Writer and executive producer Kirsten Beyer has done so much in terms of worldbuilding of the new Star Trek canon at Paramount+ from Discovery, Picard, Strange New Worlds, and the upcoming Starfleet Academy, but when it came to help fill in the gap between The Original Series episode "Space Seed" and 1982's The Wrath of Khan, reuniting with director/writer Nicholas Meyer for the commissioned audio drama Star Trek: Khan, she jumped at the opportunity. Originally meant to chronicle the lives of Khan Noonien Singh (voice of Naveen Andrews), former Starfleet officer Lt. Marla McGivers (voice of Wrenn Schmidt), and the Augment survivors of the S.S. Botany Bay, the story expands how they tried to tame a savage world of Ceti Alpha V unaware of the planet's existing dangers, and the cataclysmic event that would devastate the planet, and test their will. Beyer spoke to Bleeding Cool about the twist at the podcast's end of Lear's origins, how she wanted to approach the reveal, if we will see the Federation's controversial stance against enhanced beings in the upcoming Starfleet Academy, set in the far distant future of the 32nd century compared to the podcast's timeline of the 23rd century; and how she navigated through the conflicting canon on the Augments.
Author: Tom Chang
Published at: 2025-11-25 21:37:03
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