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Hey, everybody.
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It's Sonequa Martin-Green
and it is Star Trek Day.
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We are very glad that you're
celebrating with us from home.
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I'm excited.
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The entire disco family is excited
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because I have the honor
of sharing with you.
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The exclusive first look
of the official trailer
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for Season 3 of Star Trek: Discovery,
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and with everything going
on in the world right now,
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it's an honor to be a part
of something that has hope.
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and equality, and unity at its center.
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And it's an honor to
share it with you first.
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So without further ado,
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let's see what the crew has been up to.
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[Michael Burnham] We
traveled into the future.
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[whooshing]
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930 years.
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A one-way trip.
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No going back.
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Burnham to Discovery. Come in.
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[Beeping] Discovery do you copy?
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[Heaving]
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[Red Angel Suit Computer]
You have reached year 3188.
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Is there life here, anywhere?
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[Red Angel Suit Computer]
Mutliple life signs detected.
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Yessss!
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[Saru] We are completely disconnected,
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but we are also together.
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You're not from around these parts.
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The Federation mostly
collapsed after The Burn.
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What's The Burn?
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The Burn was the day the
galaxy took a hard left.
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The Federation isn't just about ships.
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The Federation is it's people.
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I've always believed that
you were out there somewhere
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and that we were a part of the
Federation, no matter what.
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Welcome to the future.
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Dysfunction aside, you all
make a pretty good team.
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Dysfunction is the team.
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We've just accepted it.
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No we haven't.
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True believer.
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Yeah.
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Time traveler.
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There was no other way.
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The thing is, you got no authority here.
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Let's show them who we are.
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[Laughs in amazement]
What?
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We all want a future that's real.
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That matters.
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The Federation gave us the
resources and the mandate
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to solve the biggest,
most troublesome problems
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in the galaxy.
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Though I may question,
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and I may fear
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because the problems
often seem insurmountable,
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but haven't we always risen to meet them?
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We have work to do.
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But if things were easy...
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It wouldn't be worth it.
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[Laughs]
Mm?
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Thank you, Sonequa, for setting up
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that awesome trailer. And wow,
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I cannot wait to talk about this.
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So now I am joined by
Star Trek: Discovery's
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Executive Producers and Co-Showrunners,
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Alex Kurtzman and Michelle Paradise.
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And I'm also excited to introduce
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one of Disco's newest additions,
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actor David Ajala, who plays
Cleveland "Book" Booker
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in Season 3.
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Thank you, guys, for joining me.
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It's so nice to have you.
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Thank you.
Pleasure.
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Before we dive in, to
everyone at home, Season 3
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of Star Trek: Discovery
premieres October 15th
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on CBS All Access in the United
States, airs on Bell Media
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CTV Sci-Fi Channel, and
streams on Crave in Canada.
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And on October 16th on
Netflix in 190 countries,
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that's a lot of countries.
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But thank you guys so much
for making the time to chat
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with me today.
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So, let's dive in with the
most important question.
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What's your new favorite
moment from that trailer?
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And, also, was that a new logo I saw?
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It was a new logo.
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The logo that we did for
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that was very related to
the Klingon storyline.
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And that started feeling
less relevant to us
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in Season 2 and certainly in Season 3.
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So, Michelle and I felt pretty strongly
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that we needed to change
the logo analysis.
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We are now jumping a
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It needed a new look and feel.
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And that's it.
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And that's our look and feel.
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And your favorite parts of the trailers?
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There are two parts that, well
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three parts actually that--
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When Burnham screams. When she finds out
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that there's life here.
I've seen the trailer
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I don't know how many times,
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I've lost count of how many times
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I've seen the trailer as
we've been working on it,
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and it gives me chills every
single time we hit that moment.
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And then the moment where she's laughing
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as Book is doing the
weapon against the guys.
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There are some very funny
moments in the premiere
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surrounding that moment,
that are really fun.
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And then the moment of our
heroes in the science lab
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with Reno and Stamets and
Tilly, they're just so funny.
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So anyway, that's not one, that's three.
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David, what about you?
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There's so many,
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but that pure joy that we
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When she knows that the moment
is real and she celebrates
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there's still hope, was massive.
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just the feeling of hope
amongst the characters
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really resonated with me.
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I think that I agree with
my esteemed colleagues
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and I feel like obviously the Federation
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is not where it was and yet our characters
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enter into this timeline
and the whole season
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is about trying to bring it back.
