The Trek Universe beams in for Comic-Con@Home
By DRWHO42
Trek fans mark your calendars for Stardate 98159.24 (Thursday, July 23rd, 10 a.m. PT/ 1 p.m. ET) and your coordinates to Comic-Con@Home’s YouTube channel for what is shaping up to be a stellar lineup of Trek content.
CBS and CBS All Access announced their lineup for Comic-Con@Home, and it will be packed with stars and news from the Star Trek universe. The virtual panels (all back-to-back) will include Star Trek: Discovery, Star Trek: Picard, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, and Star Trek: Lower Decks.
Alex Kurtzman and Heather Kadin will be on-hand to provide fans a peek into what is being planned for the ever-expanding Trek franchise.
The cast attending will fill several transporter pads and will include (subject to scheduling):
Star Trek: Picard
Patrick Stewart (Jean-Luc Picard), Alison Pill (Dr. Agnes Jurati), Isa Briones (Dahj/Soji), Evan Evagora (Elnor), Michelle Hurd (Raffi Musiker), and Santiago Cabrera (Cristobal Rios) along with special guest stars Brent Spiner(Data/Dr. Soong), Jonathan Del Arco (Hugh), Jonathan Frakes (William Riker), Jeri Ryan (Seven of Nine), and Marina Sirtis (Deanna Troi).
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds
Anson Mount (Captain Christopher Pike), Rebecca Romijn (Number One), and Ethan Peck (Spock).
Star Trek: Discovery
Sonequa Martin-Green (Commander Michael Burnham), Michelle Yeoh (Philippa Georgiou), Doug Jones (Commander Saru), Anthony Rapp (Lt. Commander Paul Stamets), Mary Wiseman (Ensign Sylvia Tilly), Wilson Cruz (Dr. Hugh Culber), Mary Chieffo (L’Rell), Tig Notaro (Commander Jett Reno), Alan Van Sprang (Captain Leland), Jayne Brook (Admiral Katrina Cornwall), and the Discovery Bridge crew Emily Coutts (Lt. Detmer), Oyin Oladejo (Lt. J.G. Owosekun), Patrick Kwok-Choon (Lt. Rhys), Ronnie Rowe Jr. (Lt. J.G. Bryce), and Sara Mitich (Lt. Nilsson).
As a special treat for Star Trek: Discovery fans the cast will perform a virtual table read of the season two finale, “Such Sweet Sorrow, Part 2.”. Act one of the table read will be shown at Comic-Con@Home followed by a brief cast Q&A.
Last (and certainly not least), Star Trek: Lower Decks, which premieres on CBS All Access on Thursday, August 6, will debut an exclusive extended first look from the premiere episode. The voice cast for the crew of the U.S.S. Cerritos will appear including Tawny Newsome (Ensign Beckett Mariner), Jack Quaid (Ensign Brad Boimler), Noël Wells (Ensign Tendi), Eugene Cordero (Ensign Rutherford), Dawnn Lewis (Captain Carol Freeman), Jerry O’Connell (Commander Jack Ransom), Fred Tatasciore (Lieutenant Shaxs), and Gillin VIgman (Doctor T’Ana).
The Star Trek franchise has served as a beacon of inspiration and hope for fans over many years with each adventure showing viewers how the diverse crews worked together to make the universe a better place. We are certainly looking forward to these panels, as well as the next new adventures when they air.