Summary
- Star Trek's modern era offers a plethora of diverse content to expand storytelling styles and trends.
- Actress Celia Rose Gooding suggests a mockumentary genre for Star Trek's new project.
- Star Trek: Strange New Worlds explored unconventional elements like music, leaving room for more creative experimentation.
Star Trek has seen a lot of different new approaches to its content since it made the return to its original medium, and one star of the modern era has a pretty novel new idea for the franchise to try in light of their show’s most recent historical first.
While modern Star Trek started off as a primarily theatrical affair based on the whims of IP holders Paramount, the franchise has since returned to its TV roots with far more variety than ever before. With a plethora of shows running in tandem on the Paramount+ streaming service, different creatives have been able to put their own unique spin on the oft-formulaic nature of the older Star Trek shows. Some of this has come by way of animated shows, a medium that’s far more potent now than it ever could have been in the old days and is even geared to give Star Trek its most unique project yet.
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While it’s still early in the development of that promised animated series, the franchise has done some other interesting and unexpected things, such as taking on the musical genre with the Star Trek: Strange New Worlds episode Subspace Rhapsody. The episode, which saw the crew of the USS Enterprise compelled to sing their thoughts and feelings out loud after encountering a naturally occurring fold in subspace, was a massive hit with critics and fans. Celia Rose Gooding, who plays the most culturally impactful role on the Star Trek show as the face of Nyota Uhura in the same vein as original actress Nichelle Nichols and reboot film franchise choice Zoe Saldaña, recently gave her pick for what other genre the franchise could tackle next. “Reality. Like, very Abbott Elementary, St. Denis Medical, The Office, just something like that,” Gooding suggested during the Star Trek: Strange New Worlds panel at Emerald City Comic Con, per Popverse. When asked if she meant something along the lines of a Star Trek mockumentary, the actress replied, “Sure.”
The amount of diverse content that's come out of the Paramount+ era of Star Trek has greatly expanded the franchise’s potential for storytelling in different styles and takes on different trends. With more than one show and no overarching narrative to be yoked to on streaming, there's no reason why a mockumentary episode wouldn't work, especially for Strange New World. Gooding’s Strange New Worlds co-star Anson Mount also recently made a pretty bold suggestion for the franchise, centering one of his character’s more unique traits to dream up an equally special Star Trek companion project. While the show already has its own essence after three solid seasons on the streamer, there's certainly room for more branching out, as Subspace Rhapsody illustrated. The only real question left on the board is who Gooding thinks would be the Enterprise’s Michael Scott.
With production on a fourth Strange New Worlds season set to kick off this month, fans can look forward to more adventures with Gooding and the rest of the cast. Whether or not they’ll be getting up to any antics inspired by The Office is still up in the air, but the idea certainly has a lot of potential. Fans will have to wait and see just how far the Paramount+ era will take the franchise off the beaten path to bring that idea to life.
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds is available to stream on Paramount+.
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds
Display card tags widget Display card community and brand rating widget Display card main info widget- Release Date
- May 5, 2022
- Network
- Paramount+
- Showrunner
- Henry Alonso Myers, Akiva Goldsman
- Cast
- Anson Mount, Ethan Peck, Jess Bush, Christina Chong, Celia Rose Gooding, Adrian Holmes, Andrew Jackson, Clint Howard, Mia Kirshner, Robert Wisdom, Russell Yuen, Samantha Smith, Husein Madhavji, Christopher Wyllie, Laura Wilson, Melissa Navia, Noel Wells, Tiffany Martin, Torri Webster, Luke Marty, Myles Dobson, Jesse James Keitel, Daniel Gravelle, Carla Bennett, Robin Schisler, Saida Ali
- Directors
- Dan Liu, Amanda Row, Maja Vrvilo, Akiva Goldsman, Dermott Downs, Eduardo Sánchez, Jeffrey W. Byrd, Jonathan Frakes, Jordan Canning, Leslie Hope, Valerie Weiss, Sydney Freeland, Christopher J. Byrne, Rachel Leiterman
- Writers
- Onitra Johnson
- Franchise(s)
- Star Trek
- Main Genre
- Sci-Fi
- Seasons
- 3
- Producers
- Alex Kurtzman, Kirsten Beyer, Davy Perez, Frank Siracusa, Henry Alonso Myers, Jenny Lumet, Bill Wolkoff, Chris Fisher, John Weber, Trevor Roth, Andrea Raffaghello, Rod Roddenberry, Heather Kadin, Aaron Baiers, Dana Horgan, Akela Cooper, Kathryn Lyn, Jason Zimmerman, Beau DeMayo, Paul Gadd, April Nocifora
- Story By
- Akiva Goldsman, Alex Kurtzman, Jenny Lumet
- Streaming Service(s)
- Paramount Plus
- Creator(s)
- Akiva Goldsman, Alex Kurtzman, Jenny Lumet
- Where To Watch
- Paramount Plus
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