WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.083 --> 00:00:01.126 This week in The Ready Room, 2 00:00:01.126 --> 00:00:03.545 I embark on an away mission for a very special 3 00:00:03.545 --> 00:00:06.172 Strange New Worlds Season 1 finale discussion 4 00:00:06.172 --> 00:00:08.174 with our pointy-eared pal, Ethan Peck 5 00:00:08.174 --> 00:00:10.927 and Executive Producer, Henry Alonso Myers 6 00:00:10.927 --> 00:00:12.929 from the set of Season 2. 7 00:00:12.929 --> 00:00:13.930 And since I was there, 8 00:00:13.930 --> 00:00:16.933 I took a tour of the Enterprise's newest hangout spot. 9 00:00:16.933 --> 00:00:18.101 General quarters! 10 00:00:18.101 --> 00:00:18.977 It all starts now. 11 00:00:26.234 --> 00:00:27.527 Hey, nerds. I'm Wil Wheaton 12 00:00:27.527 --> 00:00:29.112 and this is The Ready Room, 13 00:00:29.112 --> 00:00:30.780 your official behind-the-scenes hub 14 00:00:30.780 --> 00:00:33.074 for all things Star Trek Universe. 15 00:00:33.074 --> 00:00:34.993 Well, we did it. 16 00:00:34.993 --> 00:00:36.411 We have reached the end 17 00:00:36.411 --> 00:00:39.247 of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 1. 18 00:00:39.247 --> 00:00:40.623 And I, for one, 19 00:00:40.623 --> 00:00:43.001 not exactly ready to say goodbye. 20 00:00:43.001 --> 00:00:45.837 It's a shame we can't talk to future versions of ourselves 21 00:00:45.837 --> 00:00:47.714 who have already seen Season 2, 22 00:00:47.714 --> 00:00:49.966 to tell us what we can look forward to. 23 00:00:49.966 --> 00:00:53.386 I mean, I can talk to future versions of myself, 24 00:00:53.386 --> 00:00:56.097 but you can't, and I don't want you to feel bad about that. 25 00:00:56.097 --> 00:00:59.642 Which reminds me, future you is going to be very unhappy, 26 00:00:59.642 --> 00:01:02.645 if you don't heed this... red alert! 27 00:01:02.645 --> 00:01:04.272 If all this discussion of future selves 28 00:01:04.272 --> 00:01:05.106 has you wondering 29 00:01:05.106 --> 00:01:07.776 if you're in a self-help guru session of The Ready Room, 30 00:01:07.776 --> 00:01:10.153 let me say I'm flattered, but no. 31 00:01:10.153 --> 00:01:13.782 This is a direct reference to this week's finale episode. 32 00:01:13.782 --> 00:01:17.118 And the only life advice I'm qualified to give 33 00:01:17.118 --> 00:01:19.746 is that you go stream the finale episode, 34 00:01:19.746 --> 00:01:22.624 before returning here to partake in all the spoilers. 35 00:01:22.624 --> 00:01:24.084 Got it. Great. 36 00:01:24.084 --> 00:01:27.462 Now, we can all delve into Captain Pike's life decisions 37 00:01:27.462 --> 00:01:29.672 and stop thinking about our own. 38 00:01:29.672 --> 00:01:32.759 This week I am so thrilled to be traveling 39 00:01:32.759 --> 00:01:35.095 to the set of Strange New Worlds Season 2, 40 00:01:35.095 --> 00:01:36.805 where I get to speak with Ethan Peck 41 00:01:36.805 --> 00:01:39.974 and Executive Producer and Writer, Henry Alonso Myers, 42 00:01:39.974 --> 00:01:43.603 about the season finale, "A Quality of Mercy." 43 00:01:43.603 --> 00:01:47.899 Which, dang, that title alone is full of Easter eggs, 44 00:01:47.899 --> 00:01:50.110 including both a William Shakespeare reference 45 00:01:50.110 --> 00:01:52.904 and a reference to an episode of The Twilight Zone, 46 00:01:52.904 --> 00:01:55.156 starring a young Leonard Nimoy. 47 00:01:55.156 --> 00:01:56.199 How cool? 48 00:01:56.199 --> 00:01:59.577 To take further advantage of my away mission to Toronto, 49 00:01:59.577 --> 00:02:00.912 I convinced the powers that be 50 00:02:00.912 --> 00:02:04.040 to let me have a look around at a brand new set 51 00:02:04.040 --> 00:02:06.084 that will feature heavily in Season 2. 52 00:02:06.084 --> 00:02:08.169 And of course, you get to come along with me. 53 00:02:08.169 --> 00:02:11.589 So, later, we'll be headed into the, kind-of-future 54 00:02:11.589 --> 00:02:14.467 with this glimpse into next season. 55 00:02:14.467 --> 00:02:17.887 But first, the shot-for-shot moments of the finale 56 00:02:17.887 --> 00:02:21.182 that mirror The Original Series episode "Balance of Terror" 57 00:02:21.182 --> 00:02:22.267 were jaw dropping. 58 00:02:22.267 --> 00:02:26.354 If you haven't streamed the two episodes side-by-side, 59 00:02:26.354 --> 00:02:30.316 just to see how much they align, I highly recommend it. 60 00:02:30.316 --> 00:02:32.735 I did it, and it is so cool. 61 00:02:32.735 --> 00:02:34.612 But before you do that, 62 00:02:34.612 --> 00:02:37.615 we got to talk with the executive producers and the cast 63 00:02:37.615 --> 00:02:40.869 about what went into making this alternate version 64 00:02:40.869 --> 00:02:43.454 of a legendary Star Trek episode. 65 00:02:43.454 --> 00:02:45.331 Control room, engage. 66 00:02:49.294 --> 00:02:50.128 Enterprise. 67 00:02:51.045 --> 00:02:52.255 Can you see? 68 00:02:52.255 --> 00:02:55.300 We're over a mile deep on an asteroid. 69 00:02:55.300 --> 00:02:57.135 Almost solid iron. 70 00:02:57.135 --> 00:02:59.387 Even through our deflectors, it did this. 71 00:02:59.387 --> 00:03:02.765 The first time I read the season finale, 72 00:03:02.765 --> 00:03:04.809 I initially thought, 73 00:03:04.809 --> 00:03:09.814 "This is sounding familiar." [laughs] 74 00:03:09.939 --> 00:03:13.026 We're a mile deep on an asteroid, 75 00:03:13.026 --> 00:03:14.527 almost solid iron. 76 00:03:14.527 --> 00:03:16.029 And then I started to realize, 77 00:03:16.029 --> 00:03:18.573 I think I've seen this before. 78 00:03:24.495 --> 00:03:25.955 It's such a cool idea 79 00:03:25.955 --> 00:03:29.834 to take one of the most beloved episodes 80 00:03:29.834 --> 00:03:31.127 from the original 81 00:03:31.127 --> 00:03:34.088 and look at it, not as a recreation, 82 00:03:34.088 --> 00:03:36.591 but what would've happened in this situation 83 00:03:36.591 --> 00:03:40.261 had a different captain been in the place of Kirk. 84 00:03:40.261 --> 00:03:42.680 "Balance of Terror" is one of my absolute favorite 85 00:03:42.680 --> 00:03:44.015 original Trek episodes. 86 00:03:44.015 --> 00:03:45.350 I remember just having this idea, 87 00:03:45.350 --> 00:03:47.810 like, wouldn't it be cool to be able to revisit this? 88 00:03:47.810 --> 00:03:51.314 And there's a history in Trek of doing that kind of thing. 89 00:03:51.314 --> 00:03:54.400 On Deep Space Nine, they did "Trials and Tribble-ations," 90 00:03:54.400 --> 00:03:57.111 which is an episode where they revisited 91 00:03:57.111 --> 00:03:58.446 "The Trouble With Tribbles." 92 00:03:58.446 --> 00:03:59.989 In talking with Akiva about it, 93 00:03:59.989 --> 00:04:01.574 we were discussing how, you know, 94 00:04:01.574 --> 00:04:04.244 here we are on the original Enterprise. 95 00:04:04.244 --> 00:04:06.579 What if we could find a way to put our characters 96 00:04:06.579 --> 00:04:09.999 in the situation that they're in in "Balance of Terror," 97 00:04:09.999 --> 00:04:13.378 only updating it with our contemporary visual effects, 98 00:04:13.378 --> 00:04:16.089 our new actors, our different approach to character. 99 00:04:16.089 --> 00:04:17.632 That is sort of where it started. 100 00:04:17.632 --> 00:04:18.800 Is this some kind of-- 101 00:04:18.800 --> 00:04:19.759 Joke? No. 102 00:04:20.885 --> 00:04:21.970 How am I supposed to believe-- 103 00:04:21.970 --> 00:04:23.554 That I'm really you? 104 00:04:23.554 --> 00:04:25.306 You ever gonna let me get a word in edgewise? 105 00:04:25.306 --> 00:04:27.558 We wanted to do a time travel episode, 106 00:04:27.558 --> 00:04:30.311 because that's another essential Star Trek genre. 107 00:04:30.311 --> 00:04:32.981 We had this idea, which is a classic sci-fi idea. 108 00:04:32.981 --> 00:04:34.691 What if your future self comes back 109 00:04:34.691 --> 00:04:36.067 and tells you not to do something? 110 00:04:36.067 --> 00:04:37.777 This is end of the world stuff. 