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‘picard’ showrunner michael chabon reveals why he killed a classic ‘star trek’ character.

The latest episode of 'Star Trek: Picard' features a gut punch of a death.

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[This episode contains spoilers for  Star Trek: Picard ,  season one, episode seven.]

“It felt very sad to write it.”

“It” being Hugh’s gut punch of a death scene in Star Trek : Picard ‘s latest episode, “Nepenthe,” co-written by showrunner Michael Chabon . He scripted the scene where the former Borg — that Picard once helped liberate from the collective almost 30 years ago — died a less-than-heroic death at the hands of the villainous Narissa and one of her throwing knives. 

Chabon, a devout Star Trek: The Next Generation fan, is well aware of how important the character of Hugh is to both audiences and the franchise. In a recent interview with The Hollywood Reporter , the Pulitzer prize-winning author said he was very mindful of the Trek franchise being hit-or-miss when it comes to RIP-ing characters as beloved as Hugh (see Tasha Yar and Jim Kirk ). And while it was not the easiest of scenes to write, it was one of necessity. 

“I wouldn’t say this was always the plan for the character, but when we started fleshing out and shaping Hugh’s arc, it felt like the best — most emotionally honest — way to go,” Chabon explained. 

“The storyline for the season, as it first emerged, didn’t originally include the character of Hugh,” he revealed. The original story outline also did not include another former Borg, Star Trek: Voyager ‘s Icheb, who died in a previous episode, “ Stardust City Rag .” But featuring those two characters proved essential to Chabon and his writers. 

“The initial germ of having Hugh involved,” Chabon explained, “and that he would die came from the natural discussions of, what does it mean to have been Borg? So once we sort of committed to a big part of our season being about the lives of former Borg — Ex Bs, as we call them — and exploring how their lives are traumatized [from that experience], how they have or have not dealt with that trauma, and how they remain these objects of fear and hatred even though they were victimized by the Borg, to put Hugh in the center of that lead to what felt like a dramatic way to service the character’s end.” 

That end is preceded by the implication that Hugh is primed to lead another Borg uprising or revolution on the Artifact, much like he did in part in the TNG season seven premiere, “Descent, Part II.” Bookending his life that way, while not originally intentional, was something Chabon was aware of when scripting the scene — “to give the character a certain trajectory,” as he put it. Chabon also feels this arc carries an extra resonance for fans who have been invested in Hugh’s storyline ever since he was introduced in 1992’s season five episode, “I, Borg.” 

Two more legacy TNG characters who were just as important to Chabon as Hugh were William Riker (Jonathan Frakes) and his wife, Deanna Troi (Marina Sirtis). “Nepenthe” pairs them with their old captain for the first time since 2002’s Star Trek: Nemesis , and Chabon was determined to do for them what he and his fellow writers did for the show’s titular character: “We wanted to show how they are real people, who have had lives and experiences beyond just those they shared on the Enterprise. And like Picard, they have been changed and affected by the state the Federation and Starfleet find themselves in.”

One of those changes — a significant one — comes late in the episode when Troi sternly (but effectively) calls out Picard for showing a lack of mindfulness and sensitivity during a delicate interaction with the character of Soji (Isa Briones), who is struggling with the recent revelation that her life has largely been a lie. That she isn’t human; she’s an android — a superior form of “synthetic” at a time when synths are banned by the Federation. While Troi has always had her captain’s ear, we’ve never quite seen her react this way to her friend. And, according to Chabon, that was the point. 

“When you’re in the scene,” Chabon said, “and knowing who [Riker and Troi] are, and who they have been, and trying to project them forward into a narrative that feels believable — and incorporate some of the themes of this show, like reckoning with the past, if you’re a fan of the show, this interaction — it’s necessary. It’s not expected, but it’s important to the character of Picard to have this moment.”

Moreover, for Chabon, the brief conflict between Picard and his former ship’s counselor feels about as human and real as Trek can get. Or has ever gotten. 

“When someone calls you out on your shit like that? On the things you’re dealing with and not acknowledging that you should acknowledge? To me, that’s the definition of a friend,” he said.

Another friend of Picard’s mentioned heavily throughout the episode is that of the late Lt. Cmdr. Data (Brent Spiner). While versions of the character — wearing both movie and TNG uniforms — have appeared to Picard in dreams, Chabon was tight-lipped about whether or not Jean-Luc will reunite with his friend (or a version of him) by the season’s end. 

