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Slack.com slash DHQ. You're listening to Imaginary Worlds, a show about how we create them

and why we suspend our disbelief. I'm Eric Mollinsky. This episode is about the Star

Correct Show, Strange New Worlds, which just finished its first season on Paramount Plus.

We will be giving away minor spoilers in discussing the show.

When Strange New Worlds first started back in May, I was excited to watch it. Sat down

the couch with my wife. As the opening credits rolling by, I suddenly yelled,

BELL! And my wife said, Who's Bill? And before I could explain, I said,

HENRY! And she said, Who's Henry? Henry, Alonzo Myers, and Bill Warkoff are writers and

producers on Strange New Worlds. Henry is actually one of the showrunners. The three of us

were film majors together at Wesleyan University, and we moved to Los Angeles around the same

time in the mid-90s. While I had kept up with their careers, I did not know they're working

on the show. I had so many questions for them, and I was glad that they were able to talk

with me. But first, a little background on Strange New Worlds.

The Synopsis is simple. It's the story of the Enterprise before Captain Kirk. But the

backstory is a little bit more complicated, and it goes all the way back to 1964, the pilot

of Star Trek, which was called The Cage. Spock was there, but he was not as stoic as he

would later be. The captain was named Pike. He was not played by William Schattner. His

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