![]() The remaining crew starts out serving double duty this season, except for one role being filled by veteran talent Carol Kane as Pelia. As if there wasn’t enough loss, the crew is also trying to cope with the death of their head of engineering, Hemmer. Things look quite dark for our heroes, left in limbo with no engineer, no first officer, and no head of security. Head of Security La’An Noonien-Singh took an indefinite leave of absence to return a lost child found on the penultimate episode of Season 1. When we last left the crew of the Enterprise, Una Chin Riley, Captain Pike’s right hand, was carted off by the captain’s love interest, Captain Batel for breaking a Starfleet code of conduct. Thankfully, Strange New Worlds is already confirmed for a third outing, and Season 2 certainly seems to have found that balance. It is important to find balance between a first season and the potential of a third season. Sometimes, they buckle under the first season that gave them the chance to continue in the first place. I thought the saying was Christmas in July, not June, but Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 2 is finally here! (He's the DM.) He describes it not only as "an opportunity to have fun and share stories that aren’t just about work," but also says it's also given him a chance to get to know Blu del Barrio and Ian Alexander better.The following is a review of the first six episodes of Season 2 of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds. His journey is building all that back up, getting all the bluster of what makes an Andorian laid out."Īverbach-Katz can't say how long he'll be on the series, or if Ryn appears in Season 4, but he did reveal he's been making the most of his downtime by playing Dungeon and Dragons with his Discovery castmates over Zoom. His confidence and bombast have been stripped away. He’s been tossed aside and almost destroyed. But, what’s great about his arc in Enterprise is underneath that is a deep sensitivity, and underneath that sadness and pain and loss and joy," Averbach-Katz explains. "What does so well is present this proud and confident species. Jeffrey Combs as Shran, the Andorian, on 'Star Trek: Enterprise.' CBSĪs much as Averbach-Katz was inspired by Combs portrayal of Shran, the Discovery star says Ryn is basically the reverse of the Enterprise character. Upon revealing that he was playing Ryn in Episode 6 of Discovery, Averbach-Katz tweeted a self-made video montage of all of his childhood photos at Star Trek conventions with his parents, set to the saccharine theme song of Enterprise, "Faith of the Heart." The video concludes with candid shots of himself, both in and out of makeup with his real-life spouse and other Discovery cast members. It was cool to see how Combs invented the canon and disposition of this species."Īlthough widely regarded as the least-loved of all the Trek spin-offs, Averbach-Katz enthuses that he unabashedly loves Enterprise. For a species that has been around since the beginning of Trek, it’s interesting how little lore there was. I used his performance as a sort of template for the Über-Andorian. But really, I also watched every episode of Enterprise with Jeffrey Combs as Shran. "I re-watched Journey to Babel,” of course," Averbach-Katz says."That's just to get your Andorian history. As a long-time fan of the prequel series Star Trek: Enterprise, Katz went back to the greatest Andorian of them all - Shran - in order to really figure out what his take on Ryn was going to be like.Īverbach-Katz on the set of 'Star Trek: Discovery.' Noah Averbach-Katz via Twitter Historically, the self-sacrificing, timid Andorian isn't something we've seen before. ![]() Previously, Ryn helped liberate slaves from the planet Hunhau, taking a phaser blast meant for Book in the process. Demeter (Emily Coutts) in a Star Wars-style Death Star-run against the Orion Crime Lord Osyraa (Janet Kidder). To protect Book's (David Ajala) home planet, Ryn joins Lt. In "The Sanctuary," the USS Discovery's battle with the criminal empire known as The Emerald Chain gets serious. Spoilers ahead for Star Trek: Discovery Season 3, Episode 8, "Sanctuary." Averbach-Katz spoke with Inverse about how his deep love of the least popular Star Trek series was instrumental in bringing Ryn to life. ![]() He's also been a huge Trekkie since childhood. Averbach-Katz is married to Mary Wiseman, who plays Sylvia Tilly on Discovery. Noah Averbach-Katz - who plays Ryn the Andorian - has been part of the Trek family for quite some time. Even so, there haven't been many Andorians in major roles on Trek, a tradition that Discovery changes with its latest episode. Since writer Dorothy Fontana invented the blue-skinned Andorians for the 1967 Star Trek episode "Journey to Babel," these antenna-ed aliens have been fan favorites. ![]()
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