111 00:04:37.777 --> 00:04:39.988 And Christmas Carol-style, 112 00:04:39.988 --> 00:04:42.824 he's transported into his future body 113 00:04:42.824 --> 00:04:44.742 and gets to experience the mistake. 114 00:04:44.742 --> 00:04:45.576 Captain. 115 00:04:46.536 --> 00:04:48.579 What was I saying? 116 00:04:48.579 --> 00:04:50.790 That, "Since the age of wooden ships..." 117 00:04:50.790 --> 00:04:53.626 All ship masters have had one happy privilege. 118 00:04:53.626 --> 00:04:54.419 Right. 119 00:04:54.419 --> 00:04:57.630 Part of that was basically a hat trick 120 00:04:57.630 --> 00:05:02.635 of trying to steal the camera language and blocking 121 00:05:02.719 --> 00:05:05.930 and some of the lighting from not just that era, 122 00:05:05.930 --> 00:05:07.598 but from that specific episode. 123 00:05:07.598 --> 00:05:10.977 So we had the original episode that we were referring to, 124 00:05:10.977 --> 00:05:14.439 as we were blocking some of those scenes. 125 00:05:14.439 --> 00:05:16.524 I remember wanting to nail 126 00:05:16.524 --> 00:05:21.029 a recreation of Kirk's first entrance to the bridge. 127 00:05:21.029 --> 00:05:22.655 We actually pulled, you know, 128 00:05:22.655 --> 00:05:23.906 text from the original episode 129 00:05:23.906 --> 00:05:26.159 and found all these places to plant it in. 130 00:05:26.159 --> 00:05:28.328 And if the Romulans are an offshoot of my Vulcan blood, 131 00:05:28.328 --> 00:05:29.829 and I think this likely,-- 132 00:05:29.829 --> 00:05:31.914 - -then attack is indeed the only option. 133 00:05:31.914 --> 00:05:33.041 One of my favorites, 134 00:05:33.041 --> 00:05:35.209 probably an iconic moment, where Mark Lenard 135 00:05:35.209 --> 00:05:36.836 in The Original Series says, 136 00:05:36.836 --> 00:05:38.963 In a different reality, 137 00:05:39.797 --> 00:05:41.507 I could have called you friend. 138 00:05:41.507 --> 00:05:45.428 And we have that same moment happening. But with Pike. 139 00:05:45.428 --> 00:05:48.556 In a different reality, I could have called you friend. 140 00:05:48.556 --> 00:05:50.224 The meaning is completely twisted. 141 00:05:50.224 --> 00:05:51.351 It's changed, 142 00:05:51.351 --> 00:05:53.895 largely because the person in the captain's chair 143 00:05:53.895 --> 00:05:55.688 is Pike and not Kirk. 144 00:05:55.688 --> 00:05:57.231 His heading is now 1-11... 145 00:05:57.231 --> 00:05:58.441 - Mark 1-4. 146 00:05:58.441 --> 00:05:59.275 The exact heading a-- 147 00:05:59.275 --> 00:06:00.943 - Romulan vessel would take, Jim. 148 00:06:00.943 --> 00:06:03.696 Getting an episode that's kind of a reconstruction 149 00:06:03.696 --> 00:06:05.323 or a reinterpretation, 150 00:06:05.323 --> 00:06:07.325 is, again, like another huge challenge. 151 00:06:07.325 --> 00:06:10.036 Because up until Episode 10, 152 00:06:10.036 --> 00:06:10.870 I, Ethan Peck, 153 00:06:10.870 --> 00:06:13.456 have been embodying this younger version of Spock, 154 00:06:13.456 --> 00:06:16.250 which we've kind of discussed as being 155 00:06:16.250 --> 00:06:19.587 a little more emotional, as he, again, 156 00:06:19.587 --> 00:06:23.174 is trying to find this balance between human and Vulcan. 157 00:06:23.174 --> 00:06:27.637 For Episode 10, we had discussed him being much more Vulcan, 158 00:06:27.637 --> 00:06:30.056 much more logical, much more stentorian, 159 00:06:30.056 --> 00:06:32.892 and sort of monolithic is a word I love to use 160 00:06:32.892 --> 00:06:36.437 when describing Spock and, I hope, my work as him. 161 00:06:36.437 --> 00:06:38.022 It's fortunate that it was at the end of the season, 162 00:06:38.022 --> 00:06:39.524 once I've kind of gotten more comfortable 163 00:06:39.524 --> 00:06:40.358 and we've found, I think, 164 00:06:40.358 --> 00:06:41.943 a bit of a groove in the production. 165 00:06:41.943 --> 00:06:43.152 Did Outpost 4 say anything else 166 00:06:43.152 --> 00:06:44.529 about the attacking vessel? 167 00:06:44.529 --> 00:06:46.239 No identification, sir. 168 00:06:46.239 --> 00:06:47.657 No identification, sir. 169 00:06:47.657 --> 00:06:50.201 When I read the finale script and realized 170 00:06:50.201 --> 00:06:52.412 that we were going to be flash forwarding several years 171 00:06:52.412 --> 00:06:56.124 and I was going to sit at the TOS position, 172 00:06:56.124 --> 00:06:59.001 where comms is right behind the command chair, 173 00:06:59.001 --> 00:07:00.586 that was incredible. 174 00:07:00.586 --> 00:07:03.548 I got chills the first time I read it because it was like, 175 00:07:03.548 --> 00:07:05.049 "Oh, I get to wear her green earrings 176 00:07:05.049 --> 00:07:06.509 and get her nails right." 177 00:07:06.509 --> 00:07:08.761 I didn't get the beehive for the final episode, 178 00:07:08.761 --> 00:07:10.805 but I'll survive without it. 179 00:07:10.805 --> 00:07:12.098 Who's hailing us? 180 00:07:12.098 --> 00:07:14.350 Their captain, James Kirk. 181 00:07:14.350 --> 00:07:18.729 Alex and I thought that it would be an interesting thing 182 00:07:18.729 --> 00:07:21.774 to bring Jim Kirk into the last episode 183 00:07:21.774 --> 00:07:22.775 of Strange New Worlds. 184 00:07:22.775 --> 00:07:24.485 That was always the plan. 185 00:07:24.485 --> 00:07:26.988 We had no idea how we were gonna do it. 186 00:07:28.114 --> 00:07:30.491 And then Henry really sort of bore down 187 00:07:30.491 --> 00:07:33.411 on this idea of the retelling of "Balance of Terror." 188 00:07:33.411 --> 00:07:37.915 And it became this really wonderful way of letting in 189 00:07:38.749 --> 00:07:40.710 a Jim Kirk, who's not the Jim Kirk we know. 190 00:07:40.710 --> 00:07:43.546 - Quite the ship you got here. - He's jealous. 191 00:07:43.546 --> 00:07:45.339 There's a little bit of flexibility here because 192 00:07:45.339 --> 00:07:47.592 he's actually not the captain of the Enterprise. 193 00:07:47.592 --> 00:07:49.135 He's never met Spock. 194 00:07:49.135 --> 00:07:51.345 He doesn't have those allies. 195 00:07:51.345 --> 00:07:53.639 And so, he doesn't necessarily 196 00:07:53.639 --> 00:07:58.478 have to be the version of Captain Kirk on the Enterprise 197 00:07:58.478 --> 00:08:01.814 because he hasn't had the same experiences. 198 00:08:01.814 --> 00:08:04.567 Working with Anson's great. He's such a veteran actor. 199 00:08:04.567 --> 00:08:06.944 There's a great juxtaposition between the two guys, 200 00:08:06.944 --> 00:08:09.071 Pike and Kirk. 201 00:08:09.071 --> 00:08:11.407 You tried for something better. 202 00:08:11.407 --> 00:08:12.825 Tried and lost. 203 00:08:12.825 --> 00:08:15.161 And somehow, the differences between the two of them 204 00:08:15.161 --> 00:08:17.288 actually end up syncing quite nicely. 205 00:08:17.288 --> 00:08:18.789 And by the end of the episode, 206 00:08:18.789 --> 00:08:20.791 they have a deep respect for one another. 207 00:08:20.791 --> 00:08:23.377 If you had just chased that Romulan ship from the get-go 208 00:08:23.377 --> 00:08:24.962 and taken it out, 209 00:08:24.962 --> 00:08:26.923 maybe none of this would've happened. 210 00:08:26.923 --> 00:08:27.757 Fire. 211 00:08:28.716 --> 00:08:30.593 You're a good captain, Jim Kirk. 212 00:08:30.593 --> 00:08:33.346 I think you might see him back 213 00:08:34.388 --> 00:08:36.265 next year as the younger version. 214 00:08:36.265 --> 00:08:38.142 You thinking of retiring? 215 00:08:38.142 --> 00:08:41.646 [laughs] Oh, no. No, not yet. 216 00:08:45.441 --> 00:08:47.443 For the Season 1 finale of Strange New Worlds, 217 00:08:47.443 --> 00:08:49.403 it was only fitting that we go big. 218 00:08:49.403 --> 00:08:51.697 Now listen, full disclosure, 219 00:08:51.697 --> 00:08:54.575 I am geeking out as badly as I have geeked out 220 00:08:54.575 --> 00:08:56.661 since I was maybe 15 years old 221 00:08:56.661 --> 00:08:59.705 and walked onto the bridge of my Enterprise. 222 00:08:59.705 --> 00:09:01.082 I am here in Toronto. 