“If you enjoyed Season 1, Season 2 takes it to a while other level,” Star Trek: Strange New Worlds star Christina Chong says of the trajectory of the Paramount+ series. I mean we’re getting scripts in and completely in awe of everything Henry and Akiva have created,” the actor who portrays USS Enterprise security chief La’an Noonien-Singh added. “If you loved Season 1, you’re absolutely going to go crazy over Season 2!”
The cast has been speaking together, and we talk about how Season 1 was definitely a meal, but we feel like we have so much more this season,” proclaimed co-star Celia Rose Gooding of the upcoming second SNW season currently in production in Toronto. “So, it is everything times itself,” the past Tony Award nominee noted.
As you can see in the video above, both Chong and Gooding, who has taken on the iconic role of Nyota Uhura in the latest Trekverse series, were speaking during the panel for Deadline’s virtual screening series’ presentation of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds.
The duo were joined by co-showrunners and executive producers Akiva Goldsman and Henry Alonso Meyers as well as fellow cast members Anson Mount and Ethan Peck. Chong and Gooding are new editions to the Trekverse company, but Mount and Peck have established themselves to fans new and old via Stark Trek: Discovery as Captain Christopher Pike and a younger Spook.
Renewed earlier this year for a second season but its May 5 premiere on Paramount+, Strange New Worlds works both within Star Trek canon and almost completely independently. Today saw “Lift Us Where Suffering Cannot Reach,” the sixth episode in the 10-episode first season, drop on the streamer. The Season 1 finale of SNW debuts on July 7, with Season 2 expected in the first half of 2023.
The Season 1 premiere, which we watched in the virtual screening series, was penned by EP Goldsman, with the story by Goldsman, Alex Kurtzman and Jenny Lumet. Oscar winner Goldsman also directed the premiere episode. Goldsman, Kurtzman and Lumet serve as executive producers in addition to Alonso Myers, Heather Kadin, Frank Siracusa, John Weber, Rod Roddenberry, Trevor Roth and Aaron Baiers. Star Trek: Strange New Worlds is produced by CBS Studios, Secret Hideout and Roddenberry Entertainment.