00:00This keeps getting cooler by the second.
00:15Wait, everyone shut up!
00:18This Kim's got two peps!
00:21You're all still ensigns?
00:24That's f***ed up!
00:27These characters, it's about community, it's about ambition, but it's also about their
00:31awkward adventures.
00:33Could you talk about how that balanced within the journey you saw with each of them?
00:37Tani, if you want to start first, and then Jack, Noelle, and Eugene.
00:41Sure.
00:42I mean, I think that's the concept of the show, right?
00:44That's the beauty in what Mike and the writers have created, is that, yeah, it's about these
00:49kind of high stakes adventures and the world that is Trek of seeking out new life and exploration
00:56and discovery.
00:57But it's also, we dedicate a lot of time and real estate to the stuff that other Trek shows
01:02kind of wouldn't waste time on.
01:04Like the downbeating moments, the little interpersonal back and forth, you know, two people fighting
01:09over how to water a bonsai tree, so they dress as Mark Twain, classic stuff like that.
01:12Classic.
01:13Things that happen in real life all the time.
01:14All the time.
01:15All the time.
01:16So yeah, I just think that permission to be able to focus more on the smaller, more character
01:21driven, sillier, weirder moments, that's like where my heart lives.
01:25So that's the secret sauce of this show.
01:27Yeah.
01:28I just love how every character has grown over these past five seasons.
01:32Like everyone has taken such a journey, not just us, but like the seniors, you know, the
01:37bridge crew as well, as all those characters are so well rounded and like, yeah, it's a
01:42silly comedy, but there are these real moments of like, like pathos, which I really, really
01:47appreciate.
01:48And also I love that, you know, Starfleet as depicted in a lot of the Trek shows, you
01:53know, obviously everyone is brilliant, like even the ensigns, like everyone is a very
01:57competent person, but I think, I love how this show shows that sometimes people can
02:02make mistakes and that that's okay, especially when you're like just kind of starting to
02:06rise through the ranks.
02:07So yeah, it holds a very, very special place in my heart.
02:11Captain's log.
02:12For once, everything's going better than expected.
02:15This is terrible.
02:17I wasn't sure how my junior officers would handle their new promotions.
02:22I don't want to get promoted.
02:23I want to stay charmingly unsubordinate.
02:26But they've shown remarkable composure.
02:29Everyone's obeying orders and working in lockstep.
02:31Nobody pull their disruptors.
02:35There's no chaos, hijinks, or interpersonal conflicts.
02:42Are you sure you broke up?
02:45Yes.
02:46This might be one of the most mature and capable crews in Starfleet.
02:51Let's do this.
02:53Yes.
02:54Totally.
02:55But you are sitting on it backwards.
02:56Damn it!
02:57The fact that all these things can exist in one thing, and to be very honest, to add it,
03:03there's understanding and acceptance.
03:04I mean, look with Tendi.
03:06Look at the journey she's gone through in finding herself.
03:09Talk about that if you would.
03:11Oh, great.
03:12Okay.
03:13So, well, first of all, I was thinking about how the show feels like everybody has their
03:19individual story arcs and everybody, as we said, has their character growth.
03:25But in many ways, when we always come back together in the end, it's like a slumber party.
03:29It's got this very cozy, warm, fun vibe.
03:32It's more like a, it feels more like a, it's like the sitcom-y energy that I really appreciate
03:37in terms of how they all relate to each other.
03:41But as far as Tendi's character arc, I love that she starts off like sort of naive and
03:48really eager to be in this new place, in this new world, and we sort of pull back the layers
03:52of the onion of like where she's come from and what she's really capable of and things
03:56that she's tried to get away from.
03:59Then she ultimately is like kind of having to embody some certain parts of her.
04:04So I love that in this show, we get to have a person who's cuddly and cute.
04:10And then we also get to see her do all this like crazy stuff.
04:13And in the world of animation, anything's possible.
04:16I feel like what we get to see with these characters and with this show is a way in
04:24for you to like be similar to.
04:28You can see those moments where they're not perfect.
04:31You can see the moments where they're moving, they're being positive, but trying to get
04:37to a place that we know all Trek is, which is like the bridge crew and everything.
04:42And now you're getting to like really feel like you're a part of something like, you
04:47know, you love a pro athlete, but you know, they didn't always start there and you're
04:52happy that they're human beings.
04:54So that the fact that these characters can be goofy and we get to see those moments where
04:59they mess up.
05:01But you also see like real friendship.
05:03I don't know why I'm pointing to these guys because of this.
05:07But you see real friendship.
05:08At least you didn't go real friendship.