223 00:09:01.082 --> 00:09:03.000 I am in Captain Pike's quarters 224 00:09:03.000 --> 00:09:05.545 with Henry Alonso Myers and Ethan Peck. 225 00:09:05.545 --> 00:09:07.004 You guys, come on. 226 00:09:07.004 --> 00:09:08.923 This is amazing! 227 00:09:10.091 --> 00:09:13.302 Congratulations on finishing up your first season. 228 00:09:13.302 --> 00:09:15.972 How does it feel to know that it's in the world now? 229 00:09:17.139 --> 00:09:18.182 I mean, it's crazy. 230 00:09:18.182 --> 00:09:19.016 For me. 231 00:09:19.016 --> 00:09:21.060 I mean, probably it's been a longer process for you. 232 00:09:21.060 --> 00:09:23.521 It's just been a marathon for me. 233 00:09:23.521 --> 00:09:24.522 Yeah. 234 00:09:24.522 --> 00:09:27.316 It's wild because we made this thing in such isolation. 235 00:09:27.316 --> 00:09:29.527 I mean, last season was super challenging with the pandemic. 236 00:09:29.527 --> 00:09:30.528 [Henry] Yeah. Yeah. 237 00:09:30.528 --> 00:09:33.030 And we couldn't have a lot of the executives on set, 238 00:09:33.030 --> 00:09:33.948 which we normally do. 239 00:09:33.948 --> 00:09:35.783 And so there's a part of you wondering like, 240 00:09:35.783 --> 00:09:38.369 "Is this working? Are we gelling?" 241 00:09:38.369 --> 00:09:40.955 Cause you're putting together a whole new cast. 242 00:09:40.955 --> 00:09:43.874 And we kind of plowed through that first season 243 00:09:43.874 --> 00:09:46.335 and came pretty directly into the second season. 244 00:09:46.335 --> 00:09:47.211 We did. Yeah. 245 00:09:47.211 --> 00:09:48.629 I mean, I didn't get to visit. 246 00:09:48.629 --> 00:09:52.216 I didn't even come to Toronto, to set, until the finale 247 00:09:52.216 --> 00:09:53.551 - Really? - Yeah. Right. 248 00:09:53.551 --> 00:09:55.386 Because of COVID restrictions. 249 00:09:55.386 --> 00:09:57.680 And I was just dealing with prep and everything. 250 00:09:57.680 --> 00:09:59.140 I did everything over Zoom. Yeah. 251 00:09:59.140 --> 00:09:59.974 That's a trip. 252 00:09:59.974 --> 00:10:01.559 Except, and then I would text people like, 253 00:10:01.559 --> 00:10:02.560 "Hey, good job." 254 00:10:02.560 --> 00:10:05.479 [laughs] I was getting notes from you through text. 255 00:10:05.479 --> 00:10:06.314 Someone would be like, 256 00:10:06.314 --> 00:10:07.148 "Hey, Henry wants you to..." 257 00:10:07.148 --> 00:10:08.149 I'm like, "Where's Henry?" 258 00:10:08.149 --> 00:10:10.484 Try not to be too intrusive. 259 00:10:10.484 --> 00:10:12.778 You raised an really interesting point 260 00:10:12.778 --> 00:10:13.988 that I hadn't considered. 261 00:10:13.988 --> 00:10:17.283 When you all started your first season, 262 00:10:17.283 --> 00:10:18.993 it was pre-vaccine. 263 00:10:18.993 --> 00:10:19.827 Yeah. 264 00:10:19.827 --> 00:10:22.246 And I've talked with a lot of your castmates 265 00:10:22.246 --> 00:10:24.040 about the challenges inherent to that. 266 00:10:24.040 --> 00:10:26.292 It hadn't occurred to me that 267 00:10:26.292 --> 00:10:28.044 you're a cast coming together 268 00:10:28.044 --> 00:10:29.879 and that is extremely important. 269 00:10:29.879 --> 00:10:32.590 I've been part of that a few times in my career. 270 00:10:32.590 --> 00:10:35.926 And the chemistry and the interpersonal relationships 271 00:10:35.926 --> 00:10:38.346 that you develop when the cameras aren't rolling 272 00:10:38.346 --> 00:10:41.223 are so incredibly important to informing your characters. 273 00:10:41.223 --> 00:10:42.141 Yeah. 274 00:10:42.141 --> 00:10:44.226 Was it extra challenging to find that 275 00:10:44.226 --> 00:10:46.979 when you were under those restrictions. 276 00:10:46.979 --> 00:10:47.855 It was super challenging, 277 00:10:47.855 --> 00:10:49.231 because we weren't really permitted 278 00:10:49.231 --> 00:10:51.192 to spend time with each other off of set. 279 00:10:51.192 --> 00:10:53.653 And as soon as we step off of the set, 280 00:10:53.653 --> 00:10:55.613 we had these shields to put on 281 00:10:55.613 --> 00:10:57.073 that basically protected our makeup, 282 00:10:57.073 --> 00:11:00.618 but was essentially a COVID precaution. 283 00:11:00.618 --> 00:11:02.828 And even just having that up, 284 00:11:02.828 --> 00:11:05.623 was very sort of distancing and strange. 285 00:11:05.623 --> 00:11:07.833 - [Wil] Yeah. - And distorting, socially. 286 00:11:07.833 --> 00:11:10.711 And so, yeah, it's, it was really awkward in a lot of ways. 287 00:11:10.711 --> 00:11:12.672 It's so interesting to me to know that 288 00:11:12.672 --> 00:11:14.382 because it doesn't read that way at all. 289 00:11:14.382 --> 00:11:15.800 That's so crazy. 290 00:11:15.800 --> 00:11:16.842 I mean, you all feel like a crew 291 00:11:16.842 --> 00:11:18.552 that's been together for a minute. 292 00:11:18.552 --> 00:11:22.056 And the history and the existing relationships 293 00:11:22.056 --> 00:11:23.391 between the different characters 294 00:11:23.391 --> 00:11:25.434 feel really organic to me 295 00:11:25.434 --> 00:11:27.436 and feel like they have existed for a really long time. 296 00:11:27.436 --> 00:11:29.188 That is a real credit to all of you. 297 00:11:29.188 --> 00:11:32.775 Let's talk about specifically the finale. 298 00:11:32.775 --> 00:11:36.362 I know that I am not the only Star Trek nerd in the world 299 00:11:36.362 --> 00:11:37.488 who finished watching it 300 00:11:37.488 --> 00:11:40.449 and immediately went to my Star Trek library 301 00:11:40.449 --> 00:11:42.118 to pull "Balance of Terror" off the shelf 302 00:11:42.118 --> 00:11:43.536 and watch it. 303 00:11:43.536 --> 00:11:45.871 I'm just very curious to know, 304 00:11:45.871 --> 00:11:48.624 did you touch "Balance of Terror" at all 305 00:11:48.624 --> 00:11:49.750 when you were prepping this? 306 00:11:49.750 --> 00:11:51.252 Did the cast and crew do that 307 00:11:51.252 --> 00:11:53.921 or did you leave it alone so this could be its thing? 308 00:11:55.131 --> 00:11:55.965 I'll answer that. 309 00:11:55.965 --> 00:11:56.799 - And then I want to hear - Go for it. 310 00:11:56.799 --> 00:11:58.843 your answer to this question. 311 00:11:58.843 --> 00:12:00.428 So, we were shown, 312 00:12:00.428 --> 00:12:02.054 Chris Fisher directed this episode. 313 00:12:02.054 --> 00:12:03.222 Yeah. 314 00:12:03.222 --> 00:12:06.767 And we had some, like, reference moments 315 00:12:06.767 --> 00:12:08.144 from "Balance of Terror" that we watched. 316 00:12:08.144 --> 00:12:09.854 I've seen it a couple of times. 317 00:12:09.854 --> 00:12:12.606 Yeah. I keep forgetting that you're a Star Trek fan, too. 318 00:12:12.606 --> 00:12:14.775 I just keep forgetting that. [laughs] 319 00:12:14.775 --> 00:12:16.444 But I try not to, like, 320 00:12:17.737 --> 00:12:19.447 be too fresh on the material 321 00:12:19.447 --> 00:12:21.282 we're kind of revisiting just because 322 00:12:21.282 --> 00:12:22.575 I wanna have my own take on it 323 00:12:22.575 --> 00:12:25.244 and it be something really authentic and original to me. 324 00:12:25.244 --> 00:12:26.203 - Yes. - So, 325 00:12:26.203 --> 00:12:28.330 we definitely did have like reference scenes 326 00:12:28.330 --> 00:12:29.957 and moments in that episode 327 00:12:29.957 --> 00:12:31.876 that we would watch before executing. 328 00:12:31.876 --> 00:12:33.043 - Yeah. - Which was very cool. 329 00:12:33.043 --> 00:12:34.962 "Balance of Terror" is one of my 330 00:12:34.962 --> 00:12:36.756 absolute favorite episodes. 331 00:12:36.756 --> 00:12:38.382 What worked for this was, 332 00:12:38.382 --> 00:12:40.384 it was kind of a perfect encapsulation 333 00:12:40.384 --> 00:12:43.304 of how Pike could deal with his fate. 334 00:12:43.304 --> 00:12:46.557 What it leads to is this moment of self sacrifice. 335 00:12:46.557 --> 00:12:48.768 And the thing that does it, 336 00:12:48.768 --> 00:12:50.603 the thing that really changes it for him 337 00:12:50.603 --> 00:12:52.855 is Spock's fate is altered 338 00:12:53.773 --> 00:12:54.899 for much worse. 339 00:12:54.899 --> 00:12:58.110 And this actually has a huge, you know, 340 00:12:58.110 --> 00:13:00.488 effect on the future of the galaxy. 