Joe Otterson TV ReporterBoldly going where no “Star Trek” series have gone before, the casts of the live-action “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds” and animated “Star Trek: Lower Decks” will meet on a crossover episode of Season 2 of “Strange New Worlds.”“Strange New Worlds” concluded its first season in early July as the best received “Trek” TV series of the 21st century, so its Comic-Con panel could’ve been effectively a victory lap for the show.The panel included Anson Mount (Capt.
Christopher Pike), Ethan Peck (Lt. Spock), Paul Wesley (Lt. James T. Kirk), Jess Bush (Nurse Christine Chapel), Christina Chong (Lt.
La’an Noonien-Singh), and Celia Rose Gooding (Cadet Nyota Uhura), as well as executive producers Alex Kurtzman, Rod Rodenberry, and co-showrunner Henry Alonso Myers.
During the “Strange New Worlds” panel, “Lower Decks” stars Tawny Newsome (Ens. Beckett Mariner) and Jack Quaid (Ens. Brad Boimler) crashed to reveal that Mariner and Boimler — whose characters exist in the “Next Generation” period of “Trek” — will step onto Capt.
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