WEBVTT 00:00:00.417 --> 00:00:01.459 How is Season 2 00:00:01.459 --> 00:00:03.003 gonna kick Season 1's ass? 00:00:04.504 --> 00:00:05.505 Season 2 is bigger. 00:00:06.339 --> 00:00:07.674 It goes to places 00:00:07.674 --> 00:00:09.759 boldly we haven't gone before in the show. 00:00:09.759 --> 00:00:11.302 What does that even mean? 00:00:11.886 --> 00:00:12.721 [Mike] We hit the ground running 00:00:12.721 --> 00:00:13.847 and it never looks back. 00:00:17.851 --> 00:00:19.436 I think the first season, 00:00:19.436 --> 00:00:21.312 we got to know the characters. 00:00:21.646 --> 00:00:24.065 They were really comfortable with each other. 00:00:24.441 --> 00:00:26.609 Well, it seems like everything's back to normal. 00:00:26.609 --> 00:00:27.944 But then Season 2, 00:00:27.944 --> 00:00:29.487 we get to see all the characters 00:00:29.988 --> 00:00:32.907 kind of have a level of their own independence. 00:00:32.907 --> 00:00:35.035 Mike and Chris Kula 00:00:35.035 --> 00:00:37.287 and the whole crew and the writers are like, 00:00:37.287 --> 00:00:38.705 "Oh, great, Season 1 00:00:38.705 --> 00:00:40.540 we can touch with these 00:00:40.540 --> 00:00:41.958 and you guys will get it, 00:00:41.958 --> 00:00:43.084 and you'll get it if you're fans 00:00:43.084 --> 00:00:44.836 and you'll get it if you're not fans. 00:00:44.836 --> 00:00:45.503 Great. 00:00:45.503 --> 00:00:47.380 So we'll do more ridiculous stuff. 00:00:47.380 --> 00:00:50.091 We'll make bigger things happen, 00:00:50.091 --> 00:00:51.968 explore the worlds a lot more, 00:00:51.968 --> 00:00:54.345 and be a lot more minuscule 00:00:54.345 --> 00:00:57.265 when it comes to, like, the Star Trek-y stuff. 00:00:57.265 --> 00:01:00.018 I told you not to deviate from the mission. 00:01:00.018 --> 00:01:02.187 Hm, looks like you took a full load 00:01:02.187 --> 00:01:04.856 of strange energy straight to the cortex. 00:01:04.856 --> 00:01:07.901 So the true, true fans can 00:01:08.610 --> 00:01:10.653 tip their hats to those moments, 00:01:10.653 --> 00:01:13.156 and then the ones that are just there for the comedy 00:01:13.156 --> 00:01:14.699 can just keep laughing. 00:01:14.699 --> 00:01:15.825 The main thing I noticed 00:01:15.825 --> 00:01:17.118 when I saw a little sneak peek 00:01:17.118 --> 00:01:19.204 of the first episode was that the animation 00:01:19.204 --> 00:01:20.955 has gotten quite a bump. 00:01:20.955 --> 00:01:22.665 I texted Mike McMahan and said, 00:01:22.665 --> 00:01:25.001 "Did Mariner get new facial expressions?" 00:01:25.001 --> 00:01:26.002 Why are you squatting? 00:01:26.002 --> 00:01:27.504 We're going to die! 00:01:27.504 --> 00:01:28.880 It's leg day! 00:01:28.880 --> 00:01:30.507 She seems more expressive, so, yeah, 00:01:30.507 --> 00:01:33.301 that's all a tribute to Titmouse and the animators 00:01:33.301 --> 00:01:35.386 and to Mike and the team for pushing that. 00:01:35.470 --> 00:01:37.347 So Season 2 starts a couple months 00:01:37.347 --> 00:01:38.723 after the end of Season 1. 00:01:38.723 --> 00:01:40.475 We've got Mariner and her mom working together. 00:01:40.475 --> 00:01:42.519 At least, they've been trying to. 00:01:42.519 --> 00:01:44.437 I don't think it's great for either one of them. 00:01:44.437 --> 00:01:45.605 Mom, you don't have to keep a trinket 00:01:45.605 --> 00:01:47.315 from every side mission we do together. 00:01:47.315 --> 00:01:49.776 They'd gotten pretty used to their dynamic before, 00:01:49.776 --> 00:01:51.778 as dysfunctional as it was, 00:01:51.778 --> 00:01:54.447 and now this getting along thing 00:01:54.447 --> 00:01:57.700 doesn't super serve either of their purposes. 00:01:58.243 --> 00:02:01.162 I think you'll see it's not gonna last. 00:02:01.162 --> 00:02:02.747 We've missed some of their adventures. 