Hi,
I'm Jenny limit.
I'm an executive producer on Star Trek Discovery
and a Consulting producer on Star Trek the card
and just Trek fixer of things when
when I'm needed.
Well, my first
contact with any Star Trek was like for many
people is Lieutenant Uhura.
She was the only woman of color that I
saw on TV
almost period
and then
She was certainly one of the few women of
color
on television
who had a job that was it
integral
to
everything that was going on.
So nothing could function without her and I keep
trying to let my children know that nothing functions
without me.
They don't quite
understand.
I mean, it was a different world.
You came home from school and you're
turned on TV and my parents we weren't from
a Trekkie household at all.
I don't quite know where this little left turn
in my life came from yet.
Here I am.
My grandmother
who is an artist named Lena Horne
did indeed know Nichelle
Nichols and
appreciated the show,
but
certainly appreciated
that actress
doing that job
at that time,
but I did not come to the show
through
that relationship.
One day Star Trek was suddenly there.
I had a different life than most people
when you grow up in New York City New
York City is your
backyard.
So you hang on the steps of the bed
column.
How many smoking cigarettes and you think you really
look at
what is my language situation here? Am I loved
it?
I bet you think you're really f***** cool.
You certainly
have the invaluable experience
of
population of pain population.
So you don't grow up seeing the same face
New York is certainly a city of neighborhoods
you walk places it at home
and you
are in touch with people from everywhere
all the time.
I was
an unbelievably
collagen student and
I would apologize to my mom and dad but
I did that once and then now it's completely
pointless.
I knew
I was really good at hanging out after school
and during school thinking about it.
I didn't actually care that much and that's bad.
That's bad.
That's why this bad and it's extraordinary education that
many people would
do great things with and I
you know
was too cool for school
on both sides of my family.
No one has had a steady
job since the
Construction
and that's not an exaggeration.
My grandmother's mother
was in the tent shows in the Deep South.
So
after the Civil War like we've been doing this
a long freaking time.
My son is the fifth generation.
He's was just in mandalorians.
I don't know if I'm allowed to say mandalorians
mandalorians
and
he plays the guy that he's like the young
like cocky kid who wants to be a bounty
hunter and then he says
Hey Mendo,
you know, I can be cool
and met us.
Like
a kid because it's a that but he, you
know, he does that and then it's all ends
badly but it's bad.
He kidnapped baby Yoda my child my to get
to you know, this started just at the turn
of the century.
It's a hundred years.
Grandma
was Grandma.
My mom
did indeed work on the stage before she became
an academic who wrote books.
She writes African-American books about African American military history
sure.
It's not fiction.
I do what I do and my son is
an actor.
I love my dad and he's the best director
ever.
Sorry cuz he's my dad.
But one of my emotional favorites of my dad's
movies is murder on the Orient Express the first
one
and it is so intricately calibrated
you can learn a lot.
Within the strict rules of a whodunit
movies before
you could blow up planets and stuff movie like
The Goddess Kim Stanley
movie like Wizard of Oz
you can learn a lot from them and
it would have been weird
had anybody
in our family gone to law school
and that particular kind of
family business
brings a certain
idea about what it means to do this,
which is that it's not particularly glamorous.
It's about holy s***.
You guys have a job someone's gotta have a
Like so do you or you working it's that
it's that kind of thing.
I wrote a
TV movie
whatever that means now
for Lifetime that actually got option to not made
and then
Rachel getting married was
by for guess my fourth I've ever written
and it's actually how I met Alex kurtzman
and how
I sort of step into this universe
really Alex and I had always talked about combining
our voices and ideas and
you know, he's a lot more prolific than I
am.
He's a lot more prolific.
Epic than many people
but
he was always
interested in the idea
of the kind of deep human interaction and where
that could go
in series
and when we he started telling me about Discovery,
I was very excited by the idea of this
orphan girl immediately thrust into a situation that has
huge steaks.
So it doesn't matter that.
It's not a spaceship
and it doesn't matter that.
It has computers in it.
It's great.
But there are these
beings are they sentient beings
doing what?
Shouldn't being
do which is desire something and then
get up so badly.
They find themselves running completely in the opposite direction
from the thing that they truly want and that's
what you want to write about and you want
to write about people who are next to each
other and close to each other doing the wrong
thing
Desiring things that are good for them or not
good for them and watching them work towards
getting that personal experience as an experience from one's
own life.
Absolutely
make
track material
because they're humans.
Oh there's
A great one when Reno
got
zapped
with the magic dust from the spores
was exactly the time that I had all this
nitrous from like nine root canals from dr.
Seuss name I ended on tests and I was
like, I'm just going to do that.
I'm going to write that
and I started talking.
Hi doctor says nay.
I bet your attract van.
I bet you are.
Okay
the time with all the nitrous and I was
doing all the stuff about prints in the doves.
Yeah
that ended up completely
and drag
I was playing drums for prayer.
There were doves and arbre
Dido people say oh
you have 50 years of
History to worry about like no
you have 50 years
of
structure.
It's like a haiku.
What can you do with in this you are
completely free.
I love structure.
I love it a sonnet or a haiku or
goes all those art within a very specific.
I sound like the a****** talking about art, right?
Okay fine
to know what you have to do things within
certain parameters.
Butters or it all goes kaflooey is
so exciting.
It's like driving a
really powerful car,
you know,
don't get up
if you don't get up you're free as a
bird and that's what it's like.
I am excited for season 3 because we're a
thousand years in the future and so all bets
are off
and how do you
retain what you love about these characters when all
bets are off.
What do we learn just by the the very
virtue of people who want to go
a thousand years in the future when they have
absolutely no idea.
So
I can't think of another
show
that introduce you to everybody and then took them
a thousand years away.
That's really
All
very see what the future holds.
Hello.