341 00:13:00.488 --> 00:13:04.533 Ethan, Spock and Pike have this really wonderful, 342 00:13:04.533 --> 00:13:05.659 heartfelt moment, 343 00:13:06.952 --> 00:13:08.287 when Pike says like, 344 00:13:08.287 --> 00:13:10.664 I'm not trading my future for your future. 345 00:13:10.664 --> 00:13:11.499 Let's just say, 346 00:13:11.499 --> 00:13:14.335 I think the universe is telling me 347 00:13:14.335 --> 00:13:15.920 that some fates are inescapable. 348 00:13:17.505 --> 00:13:19.298 And even if I could get out of mine, 349 00:13:20.257 --> 00:13:22.009 it might just fall to someone else. 350 00:13:23.177 --> 00:13:24.845 Someone you know? 351 00:13:24.845 --> 00:13:26.055 Yes. 352 00:13:26.055 --> 00:13:30.643 Seeing the origins of Pike and Spock's relationship 353 00:13:30.643 --> 00:13:34.814 start to play out is deeply gratifying. 354 00:13:34.814 --> 00:13:36.524 Do you have a similar experience 355 00:13:36.524 --> 00:13:39.276 as you are discovering these parts of the relationship 356 00:13:39.276 --> 00:13:41.987 and this part of Spock? 357 00:13:41.987 --> 00:13:42.863 Yeah, absolutely. 358 00:13:42.863 --> 00:13:45.449 I find that there's a tenderness between the two of them, 359 00:13:45.449 --> 00:13:47.910 sort of, a softness 360 00:13:47.910 --> 00:13:51.121 that I think is so essential when you're-- 361 00:13:51.121 --> 00:13:52.289 I mean, Anson's called it, 362 00:13:52.289 --> 00:13:53.833 it's like a military outfit, right? 363 00:13:53.833 --> 00:13:57.586 This is an organized, structured thing 364 00:13:57.586 --> 00:13:59.922 that has a great deal of formality to it. 365 00:13:59.922 --> 00:14:02.299 And I think to have that sort of tenderness 366 00:14:02.299 --> 00:14:06.720 between two men is really wonderful and essential. 367 00:14:06.720 --> 00:14:07.680 I think you probably-- 368 00:14:07.680 --> 00:14:09.223 if you went and looked in the world 369 00:14:09.223 --> 00:14:11.892 and visited different groups 370 00:14:11.892 --> 00:14:15.521 fighting battles, or maintaining a similar sort of posture 371 00:14:15.521 --> 00:14:17.815 and demeanor, you would find 372 00:14:17.815 --> 00:14:20.276 that's a reality of their situations as well. 373 00:14:20.276 --> 00:14:22.403 And so I think it really grounds it. 374 00:14:22.403 --> 00:14:24.697 Cause you're not just, you know, 375 00:14:24.697 --> 00:14:27.199 shooting photons and solving math problems. 376 00:14:27.199 --> 00:14:29.326 It's, there's a lot more to 377 00:14:30.494 --> 00:14:31.745 life on the Enterprise. 378 00:14:31.745 --> 00:14:32.663 And I think that's really- 379 00:14:32.663 --> 00:14:33.497 Although, we do, do that a lot. 380 00:14:33.497 --> 00:14:35.416 We do, do a lot of that. 381 00:14:35.416 --> 00:14:37.877 But yeah, I think it's just a very 382 00:14:38.961 --> 00:14:42.965 essential and grounding part of this world. 383 00:14:42.965 --> 00:14:45.426 So yeah, I so enjoy those moments 384 00:14:45.426 --> 00:14:46.719 because most of the time, 385 00:14:48.637 --> 00:14:51.515 Pike's asking Spock to explain gravitational redshift 386 00:14:51.515 --> 00:14:54.226 or something and we're about to be blown to smithereens. 387 00:14:54.226 --> 00:14:55.144 Yeah. 388 00:14:55.144 --> 00:14:56.937 So, it's really great to have a little break from that 389 00:14:56.937 --> 00:14:58.564 and connect and, sort of, 390 00:14:58.564 --> 00:15:00.649 get into the underlying emotion effect 391 00:15:00.649 --> 00:15:02.526 of all of these things that they're doing together. 392 00:15:02.526 --> 00:15:04.320 The emotional Spock scenes are my favorite. 393 00:15:04.320 --> 00:15:06.697 And the scene at the end of this, 394 00:15:06.697 --> 00:15:09.867 where they have that unspoken moment, 395 00:15:09.867 --> 00:15:12.119 where Spock realizes, 396 00:15:12.119 --> 00:15:15.706 somehow, that Pike has done something for him. 397 00:15:15.706 --> 00:15:18.417 I believe I may owe you a debt of gratitude, Captain. 398 00:15:18.417 --> 00:15:21.670 Although for precisely what, I do not know. 399 00:15:21.670 --> 00:15:23.047 Spock, you are, 400 00:15:27.217 --> 00:15:29.053 you are very important to me. 401 00:15:29.053 --> 00:15:31.013 As are you to me, Captain. 402 00:15:31.013 --> 00:15:31.847 Such a great scene. 403 00:15:31.847 --> 00:15:33.432 It's like, "I love you, man." 404 00:15:33.432 --> 00:15:34.516 "Yeah, I love you too, man." 405 00:15:34.516 --> 00:15:37.102 That's, I gotta give Akiva credit for that scene. 406 00:15:37.102 --> 00:15:39.355 Cause that was his vision for that scene. 407 00:15:39.355 --> 00:15:40.397 - Nice work. - I loved it. 408 00:15:40.397 --> 00:15:42.066 I think it's a perfect scene 409 00:15:42.066 --> 00:15:44.985 and it is absolutely about 410 00:15:44.985 --> 00:15:49.365 explaining why Spock in, you know, "The Menagerie," 411 00:15:49.365 --> 00:15:50.616 - Yeah. - does what he does. 412 00:15:50.616 --> 00:15:51.492 Yeah. 413 00:15:51.492 --> 00:15:52.701 Ethan, 414 00:15:52.701 --> 00:15:53.786 this week 415 00:15:53.786 --> 00:15:56.997 is the very first time we see Kirk and Spock together 416 00:15:56.997 --> 00:15:57.998 in Strange New Worlds. 417 00:15:57.998 --> 00:15:58.999 [Ethan] Yeah. 418 00:15:58.999 --> 00:16:01.001 Like, that is, 419 00:16:01.001 --> 00:16:02.586 I'm sure I'm not telling anyone anything 420 00:16:02.586 --> 00:16:04.755 they don't already know, kind of a big deal. 421 00:16:04.755 --> 00:16:05.589 Yeah. 422 00:16:05.589 --> 00:16:08.592 I got from your Spock. 423 00:16:08.592 --> 00:16:11.637 "I don't know about this Kirk guy. He's kind of a hothead." 424 00:16:11.637 --> 00:16:13.180 That's what I read. 425 00:16:13.180 --> 00:16:16.558 What I read was like, what I read from Spock was, 426 00:16:16.558 --> 00:16:18.227 "This dude needs to calm down." 427 00:16:18.227 --> 00:16:20.771 Like, that's what I read from Spock. 428 00:16:20.771 --> 00:16:22.064 Did I make all of that up? 429 00:16:22.064 --> 00:16:24.650 Was any of that intentional in your performance? 430 00:16:24.650 --> 00:16:28.237 In my mind, Pike to Spock is kind of like, 431 00:16:28.237 --> 00:16:32.324 he's kind of like a father, uncle, older brother figure, 432 00:16:32.324 --> 00:16:33.450 all wrapped in one. 433 00:16:33.450 --> 00:16:35.744 I saw him as that in many ways 434 00:16:35.744 --> 00:16:38.789 and he's very reasonable and has a lot of integrity. 435 00:16:38.789 --> 00:16:40.666 And here comes this super arrogant guy 436 00:16:40.666 --> 00:16:45.129 who's in conflict with my captain's problem solving. 437 00:16:45.129 --> 00:16:45.963 Yeah. 438 00:16:45.963 --> 00:16:47.339 And I think you're absolutely right. 439 00:16:47.339 --> 00:16:50.426 That is there for Spock in this episode. 440 00:16:50.426 --> 00:16:53.220 And there's actually only the one scene where we speak. 441 00:16:53.220 --> 00:16:54.054 Right? 442 00:16:54.054 --> 00:16:54.888 Yeah. 443 00:16:54.888 --> 00:16:56.181 If you'll , excuse me, 444 00:16:56.181 --> 00:16:57.599 I wish to supervise the repair 445 00:16:57.599 --> 00:16:59.351 of the phaser array, personally. 446 00:17:02.730 --> 00:17:03.564 Captain. 447 00:17:05.107 --> 00:17:06.275 Captain. 448 00:17:09.111 --> 00:17:10.487 We really wanted to have that moment. 449 00:17:10.487 --> 00:17:12.322 It's just like, it's just-- 450 00:17:12.322 --> 00:17:13.657 It's the flirtation with it. 451 00:17:13.657 --> 00:17:14.491 Oh, I know. 452 00:17:14.491 --> 00:17:16.326 Like, I just know that other people 453 00:17:16.326 --> 00:17:17.703 had the same reaction I had. 454 00:17:17.703 --> 00:17:18.912 We're just like, this is amazing. 455 00:17:18.912 --> 00:17:20.205 I'm gonna watch it over and over again. 456 00:17:20.205 --> 00:17:21.415 It was such a great moment. 457 00:17:21.415 --> 00:17:24.001 I'm sure you know this, but like out in the world, 458 00:17:24.001 --> 00:17:25.627 this show is beloved 459 00:17:25.627 --> 00:17:27.880 and it's on its way to being one of 460 00:17:27.880 --> 00:17:28.714 Congratulations. 