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He’s a wonderful actor and a just a great person to be around has it has been one of the most enjoyable aspects of the new season. Because Sonequa is lightest light of the world, and then Callum’s like, “Are we going to do the scene now or what?” And so the mixture of their chemistry is really wonderful to see how they bounce off of each other. He’s a lovable teddy-bear gruff, but it’s like a wonderful new piece of the recipe for the show. Rapp: She described his character as gruff. He’s a bit of a gruff captain and he’s got some things to learn and so he will learn those things.Īctor Anthony Rapp (Commander Paul Stamets) talked about how this gruff captain adds a new chemistry to the show. Paradise: Captain Rayner is a captain of a different starship. Michelle Paradise offered some more detail on his character. The panel also revealed some new cast joining the show, including Callum Keith Rennie ( Battlestar Galactica, Umbrella Academy) as Starfleet Captain Rayner. There’s no action or adventure except for that one moment.įrom NYCC trailer Callum Keith Rennie joins as a gruff captain Yes, that was Sonequa riding on top of a starship while it was at warp. Rod Roddenberry asked Michelle Paradise about a moment during the new trailer that appeared to show Captain Burnham on the top of the ship, which she confirmed, saying that was an example of the kind of thing to expect in season 5. I honestly-I swear I say this every season-but I think it’s the best season we’ve ever had. But each of them is also discovering even more of themselves… But what I love most is just this quest that we’re on, and how we come together as a team to solve it. And you really see everybody step up and use their strengths in order to solve a mystery, truly. We’re on an adventure, truly an adventure. It’s exciting.Ĭruz talked more about this shift during the Star Trek Universe panel.Ĭruz: Every season we have a bit of a shift in tone… and this season even more so.

And we get to travel a lot more through the galaxy… and go to places we’ve never seen before. And everybody has to bring their A-game in order to solve this mystery. I think what’s beautiful about this season is that it gives us another opportunity to come together as this team that we’ve developed. Culber) told EW this adventure is going to take the show to new places. There’s a quest, and this mysterious power… It is a quest that our heroes are on and they do have a chance to go on quite a few adventures this season, which will be fun. So this is more of an action-adventure sort of season. Coming into the season, Alex and I talked about shifting the tone a little bit because there was a bit of heaviness in season 3 and particularly in 4 with the DMA. We try to keep every season feeling fresh and new. Paradise: We do have a bit of a tonal shift this season. While in New York, executive producer Michelle Paradise talked to EW about how after saving the galaxy from an apocalypse (again) last season, the show is changing the tone for season 5. Showrunners Michelle Paradise and Alex Kurtzman were in New York along with members of the cast (and star Sonequa Martin-Green beamed in from the set in Toronto) to preview the changes in store for the show, which includes a new tone and some new characters. The fifth season of Star Trek: Discovery is finishing up production now, and a first look was shared by Paramount+ at New York Comic Con over the weekend.