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So you're into a world
where it's very reflective
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of the world that we live in now.
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And I believe very reflective
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of Roddenberry's essential
vision of optimism.
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That it is in the darkest times
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that we have to hold
that beacon of light up
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to guide us back.
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And I think the trailer captures the tone
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and the feel of optimism and
hope and keep climbing uphill,
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even when things are rough.
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I have to ask,
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what is The Burn?
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David said, it's when the
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It's obvious, right?
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Oh, yeah, just that casual time. [laughs]
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Is there any, without spoiling it,
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any little more information we can get
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from what is this catastrophic event?
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What happened to the
Federation didn't happen
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because the Federation
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'cause there was disagreement or strife.
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Federation was sort of strong as ever.
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that changed everything.
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Lots to think about there.
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Again, for Alex and Michelle
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we watched as Burnham
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were hurdled into the future.
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Why did you guys make the decision
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to go almost a thousand years
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into the future for Season 3?
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Michelle, you wanna take it?
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Sure.
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It's an exciting prospect.
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It's an exciting opportunity
to be beyond established canon
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and to get to see what a whole new world
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would look like.
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So, we spent a lot of time in Season 2
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in the midst of so much canon.
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And in addition to telling
the stories of our heroes,
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telling the story of Pike,
telling the story of Spock.
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Filling in some of the blanks
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that we were all curious about
after The Original Series.
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And so then to jump into the future
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and to know everything that came before
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and to be in a position where
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and also have kind of
fresh snow ahead of us
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was just a really exciting
place to play story-wise.
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And for David you're obviously here
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because you were playing
Cleveland "Book" Booker,
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let's talk a little bit about him.
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What is he like?
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Without, giving away too much?
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Just what's the vibe?
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I think the main thing that was special
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about this character was
his sense of purpose.
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And to find a sense of purpose
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allowed him to continue living life.
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It was a backstory that
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with Michelle and Alex.
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I tell you what, he's gonna
inject something special
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and he's gonna bring out something special
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in Michael Burnham,
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and Michael Burnham will do
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How does he come into
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Michael Burnham literally
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-and I think it's quite romantic--
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is throwing cuffs and fists.
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Oh God, that's what everybody wants.
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It's the most romantic
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That's the best way, too.
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It's very sexy.
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I highly recommend it.
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100%.
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Right off the bat, throwing hands.
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That's how you know you're
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You're an equal match.
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I love it here.
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The best way to break the ice,
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I assure you.
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Alex and Michelle,
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since we've heard David's view on Booker,
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how would you describe him?
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He is kind of your child in a sense.
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So, how do you feel about Book.
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Having watched David's work,
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I think we had a very strong instinct
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that he was just gonna be
spectacular in the part.
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And what was so impressive to us,
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starting in the first
episode, was how easily
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he just slipped right in.
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It was like he's been doing the
show for a really long time.
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And the thing that was
most beautiful to watch
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is his dynamic with Burnham
over the course of the season,
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because Michael has had a series
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of very complicated relationships
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that never really allow her to, I think,
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flourish, a certain
part of her to flourish.
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And we talked about the idea
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that she would need to meet her match,
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in a way, who seemed
initially very, very different
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from her.
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Like she is selfless, he is selfish.
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It's the easy binary.
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But over the course of the first episode,
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she comes to realize that,
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that's a very incorrect first judgment
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and that, in fact, they have a lot more
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in common than she realized.
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And then we keep peeling that back
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over the course of the season.
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Yeah, just to add onto that.
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He's someone who was
born into this new world
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that we come into.
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So, while our heroes have the perspective
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of 930 years ago, when
the Federation was strong
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and everyone knew what it was,
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he comes from this time
that's very, very different.
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And so, actually Book
helps become a window
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into this new world for us.
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He becomes kind of the eyes
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through which we see the everyday present
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for those who were born
into this new future
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and our heroes coming in
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with a completely different perspective.
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It's a really helpful way
to have made that jump
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to the future is to
have that anchor for us
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in what David does with that character.
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Meanwhile, we saw the
Discovery has crashed-landed.
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So, how are they going to
get it up and running again?
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'Cause a ship is, I've heard,
pretty important to a crew.
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Yes, they crash land into a future
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and something goes wrong
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with the ship that makes
it basically impossible
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for them to get back in the air.