But given how vital Data has been to the story’s arc, it seems that Riker and Troi are not the last TNG reunion of sorts that the series has in store. 

Find out when new episodes of Picard stream Thursdays on CBS All Access. 

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Futurama's Death By Snu Snu Episode Is Yet Another Ode To Star Trek

I n the "Futurama" episode "Amazon Women in the Mood" (February 4, 2001), the blustering misogynist Zapp Brannigan (Billy West) takes control of a space-bound restaurant and pilots it through dangerous areas of space, merely because it's more adventurous that way. Naturally, the restaurant is damaged during its voyage and crash lands on a distant, uncharted planet with the Planet Express crew. They discover on the uncharted planet a race of nine-foot-tall Amazon women clad in animal skin bikinis and carrying clubs. The Amazonians rarely see men on their planet and are not exactly sure what men are supposed to be good for . 

This premise, of course, is cribbed from any number of pornographic male fantasies stretching back at least to the publication of H. Rider Haggard's "She" in 1886. There is a streak of colonialist fiction that dramatized faraway places (that is: far away from Western Europe) as Edenic locales where women wear less clothing and are willing to engage in coitus with European men merely as an exciting curiosity. 

As such, in "Amazon Women in the Mood," Fry (West), Kif (Maurice LaMarche), and Zapp are taken prisoner and sentenced to death for being male. Their form of execution, however, is "death by snu-snu," which is to say they will copulate with a long string of nine-foot women until they die. Bender is spared because he has no genitals. 

An oral history of "Women in the Mood" was printed by Cracked in 2023, and the episode's writer, Lewis Morton, explained that, yes, he got to write a bunch of sex jokes, but that he was also inspired by certain episodes of "Star Trek," specifically, the episodes wherein a computer rules a planet of innocents. Which has happened more than once. 

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Death By Snu-Snu

It should be noted that Zapp Brannigan is a very William Shatner-like character , who possesses a flair for histrionics and hefts around a massively inflated ego. He is already a "Star Trek" reference. Morton admitted that a big part of "Amazon" was the scene wherein Zapp sang karaoke in a Shatnerian style. He said: 

"One thing we wanted to put into 'Amazon Women in the Mood' was when Zapp Brannigan did karaoke as William Shatner. Behind the scenes, Billy West and Maurice LaMarche used to do dead-on impressions of these famous William Shatner voiceover outtakes, so we put a bunch of lines from those outtakes into the script. There's a famous one where Shatner's berating a voiceover director and says, 'You sicken me.' The whole big chunk of him being William Shatner was just an excuse to put that into a script. All of this is just a part of our ongoing love of and obsession with ' Star Trek.'"

The twist partway through "Amazon Women in the Mood" was the revelation that the Amazonian world was overseen by an intelligent computer voiced by Bea Arthur. The "Femputer" selected laws for the Amazons and they worshiped her like a goddess. The Femputer was visualized as a massive wall-sized contraption covered with blinking lights, very much the way a computer looked in 1960s episodes of "Star Trek." Morton admitted that the 1960s "Star Trek" computers were a primary inspiration for the "Femputer," and he clearly knew about episodes like "The Return of the Archons" (February 9, 1967) and "The Apple" (October 13, 1967). Both those episodes featured worlds trapped in an early stage of their development by an all-powerful computer. 

'The Return Of The Archons' And 'The Apple'

In "The Return of the Archons," Kirk and company discover a planet ruled by a dictator named Landru who hypnotizes his subjects to be placid and eerily serene. Every so often, they are allowed a "Red Hour," which is sort of like The Purge. Kirk later discovers that Landru is a computer that has been keeping his citizens in line. The ultra-computer in "The Apple" is named Vaal, a snake-shaped machine that has been overseeing a local alien species and making sure they remain in a nonsexual state of childlike innocence. Kirk will have to destroy Vaal and teach the aliens how to boink. 

To that end, Morton said: 

"Another shout-out to ' Star Trek' from this episode is that the planet is run by a giant computer. There was at least one episode where they land on a planet with primitive people whose society is run by a giant computer — or like, the 1960s idea of what a computer was, with it being as big as a room and there's a bunch of flashing lights on it."

