trek Discovery she will play Commander Landry, the security officer of
the USS Discovery.
I'm not sure if it's a good idea to have a female security chief,
the last female security officer we've seen on Star Trek didn't end very well.
Also she as an actress doesn't seem very "physical", so I'm curious how will this work
out.
4) The next actor is another man who I never heard before - Mr. Damon Runyan.
I am as always pretty sure I pronounced his name
incorrectly, and I'm sorry, as I said I don't know him, but his IMDB page seems
to be pretty full, so this guy looks like he had some nice career.
In Star Trek Discovery he will play a Klingon leader named
Ujilli.
This is not only another confirmation that the Klingons will play an important
part in the new show, but also it's another character with a strange name.
Seriously, a Klingon named Ujilli?
Do the producers know ANYTHING about Klingons, and tiny unimportant
things like their names, or their language?
5) The next actress for today is Clare McConnel.
Unlike Damon's IMDB page her IMDB page is almost empty, it looks like her acting
career just started.
On Discovery she will play another Klingon character called
Dennas.
It's interesting to see so many Klingon regulars on the show.
6) The interesting thing is they have done some changes in the casting.
Previously announced actor Shazad Latif, who was supposed
to play the Klingon officer Kol is now going to play a Federation science officer
Lieutenant Tyler.
Well this is weird, is this normal?
Recasting usually means some production trouble, so I'd love to know
more behind the scenes stuff about it.
Kol will now be played by Kenneth Mitchell.
Finally some person who's name I can pronounce :-) Again this seems like an American
actor with a long and successful career.
So these are all news for this episode.
Hope you like it.
What do you think about the actors?
Do you like them or not?
And the main question - are you looking forward to the show?
Leave your comments down in the comments section and see you sometimes
in the future, hopefully much sooner.
Thanks a lot for watching, and bye.
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