461 00:17:28.714 --> 00:17:30.466 - You too. - the absolute, 462 00:17:30.466 --> 00:17:31.884 like it's very much on its way to being like, 463 00:17:31.884 --> 00:17:34.386 one of the legendary Star Trek shows. 464 00:17:34.386 --> 00:17:36.346 And if you wanted to talk to fans at all, 465 00:17:36.346 --> 00:17:38.474 if you just wanted to like communicate a thing 466 00:17:38.474 --> 00:17:39.975 to people who just, 467 00:17:39.975 --> 00:17:42.936 I cannot overstate how much they adore what you're doing. 468 00:17:42.936 --> 00:17:45.105 Like, is there anything at all you wanna say to them? 469 00:17:45.105 --> 00:17:45.939 I'm just so incredibly grateful 470 00:17:45.939 --> 00:17:47.858 that people are watching it and enjoying it. 471 00:17:47.858 --> 00:17:50.861 Someone asked me like, "Why do you think the show's good?" 472 00:17:50.861 --> 00:17:51.695 It was a friend of mine. 473 00:17:51.695 --> 00:17:52.529 And I was like, 474 00:17:53.864 --> 00:17:55.574 "It's hard to describe, 475 00:17:55.574 --> 00:17:57.951 I think you hit like a critical mass of people 476 00:17:57.951 --> 00:18:00.162 that give an F." 477 00:18:00.162 --> 00:18:00.996 Yeah. 478 00:18:00.996 --> 00:18:04.166 And I don't know whether it's 62% or 63% of people 479 00:18:04.166 --> 00:18:05.667 that like really care. 480 00:18:05.667 --> 00:18:07.503 And then it just all kind of comes together well. 481 00:18:07.503 --> 00:18:08.879 Like you can't have, 482 00:18:10.005 --> 00:18:10.839 you know, 483 00:18:10.839 --> 00:18:13.342 one or two figureheads that are like really special 484 00:18:13.342 --> 00:18:14.802 and brilliant and have vision for it, 485 00:18:14.802 --> 00:18:17.596 if the people below them don't sort of fall into that. 486 00:18:17.596 --> 00:18:18.388 It's a team. 487 00:18:18.388 --> 00:18:19.223 - Yeah. - Yeah. 488 00:18:19.223 --> 00:18:20.140 Big time. 489 00:18:20.140 --> 00:18:21.517 I have a question for you, if you don't mind. 490 00:18:21.517 --> 00:18:22.351 Of course. 491 00:18:22.351 --> 00:18:24.853 What was it like getting cast on TNG? 492 00:18:24.853 --> 00:18:27.397 Like you were a fan before that, right? 493 00:18:27.397 --> 00:18:29.608 Yeah. I was a huge fan of Star Trek. 494 00:18:29.608 --> 00:18:32.528 And when I found out a new Star Trek was being made, 495 00:18:32.528 --> 00:18:37.449 I just, I could not believe that I got the audition. 496 00:18:37.449 --> 00:18:41.036 So, when I found out that I was actually cast 497 00:18:41.036 --> 00:18:45.040 and that I was going to now be part of this thing 498 00:18:45.040 --> 00:18:46.333 that I've loved forever 499 00:18:46.333 --> 00:18:49.586 and it's gonna be part of me for the rest of my life. 500 00:18:49.586 --> 00:18:51.046 I was 14 when that happened. 501 00:18:51.046 --> 00:18:51.922 Wow. 502 00:18:51.922 --> 00:18:53.257 I turn 50 in a couple of months, 503 00:18:53.257 --> 00:18:56.844 and it was probably three years ago-ish 504 00:18:56.844 --> 00:19:01.849 that I had enough time and distance and space to go, 505 00:19:01.890 --> 00:19:03.892 "Oh my God, man. 506 00:19:03.892 --> 00:19:06.854 Like what an incredible thing to do 507 00:19:06.854 --> 00:19:08.105 and be part of. 508 00:19:08.105 --> 00:19:08.939 Yeah. 509 00:19:08.939 --> 00:19:10.566 And that I get to do this now. 510 00:19:10.566 --> 00:19:12.609 That I get to still be part of it. 511 00:19:12.609 --> 00:19:15.404 And that, you know, like they just, 512 00:19:15.404 --> 00:19:17.739 I can't imagine another acting career 513 00:19:17.739 --> 00:19:20.951 where you are part of a franchise and then 30 years later, 514 00:19:20.951 --> 00:19:23.287 you get to go back and take a different role. 515 00:19:23.287 --> 00:19:25.873 That's the like weird, amazing thing about Star Trek, 516 00:19:25.873 --> 00:19:27.791 which is that it's this, 517 00:19:27.791 --> 00:19:29.501 it's like a collective dream. 518 00:19:29.501 --> 00:19:31.253 Instead of a thing that you come in and say, 519 00:19:31.253 --> 00:19:32.754 I'm imagining it from beginning to end, 520 00:19:32.754 --> 00:19:34.506 like someone hands it to you and you sort of say, 521 00:19:34.506 --> 00:19:37.426 "Okay, well now it's my turn to imagine it 522 00:19:37.426 --> 00:19:38.385 for a little while." 523 00:19:38.385 --> 00:19:39.928 And then at some point, 524 00:19:39.928 --> 00:19:41.346 you're gonna hand it to the next person. 525 00:19:41.346 --> 00:19:43.891 So you sort of, you know, 526 00:19:43.891 --> 00:19:46.435 no one person has ownership of it. 527 00:19:46.435 --> 00:19:47.311 [Wil] Yeah. 528 00:19:47.311 --> 00:19:48.145 And you sort of have to, 529 00:19:48.145 --> 00:19:49.813 if you know that and respect that and enjoy that, 530 00:19:49.813 --> 00:19:52.232 like it makes the process a lot more fun. 531 00:19:52.232 --> 00:19:54.735 Let's talk briefly about Season 2, 532 00:19:54.735 --> 00:19:57.154 without spoiling things. 533 00:19:57.154 --> 00:19:59.072 Let's get people excited 534 00:19:59.072 --> 00:20:01.325 without getting me fired. 535 00:20:01.325 --> 00:20:04.328 [everyone laughing] 536 00:20:04.328 --> 00:20:06.580 Is there anything at all 537 00:20:06.580 --> 00:20:09.374 you want to tease to the audience about Season 2? 538 00:20:10.876 --> 00:20:14.421 Ethan, I'm going to honor the actors' 539 00:20:14.421 --> 00:20:15.756 "Don't Get Me In Trouble" compact 540 00:20:15.756 --> 00:20:19.051 and direct this question a hundred percent to Henry, 541 00:20:19.051 --> 00:20:20.886 who is on that side of the line. 542 00:20:20.886 --> 00:20:22.804 Well here's what I'll say... 543 00:20:22.804 --> 00:20:23.972 We... 544 00:20:25.474 --> 00:20:27.476 We endeavored not to play it safe. 545 00:20:27.476 --> 00:20:29.478 We endeavored to try to 546 00:20:30.520 --> 00:20:31.897 make the show-- 547 00:20:31.897 --> 00:20:33.899 we are trying to do a version of the show 548 00:20:33.899 --> 00:20:35.525 that you have become familiar with, 549 00:20:35.525 --> 00:20:36.902 but we're trying to do a bigger, crazier, 550 00:20:36.902 --> 00:20:38.445 more ambitious version. - Okay. 551 00:20:38.445 --> 00:20:40.530 One that I don't think we could have done Season 1. 552 00:20:40.530 --> 00:20:41.365 Yeah. 553 00:20:41.365 --> 00:20:42.741 And one of which, you know, 554 00:20:42.741 --> 00:20:46.870 we're working very, very hard to achieve in Season 2. 555 00:20:47.746 --> 00:20:50.374 There are a bunch of threads that are, you know, 556 00:20:50.374 --> 00:20:51.708 up in the air at the end of the season. 557 00:20:51.708 --> 00:20:53.585 Obviously, we don't know where La'An is, 558 00:20:53.585 --> 00:20:55.754 Number One is in prison. 559 00:20:57.130 --> 00:20:59.758 You know, there's what the hell's gonna happen to them? 560 00:20:59.758 --> 00:21:00.759 Yeah. 561 00:21:00.759 --> 00:21:02.052 We will answer all those questions. 562 00:21:02.052 --> 00:21:03.178 Great. 563 00:21:03.178 --> 00:21:05.639 We're gonna see more of 564 00:21:06.682 --> 00:21:07.808 Spock's love life. 565 00:21:08.850 --> 00:21:10.519 - Awesome. - Let me see, what else. 566 00:21:10.519 --> 00:21:11.895 A little more to T'Pring, maybe. 567 00:21:11.895 --> 00:21:12.729 A little more to T'Pring. 568 00:21:12.729 --> 00:21:14.022 We're gonna see, 569 00:21:15.315 --> 00:21:19.194 we're gonna see Trek-- I will say this. 570 00:21:19.194 --> 00:21:20.028 [Wil] Okay. 571 00:21:20.028 --> 00:21:20.904 We're going to see Trek 572 00:21:20.904 --> 00:21:23.031 do something that it's never done before. 573 00:21:23.031 --> 00:21:24.283 Amazing. 574 00:21:24.283 --> 00:21:27.035 I say that with, I would say that and keep it vague, 575 00:21:27.035 --> 00:21:28.328 but like I promise you, 576 00:21:28.328 --> 00:21:30.330 it's a thing that's never happened on Trek before 577 00:21:30.330 --> 00:21:31.456 and we're gonna do it. 578 00:21:31.456 --> 00:21:33.458 I really appreciate both of you making time 579 00:21:33.458 --> 00:21:35.168 to sit with me today. 