This week I have an animated discussion
with Star Trek: Lower Decks' Tawny Newsome,
AKA Ensign Beckett Mariner,
Jack Quaid, who plays Ensign Boimler,
as well as Jonathan Frakes, who directed this week's episode
of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds.
We will go behind the scenes on the making
of this historic episode and take a look back
at times Star Trek characters have crossed over
into other Star Trek series.
I'll meet you in The Ready Room for all of this and more.
Hey nerds, I'm Wil Wheaton and this is The Ready Room,
your official behind-the-scenes hub
for all things Star Trek universe.
This week's episode of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds
titled, "Those Old Scientists,"-get it? TOS?-
is the eagerly anticipated crossover
between the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise
and that of the U.S.S. Cerritos from Star Trek: Lower Decks.
And I don't wanna draw this out any longer
so, I am calling for a red alert!
Much like Boimler spilling secrets from the future,
spoilers are a butterfly effect
that will ruin your future viewing.
So, if you haven't seen this incredible episode yet,
open a portal to your favorite screen, stream it,
and then transport yourself back here
where we'll sketch out all the details
you could possibly want.
I am so happy to have three terrific guests
with me in The Ready Room today.
Jack Quaid and Tawny Newsome who play Ensigns Brad Boimler
and Beckett Mariner respectively
on Star Trek: Lower Decks are here
to talk all about their characters
crossing over from animation to live action.
And they are joined by Star Trek legend,
one of my favorite people in the entire world,
Jonathan Frakes, who directed this epic episode.
And speaking of crossing over, Ensigns Boimler and Mariner
aren't the only characters from one Star Trek show
to appear on another.
Later, we'll take a look back
at some of the most memorable cameos
and guest appearances in Star Trek history.
But before all of that, ever since this week's episode
was announced in the summer of 2022, buzz has been,
well, let's just say that it has topped
even Boimler levels of fan excitement.
Here in The Ready Room, we thought you would appreciate
a look at everything that went into
creating this unique adventure.
Control room? Engage.
When Episode 7 was first pitched to me,
that we're gonna do a crossover with Lower Decks,
I thought, "Is it gonna be like Roger Rabbit?
Are they gonna be animated characters
following us around the ship?"
And he said, "No, no, no.
When they beam in it's Jack and Tawny live action version."
I thought, "Oh, okay.
That's brilliant."
You guys look very realistic.
It's so cool that they did this.
Mariner is one of my favorite roles to play, ever.
To get to actually embody her, I think that's so cool
and it's so cool to get to be part of it.
I can't be the only one that actually thought
the whole episode was gonna be animated.
I might have been the only one.
It came about organically.
Everybody at Strange New Worlds
is a huge fan of Lower Decks.
They came to me and they said,
"Would this be something you're into?"
And I was like, "Of course!"
Because everybody that we cast on Lower Decks
happens to look like their characters.
I mean, it's something that the internet
is constantly telling us and we're like,
"Yeah, we noticed that, too."
We might have a problem.
We took some real big swings this season.
We've done comedy on this show,
but to have cartoon characters come to life,
it just added this energy that was so fun.
Uh, hi.
I love Lower Decks.
I think that that is probably one
of my favorite iterations of Trek.
Whatever, nerd.
Just because it's so silly and fun.
Hi, I'm Captain- - Captain Christopher Pike.
That's me.
To go into a show and know that my character
is a fan of all the other cast members
was such a fun thing to play.
I'm seriously freaking out right now.
I mean, I can't believe that I'm here.
I wanted to be really respectful of the fact
that we were guests invited into other people's space.
I'm gonna keep this 100% profesh,
but I was thoroughly unprepared
for how hot young Spock was going to be.
Working with Jack and Tawny was incredible.
They were so prepared and so ready to play.
They're both so funny.
It brought that out in us.
It brought more of that out.
They're so much fun, those two.
It's literally like a free standup show every day.
Oh, no!
Fans are gonna be floored at how seamlessly
all of the writers and all of the show runners
blended these two worlds together.
