Strange New Worlds Crossover Almost Featured A Surprise Star Trek Vulcan Cameo

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds

Summary

TheStar Trek : Strange New Worldscrossover episode withStar Trek : Lower Decksalmost featured a surprising Vulcan - related cameo . InStrange New Worldsseason 2 , instalment 7 , " Those Old Scientists , " Ensigns Brad Boimler ( Jack Quaid ) and Beckett Mariner ( Tawny Newsome ) find themselves in the past on the USS Enterprise of Captain Christopher Pike ( Anson Mount ) . Hijinks ensue as the Enterprise gang works to get Boimler and Mariner back to their own clip catamenia . “Those Old Scientists " is not only uproarious but also act as a love alphabetic character to everythingStar Trek , as Boimler and Mariner geek out about getting to play legendary Starfleet hoagy .

The net moments of the crosswalk feature a delightfulscene of theStrange New Worldscrew in vitality that almost included the show of a Vulcan sehlat . Bear - like animate being often kept as pets by Vulcan children , sehlats have only appeared a match of prison term in theStar Trekfranchise . DuringTrekTalks 3’s"Those Old Scientists " panel that raised over $ 108,000 for the Hollywood Food Coalition , the writers of theStrange New Worldscrossover , Kathryn Lyn and Bill Wolkoff , joinedTawny Newsome and director Jonathan Frakesto discuss the installment . When postulate if there was anything that did n’t make it into the final installment , Lyn and Wolkoff had the following to say . Read their quote and watch the " Those Old Scientists " control board at the 51:26 time stamp below :

Kathryn Lyn : " A sehlat . Bill and I had an animated sehlat at the end that got cut . Which is a Vulcan — we all know what a sehlat is . We ’ve spent the last year endeavor to get a sehlat back into Strange New Worlds . "

Bill Wolkoff : " The sehlat that could have been . "

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Spock And T’Pol Both Had A Pet Sehlat

“Vulcan children are never late with their sehlat’s dinner.”

Despite their six - inch fangs and aggressive nature , domesticated sehlats are a popular pet for Vulcan child . InStar Trek : The Original Series , season 2 , episode 10 , " Journey to Babel,“Spock ’s ( Leonard Nimoy ) parentsvisit the USS Enterprise . Spock ’s mother Amanda ( Jane Wyatt ) reveals that the young Spock had"a preferent sehlat he was very fond of . “Although Amanda distinguish the sehlat as a"fat teddy bear,“Spock is agile to point out the creature ’s six - in fangs . The 2d sequence ofStar Trek : The Animated Series , title " Yesteryear , " features the first appearing of a sehlat , expose Spock ’s pet was named I - Chaya .

InStar Trek : Enterprise , season 4 , episode 7 , " The Forge , " Captain Jonathan Archer ( Scott Bakula ) andSub - Commander T’Pol ( Jolene Blalock)must travel across an inhospitable Vulcan desert . During their trek , Archer and T’Pol are go after by a wild sehlat , andT’Pol reveals that she had a slimly smaller domesticated one as a positron emission tomography . At Archer ’s appalled response , T’Pol points out that he has his beagle , Porthos , but Archer replies that he does n’t have to vex about Porthos eating him . The sehlat briefly seen in " The Forge " only look at a length and its design was based on I - Chaya from " Yesteryear . " Although we did n’t get to see the sehlat in theStar Trek : Strange New Worldscrossover episode , hopefully , one of the Vulcan teddy bears will make an appearance in a futureStar Trekproject .

Star Trek : Strange New Worldsis available to stream on Paramount+ .