WEBVTT 1 00:00:01.770 --> 00:00:04.050 Hi, I'm Jenny Lumet. 2 00:00:04.050 --> 00:00:07.970 I'm an executive producer on "Star Trek: Discovery" 3 00:00:07.970 --> 00:00:10.610 and a consulting producer on "Star Trek: Picard" 4 00:00:10.610 --> 00:00:13.590 and just "Trek" fixer of things. 5 00:00:13.590 --> 00:00:14.632 When 6 00:00:14.632 --> 00:00:15.465 (laughs) 7 00:00:15.465 --> 00:00:16.612 when I'm needed 8 00:00:18.210 --> 00:00:21.300 I invented this cat in season three, 9 00:00:21.300 --> 00:00:24.880 and this cat was actually based on a dog, 10 00:00:24.880 --> 00:00:27.750 a Pekinese dog that lived in the sleeve 11 00:00:27.750 --> 00:00:30.520 of my grandmother Lena Horne's Kimono. 12 00:00:30.520 --> 00:00:32.450 Whose name was Nelly 13 00:00:32.450 --> 00:00:36.350 and Nelly had her own cook named Irene 14 00:00:36.350 --> 00:00:37.570 and she lived right. 15 00:00:37.570 --> 00:00:39.740 So they have Kimono has a long sleeve 16 00:00:39.740 --> 00:00:42.040 and when you put your companion dog in the sleeve 17 00:00:42.040 --> 00:00:43.400 and you walk around like that. 18 00:00:43.400 --> 00:00:45.450 And for years I just thought Nelly was dead 19 00:00:45.450 --> 00:00:47.330 because she never did anything. 20 00:00:47.330 --> 00:00:49.000 Like, are you sure I'm gonna take Nelly out 21 00:00:49.000 --> 00:00:49.833 and put it on the counter? 22 00:00:49.833 --> 00:00:50.850 And she wouldn't, she was kind of 23 00:00:50.850 --> 00:00:53.650 like, be like that, like, alright, Nelly, I didn't understand. 24 00:00:53.650 --> 00:00:57.320 So there's a cat and this cat is named Grudge 25 00:00:57.320 --> 00:01:00.350 because if you're really mad, you can hold a grudge 26 00:01:00.350 --> 00:01:02.560 and you can hold a grudge for a really long time. 27 00:01:02.560 --> 00:01:07.050 And grudge is really, really calorically challenged 28 00:01:07.050 --> 00:01:10.473 and is enormous and falls off stuff. 29 00:01:11.410 --> 00:01:12.330 I'm sorry, I'm laughing. 30 00:01:12.330 --> 00:01:13.400 But it's funny. 31 00:01:13.400 --> 00:01:16.380 And my understanding from the actors is that 32 00:01:16.380 --> 00:01:17.430 (laughs) 33 00:01:17.430 --> 00:01:20.050 Grudge really doesn't like Sonequa, 34 00:01:20.050 --> 00:01:25.050 but Grudge is the companion of one of our new characters 35 00:01:25.260 --> 00:01:30.260 named Book and Grudge hates Sonequa 36 00:01:30.320 --> 00:01:31.616 So I just think that's really funny. 37 00:01:31.616 --> 00:01:32.480 (Laughs) What? 38 00:01:32.480 --> 00:01:34.780 Grudge has a whole backstory. 39 00:01:34.780 --> 00:01:36.630 She has a best friend 40 00:01:36.630 --> 00:01:39.885 she's really really unpleasant cat 41 00:01:39.885 --> 00:01:41.500 (laughs) 42 00:01:41.500 --> 00:01:43.420 and she makes things really miserable. 43 00:01:43.420 --> 00:01:44.435 (laughs) 44 00:01:44.435 --> 00:01:46.690 And I think you have to have a character 45 00:01:46.690 --> 00:01:49.250 like that because I don't know if Nelly 46 00:01:49.250 --> 00:01:51.420 who she is based on is actively unpleasant, 47 00:01:51.420 --> 00:01:54.623 but it's just always there. 48 00:01:55.620 --> 00:01:57.000 Like eyeing you. 49 00:01:57.000 --> 00:01:59.579 So I'm excited about Grudge wreaking on her havoc 50 00:01:59.579 --> 00:02:01.764 and behaving very badly 51 00:02:01.764 --> 00:02:03.850 in space a thousand years from now 52 00:02:03.850 --> 00:02:06.167 just saying.