The crew of the Enterprise is as soon as once more setting off on a brand new mission on the finish of the newest Star Trek: Unusual New Worlds finale, and whereas we don’t know a lot about Season 4 — besides there’s a puppet episode! — we do now have some teases from Celia Rose Gooding about what to anticipate for Uhura.
The communications officer has been by way of lots simply over these three seasons, together with a heartbreaking loss, and her try at a romance bought difficult (and never simply because she’d been became a Vulcan when it got here time for a date). So sure, as Celia Rose Gooding instructed TV Insider not too long ago, Uhura might actually use a trip. Learn on for extra from the star about what’s to return on Unusual New Worlds and why she’s refusing to say goodbye.
I do know you’ve already filmed Season 4, however with the place Uhura was on the finish of Season 3, what had you needed to discover along with her going ahead?
Celia Rose Gooding: Yeah, I believe dropping Batel [Melanie Scrofano], I believe dropping any officer in Starfleet or anybody in Starfleet is absolutely arduous on Uhura. She’s handled a lot loss already, and I believe every thing piling up begins to get to her. I believe what she’s wanting ahead to within the subsequent season, in Season 4, is simply downtime, a little bit of rest and reprieve and having the ability to soak up a extremely jam-packed few months that’s Season 3. She’s been genetically modified, she’s been betrayed and confused, and she or he’s been romanced, but in addition very taken benefit of somewhat bit. She’s simply been by way of a lot, I believe she’s wanting ahead to a while to journal somewhat bit, possibly meditate, have a cup of tea, simply calm down in a really human manner versus doing the Starfleet officer factor, which is getting drinks within the port galley in between life-threatening missions.
So are we going to see any of that in Season 4? What are you able to say about Uhura in Season 4?
I can say that Uhura will get somewhat little bit of what she desires, possibly an excessive amount of in a manner that I believe audiences will discover very foolish, but in addition in a manner that scares her. And we see her actually taking dangers and massive, large leaps for the character. We’re seeing her in conditions that I don’t assume any viewers might have fathomed for her, however she continues to shock herself and impress herself and impress her crew and proceed to simply perceive her place within the large world of Starfleet.
How is it making ready to say goodbye — maybe only for now, you by no means know what the longer term holds to her — with the present ending with Season 5?
I’ve given myself permission to by no means say goodbye to this character. I don’t need to. I don’t should, so I received’t. She is part of me. I speak to myself to her, she talks again to me. I really feel somewhat loopy, however each actor is. We’ve to compartmentalize ourselves and chop our personalities up right into a bunch of tiny items and dedicate what works to a personality after which abandon what doesn’t even when it’s a very actual a part of you. And Uhura is, she jogs my memory of so many individuals, so many ladies, so many Black ladies that I do know, and she or he jogs my memory a lot of myself after I was youthful. And likewise she evokes me to proceed to take dangers into changing into the person who I need to be. I’ve no real interest in saying goodbye to this character as a result of it could really feel like saying goodbye to a chunk of myself, and I don’t need to try this. [Laughs]
I like that. And there’s additionally now been speak about a 12 months One collection about Kirk (Paul Wesley) on the Enterprise, and clearly Uhura must be a part of that.
Sure, I assume.
So I’m assuming you’ll try this sort of present. Is there something you’ll need to discover for those who did?
I’ll do Star Trek till any individual fires me, and even then they could have to rent a group of very robust individuals to peel me off of the CBS Studio flooring. Yeah, there’s a lot Trek forward of us that I haven’t even given plenty of thought to the concept of, what’s subsequent? What’s subsequent for me is Season 5 and getting by way of the extraordinary journey that we’re on the brink of undergo. After which, yeah, I don’t know, trip? I’m studying what that’s, which is absolutely thrilling. I don’t know.
I hope that we get to have a Star Trek: 12 months One and proceed to know Kirk and proceed to type of fill within the house between the start of TOS and the top of Unusual New Worlds. What we fill that with shouldn’t be my selection, thank the solar and stars. I get to simply present up and do the work that another person has written out for me, which I discover very useful. However yeah, I believe if I had been to be so daring as to want for something, I believe I might need her to discover her artistic aspect. We’ve seen her as an mental. We’ve seen her as an instructional. We’ve seen her as a linguist. I might like to see her as extra of an artist as a result of she may be very creative and really artistic. She simply hasn’t had the chance but to essentially delve into that or present that off. And I might love for her to simply calm down. She’s overdue for a trip, for positive. [Laughs]
Star Trek: Unusual New Worlds, Season 4, TBA, Paramount+