We sure this is wise?
No, but I'm going with it.
There were so many conversations
leading to the details of this episode.
"What shade could Jack's purple hair be for Boimler?"
We really wanted them to feel like
they're animated characters.
When you look at Mariner,
to me, the volume of her hair always said curls.
But I was like, let's text Mike and this is his baby.
And Mike instantly was like, "Gotta be curls."
And I was like, "That's what I said, too!"
I went back and looked at a lot of Lower Decks episodes
to get the kind of Boimlerisms down.
I snuck a few things in there.
He does a lot of this in the show
and I tried to get some of that in there.
I did the Section 31 power walk.
I got the Boimler scream in there.
What you got there?
It was cool to see how he moved
and then to try to bring that into my own body,
it was such a weird, trippy experience,
but so rewarding and so cool.
Don't ruin this for me.
I will end your life.
When you have both of them on screen at the same time,
it just makes you smile.
I was like, "Never let this end."
I love how funny they are,
but how Starfleet they are at the same time.
How do you know that?
Well-
Because we are time travelers, as we've been telling you.
I feel like he doesn't listen.
When they hire a director at Strange New Worlds,
you're told that you're going to do your episode as a movie
and your movie will be horror movie,
an action movie or a period movie,
or in this case, it's a full-on comedy,
which was a thrill for me.
I quickly realized that with Jonathan Frakes at the helm,
stepping lightly was not what was invited.
Jonathan was like, "We want you to come in guns blazing."
Yes!
Like that.
Jonathan Frakes, God bless him.
Amazing sense of humor, really all about the fun.
That whole cast already plays funny
and they're not afraid of funny.
Hopefully, the audience will find it as funny as we did.
♪ And we all had a real good time ♪
Great.
Okay.
So, is Uhura here?
You guys are great, but is she here?
I really had a great time with Celia Rose Gooding.
What an instant friend for life.
I probably shouldn't mention this,
but I have always admired you.
Really?
I felt so honored to get to be a part
of this important character moment
of being the kind of catalyst that tells Uhura,
"Hey, you really need to lighten up."
I think it's time we took a break.
I really don't do breaks.
Yeah, I'm starting to catch that.
Just to be part of such a nice moment
for her character was really cool.
Oh, easy.
That's a lot of...
What's the statue of limitations
on admitting to stealing props
from an active duty Star Trek show?
I did take a souvenir, yes.
I took my combadge.
Well, they let me have it.
It's okay.
I took my combadge.
They made us Lower Decks style combadges,
'cause they wanted it to look like our show.
Very happy to have it.
It's just such a little cool trinket.
I can take that.
Right?
Meeting all of you
has been one of the greatest experiences of my life.
Thank you.
To have an opportunity to cross over
with such a beloved faction of this franchise
and really work with two incredible, incredible actors,
it was such a joy.
I love Jack and I love Tawny.
I think they pull an energy out of the cast
that we really haven't had an opportunity to relish in yet.
And so, working with them was a dream.
I hope we get to do it again and again and again.
It really was such a testament
to the kind of sturdiness of Strange New Worlds
to be able to take.
Our show came in and kind of went, ah,
and shook everything, and their show just went, okay.
And I was like, "Wow, this is beautiful.
We didn't break it."
We didn't break it.
Please let us come back.
I have been waiting for this interview forever.
Star Trek: Lower Decks stars,
Jack Quaid and Tawny Newsome are here,
as well as the director of this week's
historic crossover episode
who happens to be one of my favorite people on planet Earth,
Jonathan Frakes.
Love you.
[Wil] Welcome. - Wow!
[Wil] Thank you so much for being here today.
- Thanks for having us, man. - Yeah.
We have so many things to talk about.
This is such an incredible episode.
Where do we start?
Star Trek has a lovely history of crossover episodes.
I think this might be my favorite one.
Wow.
That is some high praise, my friend.
We've got Spock, Scotty and Bones
all appearing in Next Generation.