580 00:21:35.168 --> 00:21:37.963 Thank you for welcoming me into your ship. 581 00:21:37.963 --> 00:21:39.006 - It's been our honor. - Absolutely. 582 00:21:39.006 --> 00:21:42.092 This is the second Enterprise I've ever been in 583 00:21:42.092 --> 00:21:43.593 and it's pretty great. 584 00:21:43.593 --> 00:21:44.720 So, thanks for that. 585 00:21:44.720 --> 00:21:46.138 - Thank you so much. - Thank you. 586 00:22:05.615 --> 00:22:09.369 That conversation was just so special and so awesome. 587 00:22:09.369 --> 00:22:11.621 It had me feeling simultaneously torn 588 00:22:11.621 --> 00:22:14.666 to be completely geeking out over this week's epic finale, 589 00:22:14.666 --> 00:22:16.835 while also feeling so, so, so excited 590 00:22:16.835 --> 00:22:19.463 for Season 2 of Strange New Worlds. 591 00:22:19.463 --> 00:22:21.673 I can report to all of you 592 00:22:21.673 --> 00:22:25.427 that from what I saw during my visit to Toronto 593 00:22:25.427 --> 00:22:27.471 and the little spoilers that people, kind of, 594 00:22:27.471 --> 00:22:29.681 accidentally dropped around me, 595 00:22:29.681 --> 00:22:33.602 we are in for an amazing second season. 596 00:22:33.602 --> 00:22:34.436 Don't worry. 597 00:22:34.436 --> 00:22:37.981 I'm not going to keep all the Season 2 secrets to myself. 598 00:22:37.981 --> 00:22:39.191 Just the biggest one. 599 00:22:39.191 --> 00:22:43.111 I got a special tour of an all new Enterprise set. 600 00:22:43.111 --> 00:22:45.989 It's called the port galley and it is amazing. 601 00:22:45.989 --> 00:22:48.325 As the new happening hangout spot for the crew, 602 00:22:48.325 --> 00:22:49.868 it seems only fitting 603 00:22:49.868 --> 00:22:52.662 that we all get to check it out together. 604 00:22:52.662 --> 00:22:53.622 Take a look. 605 00:22:53.622 --> 00:22:57.376 So walking down the corridors of this Enterprise 606 00:22:57.376 --> 00:23:00.670 is weirdly familiar to me 607 00:23:00.670 --> 00:23:02.756 and it's not because I watch it on TV. 608 00:23:02.756 --> 00:23:03.799 Like there is a, 609 00:23:03.799 --> 00:23:06.635 there is an emotional and physical sense memory 610 00:23:06.635 --> 00:23:10.597 of my Enterprise that wakes up when I come through here. 611 00:23:10.597 --> 00:23:13.058 So, we are standing 612 00:23:13.058 --> 00:23:15.685 in front of your brand new set, 613 00:23:15.685 --> 00:23:16.603 The port galley. 614 00:23:16.603 --> 00:23:17.687 This is our new baby. 615 00:23:17.687 --> 00:23:19.147 There's something very exciting 616 00:23:19.147 --> 00:23:20.315 on the other side of this door. 617 00:23:20.315 --> 00:23:21.608 I think we should go in 618 00:23:21.608 --> 00:23:23.485 and I think you should press the button. 619 00:23:23.485 --> 00:23:25.320 [doors whooshing] 620 00:23:26.238 --> 00:23:28.448 That was everything I wanted it to be. 621 00:23:28.448 --> 00:23:29.324 [both laughing] 622 00:23:30.659 --> 00:23:33.078 The centerpiece here is this gorgeous bar 623 00:23:33.078 --> 00:23:34.496 that is in the middle of the room. 624 00:23:34.496 --> 00:23:38.166 I really enjoyed the sets where the actors 625 00:23:38.166 --> 00:23:40.877 and their characters get very intimate 626 00:23:40.877 --> 00:23:42.504 and we learn a lot about them. 627 00:23:42.504 --> 00:23:44.464 The only space we had for scenes like that 628 00:23:44.464 --> 00:23:46.633 in Season 1 was the mess hall. 629 00:23:46.633 --> 00:23:48.635 And originally we were gonna build the whole mess hall, 630 00:23:48.635 --> 00:23:50.804 but in the end we built it for AR. 631 00:23:50.804 --> 00:23:53.306 It's great, but it's difficult to schedule. 632 00:23:53.306 --> 00:23:55.767 And also we only have part of the set. 633 00:23:55.767 --> 00:23:58.019 However, when we spoke about what the set should be, 634 00:23:58.019 --> 00:24:02.107 one of the big things we didn't want here were windows. 635 00:24:02.107 --> 00:24:03.567 Because the minute you have windows, 636 00:24:03.567 --> 00:24:06.153 you are into what are we seeing out the windows? 637 00:24:06.153 --> 00:24:07.195 Where are we in space? 638 00:24:07.195 --> 00:24:08.864 What's the planet that should be out there? 639 00:24:08.864 --> 00:24:10.240 You get into a million questions about it. 640 00:24:10.240 --> 00:24:12.701 And that's not what this set was about at all. 641 00:24:12.701 --> 00:24:15.370 Let's talk about these gorgeous works of art. 642 00:24:15.370 --> 00:24:18.165 I thought they were braziers, but I'm wrong. 643 00:24:18.165 --> 00:24:19.332 They are actually... 644 00:24:19.332 --> 00:24:20.250 Comets. 645 00:24:20.250 --> 00:24:21.084 So, cool. 646 00:24:21.084 --> 00:24:23.420 For 102, I had to design a comet 647 00:24:23.420 --> 00:24:24.671 and it was called M'hanit. 648 00:24:24.671 --> 00:24:27.757 And I found myself drawing comets, 649 00:24:27.757 --> 00:24:28.884 but these sketches were, sort of, 650 00:24:28.884 --> 00:24:30.343 lying around my drawing board. 651 00:24:30.343 --> 00:24:31.636 And then I just took one of those sketches 652 00:24:31.636 --> 00:24:33.597 and I just turned it 90 degrees. 653 00:24:33.597 --> 00:24:34.681 And I went, you know what? 654 00:24:34.681 --> 00:24:35.932 That looks quite interesting. - That works. 655 00:24:35.932 --> 00:24:37.809 So we took the comet drawing. 656 00:24:37.809 --> 00:24:38.643 Yeah. 657 00:24:38.643 --> 00:24:40.896 And just rendered it in real metal. 658 00:24:40.896 --> 00:24:43.356 We found a genius guy in Toronto. 659 00:24:43.356 --> 00:24:45.692 In his workshop, he built them for us. 660 00:24:45.692 --> 00:24:47.569 Very excited about them. 661 00:24:47.569 --> 00:24:48.862 You mentioned that, 662 00:24:48.862 --> 00:24:52.991 one of the needs this room was meant to address 663 00:24:52.991 --> 00:24:54.576 was a quiet conversation area. 664 00:24:54.576 --> 00:24:57.037 And you specifically addressed this corner 665 00:24:57.037 --> 00:24:59.122 as a place that could happen. 666 00:24:59.122 --> 00:25:02.125 And a few things about this corner just pop for me 667 00:25:02.125 --> 00:25:03.585 that I wanted to talk with you about. 668 00:25:03.585 --> 00:25:07.797 The first thing is these amazing 1960s chairs. 669 00:25:07.797 --> 00:25:09.758 I've seen them on the bridge. I've seen them in quarters. 670 00:25:09.758 --> 00:25:10.884 I'm like, "Oh yes, of course. 671 00:25:10.884 --> 00:25:12.636 That's what's on the Enterprise." 672 00:25:12.636 --> 00:25:13.470 That's right. 673 00:25:13.470 --> 00:25:14.304 The Original Series, 674 00:25:14.304 --> 00:25:18.058 they took these and other chairs and they actually added, 675 00:25:18.058 --> 00:25:19.935 they added a top section to them. 676 00:25:19.935 --> 00:25:20.977 Yeah. 677 00:25:20.977 --> 00:25:22.604 Just to make them their own. 678 00:25:22.604 --> 00:25:23.438 Yeah. 679 00:25:23.438 --> 00:25:26.316 But I think they're incredibly elegant just as they are. 680 00:25:26.316 --> 00:25:28.276 So, coming in here a little bit more, 681 00:25:28.276 --> 00:25:32.447 I noticed that your tables have this gorgeous, 682 00:25:32.447 --> 00:25:35.283 soft, kind of, unfocused light. 683 00:25:35.283 --> 00:25:38.036 Our Ten Forward had this in all of our tables. 684 00:25:38.036 --> 00:25:39.496 And I loved working in there 685 00:25:39.496 --> 00:25:40.664 because I thought that uplight 686 00:25:40.664 --> 00:25:43.083 always made me look cooler than I am. 687 00:25:43.083 --> 00:25:46.127 It's a kind of language that goes for furniture. 688 00:25:46.127 --> 00:25:47.379 And the set itself. 689 00:25:47.379 --> 00:25:49.381 And an enormous amount of time is spent 690 00:25:49.381 --> 00:25:51.591 at the drawing stage for the set. 691 00:25:51.591 --> 00:25:52.425 Yeah. 692 00:25:52.425 --> 00:25:54.678 To make sure that we've got lighting built into the set, 693 00:25:54.678 --> 00:25:56.596 so that where anybody stops, 694 00:25:56.596 --> 00:25:58.723 they can film them, wherever they're standing. 