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So, they have to step out
into the world and see
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if they can find something
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to help repair the ship and in so doing,
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they get their first taste
of what's actually going on
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on the planet.
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You, Alex and Michelle
touched a little bit earlier
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on the state of the Federation.
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You said it wasn't that
the Federation crumbled,
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they were strong as ever,
but something happened.
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So we know that Starfleet
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isn't what it once was by this point.
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Can you hint at all without spoilers
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about what might we see?
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At the top of the season,
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part of it is a mystery that Burnham
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needs to figure out.
Where is the Federation?
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What kind of state is it in?
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And that's something that she,
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and then our heroes on Discovery
also need to figure out.
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And when we find it,
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we'll find that it's still in existence.
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It's just much diminished
from what it was.
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They're very much kind
of in survival mode.
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In a show that is
already futuristic to us,
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how did you two as showrunners
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go about differentiating the
look and feel of a universe
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that's now a millennium
after the already future.
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We have an amazing,
amazing team of designers
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and creators and artists on the show.
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And fortunately, their favorite job ever
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is working on Star Trek.
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So when you give them a task like this,
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and you say, okay, we need to conceive
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of something that feels
totally unfamiliar,
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and yet it has to have a
certain familiarity to it.
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That's really exciting.
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It's a challenging proposition.
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So, the world that Burnham walks into
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immediately feels like nothing
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you've seen in Star Trek before.
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Just seeing all of the
different designs coming in
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and all of the different
ideas, it was fascinating.
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And that's, it also goes
to because all of the folks
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that we work with are huge
fans of Star Trek in general,
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they're familiar with
all that's come before.
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And so, even as we are
pushing the envelope
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and going into this new future
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and finding new technologies and new ways
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of doing things and exploring all of that,
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it really is grounded in everything
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that has been on the previous shows.
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And speaking of new and
shiny and interesting,
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Discovery is introducing a few
new characters this season.
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Adira and Gray are two of them
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that we have glimpsed in the trailer.
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So can you guys talk about who they are,
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how they factor into the season,
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what's special about them?
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We meet Adira in Episode 3
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and we meet Gray in Episode 4.
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And we can't tell you
a whole lot about them
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because that would reveal spoiler things,
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but they do have a very unique
and specific relationship.
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Gray is Trill.
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So there's a whole Trill mythology in Trek
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that we're gonna be
leaning into with this.
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And Adira has a particular
backstory of their own,
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that I can't say too much about,
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or it would reveal when we meet them
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and how and all of those things.
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But what I can say is that both of them
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are just incredibly exciting actors.
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It's so much fun to watch them work.
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Michelle, you actually touched on it.
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You mentioned the Trill who obviously
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live for many, many years
throughout different hosts.
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So did that factor into why you wanted
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to introduce a Trill in a
time that's so far-flung
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from the Star Trek that
we've seen currently?
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What's interesting about
being a thousand years ahead
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is that we can play them in new ways.
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So you may think that you
know a particular species
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to be a certain way and
maybe a thousand years later,
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they're a little bit different
than you might expect.
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But at the end of the day,
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I think it'll still feel
very, very familiar.
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The Trill have always been a
very interesting case study
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in questions of identity.
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Because you're carrying so
many different identities
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within one consciousness.
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And we explore that a
lot with both characters
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and it felt, for a show called Discovery,
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you always want to be applying that idea
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to all your characters.
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Everyone is constantly in
a state of self discovery.
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I can't get more specific than that
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without revealing anything.
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Be very careful about
how I choose my words
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so that we don't spoil anything,
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but we can't wait for people to see it.
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You're just building up all of this hype.
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I'm so excited [laughs]
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Speaking of emotions, David,
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I understand that Book
has a cat named Grudge.
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So, can you talk a
little bit about Grudge?
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First, I can say the Grudge is a queen.
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She is feisty.
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She's cute.
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She's cynical, cautious,
and wary of people.
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But when she embraces
you and takes you in,
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she takes you in.
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Tough love. I've had to
work my way up the ladder.
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[laughs]
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Not only does Grudge sound
like a perfect woman.
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That sounds like the perfect
segue to give the fans at home
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a little glimpse at the real-life cat
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behind Grudge, Leeu.
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So let's check it out.
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Everybody says that their
cat can make a good set cat.
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But it does take a
specific animal to be able
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to stay cool and calm and collected.
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'Cause when cats are done, they're done.