We have Picard in Deep Space Nine.
Johnny, you're in everything.
Dorn's in everything.
And now the two of you joining Strange New Worlds.
Tell me about finding out,
we're gonna take your characters from Lower Decks
and we're going to make you three dimensional human beings
in a live action show.
I just wanna know how that whole thing came about.
We were so excited that we got to join
an actual live action Trek series.
And my favorite thing to watch on that set
was you touching things.
Yeah, yeah.
Just you being in awe of being actually on the Enterprise.
You were a Mariner in that moment.
Yeah.
But the amount of things that she broke.
It was a lot.
I told you the last time I was here, I broke a lot of stuff.
Yeah.
But I would just catch him looking at me
as I was-
[Jack] I'm the only one that catched it?
Messing with a fader that was not a fader,
it's just wood glued onto a thing.
And then the knob would come off and she would just,
eyes would go to me and I'd be like, "I don't know you."
You're gonna get in trouble with someone.
Johnny, when did you find out
you were directing this episode?
Early on.
They said, "Do you wanna do a comedy?"
I said, "I really wanna do a comedy."
And I had been playing Riker on Mike's show and their show.
[Wil] Yeah.
And they told me,
I couldn't have been more thrilled, as you could imagine.
Did you talk to McMahan, at all,
about the characters and about directing them and-
Well, actually, I learned from McMahan.
I mean, they respectfully included me
in the direction of the animated part of the shows
at the beginning and the end.
[Wil] Yeah.
And McMahan works differently than I work.
But in a way that is so much fun to be.
It's like being on a sitcom.
When you do a sitcom and the guy yells the lines at you
and it's somebody really wonderful,
like Burrows or somebody, and yells, like Diaz,
that's the way McMahan works.
And these guys are an extension of him
'cause he trusts them.
It was like a masterclass.
I was sitting there and only thing I had to do
was remember to keep this story on track.
But even when that goes off, it's kind of fun.
But I appreciate that that's his world
and there's a lot to be cultivated from,
from allowing everybody to play,
as opposed to me trying to direct them
in the voice in the animated part of the show.
It wouldn't have made any sense.
We didn't have time for that.
But your directing voice,
it didn't seem like this was a crossover
where everyone was trying to figure out
how the pieces fit together.
Oh, yeah.
[Tawny] It seemed like this was your thing
and we were all just part of it.
[Jack] Absolutely.
Well, I think that was from the beginning.
One of the things about Strange New Worlds,
which is so great that Akiva has decided
and Alex has decided, and Henry Alonso Myers has decided,
and Chris Fisher has decided,
is that each episode, it'll be its own movie
or its own color or its own tone.
And this was flat out what it was meant to be.
And we stayed on that.
It never really got too heavy.
It never really got too soft.
It never slowed down.
Never slowed down.
Not when I could help it.
- Yeah, no. - No.
Tell me about putting on the uniforms
for the very first time and experiencing that.
I love that Mariner's sleeves are rolled up.
Oh, it's so great.
They aren't even full sleeves.
They stopped here and they put a piece on it
to look rolled up.
That's all they do.
Seeing myself as Boimler
for the first time was very surreal.
And I'm sure it was the same way for you,
where it was a little bit of emotional, honestly.
I was like, "Oh, I just never thought this could happen
when I signed onto this animated show
however many years ago."
And it was just so cool.
Remember the first day where we did the camera test?
[Tawny] Yes.
[Jack] With the two of us standing next to each other.
[Tawny] Yes.
And just that image that we saw from the camera and video
and we were like, "What the hell?"
What?
We look cool.
This is really cool.
Yeah.
And then we ran around the set.
We were not working,
we ran around the set on our own time taking selfies
in the chair and in the turbolift.
We were a Mariner and Boimler on the Enterprise.
- Yeah. - That's what it was.
This is a thing that I wanted to ask you about
and talk about.
I feel like Boimler loves these characters,
the way I love Star Trek.
We're the same level of mega Star Trek nerd, right?
Yeah.
