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Henry Alonso Myers is known for Star Trek: Strange New Worlds (2022), Ugly Betty (2006) and Day Break (2006). Add photos, demo reels. Add to list. More at IMDbPro. Contact info. Agent info. Nominated for 1 Primetime Emmy. 2 nominations total. Known for. Star Trek: Strange New Worlds. 8.3. TV Series. Producer (showrunner) 2022–2023 • 20 eps.
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Sep 20, 2022 · For Henry Alonso Myers, producing and co-showrunning Star Trek: Strange New Worlds is the culmination of a lifelong love of Star Trek – which makes him the perfect person to help guide a show that has one eye on Trek’s past and the other on the franchise’s future.
May 5, 2022 · | May 5, 2022 | By: Anthony Pascale 45 comments so far. TrekMovie had a chance to speak exclusively with Star Trek: Strange New Worlds co-showrunner Henry Alons Myers about Thursday’s series...
Aug 10, 2023 · ‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ co-showrunner Henry Alonso Myers explains the reason behind the major cliffhanger ending of season 2 finale “Hegemony,” reimagining the Gorn, pulling off a ...
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By Scott Collura
Updated: Jul 16, 2022 12:22 am
Posted: Jul 14, 2022 9:15 pm
Warning: Full spoilers follow for Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 1.
With Star Trek: Strange New Worlds having just finished out Season 1, the best new Trek show in town has left us with a variety of questions about where things will go in Season 2 for Captain Christopher Pike and his crew, as well as the whys and hows of certain storylines in these first 10 episodes. From Pike’s ultimate fate and whether or not he ever truly had a chance of avoiding it, to Spock’s rage, to the death of Chief Engineer Hemmer, man are we still thinking about this show.
Co-showrunner Henry Alonso Myers jumped on the communicator (definitely the kind that flips open) to discuss these topics and more. And yes, that includes Paul Wesley’s Captain Kirk!
Throughout Season 1, Anson Mount’s Pike struggled with the foreknowledge (gained during his stint on Star Trek: Discovery) that he has less than 10 years before he will be tragically injured in an accident that will leave him trapped in a life-sustaining machine, unable to speak or even move really. At the same time, he also knew that he would save the lives of a bunch of cadets during that accident, and so he was presented with the question of whether or not he could alter his fate without dooming those young men and women.
In the season finale, "A Quality of Mercy," this plot seemingly came to a head as Pike encountered a future version of himself who had changed the timeline to avoid the accident… but caused a dark future for the galaxy as a result.
Alonso Myers says that Pike has “more or less” accepted his fate after that encounter, but that doesn’t mean he’s not going to continue to deal with it in Season 2.
“We don't want it to loom quite as large as it did this season,” says Alonso Myers. “Because you can't keep going back to that well. So the goal was to see him reckon with it in a big way and then come to a conclusion and a decision about the kind of person he is. Which doesn't mean that we won't potentially wrestle with him in the future.”
The showrunner promises that Season 2 embarks on a completely different arc for Pike, and while he’s not ready to reveal what that is quite yet, he says the writers did at least discuss the possibility of altering Pike’s predetermined trajectory in Season 1 – a trajectory that has been locked since the Original Series two-parter, “The Menagerie.”
“Well, we talk about everything,” says Alonso Myers. “My own philosophy as a writer, and I dare say I think [co-showrunner] Akiva [Goldsman] agrees with me on this, is that if you say something's going to happen and then you don't make it happen, it's cheap. What makes something feel real is that you reckon with the consequences of it, not just the things you want. And obviously, we all love Pike and we all want to see him survive and we all want to see him live through every challenge that he's going to live through.”
In the season finale, Paul Wesley debuted as the latest actor to play James T. Kirk. We’d known he had been cast as the character as Paramount Plus had previously confirmed he would be in Season 2. But when he showed up in "A Quality of Mercy," it was as a somewhat different version of Kirk in so far as that story thread depicts a slightly altered timeline onboard the USS Enterprise, one where Pike is still captain and Kirk is the skipper of a different starship.
The episode is also an alt-future reimagining of the TOS episode “Balance of Terror,” and Alonso Myers explains that Wesley based his performance partly on the version of Kirk who was depicted in that original episode back in 1966.
“[That version] is a little more of a shrewd, serious Kirk,” he says. “What I really love about his performance is there's a kind of public persona that people imagine Kirk being that really isn't totally present except in big, big, broad moments from the Original Series. And he really tried to build it around who the character was in that moment.”
There's a kind of public persona that people imagine Kirk being that really isn't totally present except in big, big, broad moments from the Original Series.
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That said, once Season 2 comes around, we won’t even be dealing with Captain Kirk. Since the season is set seven years earlier than “Balance of Terror,” this will be a different, more green Jim Kirk.
One of the great things about Strange New Worlds has been how good the ensemble cast is, and that includes Bruce Horak’s Hemmer, the blind Aenar engineer who was killed off in Episode 9, "All Those Who Wander." It was a surprising twist and a hard one for fans who had come to love the prickly yet soulful character. And yet, Alonso Myers confirms that Hemmer’s death was always part of the plan.
“One of the challenges of doing an episodic show is, I think they did this a lot on the Original Series, it became a joke that you'd have people who were red shirts,” he laughs. “It was an immediate way to not have an emotional connection with them. So we had this idea at the beginning of the series: Let's introduce a new character and have them die in a way that is emotionally significant and somewhat devastating, partly to see our characters go through that. Partly to show that life has value in this universe and that we're not necessarily just going to come in and kill the person of the week. We wanted it to feel like things matter.”
During the audition process, the SNW team spoke to Horak about Hemmer’s planned demise. But still, Alonso Meyers says that even after an actor is cast, it’s hard to know how well they’ll “pop” or not onscreen. Based on fan reaction to Hemmer, obviously Horak popped big time.
It was as devastating as we could have ever hoped for, perhaps more so.
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“He embodied the role in this wonderful way,” says the showrunner. “We didn't plan to create a character that people would love and then hurt them by killing him. We planned to try to craft a genuine emotional experience for the viewer and for our characters. … And it succeeded so well. So as a result, it was as devastating as we could have ever hoped for, perhaps more so.”
May 1, 2022 · We start with our brief interview with executive producer and co-showrunner Henry Alonso Myers. At the recent Mission Chicago convention, he spoke at length about all the classic elements...
Jul 7, 2022 · Screen Rant spoke to executive producer Henry Alonso Myers, who takes us behind the scenes of the finale to discuss Paul Wesley's casting as Captain Kirk, Pike's decision about his destiny, Una's backstory and arrest, and why Strange New Worlds killed Chief Engineer Hemmer (Bruce Horak) in episode 9.
