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Hello,

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my name is Bruce Horak.

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And I play the character of Hemmer

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on Star Trek: Strange New Worlds.

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Rerouting auxiliary power. Get ready.

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Hemmer is the chief engineer,

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so he's often found in Engineering.

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He is an Aenar,

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which is a subspecies
of the Andorian people.

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Akiva and I really wanted

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to have an alien
member of the crew

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in addition to Spock, and we

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weren't ready to
introduce Scotty yet,

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and we needed an
engineering character

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because we've built this
incredible AR set for Engineering.

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I think it was Kirsten Beyer,

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who's one of our
producers on the show,

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who suggested that
we look at the Aenar

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who came from Enterprise.

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We have, you know,

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an opportunity to increase,

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in a regular way,
the pantheon of aliens.

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Now, the Aenar are a
subspecies of the Andorians.

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They grew up in these ice caves
and they're blind at birth.

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They don't see,

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but they have these
incredible heightened senses.

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Hemmer may not be able to see,

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but his other senses compensate.

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Compensate? They are superior.

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They are telepathic at a
level that's much more than,

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you know, your average Andorian.

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I've read that, among many things,

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the Aenar have a form
of precognitive ability.

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I knew you were going to ask that.

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Because you sensed my
question before I asked it?

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Because everyone always asks that.

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To research the role of the Aenar,

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I watched a couple of
episodes that they appear in.

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They first appear in
Star Trek: Enterprise.

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And then I just went
down the rabbit hole

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on the fan sites, Memory Alpha,

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dug into as much
backstory as I could find.

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Just went deep into the
Andorian cultures and lifestyles,

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and learned about how
the Aenar are all pacifists,

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and sort of took that in.

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Pacifism is not passivity.

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It's the active protection
of all living things

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in the natural universe.

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What do I love about Hemmer?

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I love his confidence.

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I love his journey over the series.

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To impress me,

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you're going to need to
do better than theorize.

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He sort of starts as like a,

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a bit of a crusty codger

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and eventually breaks down,

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and you get to learn
about what makes him tick.

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Engineering to transporter. Try it now.

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What the--how did you...?

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I am a genius.

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And Hemmer is a genius.

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He knows it, and he's not
afraid to tell you so.

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Hemmer out.