So, when Boimler steps through the portal
and realizes where he is and who they are,
there is a look and there is a performance in you that is,
yeah, this is how I think a lot of people in the audience
will say, "This is how I would feel
if it ever really happened."
That's really who he is in this episode is just,
he's the biggest Star Trek fan of all time
getting to meet his heroes and help them out
and have a whole adventure with them.
And that was such a fun thing to play.
Also, all the actors are so amazing on the show
and we all just became very good friends by the end of it.
So, it was this great little situation
where I just got to appreciate
the people around me, honestly.
In the scene.
But in fairness, the same as true of Mariner.
- Yeah, absolutely. - Mariner comes on
as complete fangirl of Uhura.
Yeah.
When Mariner comes through and lands and she gets up,
she reacts exactly the way Mariner's supposed to react.
[Jack] Yeah.
Oh hell yeah!
I did it!
Mariner, what are you doing here?
I'm saving you.
No, no, no, no, no!
We only had enough for, one trip.
Oh.
Did I time travel?
Okay.
So, is Uhura here?
This is amazing.
You guys are great, but is she here?
"Is Uhura here?
Where is Uhura?
Seriously, where is Uhura?"
[Wil] Let's talk about that.
Yeah.
So I'm gonna try to keep
the order of the characters correct.
I'm gonna have to look at this so I do it right.
Okay.
You and I have talked about the impact
that Uhura had on Tawny
- Yeah. - Newsome.
Okay?
Now, you, Tawny, got to do a scene
where you are working with Uhura.
Mariner loves Uhura.
Tawny loves Uhura.
Tawny loves Celia.
Yeah, well, we all love Celia.
There are all these levels of getting to work with heroes.
[Tawny] Yeah.
How did you sort it all
and experience it fully in the moment?
You know, it's so weirdly synchronistic to life.
I didn't have to sort it.
What's interesting as I'm watching that scene
with Mariner and Uhura, and Uhura says, "I'm 22."
We don't really know how old Mariner and Boimler are.
We've kind of danced around.
We're like 25, 30.
I don't know.
We don't know how tall they are either.
No.
- Because we're tall as hell. - We're very tall.
But like-
You did look much taller in this and I expected you to.
Canon-wise, that means Shaxs and Ransom are giants.
Yeah, they're eight feet tall.
[Jack] Yeah. - Yeah.
[Jack] Anyway, sorry. - Oh, I believe that.
I absolutely believe that.
But I truly am such a fan of Celia Rose Gooding,
both as a friend and- - She's incredible.
I have such respect for her as an artist,
and the way she is.
I think a lot about being responsible to,
not responsible for, but being responsible to
a role like that and her place in this franchise.
And she wears it so well.
And when I was her age,
I would not have been that graceful about it.
So, I didn't have to sort it in the scene
'cause I just got to sit there and admire my friend.
There's really no acting. You just got to live it.
- Yeah. - Yeah.
- That's so fun.
That's awesome.
When Boimler jumps up onto Pike's saddle.
Oh yeah.
Oh my God.
Okay, touching this can't possibly change the future, right?
Whoa.
Riker!
What are you doing?
Riker was improvised, right?
Riker was solely improvised.
I was like, "I gotta do this.
He's right there.
Come on."
My wife screamed.
It was so simple, and it wasn't "The Riker,"
it wasn't, "I'm doing a Riker."
It was just, "Riker!"
So, I just wanna make sure that I...
So, the reason Wesley Crusher does the Riker
when he sits into every chair on Next Generation,
is because I thought it was so cool
that you sat down that way.
I want to be like you, so Wesley wants to be like Riker.
That's why he does it.
So, when Boimler does that-
I wanna be like Jonathan, so I did it.
I felt this sense of like, [gasps].
Yeah.
- That was fun. - [Tawny] Yeah.
He's just off camera when I'm doing that.
That's a big swing, man.
- He's right there! - The whole show's
a big swing.
- It's so good. - He's right there
and you're just like, "I'm gonna do it."
