Strange New Worlds Season 2 Interview: Celia Rose Gooding & Melissa Navia
18On June 15, Paramount+ returns viewers to the USS Enterprise in Akiva Goldsman and Henry Myers’ Star Trek prequel spinoff Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 2, premiering not too long after the renewal for Season 3 was announced. Brand-new worlds and aliens await the crew in this upcoming season, and Collider’s Steve Weintraub caught up with cast members Celia Rose Gooding, who plays a young Uhura, and Melissa Navia, the “hotshot pilot” introduced in Season 1, to find out what fans can expect ahead of the first episode.
In Season 1, the Enterprise is helmed by Captain Christopher Pike (Anson Mount) nearly a decade before William Shatner’s Captain James Kirk boldly took the world where no man had gone before in Star Trek: The Original Series. Strange New Worlds offered a glimpse into the early days of beloved characters like Gooding’s Uhura and Ethan Peck as a younger Spock, still adjusting to the social parameters around him. We also met new faces, like Bruce Horak’s Hemmer, who served as a mentor to the young Uhura before his untimely death, and Navia’s wise-cracking Lieutenant Erica Ortegas, in episodic adventures that recalled the classic original series’ propulsive missions.
Before binging the first season again in preparation, you can watch or read Gooding and Navia’s interview below to find out more about the upcoming season, and which of the 10 episodes are their favorites and why. Without spoilers, the duo discusses challenging moments ahead, the real-life devotion of Captain Pike’s Anson Mount, and Gooding says the show will pick up right where it left off, finding Uhura still processing the grief of losing Hemmer. They also tease what’s in store for their characters, who are joined by an ensemble cast starring Rebecca Romijin, Christina Chong, Jess Bush, Babs Olusanmokun, and more.
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