Carol Kane joins Star Trek: Strange New Worlds in its second season
She'll be joining Paul Wesley's James T. Kirk in the second season
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It was a little easy to forget with all the, you know, everything else going on today, but it is Star Trek Day (the anniversary of when the first episode aired, not to be confused with First Contact Day, which is a separate Star Trek day that has in-universe importance), and that means there should be some fun Star Trek news. Luckily, it doesn’t get much more fun than finding out that Carol Kane is going to join Star Trek: Strange New Worlds as a character named Chief Engineer Pelia in its second season.
The series takes place a few years before the original Star Trek series and stars Anson Mount as Christopher Pike, the captain of the USS Enterprise who immediately preceded James T. Kirk (who will be played by Paul Wesley from The Vampire Diaries in the show’s second season). That means it’s potentially important that Kane’s character is listed as the ship’s chief engineer, because the chief engineer at the time of the original series is Scotty (originally played by James Doohan), so something is going to happen to Carol Kane’s Pelia at some point… even if it’s just “she enjoys a quiet retirement back on Earth.” Then again, Star Wars kept introducing new people in its prequels without hurrying to offer much of an explanation for where they went, so maybe nobody will really care.
Strange New Worlds, which also stars Ethan Peck and Jess Bush, airs on Paramount+. The first season ended earlier this summer, and season two will begin airing at some point next year. As for Carol Kane, she’s famous for a bunch of stuff: Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, Addams Family Values, The Princess Bride, Taxi in the ‘80s and Hester Street back in the ‘70s.
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I hope they kill off the chief engineer each season. Meanwhile we continue to occasional see Scotty’s arm.
SNW is by far the best Star Trek show on the air. It’s not even close.
I’d say it’s even giving TNG a run for its money.
Have fun stabilizing the warp core!Think it will work?Not a chance.
Hopefully she’s just playing her character from Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt.
Or a descendant of Lillian at least
OMG I loved Lillian!
I can’t wait to see the Strange New Worlds/Lower Decks crossover.
I am almost irrationally excited for it. I have full confidence that they can pull it off.
With Pike’s ever growing hair, all they need to do is get the Johnny Bravo template.
Growing up, I knew Carol Kane from The Princess Bride and Addams Family Values, so the fact that she’s only 70 today blows my mind.
I loved her as Simka Gravas on Taxi; the episode where she meets Latka’s mother to get her blessing before they got married is one of my favorites.
Absolutely love this for SNW, Hemmer left big shoes to fill, but Kane is just such a great actress with so much range, so any fears that the new Chief Engineer wouldn’t live up to Hemmer’s legacy have been completely assuaged by this welcome news
Her character on Kimmy Schdmit was a huge Pizza Rat fan, maybe it’ll be the co-engineer
I have to say, on balance, this show has been a delight.
I’m so excited about this. Strange New Worlds has been such a blast so far and Kane is a great talent.This should be awesome.
I’m looking forward to the further cast additions of Madeline Kahn as the wacky Number One, Dom DeLuise as the donut-crazed captain, Tim Conway as the befuddled science officer and Don Knotts as the bumbling security chief.