695 00:25:58.723 --> 00:26:01.476 At every opportunity, as you can see in the beams here, 696 00:26:01.476 --> 00:26:02.602 we're building in lighting. 697 00:26:02.602 --> 00:26:04.271 And if two people are around a table, 698 00:26:04.271 --> 00:26:05.814 then there's lighting from the table. 699 00:26:05.814 --> 00:26:07.357 [Wil] Let's take a closer look at your bar. 700 00:26:07.357 --> 00:26:08.775 [Jonathan] Yes, please do. 701 00:26:08.775 --> 00:26:10.652 You made a specific design choice 702 00:26:10.652 --> 00:26:13.405 to put the bar in the center of this room, 703 00:26:13.405 --> 00:26:15.448 rather than against the wall, 704 00:26:15.448 --> 00:26:17.075 like it was an our Ten Forward. 705 00:26:17.075 --> 00:26:18.952 Talk to me about that design choice. 706 00:26:18.952 --> 00:26:20.787 Where you have a bar against the wall, 707 00:26:20.787 --> 00:26:22.789 the camera can really only look in 708 00:26:22.789 --> 00:26:24.708 a limited number of directions. 709 00:26:24.708 --> 00:26:26.876 So I thought I'm gonna put the bar in the middle, 710 00:26:26.876 --> 00:26:29.379 that will allow us to play scenes 711 00:26:29.379 --> 00:26:32.382 in an almost infinite number of ways. 712 00:26:32.382 --> 00:26:33.300 Let's come up here. 713 00:26:33.300 --> 00:26:36.761 Tell me about, you described this as a cloud. 714 00:26:36.761 --> 00:26:39.097 Yeah. - Which is gorgeous. 715 00:26:39.097 --> 00:26:40.765 I was on an aircraft carrier once, 716 00:26:40.765 --> 00:26:42.267 there were 5,000 people on this carrier 717 00:26:42.267 --> 00:26:43.810 and they never got to see daylight 718 00:26:43.810 --> 00:26:45.103 for weeks and weeks and weeks. 719 00:26:45.103 --> 00:26:46.896 I thought it'll be the same on the Enterprise. 720 00:26:46.896 --> 00:26:47.731 You're in the middle of space. 721 00:26:47.731 --> 00:26:50.400 You'll never see a blue sky or clouds. 722 00:26:50.400 --> 00:26:52.027 And I thought it would be nice to have a cloud. 723 00:26:52.027 --> 00:26:54.154 Just a sense that some light is above you. 724 00:26:54.154 --> 00:26:57.616 Then when I shared it with Glen, the DP, 725 00:26:57.616 --> 00:26:59.034 he said, "Well, that's gonna work for me. 726 00:26:59.034 --> 00:27:01.328 Wherever the actors are around the bar, 727 00:27:01.328 --> 00:27:02.829 I'm gonna be lighting them with that." 728 00:27:02.829 --> 00:27:04.664 There's an incredible lighting rig up there. 729 00:27:04.664 --> 00:27:06.041 They can play with the lighting. 730 00:27:06.041 --> 00:27:09.461 This is, this bar's replicator. 731 00:27:09.461 --> 00:27:12.422 Is it like a self-service replicator? Is that the idea? 732 00:27:12.422 --> 00:27:13.256 That's the idea. 733 00:27:13.256 --> 00:27:14.174 That's the intention behind this. 734 00:27:14.174 --> 00:27:16.301 You've got an interactive panel here, 735 00:27:16.301 --> 00:27:17.677 so you can select what you want. 736 00:27:17.677 --> 00:27:21.097 And you stand back and through the magic of visual effects, 737 00:27:22.682 --> 00:27:23.975 it's going to appear here. 738 00:27:24.851 --> 00:27:27.354 I have just realized that the part of me 739 00:27:27.354 --> 00:27:30.106 that is convinced that all of this is real 740 00:27:30.106 --> 00:27:31.524 refuses to lean on this. 741 00:27:31.524 --> 00:27:32.984 - Yeah. - Because it's a replicator pad 742 00:27:32.984 --> 00:27:34.235 and I know they're delicate, 743 00:27:34.235 --> 00:27:35.695 which is silly, but true. 744 00:27:35.695 --> 00:27:36.529 All right. 745 00:27:36.529 --> 00:27:40.325 So, I'm thinking our last really big feature in this room 746 00:27:40.325 --> 00:27:41.576 is behind me. 747 00:27:41.576 --> 00:27:44.287 It is this raised area. 748 00:27:44.287 --> 00:27:45.455 We had addressed the need 749 00:27:45.455 --> 00:27:48.166 for private conversations in corners, 750 00:27:48.166 --> 00:27:51.378 crew get togethers, off-duty moments around the bar. 751 00:27:51.378 --> 00:27:52.962 - Yep. - So that was all covered. 752 00:27:52.962 --> 00:27:56.007 But I wanted it to also have a stage 753 00:27:56.007 --> 00:27:57.634 where we could have music, 754 00:27:57.634 --> 00:27:59.552 where we could have people giving speeches. 755 00:27:59.552 --> 00:28:01.721 With this set, the digital playback department 756 00:28:01.721 --> 00:28:03.431 and the motion graphics department, 757 00:28:03.431 --> 00:28:05.308 we got them involved very early on 758 00:28:05.308 --> 00:28:07.060 with these big digital art walls. 759 00:28:07.060 --> 00:28:08.561 So, and I must tell you, 760 00:28:08.561 --> 00:28:11.106 Henry Myers gave me an interesting note 761 00:28:11.106 --> 00:28:12.440 from The Love Boat. 762 00:28:12.440 --> 00:28:13.775 - He said his favorite-- - Okay. 763 00:28:13.775 --> 00:28:15.944 His favorite set on The Love Boat 764 00:28:15.944 --> 00:28:18.238 was the handrail at the side of the ship. 765 00:28:18.238 --> 00:28:20.031 [Wil] So you have a bit of a handrail here. 766 00:28:20.031 --> 00:28:22.534 This is The Love Boat handrail. 767 00:28:22.534 --> 00:28:24.703 Henry's gonna kill me for saying that. 768 00:28:24.703 --> 00:28:29.332 I clocked a very special bottle in your bar 769 00:28:29.332 --> 00:28:30.959 before we came over here. 770 00:28:30.959 --> 00:28:32.377 And on our way out, 771 00:28:32.377 --> 00:28:37.382 I just want to really handle it. [laughs] 772 00:28:37.382 --> 00:28:38.550 Let's head over there. 773 00:28:38.550 --> 00:28:39.509 Over to you. 774 00:28:39.509 --> 00:28:41.261 Top shelf or hooch? 775 00:28:41.261 --> 00:28:42.345 Hooch, I think. 776 00:28:43.304 --> 00:28:44.764 Saurian brandy, it is. 777 00:28:45.724 --> 00:28:47.225 So this is Saurian brandy 778 00:28:47.225 --> 00:28:49.185 that we absolutely have to talk about. 779 00:28:49.185 --> 00:28:51.271 I don't know if anybody at home clocked this, 780 00:28:51.271 --> 00:28:52.272 when I came in. 781 00:28:52.272 --> 00:28:55.567 Guinan shared this with Picard, 782 00:28:55.567 --> 00:28:57.193 I just wanted to be able to go home 783 00:28:57.193 --> 00:28:58.570 and tell my friends that I touched it. 784 00:28:58.570 --> 00:28:59.738 You've gotta leave it there. 785 00:28:59.738 --> 00:29:00.572 On the set here. 786 00:29:00.572 --> 00:29:01.406 I know I will leave it. 787 00:29:01.406 --> 00:29:02.240 If it disappears, 788 00:29:02.240 --> 00:29:03.074 I had nothing to do with it 789 00:29:03.074 --> 00:29:03.908 and we don't have to check my bags 790 00:29:03.908 --> 00:29:05.201 on my way back to California. 791 00:29:05.201 --> 00:29:07.078 Security will be checking on the way out. 792 00:29:07.078 --> 00:29:09.914 I just think it's a beautiful Easter egg, 793 00:29:09.914 --> 00:29:11.875 for those of us who appreciate this sort of thing. 794 00:29:11.875 --> 00:29:13.626 And it also, canonically, make sense. 795 00:29:13.626 --> 00:29:14.836 For we who are fans, 796 00:29:14.836 --> 00:29:17.297 when we see things like this, it just makes us feel like, 797 00:29:17.297 --> 00:29:20.800 "Oh, you've rewarded us for our weird, obsessive nerdery." 798 00:29:20.800 --> 00:29:23.720 You know, Justin Craig, the set decorator 799 00:29:23.720 --> 00:29:25.847 and Jim Murray, the prop master 800 00:29:25.847 --> 00:29:28.850 are brilliant at pulling us back and saying, 801 00:29:28.850 --> 00:29:30.727 "Don't forget what we're doing here." 802 00:29:30.727 --> 00:29:32.937 And they're pushing the Easter eggs the whole time. 803 00:29:32.937 --> 00:29:33.772 That's great. 804 00:29:33.772 --> 00:29:35.064 So, I'm very grateful to them. 805 00:29:35.064 --> 00:29:37.776 Thank you for everything you've done. 806 00:29:37.776 --> 00:29:39.569 Like, it's just, your Enterprise is great. 