I was like, "They don't have to use this."
[Jonathan] It was begging for it.
"But I'm gonna do it."
Yeah.
The saddle was begging for it.
Yeah.
I mean, if I'm gonna sit on a saddle
and swing a leg over something, you gotta do it.
You gotta do it.
Yeah.
Gotta.
But that's a great point about this whole process
and project, like you just said, it was all a big swing.
- [Jack] Yes. - [Jonathan] Yeah.
So there was no, we did not hold back
'cause no one was asking us to.
- [Jack] No. - 'Cause I was like,
"They have a million years to edit this.
This isn't coming out until 2058 or whatever."
- [Wil] Yeah. - Yeah.
The current year.
The current year that we're all in right now.
Blessings from Xena to all of you.
They can edit out whatever they want.
So I was like, "We're leaving it all on the table."
And we gave you a lot to deal with.
- We gave you a lot. - I know.
And that actually is influenced by Mike.
That's the way Mike directs all the animated part of it.
Tawny, it has recently been announced
that you are joining the writing staff
for Starfleet Academy.
[Jonathan] Yes.
Oh, thank you.
Oh my God, thank you.
Thank you.
Yeah, I absolutely, I agree.
Talk to me about contributing to Star Trek in a new way
and is your Encyclopedia Galactica knowledge of Star Trek,
tell me how you're bringing that into the room.
Well, first of all, all credit and thanks
goes to my friend and boss, Alex Kurtzman.
Because of this crossover, he called me on the phone
after he saw a rough cut and he said,
"I can tell you're a writer.
Send me everything you've written."
'Cause he watched all of our ad libs and stuff.
And he was like, "Just send me everything you've written."
He really invited me in in a way that said,
"I see you because I saw you do this complex thing,
which was a mixture of writing and on camera and stuff."
And he went, "And I bet there's more in there."
And I was so grateful,
because half the time in this business,
you're just trying to get people to see you, you know?
So, he really invited me in in a way
that very few executives have in my life.
So, I'm so eternally grateful.
It makes me so happy that Star Trek fans
write Star Trek now.
Yeah.
There's just something, it just feels to me like,
oh, somebody from the neighborhood made it.
Yeah.
It just feels really exciting to me.
And then we get to work with the people
that we've been watching for years.
It's very surreal and weird.
There is something great about, though,
having all these new members of our family,
which is what you guys are,
and to see that happen on the set of Strange New Worlds,
which was now a new hit and had all these new characters
who had actually been born on Discovery,
where I was also privileged to work
and help our friend, Ethan find Spock.
And so, the connection,
the six degrees of separation is like two.
And because it's Star Trek and because of these shows
and because of the conventions
and because of the world that we're all living in,
you are a member of this family for better or for worse.
And you can choose to enjoy it as I think 99% of us do.
And really understand what a privilege it is
and how much fun it can be.
And it turns out to be the best job in the world.
- Yeah. - We all try to get a gig.
We all try to go to pilot season all...
And look where we are.
I will say, you guys have been so welcoming
to everyone who's been new.
You, on your set.
Wil, I said this last time I was here,
you were the first person to welcome us
into the Star Trek family.
When we did our Ready Room over Zoom.
Yeah.
And that's not a requirement of you guys,
but you guys are just so nice and so welcoming,
and it's just been really appreciated.
So, thank you.
- Yeah, thank you. - Yeah.
It always felt like you wanted to share
the thing that's been one of the best parts of your life.
If I may assume that.
Yeah.
- Oh. - [Jonathan] Without a doubt.
That is 100% my motivation.
It's a privilege.
Are you kidding me?
That's why you're so good at this job.
Your job on this show is such a natural thing for you to do.
And it makes us comfortable as guests and friends.
I come on the show, I've been on the show a lot.
It's so easy to sit and talk with you
because of how easily you share and how open you are,
how smart you are, how funny you are.
It's not always this way.
- Thank you. - You're welcome.
All of this is an enormous privilege.
It's an incredible, enormous privilege.