Morton was thinking of the Landru computer (pictured above). He was especially impressed, however, with Bea Arthur. With a decades-long career, Arthur asked no questions about her silly dialogue. It was also revealed that the Femputer was actually being controlled by a robot (!), leading to one of Morton's favorite lines of dialogue: 

"[W]e got Bea Arthur to play Femputer. She had a voice with a lower register and she had authority, so it was a great choice. I thought the line 'Have you any idea how it feels to be a fembot living in a manbot's manputer's world?' was unperformable, but she killed it on the first take." 

R.I.P. Bea Arthur . 

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Star Trek: Picard Showrunner Explains Why a Classic Character Was Killed

Head writer Michael Chabon talks about the fate of former Borg Hugh and how it fits into the larger story.

WARNING: The following contains spoilers for Season 1, Episode 7 of Star Trek: Picard , "Nepenthe," now streaming on CBS All Access.

The seventh episode of  Star Trek: Picard  was tinged with nostalgia, as Picard (Patrick Stewart) reunited with his old friends William Riker (Jonathan Frakes) and Deanna Troi (Marina Sirtis). Unfortunately, another returning character suffered a grisly fate, as former Borg Hugh (Jonathan Del Arco) was killed by the Romulan Narissa Rizzo.

Picard  showrunner Michael Chabon, who co-wrote the episode, recently spoke about Hugh's death in an interview.

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"It felt very sad to write it," Chabon confessed. "I wouldn't say this was always the plan for the character, but when we started fleshing out and shaping Hugh's arc, it felt like the best — most emotionally honest — way to go."

Chabon also said that Hugh was never intended to be part of the original series pitch for  Picard,  but once the idea of including ex-Borg came up in discussions, he couldn't turn it down: "...once we sort of committed to a big part of our season being about the lives of former Borg — Ex Bs, as we call them — and exploring how their lives are traumatized [from that experience], how they have or have not dealt with that trauma, and how they remain these objects of fear and hatred even though they were victimized by the Borg, to put Hugh in the center of that lead to what felt like a dramatic way to service the character's end."

RELATED:  Star Trek: Picard Showrunner On Reuniting Picard, Troi and Riker

Star Trek: Picard stars Patrick Stewart, Alison Pill, Michelle Hurd, Evan Evagora, Isa Briones, Santiago Cabrera and Harry Treadaway. A new episode arrives each Thursday on CBS All Access.

Interview (With SPOILERS): Star Trek's First Blind Actor on Cancer, Family and Facing Death

By John Kirk

Warning: A SIGNIFICANT SPOILER for Star Trek: Strange New Worlds , Season One, Episode Nine is present in this interview .

Bruce Horak , the Canadian actor who plays Chief Engineer, Lieutenant Hemmer on Star Trek: Strange New Worlds , belongs to a variety of families.

Whether it’s here on Earth in Stratford, Ontario, or somewhere in the final frontier, he has become a welcome addition to the cast of Strange New Worlds, and a Star Trek first – a blind character played by a legally blind actor.

Hemmer is an Aenar, a blind species of the Andorians, and has endeared himself to not only the family of the USS Enterprise, but to fans as well.

Hemmer (Bruce Horak) mentors Cadet Uhura (Celia Rose Gooding) on Star Trek: Strange New Worlds

“From the beginning, the writers wanted Hemmer to be a favourite,” he said via Zoom. “I’m overjoyed that people – fans – are having that emotional reaction. To me, he’s Uhura’s Obi-Wan.” Referring to the near-familial bond that Hemmer and Cadet Uhura ( Celia Rose Gooding ) have developed in this first season, Horak can strongly relate to that in these episodes.

 A childhood cancer survivor, Horak was diagnosed with retinoblastoma at a year old. From parental experience, I can say cancer is a horrible thing for anyone. But when it strikes a child, the entire family feels it at an extremely poignant level. When you are a childhood cancer survivor or patient, you automatically join a very exclusive family, a welcoming one, but one you wish you hadn’t joined.

“My mother noticed there was something wrong with my eye. She took me to the eye-doctor, who recognized it right away. I was diagnosed with retinoblastoma and they initially recommended that both eyes be removed.

“But they spoke with my father, who had lost the sight in his left eye as a child. At the time, nobody told him it was cancer or even used the word. It was that generation. They just told him, ‘You got a virus, and then you lost your sight.’ Retinoblastoma is one of those cancers that is genetically inherited. So, there he is, at 34, being told that it was his fault.

