yetanothercriminalmindsfanatic reblogged
this article is hilarious, from the actress playing Ortegas:
I took it super seriously from the start. Word got around to everybody, including Paramount+ publicity, that Melissa is serious about this. Like I was having Zoom calls about the way that the engines work, the way the ship is built. So I have my way to go to warp, to go to impulse. Then there’d be times when I’m like doing evasive maneuvers where it’s not necessarily playing on my screen. So I would have the graphics guys just build that for me. And they’d be like, ‘Well, it’s probably not going to play in the shot.’ And I’m like, ‘Yeah, but it plays on my face.’ And so the way I look at it is that at any point, if we’re looking at it like ‘This is all just set,’ then we might as well all go home. So for me, like when I sit down there, like I become super dorky, super serious. I am flying a starship. Sometimes I’ll miss lines and people be like, ‘What happened?’ I was like, ‘Guys, I’m flying the ship. I’m just very focused.
@wilwheaton wrote here (on tumblr, where I can’t find it of course) how he had his own patterns on the console for “going to warp”, “evasive maneuvers”, and the like. I just love this to pieces!
There’s a long history of this. George Takei reports having developed his own “helm technique”, and following it to the point where if a director told him to throw a certain switch during a shot, George would (if necessary) refuse. “If I do that,” he reports having said on at least one occasion, “it’ll blow the ship up.”
The answered ask @startrekhasalwaysbeen is referring to is located here. There’s also this informative gem that the ladies in the article also touch upon.
#Star Trek bts#Celia Rose Gooding#Christina Chong#Melissa Navia#Wil Wheaton#George Takei#ok the bit about george saying that is news to me but not surprising at all#also every new thing i learn about navia/ortegas makes me love both of them even more#as for the links to wil's asks i didn't have to look far into my tagged reblogs#(exactly why i just gotta tag; how can i find things if i never tag stuff? what if i need to find That Post ever again?)