‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ cast talks losing sleep

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Reporting

Space.com reports that 'Star Trek: Strange New Worlds' cast talks losing sleep, living up to their character's legacy, and learning to ride a horse for season 4 (interview). Filming a high-profile episodic TV series like " Star Trek: Strange New Worlds " is often a Herculean task for any professional cast and crew, but toss in massive spaceship sets, a colorful constellation of costume changes, tone and stylistic shifts, hand-to-hand combat, horseback riding, and puppets, and you’ve got a mad sci-fi circus. We connected with… The key issue is what the mission or observation makes possible next: better data, stronger hardware, new experiments, or clearer science.

The Details

• Space.com: 'Star Trek: Strange New Worlds' cast talks losing sleep, living up to their character's legacy, and learning to ride a horse for season 4 (interview)
• Filming a high-profile episodic TV series like " Star Trek: Strange New Worlds " is often a Herculean task for any professional cast and crew, but toss in massive spaceship sets, a

The Context

Space updates can look routine from the outside: a launch, a docking, an instrument check, another mission note. Look closer, though, and they are usually about data, endurance, materials, communications, robotics, or the next piece of exploration infrastructure.

Next Developments

• scientific results from the mission
• follow-up research publications
• practical applications on Earth