“Well, that was how he took it, at least. But he found strength enough to say that they had to save what sight they could. There was a doctor at Sick Kids in Toronto who had developed a radical new procedure. And my mom dropped everything, called him, and we flew to Toronto for surgeries and radiation. I couldn’t tell you how many treatments, radiation and then observation, under an anesthetic, every six months for four years.”

The Enterprise away team on tonight’s Strange New World

Sacrifice is a common experience shared in any childhood cancer family. Parents sacrifice time, careers, even their mental wellness, because that’s what parents do. Guilt, is a common experience too and is also felt by childhood cancer parents feel as well.

In S1E9 “All Those Who Wander”, the theme of sacrifice is obvious and extremely prominent in Hemmer. There’s a near-fatherly bond with Uhura, who has lost her own parents and has taken to Hemmer as a sort of mentor. This developed in S1E4 “Memento Mori” as Hemmer helped guide Uhura through emergency repairs to save the ship.

It is Hemmer who helps her to realize her direction in life. Life lessons are what all parents teach, whether they are cancer-parents, regular parents or even Andorian Aenar.

To offset the guilt and the brutal experience of cancer therapy, it’s common for parents to submerge their kids in fantasy to escape the harsh reality of the treatment. This was Bruce’s experience too.

“My Dad was a huge nerd. He collected comic books. His study was floor-to-ceiling with old comics, pulps, newsprint. He was a big “Prince Valiant” fan and started the Alberta Comic Collectors’ Association. He wrote a book called “The Prince Valiant Companion” and had a newsletter called “ The Caniffites Journal ”.

(At this point, I was able to pull out my hardcover copy of “Prince Valiant, Volume 1.)

“You have “Prince Valiant”?” Bruce exclaimed in surprise.

Something told me that Bruce’s father, Karl, and I would have gotten along.

“He was a huge Milton Caniff fan. He used to cut the old newspapers out and bound them all the comic strips together. So, I’d lie on the floor and read them – and they were huge! Basically, how I learned to read was with “Prince Valiant.”

“Yeah, he was quite the guy. Dad’s study was the sanctuary. Action Comics #1 , X-Men #1 – I got so excited about Alpha Flight ! He also was an English Teacher and did his Master’s Thesis on teaching science fiction in high school. There was no way we weren’t going to be immersed in the world of fantasy.”

Karl, after surviving his own retinoblastoma, passed away from esophageal cancer and had a remarkable take on his disease.

“The way he spoke about his cancer was quite profound. He lived with it his whole life. It wasn’t like he’d had a sudden heart attack and died on the lawn. He had a year before he died and he often said that cancer had given him the time to say good-bye and for that he was grateful. But he was also a comic, so he also had a sense of humour about it.”

It was this profundity that perhaps inspired Bruce to develop his own darkly humourous one-man stage show called “This is Cancer.” Star Trek was just another family that was meant to be for Bruce. It came calling through traditional means, via his agent.

“When they mentioned the character was a blind engineer – that was totally cool with me.” Bruce said.

SPOILER ALERT!

Hemmer doesn’t take life for granted either. And that’s a strong theme in “All Those Who Wander.” In this episode, the Enterprise detects a downed ship on a planet with an inhospitably wintery environment. In the course of sending landing parties to recover the USS Peregrine, a smaller version of their Constitution-class starship, they discover that the survivors are infested with Gorn eggs , which hatch within their hosts. Hemmer becomes infected himself, but saves his shipmates..

I asked Bruce if he had any regrets.

He laughed.

“Regrets? No. From the time, I was told the character was going to go – which is kind of a nice thing for an actor to know actually - but my number one concern, which I expressed on many occasions (chuckle) was: ‘Please make his death cool.’”

At a casual glance, it may seem like a simple request, but when one lives with cancer, death is sometimes a reality. Living with cancer gives one a unique perspective on death in that the way we go out. Bruce had a chance to make Hemmer’s death one that would be decided in his terms and remembered.

“When I read the script – he gets a hero’s death. I think that’s what every actor wants. Instead of a surprise or getting sucked out the airlock or something, he gets to sacrifice himself. No cowardly death for him. This is the hero’s moment and that feels really good.

