Jonathan Frakes on Directing Next Generation, Lower Decks

This interview goes assorted places, but it has a small interesting bit about next year’s Discovery finale.

“I directed the first half of the finale of Season 5, which turned out to be the real finale… And then [‘Discovery’ executive producer and director] Olatunde Osunsanmi had to go back up and do two or three days of new stuff to actually make the finale the finale." https://variety.com/2023/tv/news/jonathan-frakes-star-trek-director-strange-new-worlds-lower-decks-crossover-1235680140/

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    • Nmyownworld@startrek.website
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      1 year ago

      I hope that the series finale is satisfying, too. Jonathan Frakes and Olatunde Osunsanmi as directors of it is a good sign. Jonathan Frakes + Star Trek = awesome. I enjoy a lot of Olatunde Osunsanmi’s Star Trek work as a director, including one of my favored DSC episodes, “What’s Past Is Prologue” (s1e13). That episode has everything. Action, drama, pathos. I love Saru’s delivery of, “That is all I needed to see. Fire!” Fabulous spark igniting the action of that scene. I enjoy DSC.

    • maegul (he/they)
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      1 year ago

      It brought Trek back, and also, I think surprisingly at the time, brought the film-level feel of polished production and longer serialised arcs along with it, all while having its own vibe and doing its own thing (I’m still madly in love with the idea of a time jump 900 years into a future of a broken federation!!).