807 00:29:39.569 --> 00:29:40.528 I've really appreciated it. 808 00:29:40.528 --> 00:29:42.489 And I know everybody at home has enjoyed it as well. 809 00:29:42.489 --> 00:29:43.656 So thanks a lot. 810 00:29:43.656 --> 00:29:44.657 My pleasure. 811 00:30:24.906 --> 00:30:25.740 This is where I tell you 812 00:30:25.740 --> 00:30:27.367 that I have a sneak peek to show you 813 00:30:27.367 --> 00:30:29.661 from next week's Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, 814 00:30:29.661 --> 00:30:31.287 but we're at the end of Season 1, 815 00:30:31.287 --> 00:30:33.289 so I have no sneak peak to show you. 816 00:30:33.289 --> 00:30:34.499 Still, 817 00:30:34.499 --> 00:30:37.669 I have to end this epic 29-week run 818 00:30:37.669 --> 00:30:40.296 of behind-the-scenes action in The Ready Room 819 00:30:40.296 --> 00:30:42.799 with something for you to hold onto, 820 00:30:42.799 --> 00:30:45.009 something to be excited about. 821 00:30:45.009 --> 00:30:49.681 Well, Season 3 of Lower Decks is coming soon. 822 00:30:49.681 --> 00:30:52.725 So here's a look at a little bit of the hilarity 823 00:30:52.725 --> 00:30:54.060 that is in store for us. 824 00:31:05.196 --> 00:31:06.030 [Boimler sighs] 825 00:31:06.030 --> 00:31:07.991 [Boimler choking] 826 00:31:07.991 --> 00:31:09.951 Oh, God. Vineyard flies. Ugh. 827 00:31:09.951 --> 00:31:11.077 Ugh. I hate being home. 828 00:31:11.077 --> 00:31:13.037 Dude, are you even listening to what I'm telling you? 829 00:31:13.037 --> 00:31:14.622 The captain's getting railroaded, man. 830 00:31:14.622 --> 00:31:16.749 I have to do something before it's too late. 831 00:31:16.749 --> 00:31:18.001 Well, count me in. 832 00:31:18.001 --> 00:31:18.835 Really? 833 00:31:18.835 --> 00:31:20.169 Usually, it takes way more convincing. 834 00:31:20.169 --> 00:31:21.963 I'll do anything to get away from these raisins. 835 00:31:21.963 --> 00:31:23.047 It's already gonna take me a month 836 00:31:23.047 --> 00:31:24.215 to get the smell outta my hair. 837 00:31:24.215 --> 00:31:25.842 Hey, Bradward! 838 00:31:25.842 --> 00:31:28.011 Want to test the sweetness of my bushel? 839 00:31:28.011 --> 00:31:29.512 Ugh, fine Genevieve. 840 00:31:31.055 --> 00:31:33.892 Just give it 43 more sun hours at 21 degrees Brix. 841 00:31:33.892 --> 00:31:35.018 Oh. 842 00:31:35.018 --> 00:31:35.852 Okay. 843 00:31:36.769 --> 00:31:38.229 When you said your family had vineyards, 844 00:31:38.229 --> 00:31:39.564 I just assumed it was for wine. 845 00:31:39.564 --> 00:31:40.398 Oh, I wish. 846 00:31:40.398 --> 00:31:42.483 No. We Boimlers dry grapes. 847 00:31:42.483 --> 00:31:45.528 Just dry 'em and dry 'em and dry 'em 848 00:31:45.528 --> 00:31:47.322 till they're all shriveled and hopeless 849 00:31:47.322 --> 00:31:48.656 and stuck on Earth forever. 850 00:31:48.656 --> 00:31:52.452 Bradward, all these varietals are so confusing. 851 00:31:52.452 --> 00:31:54.579 Take me to the privacy of the pickery shed 852 00:31:54.579 --> 00:31:55.997 and explain them to me. 853 00:31:55.997 --> 00:31:57.040 Come on, Mandelina. 854 00:31:57.040 --> 00:31:58.124 Red goes in the red bucket, 855 00:31:58.124 --> 00:31:59.834 white in the white, you know that. 856 00:31:59.834 --> 00:32:00.877 Mm. 857 00:32:00.877 --> 00:32:02.795 How do they not see this is a setup? 858 00:32:02.795 --> 00:32:04.964 We were nowhere near Pakled planet when it blew. 859 00:32:04.964 --> 00:32:07.592 I mean, she was saving another ship, for Kirk's sake. 860 00:32:07.592 --> 00:32:08.426 Okay. 861 00:32:08.426 --> 00:32:09.260 We know it doesn't track, 862 00:32:09.260 --> 00:32:10.386 but the ship's logs got corrupted 863 00:32:10.386 --> 00:32:11.930 by the Lapeerian debris field. 864 00:32:11.930 --> 00:32:13.765 It makes it look like she's covering something up. 865 00:32:13.765 --> 00:32:15.141 Wait, so they just need our logs? 866 00:32:15.141 --> 00:32:15.975 I have logs. 867 00:32:15.975 --> 00:32:18.019 No, we need the official senior staff logs. 868 00:32:18.019 --> 00:32:19.270 Not like what you had for lunch. 869 00:32:19.270 --> 00:32:21.022 No, no, no, my logs are crazy detailed. 870 00:32:21.022 --> 00:32:22.482 Every night, I'd listen to the captain's 871 00:32:22.482 --> 00:32:24.233 and rerecord them for my own reference. 872 00:32:24.233 --> 00:32:25.068 What? 873 00:32:25.068 --> 00:32:27.195 Yeah, the official stardates, systems, personnel. 874 00:32:27.195 --> 00:32:28.696 It's all in there stored by my bunk. 875 00:32:28.696 --> 00:32:29.489 Oh, my God. Boimler. 876 00:32:29.489 --> 00:32:32.617 Wait, that is so nerdy and so clutch right now. 877 00:32:32.617 --> 00:32:34.077 So all you have to do is get your pads 878 00:32:34.077 --> 00:32:35.954 and we clear her name with some surprise evidence. 879 00:32:35.954 --> 00:32:38.081 Take that conservative military court. 880 00:32:38.081 --> 00:32:39.207 Ah. But we're grounded. 881 00:32:39.207 --> 00:32:41.376 Plus, we don't even know where the Cerritos is. 882 00:32:41.376 --> 00:32:42.877 It's in dry dock? 883 00:32:42.877 --> 00:32:44.295 Yeah, but which dry dock? 884 00:32:44.295 --> 00:32:45.254 There's like a bajillion 885 00:32:45.254 --> 00:32:46.798 and besides they probably only kept on 886 00:32:46.798 --> 00:32:48.967 a small skeleton crew of engineers to help dock it. 887 00:32:48.967 --> 00:32:49.801 And that's it. 888 00:32:49.801 --> 00:32:51.010 Engineers? [gasps] 889 00:32:51.010 --> 00:32:51.844 Rutherford. 890 00:32:52.929 --> 00:32:54.138 Okay, real talk. 891 00:32:54.138 --> 00:32:56.057 When I first started hosting The Ready Room, 892 00:32:56.057 --> 00:32:58.476 I thought it was for one season of Star Trek: Picard 893 00:32:58.476 --> 00:33:01.104 I had no idea I would get to keep coming back 894 00:33:01.104 --> 00:33:02.355 to do more and more. 895 00:33:02.355 --> 00:33:04.273 I had no idea that there would be 896 00:33:04.273 --> 00:33:06.734 so many different Star Trek series, 897 00:33:06.734 --> 00:33:08.528 airing one after the next. 898 00:33:08.528 --> 00:33:10.446 I had no idea that I'd get to come here 899 00:33:10.446 --> 00:33:12.407 for 30 weeks in a row 900 00:33:12.407 --> 00:33:15.827 to hang out with you and talk about this show that we love. 901 00:33:15.827 --> 00:33:17.912 Plus, this week 902 00:33:17.912 --> 00:33:20.248 marks my 50th installment 903 00:33:20.248 --> 00:33:22.291 as host of The Ready Room. 904 00:33:22.291 --> 00:33:23.376 I am, 905 00:33:23.376 --> 00:33:24.544 as always, 906 00:33:24.544 --> 00:33:26.587 humbled and thrilled 907 00:33:26.587 --> 00:33:29.257 to join you in watching each new episode as it comes. 908 00:33:29.257 --> 00:33:31.426 And I am so grateful 909 00:33:31.426 --> 00:33:32.969 to the cast and the creatives, 910 00:33:32.969 --> 00:33:34.929 who take the time to talk with me 911 00:33:34.929 --> 00:33:36.264 and show us what goes into 912 00:33:36.264 --> 00:33:39.308 bringing Star Trek to our screens. 913 00:33:39.308 --> 00:33:42.854 Real quick, before we leave, a personal moment. 914 00:33:42.854 --> 00:33:46.065 Our producer, Max, has moved on to new things in his career 915 00:33:46.065 --> 00:33:48.067 and we are so excited for him. 916 00:33:48.067 --> 00:33:49.694 We are thrilled for him! 917 00:33:49.694 --> 00:33:51.112 But he's been a huge part of Ready Room 918 00:33:51.112 --> 00:33:52.447 from the very beginning. 919 00:33:52.447 --> 00:33:53.865 He is one of the persons 920 00:33:53.865 --> 00:33:54.907 who has put words in my mouth 921 00:33:54.907 --> 00:33:57.452 that you all tell me, you are so happy to hear. 922 00:33:57.452 --> 00:33:59.454 So Max, we love you. 923 00:33:59.454 --> 00:34:00.872 Congratulations. 924 00:34:00.872 --> 00:34:01.706 We miss you. 925 00:34:01.706 --> 00:34:03.958 On behalf of everyone at Ready Room, 926 00:34:03.958 --> 00:34:05.418 go boldly 927 00:34:05.418 --> 00:34:07.754 into your new future. 928 00:34:07.754 --> 00:34:10.381 Until next time, I am Wil Wheaton. 929 00:34:10.381 --> 00:34:12.467 Live long and prosper.