“He went out the way that was valiant – there’s the “Prince Valiant” moment! I saw the edit and I thought he looked really great. It left an impact and I walked away feeling good about that and the work I got to do.

“I wish, as a cast, that we had more time to hang out, because COVID protocols prevented us from hanging out. But on set, we had our masks and PPE off, and that was when we could connect in the way that we are supposed to connect. If there is anything that the pandemic has taught me, it’s that we have such a human desire to connect with each other, to see and be seen.”

Hemmer’s death is glorious. His arc was cut short, but in that time, he quickly became a key member of the crew. He was accepted, loved and at the end of the journey, appreciated by his family for what he was.

Citing Jeffrey Coombs ’ prolific performances as various characters in the Star Trek franchise ( Deep Space Nine , Enterprise ), I asked if there was a chance we might see him again.

“I have been allowed to say this, that this is not the end of Bruce Horak’s journey with Strange New Worlds. ”

That’s good news.

“This is my first real foray into television. I was on Warehouse 13 , along with commercials. But to land in this world – I feel like a little bit like fish out of water. But I’m eating it up! I feel like Hemmer had a great run, but I’m really eager to meet the fans because they’ve made me feel like one of the family.”

Hemmer really isn’t lost. Film is forever, as Bruce says, but Star Trek characters not only have a way of returning somehow, but also survive in other mediums. Comics, novels, animated shows and films have all seen the return of favourite Trek figures in some shape or form.

“From the very first, the writers said we want to make him a favourite - and, in my words, wanted his loss to be felt. He wasn’t an inconsequential character. Hemmer tells Uhura to make a home for herself with those around you, to connect. And isn’t that a great message? Especially in these times?”

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds. starring Anson Mount , Rebecca Romijn , Ethan Peck , Jess Bush , Christina Chong , Celia Rose Gooding, Melissa Navia , Babs Olusanmokun and Bruce Horak. Streaming on CTV Sci-Fi Channel and Crave.

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EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: Heather Langenkamp On The Trek-Elm Street Connection

It’s got to surprise people to learn that Heather Langenkamp from Elm Street is involved in Star Trek …

LANGENKAMP: A lot of people don’t know. I actually have to tell them I’m in the movie because nobody in the world is going to know that on their own, unless they like to read the credits. But I wanted to be in Star Trek really desperately because, after having experienced all the Elm Street fan love, having been a part of the conventions and having been a part of such an iconic franchise, I knew it was something similar with Star Trek . Star Trek has such a great legacy and it means so much to so many people. So, when my husband got the job, when our studio got the job to do the makeups, I begged my husband, like, “Please, can we make one that I can wear?” I tried to be cool about it, but I probably wasn’t very cool. But I was persuasive enough and he caved.

Tell us about the makeup on Moto…

LANGENKAMP: The makeup that I wear is actually a very special design that we’d developed in our studio. There was no movie that it was for, originally. A sculptor had come up with these designs. It was kind of a spec project and it ended up sitting on the shelf for many years. The sculptor actually passed away from a tragic bout with cancer. So we were even more determined to get this makeup on screen and we said, “If it ever gets on screen we’ll call the character Moto,” because that was the name of the sculptor. His name was Moto.

And what was J.J. Abrams’ reaction when David brought it up to him?

LANGENKAMP: J.J. was really open-minded when David told him the scenario and the story, and he loved the design. So we found a place in the film where this character could fit, where it could logically be, which is in the brig. I imagined that Moto is a climate-control officer, keeping the humidity at a proper level. I sat at a desk and had all these dials to play with. It was a beautiful set, of course. It’s every Star Trek fan’s dream to be in a S tar Trek movie. So it was exciting. I hope I didn’t jump the shark, but I’m really happy that I got to do it.

How long were you on set playing Moto?

LANGENKAMP: I had three days on set, maybe four. The first day was in the brig, when the Enterprise characters are imprisoning Khan. The second day was also in the brig, when Alice Eve and Simon Pegg get transported back to the Enterprise after their adventure. And then I was in the funeral scene at the very end, but that didn’t make it on screen at all.

Your family’s history actually intersected with Star Trek even earlier, right?