00:02:02.747 --> 00:02:04.749 It's getting a little exhausting for the both of them. 00:02:04.749 --> 00:02:06.292 - He's right. - What? 00:02:06.292 --> 00:02:09.337 Well, I do actually feel the exact same way. 00:02:09.337 --> 00:02:10.964 Especially to Ransom, who is used 00:02:10.964 --> 00:02:12.423 to being the captain's number one 00:02:12.423 --> 00:02:13.883 and now it seems like Mariner is. 00:02:13.883 --> 00:02:15.844 That does tend to happen a lot these days. 00:02:15.844 --> 00:02:18.096 You've got Rutherford who's having memory problems, 00:02:18.096 --> 00:02:19.722 but he's still the Rutherford we know and love. 00:02:19.722 --> 00:02:22.809 And the good thing is, is by his restart 00:02:22.809 --> 00:02:25.436 there's aspects of his work that he's trying to figure out, 00:02:25.436 --> 00:02:27.272 but he's so professional in the way 00:02:27.272 --> 00:02:28.731 that he wants to do it. 00:02:28.731 --> 00:02:30.817 And I think it's gonna be a fun ride 00:02:30.817 --> 00:02:33.153 to watch him realize certain things. 00:02:33.736 --> 00:02:35.155 Went the wrong way again. 00:02:35.155 --> 00:02:36.489 [Eugene] And I'm excited for Rutherford 00:02:36.489 --> 00:02:38.533 to find some more of his memories, 00:02:39.033 --> 00:02:42.412 but also see some fun things that weren't there originally 00:02:42.412 --> 00:02:43.705 with Tendi and him. 00:02:43.705 --> 00:02:46.708 But Tendi is getting a little upset that, 00:02:46.708 --> 00:02:48.835 you know, is he different? 00:02:48.835 --> 00:02:50.795 Is this new version of Rutherford 00:02:50.795 --> 00:02:51.713 with his new memories 00:02:51.713 --> 00:02:52.630 the Rutherford she knows? 00:02:52.630 --> 00:02:54.340 And that's something she's grappling with. 00:02:54.674 --> 00:02:56.926 Does Rutherford seem off to you? 00:02:56.926 --> 00:02:57.844 Yeah, always. 00:02:57.844 --> 00:03:01.055 Obviously, it was sad for Tendi when Rutherford 00:03:01.055 --> 00:03:02.432 sort of lost all the history, 00:03:02.432 --> 00:03:05.226 but because Tendi's so optimistic, 00:03:05.226 --> 00:03:06.561 this is just an opportunity 00:03:06.561 --> 00:03:09.230 for her to become friends with him all over again. 00:03:09.230 --> 00:03:12.942 If anything, it's going to make their friendship better 00:03:12.942 --> 00:03:17.071 and stronger and it takes them on some new adventures. 00:03:17.071 --> 00:03:20.283 It's nice to know no matter what, we still love science. 00:03:20.283 --> 00:03:21.409 And how. 00:03:21.409 --> 00:03:22.702 Also, don't date Barnes. 00:03:22.702 --> 00:03:24.579 I think that Tendi, in the first season, 00:03:24.579 --> 00:03:26.206 it's not that she had a backseat position, 00:03:26.206 --> 00:03:29.918 but she definitely was more of a wallflower 00:03:29.918 --> 00:03:32.462 in the sense that she was taking everybody else's lead. 00:03:32.462 --> 00:03:33.796 Looks like I'm gonna have to resort 00:03:33.796 --> 00:03:35.757 to more extreme methods. 00:03:35.757 --> 00:03:38.259 I think for this season, you get to see Tendi 00:03:38.259 --> 00:03:39.344 coming out of her shell. 00:03:39.427 --> 00:03:41.429 What we wanted to see in this first episode, 00:03:41.429 --> 00:03:43.223 we come back with this emotional story 00:03:43.223 --> 00:03:46.851 but also with this TOS-style godlike story 00:03:46.851 --> 00:03:49.103 where somebody is imbued with strange energies. 00:03:49.103 --> 00:03:50.104 So right off the bat, 00:03:50.104 --> 00:03:51.064 it's something you haven't seen before, 00:03:51.064 --> 00:03:52.982 but it's reflecting on Star Trek's past, 00:03:52.982 --> 00:03:55.026 and every character has something-- 00:03:55.026 --> 00:03:56.527 you know, fallout that they're dealing with 00:03:56.527 --> 00:03:57.737 from the end of Season 1. 00:03:57.904 --> 00:03:59.614 And at the very end of the episode, 00:03:59.614 --> 00:04:01.032 you get a little taste of what you're gonna see 00:04:01.032 --> 00:04:02.784 in Episode 2 with Boimler. 00:04:02.784 --> 00:04:04.285 He's in over his head with the Titan. 00:04:05.328 --> 00:04:08.331 Pretty quickly you'll see that the types of missions 00:04:08.581 --> 00:04:09.958 that he does for Captain Riker 00:04:09.958 --> 00:04:12.168 are a little different than the types of missions 00:04:12.168 --> 00:04:13.503 he does for Captain Freeman. 00:04:13.503 --> 00:04:15.630 And Riker's a captain he's not used to. 00:04:15.630 --> 00:04:17.799 And yeah, I think we set the bar high, 00:04:17.799 --> 00:04:20.260 we rise to the challenge, and you guys will see 00:04:20.260 --> 00:04:21.636 across first season and then second, 00:04:21.636 --> 00:04:24.347 like, it just keeps getting bigger and bigger and bigger 00:04:24.347 --> 00:04:26.057 all the way to the second season finale. 00:04:26.057 --> 00:04:26.808 It's a lot of fun.