How is Season 2
gonna kick Season 1's ass?
Season 2 is bigger.
It goes to places
boldly we haven't gone before in the show.
What does that even mean?
[Mike] We hit the ground running
and it never looks back.
I think the first season,
we got to know the characters.
They were really comfortable with each other.
Well, it seems like everything's back to normal.
But then Season 2,
we get to see all the characters
kind of have a level of their own independence.
Mike and Chris Kula
and the whole crew and the writers are like,
"Oh, great, Season 1
we can touch with these
and you guys will get it,
and you'll get it if you're fans
and you'll get it if you're not fans.
Great.
So we'll do more ridiculous stuff.
We'll make bigger things happen,
explore the worlds a lot more,
and be a lot more minuscule
when it comes to, like, the Star Trek-y stuff.
I told you not to deviate from the mission.
Hm, looks like you took a full load
of strange energy straight to the cortex.
So the true, true fans can
tip their hats to those moments,
and then the ones that are just there for the comedy
can just keep laughing.
The main thing I noticed
when I saw a little sneak peek
of the first episode was that the animation
has gotten quite a bump.
I texted Mike McMahan and said,
"Did Mariner get new facial expressions?"
Why are you squatting?
We're going to die!
It's leg day!
She seems more expressive, so, yeah,
that's all a tribute to Titmouse and the animators
and to Mike and the team for pushing that.
So Season 2 starts a couple months
after the end of Season 1.
We've got Mariner and her mom working together.
At least, they've been trying to.
I don't think it's great for either one of them.
Mom, you don't have to keep a trinket
from every side mission we do together.
They'd gotten pretty used to their dynamic before,
as dysfunctional as it was,
and now this getting along thing
doesn't super serve either of their purposes.
I think you'll see it's not gonna last.
We've missed some of their adventures.
It's getting a little exhausting for the both of them.
- He's right. - What?
Well, I do actually feel the exact same way.
Especially to Ransom, who is used
to being the captain's number one
and now it seems like Mariner is.
That does tend to happen a lot these days.
You've got Rutherford who's having memory problems,
but he's still the Rutherford we know and love.
And the good thing is, is by his restart
there's aspects of his work that he's trying to figure out,
but he's so professional in the way
that he wants to do it.
And I think it's gonna be a fun ride
to watch him realize certain things.
Went the wrong way again.
[Eugene] And I'm excited for Rutherford
to find some more of his memories,
but also see some fun things that weren't there originally
with Tendi and him.
But Tendi is getting a little upset that,
you know, is he different?
Is this new version of Rutherford
with his new memories
the Rutherford she knows?
And that's something she's grappling with.
Does Rutherford seem off to you?
Yeah, always.
Obviously, it was sad for Tendi when Rutherford
sort of lost all the history,
but because Tendi's so optimistic,
this is just an opportunity
for her to become friends with him all over again.
If anything, it's going to make their friendship better
and stronger and it takes them on some new adventures.
It's nice to know no matter what, we still love science.
And how.
Also, don't date Barnes.
I think that Tendi, in the first season,
it's not that she had a backseat position,
but she definitely was more of a wallflower
in the sense that she was taking everybody else's lead.
Looks like I'm gonna have to resort
to more extreme methods.
I think for this season, you get to see Tendi
coming out of her shell.
What we wanted to see in this first episode,
we come back with this emotional story
but also with this TOS-style godlike story
where somebody is imbued with strange energies.
So right off the bat,
it's something you haven't seen before,
but it's reflecting on Star Trek's past,
and every character has something--
you know, fallout that they're dealing with
from the end of Season 1.
And at the very end of the episode,
you get a little taste of what you're gonna see
in Episode 2 with Boimler.
He's in over his head with the Titan.
Pretty quickly you'll see that the types of missions
that he does for Captain Riker
are a little different than the types of missions
he does for Captain Freeman.
And Riker's a captain he's not used to.
And yeah, I think we set the bar high,
we rise to the challenge, and you guys will see
across first season and then second,
like, it just keeps getting bigger and bigger and bigger
all the way to the second season finale.
It's a lot of fun.