I love that we all share this thing,
that we have this big incredible thing in common.
Yeah.
We were just talking about earlier about Tawny and I
got to hang out with Ethan, just off set just in LA,
and he pulled us aside and he was like,
"Hey guys, we're gonna be doing this.
We're gonna be friends for the rest of our lives, right?"
And then we were like, "Yeah, man.
- Yeah, we are." - Yeah, we are.
And it was just this great little moment.
I don't know, it's moments like that where I'm like,
"Oh, there's a real magic to this
and it's really, really special."
What about Boimler and Spock?
Spoimler.
[Wil] Spoimler.
[Jack] Spoimler.
Ethan and I had a bromance for the ages on this one.
- [Wil] Yeah. - [Jonathan] Yeah.
When you're doing the science experiment.
That s*** blows up.
Do you feel lucky?
Ah, no, not at all.
Okay.
So-
[Boimler Screams]
Okay, is that bad?
Are sparks bad?
Yes.
Seek cover.
[Boimler screams]
The design choice to put you guys
in those great old style glasses.
I love it when Strange New Worlds
visually calls back in references.
There's another episode this season
where all the bridge crew
are in their like Starfleet formal uniforms.
And those old satin uniforms look super dated from the '60s,
but the costume department updated them and they're so cool-
Oh, the costume department was fantastic.
I really, really wanna buy one.
- Yeah, absolutely. - I wanna have one for myself.
Yep.
Do you have one of your space suits at home?
I don't have my space suit, but I do have my combadge.
I have my original combadge.
I have that.
Was it a magnet back then too?
It was Velcro.
- It was Velcro! - Whoa!
And when we would take them off, it was double-sided tape.
Yeah.
- Wow! - Wow!
Yeah.
Were you also mic'd on that?
'Cause we were basically all mic'd on our combadge.
We didn't wear.
[Wil] No.
- We didn't wear a lavs. - [Wil] We rarely wore mics.
We were all boom all the time.
It was all boom all the time?
Well, we never moved around, remember?
Yeah, we were inside most of the time.
Meanwhile, we're speed walking
and we're jumping over things.
Also, the corridors on this new Enterprise are spacious.
- Yeah. - Yeah.
There's so much room to stretch out.
And that bridge goes on forever.
It takes a half a day to walk across it.
It's amazing.
Not like the old carpeted confines
of the Enterprise-D, very comfortable.
Hey, man.
But in my head, that one is a bigger bridge.
You know what I mean?
In my head.
And we were smaller children.
Exactly.
When we watched it.
Oh, okay, relative size.
That plays a...
Okay, that's science.
Yeah.
Let's wrap up with a little talk about Lower Decks?
- Yes, absolutely. - Yeah.
Season 4 is coming soon.
We're real excited about that.
Season 5 has been announced.
Congratulations.
Thank you.
- Congratulations. - Congratulations.
Hey, nice.
Season 4 is gonna be very, very fun.
Our first episode is a big love letter to fans.
I can't exactly explain why.
[Wil] Okay.
- But I think- - Well, we can
and they can cut it. - Oh, yeah.
Bleep me, Paramount!
But it's really exciting.
Do you have anything you wanna spoil
and then get kicked out?
I don't remember enough about it.
Okay.
But yeah, there's a lot of [beep] in there.
It's great.
It's been such an incredible pleasure
to talk to you today.
Thank you so much for being here.
I look forward to seeing both of you for Lower Decks,
and in six or eight years, Starfleet Academy.
Yeah.
Thanks for having us, Wil.
Thank you, Wil.
Great.
Thanks so much for being here.
Ever since DeForest Kelley's unnamed admiral,
who we all know is really McCoy,
walked the corridors of the Enterprise-D
in Star Trek: The Next Generation's pilot episode,
"Encounter at Farpoint",
crossovers have become a staple of the Star Trek universe.
Here's a look at some of the unforgettable appearances
that connected one series to another.
Help!
The portal's trying to portal me!
Stop lurching towards it!