05:10Real friendship.
05:11But like the fact that you can see that and how your community can help you and raise
05:16you up is something that you love to see.
05:19And yeah, I'm happy.
05:21What?
05:22All right, party people, what's the mish?
05:26Oh man, another quantum fissure?
05:28This is like the third one this month.
05:30Woohoo, interdimensional portal!
05:31They have been appearing with statistically abnormal regularity.
05:35Someone has to close the space-time potholes or who knows what kind of parallel universe
05:39stuff could drift into our dimension.
05:41How are the tachyon levels?
05:42Below the reaction threshold.
05:44Warp core will be fine.
05:45Wow, alternate dimensions.
05:46Imagine meeting like a bunch of weirdos with like feet for hands or feet for eyes or you
05:51know, something more creative than that.
05:57Captain, the fissure's losing integrity.
06:00Red alert!
06:01Get us out of here!
06:02We're cutting the penetration away!
06:04All crew, race for impact!
06:06Dunking into the Rift like a big ol' cookie!
06:12Damage report?
06:13All clear, Captain.
06:14Looks like that was more of a light show than anything else.
06:17We were lucky, but let's not push it.
06:19Set a return course through the-
06:21Captain, we're being hailed.
06:22Hailed?
06:23By who?
06:24It's...
06:25It's the Cerritos.
06:28Oh, stupid dimensional rifts.
06:36On screen!
06:37What up, Cerritos?
06:39This is Captain Becky Freeman.
06:41Looks like we have a lot to discuss.
06:45And my question, whoever wants to answer this one, it's, you know, it's interesting because
06:49it's about perspective.
06:50But as the actors playing these characters and looking at the visuals that accompany
06:55the voices, you know, could you sort of talk about looking at perspective of a world?
07:00You've seen this world expand with what Mike has done.
07:03Can you talk about what has surprised you the most?
07:05What has moved you the most?
07:08I mean, the thing that moves me still, and I say this all the time because I-
07:12is when I see those opening credits and all of our names-
07:18Yeah, it's crazy.
07:19And to be a part of Trek and to see that kind of classic, like the-
07:26Yeah, the font.
07:27TNG font, and then the theme music, and then like the Cerritos and everything.
07:33You're just like, what?
07:34It feels weird.
07:36It feels like you're part of this world.
07:38And it's still, every time I hear the theme start, I get more excited.
07:44Yeah.
07:45At the top of-
07:46Five seasons deep, and I'm still like, let me hear that theme.
07:49Oh, it's so good.
07:50When the choir comes in.
07:51I never skip the intro.
07:52Oh, never.
07:53Just watch out all the way through.
07:55Well, because also, I think I was so blown away by the fact-
07:58I'm still talking about the intro.
07:59It's so good.
08:00I was so blown away.
08:01Usually a cartoon, maybe there's like a little opening title crawl,
08:05but you almost never see actors' names in it.
08:07And then I think when I first saw it, I was like, oh yeah, it's a Trek show.
08:11And that's a thing that they do.
08:12They see the actors' names beforehand, and this is no different.
08:15And that was so crazy to see all of our names up there.
08:18It's so surreal.
08:19Especially when I was first reading the scripts for the first couple of-
08:23for the first season.
08:25You see all these names like T'Anna and Shaxx, and you don't really quite know.
08:30You have an idea of what that character might do,
08:33but you don't really know until you see it.
08:35And you're like, oh, how amazing Jillian Bigman is.
08:37Oh, yeah.
08:38Fred Tatasciore, all these incredible actors and how they fill their roles.
08:43I loved recording season two because I was like, oh, I've seen the show now.
08:46And I know what everyone's deal is.
08:48And I know, like, now I know exactly how you guys are going to say your line.
08:53Like, we don't record together anymore.
08:54You don't know me.
08:55Oh, I know exactly.
08:56Yeah.
08:57I see Amir in a lot of my time.
08:58He's going to read it like this.
09:00Unpredictable and chaotic.
09:02Yeah.
09:03Oh, it's instinct.
09:04Oh, wow.
09:05Thank you guys so much.
09:06Well, I enjoyed it.
09:07Yeah, when that monster's at the end grabbing onto the ship, I'm like, yes,
09:11this is where we are.
09:12That's awesome.
09:13Don't want to know what that guy's deal is.
09:15I don't know what it is.
09:16I think we never found out.
09:18Come on, danger time.
09:25I like when stuff isn't our fault.
09:31Firing pulse.
09:33Check me out.
09:34I'm a total T'Pol over here.
09:36Oh, yeah, that's the stuff.
09:41Oh, yeah.
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