LANGENKAMP: My father-in-law, Lance Anderson, who started my husband in the business, actually worked on Star Trek IV . One of the first jobs my husband ever had was to make the whale for that movie. Those were some of the first pictures I ever saw of my husband working with his dad. They were making this gigantic mold. They even took a wall out of the studio so they could accommodate the length of that piece. I remember thinking to myself, as a person who was brand new to the industry, “Wow, I had no idea how any of that was made.” But my husband and his dad worked together for many years, working on The Serpent and The Rainbow, Shocker and Pet Sematary .  Finally, his dad started to retire and there was a void in the shop. I really wanted to participate and there was definitely a need in there for a person to do the books and sweep the floor at night. So I kind of wormed my way in, and the first job in which I really became an active participant was Dawn of the Dead . We went to Canada and I was the coordinator of the shop in Toronto, where we made that film. It went really well and the film turned out great, and I really fell in love with the whole process. Since then, we’ve done a lot of movies and Into Darkness is our latest work.

Aside from Moto, what else in Star Trek Into Darknes s is the AFX team particularly proud of?

LANGENKAMP: I would say there are several different makeups that David is proud of, and for different reasons. The Nibiran makeup at the top of the movie was very challenging. There were a lot of those characters and they wanted them to all look unique, but they didn’t have a ton of money to spend on the CGI set piece. It’s so expensive to create something like that. So that was in the works for seven or eight months, designing what that would be. It was a series of layers of clay put on each man, and it’d take four or five hours to put a layer on and dry it, then layer and dry, layer and dry, so you get that real crackly, flaking-off look. It’s a real fun look to think about, but doing it was tough. We’d start at 2 a.m. on every one of those shooting days and we had a crew of about 20 people, maybe even 30 people all told, working to get those men ready. Then the costume department also really participated by developing a few zip-suits that the guys in the very-far background could just zip themselves into so that we wouldn’t have to prepare their whole bodies.

The bar scene has a wonderful makeup. There’s a female and a male, and they have kind of an artichoke-looking head with acrylic little pieces that shimmer. In the scene, you couldn’t really see how beautiful those makeups were, but those were my favorites by far. Mark Garbarino applied those makeups and developed them in our shop. Then we had a lot of pull-over masks that were really beautiful, but in this kind of movie there’s so much story to tell, so much action and tons of CGI, that the extras in the background kind of get lost in the shuffle. The green girl was great to do. It’s just really fun to see all these things come alive. And, I think, technically, the Klingons are the most beautiful makeups in the movie. It looked so great on the actors.

Last question before we let you go. You coordinate everything for AFX Studio, doing the books and lining up gigs, etc. So, what does AFX have coming up, and are you still in the acting game?

LANGENKAMP: Yes. Gosh, I’d love to get some more acting parts. But I don’t know, doing makeup parts, where you’re wearing makeup that totally covers your head, hair and neck, it’s very comforting for an actress of my age. The older you get, you just find your vanity creeping into the way you imagine yourself. So, when I got a chance to wear this kind of makeup it was actually really liberating. You don’t worry about anything except your character and being on time. But we’ve been doing a lot of different projects at AFX: features, commercials and TV shows. We’re creating makeup effects for a new Universal show called Crossbones , which stars John Malkovich. We also created the main monster character for Indigenous , which is a Chupacabra movie coming out next year.

And in terms of acting, I just did a movie that was all women who’d been in horror movies. It’s called The Butterfly Room . I did another film, Home , which is a horror thriller set in Los Angeles. They’ll both be out next year. And I’m always promoting my documentary I Am Nancy , which is about my experience playing Nancy Thompson and her impact on the fans of Nightmare on Elm Street . It’s really a love letter to the fans. Next year is the 30th anniversary of A Nightmare on Elm Street , so I’ll be doing conventions and celebrating that.

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Wilson cruz killed it playing star trek: discovery's trill.

Wilson Cruz got to play a different character in Star Trek: Discovery season 5, and he absolutely nailed the performance as an 800-year-old Trill.

Warning: SPOILERS for Star Trek: Discovery Season 5, Episode 3 - "Jinaal"

• Wilson Cruz shines as Dr. Culber possessed by Trill host Jinaal in Star Trek: Discovery Season 5, Episode 3.
• Burnham and crew hunt for the Progenitors' treasure in an intergalactic adventure, following clues in the latest episode.
• Cruz based his performance as Jinaal on Jack Palance in City Slickers.