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[Leeu meows]
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[Director] Action.
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So, I'm Leslie Lawrence.
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And I'm Michelle Smith.
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And this is Leeu.
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We put out a casting call
for a large cat for the show
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and he fit the bill.
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And so far he seems to
be a one-take wonder.
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He's a Maine Coon and he's two years old.
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He's 25 inches long,
with the tail 40 inches.
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He's currently 18 pounds.
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Yeah, so the first thing with cats
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is that they can spook easily.
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So we have to make sure
that the environment
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that they're in, that we put
them in, that they feel safe.
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The second thing is to
try and get him to look
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exactly at camera.
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So to do that, with him,
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because he's pretty motivated
with fast objects and he seems
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to really like the
tinfoil and the treat bag.
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So we kind of try and get
him to make the eye contact
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that they want for the shot.
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[Director] Cut it.
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Let's rescue the cat.
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[laughs]
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Oh, my goodness.
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I understand that Leeu,
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I too am motivated with
tinfoil and cat treats.
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That's why I'm here today.
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That was my fee.
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Poor David, as a new member
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of this Star Trek family,
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and it is Star Trek Day.
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So, actually happy Star
Trek Day, everybody.
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What does it mean to you to join Discovery
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and the wider Trek community,
who is really a Trek family.
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It's profoundly special.
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Really, really special.
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So much so that I had reservations
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of joining it because I knew
what I was signing up for.
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Star Trek, especially in a
moment like this right now
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in this moment, the many
things that are happening
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in the world, there's so much
uncertainty. There's pain,
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there's conflict, there's division.
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And for me, Star Trek has always been
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at the forefront of normalizing diversity,
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people being different,
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being embraced, the concept of hope.
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So shows like Star Trek, for me,
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shine so much more brightly,
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especially in times like now.
And to be a member of that,
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and to be part of that fabric of change
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is so rewarding.
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You got me a little choked up there.
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That was a beautiful answer.
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And before I let you
all go, Michelle, Alex,
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is there anything else
you can, want, are dying
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to tell us about Season 3 or
just Star Trek as a whole?
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Anything you just wanna end on?
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I'll let Alex wrap it up.
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I'll just say I'm really,
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really excited for people
to see this season.
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Everyone has put so much
of themselves into it,
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so much of their heart into it,
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and we're excited for it to
finally be out in the world.
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Yeah, I think to echo what
both my friends here said,
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I think we all feel tremendously lucky
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to be able to work on this
show particularly now,
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because as David was saying,
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there is so much pain
in the world right now,
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and there's so much confusion.
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And in some ways it feels
like we're further apart
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from each other than ever.
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The fact that we're
having this conversation
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all in separate rooms,
instead of together,
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is proof of that.
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And we get to come to work every day,
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still and work on something
that gives people hope.
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And we get to work through
our own understanding
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of what's happening in
the world right now,
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through the metaphor and
allegory of the stories
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that we tell on Star Trek,
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which I think has always
been what Star Trek is.
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You hold up a mirror to
the world and you find
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the right interpretation. And
it's been helpful, in a way.
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It keeps you sane.
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And one of the things I think
we feel most grateful for
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is seeing how it impacts fans
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and seeing how it gives them hope
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in moments when sometimes it
feels like there isn't any,
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and that's what Star Trek does.
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So I think for that reason,
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we love coming to work every day,
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we get to be a family
together and that's a gift.
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So sweet.
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Thank you guys for ending
on such an uplifting note.
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Thank you all so much
for joining me to talk
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about Star Trek: Discovery.
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Guys, it's been so much
fun getting to talk to you.
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Thank you Mica, you're real sweet.
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Thank you.
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And again, Season 3 of
Star Trek: Discovery
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premiere's October 15th on CBS
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All Access in the U.S.,
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airs on Bell Media CTV Sci-Fi Channel,
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and streams on Crave in Canada.
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And on October 16th on
Netflix in 190 countries.
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Also, as a reminder
today on Star Trek Day,
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we are reviving our Star
Trek United campaign,
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where you can pitch in and show support.
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For every person
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that tweets the hashtag
#StarTrekUnitedGives,
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CBS All Access will donate $1
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to organizations who
do the real world work
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of championing equality and
social justice and the pursuit
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of scientific advancements.
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All what Star Trek is about.
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So thanks so much and happy
Star Trek Day, everybody.