[Boimler screams]
Boimler!
Remember me!
[Narrator] Like Brad Boimler and Beckett Mariner
time traveling through a portal
to meet the 23rd century crew of the Enterprise
in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds,
leading characters of several other Star Trek series
have also appeared on shows besides their own.
And as with these animated Star Trek: Lower Decks'
characters live action debut in Strange New Worlds,
Star Trek's other crossover episodes
have been special events excitedly welcomed by fans.
One of The Original Series'
most popular characters, Dr. Leonard McCoy
I'm a doctor, not a mechanic.
[Narrator] Appears in
Star Trek: The Next Generation's pilot episode.
Now an admiral, McCoy gives the new crew
of the Enterprise a proper sendoff
as they begin their mission of exploration.
To celebrate The Original Series' 25th anniversary,
Star Trek: The Next Generation
welcomed beloved character Spock back to Star Trek
in a two-part episode called "Unification".
I'm looking for Ambassador Spock.
[Spock] Indeed.
You have found him, Captain Picard.
[Narrator] Spock's foster sister, Michael Burnham,
later revisits the events of that episode
in a Star Trek: Discovery episode titled,
"Unification III."
The cast of Star Trek: The Next Generation
continue the tradition of beaming onto other series.
Jean-Luc Picard pops up in the pilot episode
of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine,
giving Commander Sisko his orders.
Will Riker appears in episodes of Star Trek: Voyager,
Enterprise, Lower Decks and Picard.
While his transporter clone, Thomas,
visits Deep Space Nine.
Deanna Troi visits Star Trek: Voyager,
counseling Next Generation engineer Reg Barclay
as he tries to bring the U.S.S. Voyager home.
Later, she is also seen on Enterprise,
Lower Decks, and Picard.
Deep Space Nine's Quark
felt there was profit to be made
by appearing on Star Trek: The Next Generation
and Star Trek: Voyager.
You were about to try to sell me something, right?
I do carry a select line
of unique artifacts and gemstones.
[Narrator] He also joined Deep Space Nine's
Bajoran leader, Colonel Kira,
in an episode of Star Trek: Lower Decks.
Star Trek: Voyager's crew
also journeyed across series
with Tom Paris inspiring Boimler
on Star Trek: Lower Decks.
Just like Ensigns Boimler and Mariner
visiting Star Trek: Strange New Worlds,
These crossovers demonstrate just how vast
and how fun the Star Trek universe really is.
They seem nice.
I feel like we are all Boimler
when it comes to being fans of Captain Pike
and the crew of the Enterprise.
So, to help us geek out a little bit more,
here's an exclusive clip from next week's episode.
The Summit of Scorpi Ten.
The Klingon Free-Trade Agreement.
Negotiating the Perez Accords...
Sure, he's done some stuff.
He's an effective voice in spreading
Starfleet's message for unity.
A former enemy speaking on our behalf, it's incredible.
Or it's a long con to gain access to Federation secrets.
Just because he's Klingon-
Trust me, I know Klingons.
This guy with the peace treaties, that's not Klingon.
So you don't trust Ambassador Rah
because he believes in peace?
That's not what...
The slaughter at Lembatta Five.
The siege at Starbase Zeta. Athos...
I didn't mean to hit a nerve.
It's okay.
You're right.
I don't really know what he's about.
All I know is the stories,
like that he killed his own men to cover his retreat.
There's a reason other Klingons call him
"The Butcher of J'Gal."
Captain on the bridge.
I've had so much fun talking about
the Strange New Worlds/Lower Decks crossover, today.
Thank you to Jack Quaid, Tawny Newsome and Jonathan Frakes
for bringing the party to The Ready Room.
Next week, I'll be joined by Babs Olusanmokun,
who plays Joseph M'Benga,
and Melissa Navia, who plays Lieutenant Erica Ortegas.
As we look at Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 2,
Episode 8, titled, "Under the Cloak of War".
Until then, I'm Wil Wheaton.
Live long and Prosper.