Wilson Cruz's Dr. Hugh Culber gets temporarily possessed by an 800-year-old Trill in Star Trek: Discovery season 5, episode 3, "Jinaal", and Cruz absolutely kills it with his performance. In its fifth and final season, Discovery sends Captain Michael Burnham (Sonequa Martin-Green) and the crew of the USS Discovery on an intergalactic treasure hunt to find the ancient and powerful treasure of the Progenitors. In a story that began in Star Trek: The Next Generation's "The Chase," Burnham and her crew must follow a series of clues that lead to the technology the mysterious Progenitors used to create all humanoid life.

In Star Trek: Discovery season 5, episode 3 , "Jinaal," written by Kyle Jarrow and Lauren Wilkinson and directed by Andi Armaganian, the USS Discovery travels to Trill to find an 800-year-old symbiote whose original host helped hide the Progenitors' technology. In a variation of the Trill ceremony known as zhian'tara (first introduced in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine) , Dr. Hugh Culber allows his body to be inhabited by the consciousness of a Trill host named Jinaal. Written by Kyle Jarrow and Lauren Wilkinson and directed by Andi Armaganian, the third episode of Discovery season 5 reveals more information about the Progentiors' treasure and the six scientists sent to find it.

Star Trek: Discovery Season 5 Returning Cast & New Character Guide

Wilson cruz was great as dr. culber posseed by a trill in star trek: discovery, cruz makes jinaal truly feel like an entirely new character..

In the Star Trek aftershow, The Ready Room , hosted by Wil Wheaton, Wilson Cruz said he was "extremely excited" when he learned he would get to play a character other than Dr. Culber. Cruz revealed a little bit about how he imagined the character of Jinaal, saying:

Now that everybody's seen it, I will let you know that in my head, I had like a Jack Palance in City Slickers. You know, this person who was clearly there, having a great time being in the world again, but also knew that he had a mission.

Cruz went on to say that he wanted to make sure Jinaal was "distinct from Culber," and the actor certainly accomplished this. Because Dr. Culber has been struggling with his traumatic experiences, it was great to see Wilson Cruz express real joy as Jinaal. In only a few scenes, Cruz made Jamaal feel like a completely realized character, who was entirely separate from Hugh. From the way he talked and moved to the way he interacted with the world around him, Jinaal felt like someone who was savoring every second he had in this temporary body. From the moment Jinaal opened Culber's eyes, it was clear he was his own character with a big personality.

Star Trek Characters Inhabited By Aliens Is A Star Trek Tradition

It seems like every main star trek character gets possessed at some point..

Dr. Culber is far from the only Star Trek character to be inhabited by another consciousness , as the practice has become something of a Star Trek tradition. From Star Trek: The Original Series through the modern day, nearly every Star Trek show has featured one of the main cast members being possessed or inhabited by an alien presence. The word possession has a negative connotation, and this holds true for many of the possessions in Star Trek, while others are merely alien beings seeking to learn. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, for example, had Trill transfers using the same zhian'tara ceremony used on Dr. Culber, and the villainous Pah-wraiths, whose possessions were much more destructive.

In the most devastating Star Trek possession, a Pah-wraith-possessed Dukat (Marc Alaimo) killed Lt. Commander Jadzia Dax (Terry Ferrell) just after she had decided to have children with her husband, Lt. Commander Worf (Michael Dorn).

Storylines involving alien possession also allow actors to play different characters, which, with Star Trek's talented crop of actors, is always fun to see. On Star Trek: The Next Generation , Brent Spiner got to play numerous characters, as Lt. Commander Data seemed to get possessed or otherwise inhabited more often than most. From dead ancestors to parasites to ancient gods and every kind of non-corporeal alien in between, Star Trek has dipped into the possession well many times, for both good and ill. Thankfully, Jinaal causes no harm to Culber, although the experience does seem to have a profound effect on Star Trek: Discovery's doctor, the full repercussions of which remain to be seen.

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Heather Young

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Young was born in Burlington, Ontario, Canada. Young has appeared in Soldier of Fortune, Inc. (1998), Misguided Angels (1999), Relic Hunter (2000), The Hunger (2000), and Sabrina the Teenage Witch (2001 and 2002), as well Merlin (1998) and the television action film Shutterspeed (2000).

Young has also worked as a model and appeared in several international magazines.

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• Heather Young at the Internet Movie Database