Melissa Navia is boldly going the place nobody has gone earlier than.
A lot of her Star Trek: Strange New Worlds castmates are playing characters which have been portrayed by different actors over time, akin to Anson Mount’s Captain Pike and Ethan Peck’s Spock. Which means they’ve a legacy to dwell up to and a few baggage hooked up to their characters.
Nonetheless, Navia’s character, Lt. Ortegas, is an unique creation for the sequence, and she finds that liberating.
“When season one got here out [fans] professed their love for Ortegas, and I’m eternally grateful to them for that,” Melissa Navia says throughout a Star Trek highlight panel at New York Comedian Con. “I all the time say that what we do is half of the work, and the followers and this franchise are the opposite half. And to be on a crew with so many legacy characters, with characters that individuals have grown up with, and who they’ve such an adoration for, after which to be creating this new character.”
“It’s nice to play a personality the place you understand the place they’re going. I like that for Ortegas, we don’t know the place she’s going.”
Nonetheless, that doesn’t imply the producers don’t have some cool plans for the character.
“There’s been storylines and items of her that I’ve recognized about for the reason that starting. I’ve spoken with Henry [Alonso Myers] and Akiva [ Goldsman about it], and so they’ve all the time influenced what I’ve carried out with her and what you’ve seen on the bridge and what you’ve seen all through the present.”