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Star Trek: Strange New Worlds features Anson Mount as Captain Pike alongside Ethan Peck and Rebecca Romijn who also reprise their Discovery roles as Spock and Number One, a.k.a. Una Chin-Riley, respectively. Filling out the crew of the USS Enterprise are Jess Bush (Skinford) as Nurse Christine Chapel, Celia Rose Gooding (Jagged Little Pill) as Nyota Uhura, Babs Olusanmokun (Dune) as Dr. M’Benga, Christina Chong (Black Mirror) as La’an Noonien-Singh, Melissa Navia (Billions) as Erica Ortegas and Bruce Horak (Warehouse 13) as Hemmer. (synopsis courtesy Flickering Myth)
A few days we shared the 30-second promo videos for each of the characters in the upcoming Star Trek retro goodness which is going to be Strange New Worlds, a show which appears to return the franchise to the swashbuckling adventures-in-an-episode of old, in a way that Den of Geek notes should prove pretty popular.
“For Trekkies who have craved a retro approach — but with great production values and VFX — Strange New Worlds seems to be the most fan-service oriented Star Trek project in a very long time.”
Having met the characters in glorious 3D visual, we now get to survey them in a more 2D but no less arresting way, through the character posters which were released this week.
All of the posters bring home the sheer wonder and expansiveness of the galaxy in which the show will operate, with the planets, nebulas etc behind the likes of Pike, Una, Uhura, Spock, M’Benga, Chapel, Noonien-Singh, Ortegas and Hemmer, with the promise of rich and exciting stories to come.
As poster narratives go, and the very best posters can tell a big story in a very small area, the Strange New Worlds ones are beguiling, potential-rich works of art which speaks to the action, fun and wonder that awaits in what is a very new frontier.
Before we get the posters though, glory in some trailer-rich fun …
We now resume brilliantly evocative 3D promo service …
