[Neil] We had a lot of cool stunts this year.
Right from the first episode,
we had a massive fight scene.
We had a car chase.
We had people come through a time portal
and crash into our world.
Guess we're doing this.
No point being scared, let's go.
One of the most exciting things we got to do this year
was a car chase,
which is not something you would expect to
get to do on Star Trek.
So, that was exciting in itself.
We found the characters involved
were James Kirk whom we didn't know, story-wise,
whether to expect he'd ever driven a car before.
There it is.
He's got the guts and the wherewithal
to pull off anything like this and he didn't disappoint.
Absolutely, we used a stunt double for a lot of the driving,
and then we were able to put Paul
into the driver's seat up on the AR wall.
[Paul] Oh man.
It's been nothing short of exciting,
daunting,
fun,
challenging.
You sort of go through this rollercoaster of emotions.
[La’an] Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa,
whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
[La’an] That was a person.
All right, well actually, keep holding on.
So, when we composed a fight scene for Chapel and M'Benga
against these couple dozen of Klingons,
it was an amazing fight scene.
We had to do a whole intricate choreography.
It takes time and creativity
and I've got a great team with me
of fighters and stunt guys,
and Babs who plays M'Benga,
has a real strong background in jiu-jitsu.
So we were really excited to get a chance to play with him.
Babs is physically very proficient
and he has a bunch of training
that allows him to use his body extremely formatively.
Are you sure you're up for full impact?
I have done jiu-jitsu for many, many years
and I was teaching it for quite a bit of time.
But I always had it separate from acting.
So, it's been interesting piecing those together
and trying to work with stunt choreographers
and fight choreographers,
and really just trying to adjust things
the way I feel they could manifest in M'Benga.
Whenever possible,
we will put Babs in a spot where he can kick some ass.
There's a real art to not hurting anybody
while you're doing this.
But have to sell it,
so you have to go it at full force,
but you have to be really careful
not to actually hit anyone.
So 207, we had a crossover episode, which was exciting.
We had to find out how we would move somebody
from an animated world into our world.
There was a portal involved
and like any good portal,
you don't come through it gently,
you come through it flying and crashing into our world.
The stunt work going through the portal,
I wish I could take credit for that.
It is not me.
It is my amazing stunt double Bauston Camilleri.
He did an amazing job as he always does.
We built a ramp for the stunt performer to run on
and at the one spot in the portal
where it transitioned from animated world into our world,
he just launches himself and flies through the air
and crashes to the ground.
And then we pick it up with just me
doing a I think we coined the term a “comedy straddle,”
because Jack's laying flat on the ground and then, "Cut."
All right, now comedy straddle,
and then I get on top of my friend and be like, "Ah,"
you know just a classic, platonic,
not-at-all-sensual comedy straddle.
Oh, hell yeah.
I did it.
I'm very into stunts.
The rehearsal and preparation for that was so much fun.
It was fantastic, really.
[Neil] We collaborate.
It's a lot of rehearsing and a lot of,
I have to admit, very fun collaboration.