Hemmer

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds is far from a show with growing pains—as we’ve said many times already, its first season landed with a confidence of what it wanted to do in ways few Star Trek debuts ever have before it. But it is a show where growing is inevitable: it’s a prequel about Kirk’s Enterprise before Kirk’s on it, so we are constantly anticipating the steps towards that future. But that’s not going to stop Strange New Worlds from examining what that growth means for everyone involved.Will We See More of Uhura's…

Image: ParamountWhile Strange New Worlds’ largely episodic nature meant there were plenty of threats across season one, it’s not unfair to say the big bad was largely the Gorn, who menace the Enterprise team multiple times during season one, establishing them as a serious threat to the Federation and its citizens. But while the finale also introduced us, through alt-timeline shenanigans, to Strange New World’s take on the Romulan Star Empire, another Trek classic will be making their way to season two: the legendary…

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Captain Pike doesn’t know how bad his day’s about to get.Image: ParamountStrange New Worlds has prided itself in its first season on a somewhat sense of ephemerality—that even at its direst of stakes, our enterprising heroes would come out the other side and move on to the next big adventure. This week’s penultimate episode of the season proved just how scary and incredible the series can be when it confronts arguably its truest idea of horror: lasting consequence.“All Those Who Wander” starts out both innocently enough…

This are no holodeck shenanigans, we promise.Image: ParamountAlthough it has largely treated its characters with great care in its debut season, Star Trek: Strange New World’s general sense of episodic breeziness has also given those characters a light touch—moments of highlights, but nothing too deep with our crewmates. This week’s episode changes that, wrapping up one of its most sincere stories yet in the show’s most zany caper.Strange New Worlds, for the most part, is a remarkably consistent TV show. This is good,…

Horak as Hemmer. Photo Cr: Marni Grossman/Paramount+ ©2022 ViacomCBS. All Rights Reserved. Star Trek: Strange New Worlds has arrived on Paramount+, and with the return of the USS Enterprise comes the arrival of a brand-new Chief Engineer: Hemmer the Aenar, played by Bruce Horak. The Beat got the opportunity to speak with Horak over Zoom about his personal history with Star Trek and comic books, how his performance in Goblin: Macbeth connected with his performance as Hemmer, and what details we might have missed about…