The main photography started in the long-awaited debut season of “Strange New Worlds”, according to for the variety.
This latest spin-off series will follow the adventures of Captain Christopher Pike (Anson Mount), Mr. Spock (Ethan Peck) and Number One (Rebecca Romijn) on the USS Enterprise and is defined, in essence, as a prequel to “The Series original “before James T. Kirk took command of the Constitution-class starship.
You must remember, that while the crew of the USS Discovery defeated the evil AI called Control, it saved the sphere’s data and used the tortuous red light of time travel technology to jump 950 years into the future in the disappointing end of the second season of “Discovery”, the entire crew of the USS Enterprise was left behind in the 23rd century. Well, they kind of had.
Fans have been campaigning for a spin-off focused on Pike since the second season of “Discovery” and Mount himself told Space.com, “I will not complain and be indifferent about it. I would love to [play Pike again]. Then, on May 15, 2020, it was officially confirmed on social media by Mount, Peck, Romijn and executive producer Alex Kurtzman.
Peck recently posted a photo On Instagram of … er, a shopping cart half buried in the snow, geotagged in Toronto, indicating that he was back in Ontario.
But what will be different in the production of “Strange New Worlds” is that it will benefit from the virtual artificial reality video wall that was pioneered in the production of “The Mandalorian” by several VFX companies, including ILM and Pixomondo. A source told Space.com that CBS has invested in two of these configurations, one for “Strange New Worlds” and another for use in the fourth season of “Discovery”. This should allow for the construction of a bigger world (and perhaps better story writing) within the “Star Trek” universe without the need and restrictions offered by filming on the spot. Let’s face it, Iceland can only double to so many alien planets.
Speaking of writing bad stories, the fourth season of “Discovery” has also started main photography in Toronto and after more than half a year delay, the cast of “Picard” has returned for production for the second season. The exhibition dates have not been officially confirmed, but there are many rumors that we should expect to see at least two of these three shows in 2021.
Kalinda Vazquez was nominated by Paramount Pictures to write a new film “Star Trek”, with the production of JJ Abrams’ Bad Robot, Deadline reports. According IMDb, Vazquez’s writing credits on “Discovery” include “Terra Firma, Part 2“(S03, E10) and the” Short Trek “episode” Ask Not “, however, she is also listed as a” consulting producer “for the last six or more episodes of the third season. Apparently, Vazquez is named after a character played by Barbara Bouchet from the episode “The Original Series”, “By Any Other Name” (S02, E22). This news confirms that Paramount is once again advancing a “Star Trek” feature to the big screen after Noah Hawley paralyzed attempt. However, the trio of “Trek” films produced by Bad Robot were totally horrible, with each progressively worse than its predecessor.
Kate Mulgrew confirmed his return for the 2nd season of “Prodigy” and the first season will air later this year. Somewhat disappointingly, the proposed “Section 31” spin-off program focusing on Phillipa Georgiou (Michelle Yeoh) is still “conversations” and now it will only happen when one of the five current Star Trek projects – “Discovery”, “Prodigy “,” Lower Decks, “” Picard “and” Strange New Worlds “- finished, according Alex Kurtzman and Julie McNamara, Head of Programming at Paramount +.
The official crowdfunding effort for the documentary project “Star Trek: Voyager” finally released and at the time this article was written, it went through an impressive half a million dollars, light years beyond its original target.
Finally, CBS All Access it became Paramount + from March 4 and as such, all incarnations of “Star Trek” are now available there. New application updates are available for Android and iOS, but your existing logins must be maintained if you are already a subscriber. Some users have reported difficulties with Roku, but if you update the application (Home> settings> system> system update), it should work.
Correction: An earlier version of this article incorrectly referred to Toronto as the capital of Canada. Toronto is the capital of the Canadian province of Ontario, but the country’s capital is in Ottawa.
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