The next incorporates spoilers from Star Trek: Decrease Decks, Season 4, Episode 1 “Twovix,” now streaming on Paramount+.
Star Trek: Decrease Decks‘ season 4 premiere marked the return of a beloved Starfleet vessel, however translating it to animation panel-for-panel was fairly the enterprise.
Talking to IGN, Decrease Decks supervising director Barry Kelly revealed how they designed the premiere’s USS Voyager because it appeared in Star Trek: Voyager, using 3D fashions from Star Trek‘s studio archives. “These fashions are just like the quintessential fashions,” Kelly mentioned, although he admitted, “They do not at all times have every little thing. We nonetheless must retexture them and stuff like that. And after I’m doing the spaceships on the present, [we treat them like] the spaceships are characters on Star Trek, although you solely see them for somewhat bit in comparison with the precise stuff that is occurring on the ship.”
Inner and exterior shot compositions additionally decided what number of further options had been put into Voyager’s animated look. As Kelly famous, “So after we’re making Voyager, we do must possibly make some illustrative selections the place it is like, ‘Let’s edit out the doodads and the greebles and the numbers and stuff like that after we’re distant,'” says Kelly. “After which after we rise up shut… generally I am going to [be] watch[ing] Voyager and I will be like, ‘We have got to place that shot in!’ Simply in order that for those who’re watching Voyager, for those who’re a fan of Voyager, that once you see that shot you are like, ‘Oh, that is that establishing shot!'”
Decrease Decks is not the one modern Trek cartoon to characteristic the Voyager. A sneak peek at Star Trek: Prodigy season 2 teased co-leads Dal R’El, Zero, Rok-Tahk, and Jankom Pog becoming a member of Admiral Janeway (Kate Mulgrew) aboard an up to date USS Voyager following the unique ship’s decommissioning. The Prodigy clip additionally noticed the return of Voyager‘s EMH Physician, voiced as soon as once more by Robert Picardo. In the mean time, nonetheless, Prodigy has but to discover a new streaming house for the cartoon since Paramount+ canceled it in June.
Main as much as its premiere, Decrease Deck stars Jack Quaid and Tawny Newsome appeared on Star Trek: Unusual New Worlds as canonical live-action variations of their respective characters. D’Vana Tendi voice actor Noël Wells, in the meantime, will star in an upcoming Star Trek: very Quick Treks episode, created in celebration of Star Trek: The Animated Sequence‘ fiftieth anniversary. Story-wise, Decrease Deck season 4’s first two episodes targeted on ensigns Boimler, Mariner, Tendi, and Rutherford — together with new USS Cerritos member T’Lyn — receiving promotions, all whereas teasing a mysterious ship able to decimating Klingon and Romulan ships with ease.
New Star Trek: Decrease Decks episodes air on Thursdays on Paramount+.
Supply: IGN
