First-ever official panel for Strange New Worlds on Star Trek Day, Sept 8 2020 → Anson Mount describes the moment he got the call that Strange New Worlds was happening. Anson was joined by co-stars Rebecca Romijn and Ethan Peck, and executive producers Akiva Goldsman and Henry Alonso Myers, co-executive producers Akela Cooper and Davy Perez, and host Mica Burton.
Henry Alonso Myers, executive producer: "We want to do Star Trek in the classic mode; Star Trek in the way Star Trek stories were always told. It’s a ship and it's travelling to strange new worlds and we are going to tell big ideas science fiction adventures in an episodic mode. So we have room to meet new aliens, see new ships, visit new cultures."
Akela Cooper, co-executive producer: "While we'll have like individual one-off plots, the character arcs are what's going to carry us through in a more serialized fashion. There's probably one plot point that we will be sprinkling through this series until we actually get to the episode. And that's all I can say about that.
The fun thing in the room is coming up with cool and unique situations and scenarios to put [Pike, Spock and Number One] in that will bring about certain aspects of their personalities we can play with, and see how they would complement each other but also contrast each other. And to just see how those puzzle pieces fit."
Davy Perez, co-executive producer: "We did have conversations about Pike and Number One being sort of parental figures to the ship and in specific to Spock. Because Spock is the younger Spock. He is not the wise, old Spock from The Original Series, this is the young guy just out of Starfleet Academy and still finding himself—and what kind of Spock will he become? And so you have great mentor/mentee relationships. And oftentimes, you can learn from your own kids just as much as you can teach. So there's a lot of interesting relationship dynamics to play with there."
