(part two of two) A Yellow alert followed by a red alert ensues as Bryan and Lili assure their guest David Mack is in good hands with the conclusion into part 2. The highlights of the Michelle Yeoh starring role in the recent Paramount Plus feature film Star Trek: Section 31 along with her last appearance (Star Trek: Discovery) had been a few years. Lili is reading David Mack’s book on her Starfleet PADD titled “Star Trek: The Starfleet Survival Guide”. David Mack shares writing the story of Sven of Nine between her Star Trek Voyager days and before Star Trek Picard in his book on “Firewall”, expounding upon the fact that Jeri Ryan was a wonderful story to write and a big part of that comes from Jeri Ryan herself. The humanity to the character she brought, the nuance the complexity. Mack speaks on his new Star Trek: Strange New Worlds book “Ring of Fire”. Moreover, on how he had access to season 3 scripts from Star Trek: Strange New Worlds as a part of that. He also speaks on Star Trek Vanguard and how the book series went through all Star Trek the Original Series episodes. The conversation shifts to the western story TOS episode titled “Spectre of the Gun” which was shot very much like a stage play having limitations they had to work under using Dutch angles, intense colors. David gives his take on the Genesis device originated in the film Star Trek: II The Wrath of Khan. David also talks about Nicholas Meyer and his revere for the Navy Captain Horatio Hornblower with the Star Trek films red Monster Maroon uniforms. To round out the interview David Mack discusses his involvement in the two animated Star Trek series on Paramount Plus, Star Trek: Lower Decks and Star Trek: Prodigy, furthermore on how the Medusan who eventually became Zero and Brikar who eventually became Rohk-Tak as previous Trek iterations that are now cannon, fully a part of the main cast of characters in the Hageman’s Prodigy series.
