Star Trek: Deep Space NineS Nana guest hails Star Trek: Strange New WorldsLt. Erika Ortgas (Melissa Navia), a character Nana says Star Trek has been waiting since the 1960s Releasing October 1st, Guest’s first book, Star Trek: Open a Channel: A Woman’s Trek, Contains in depth profiles of Star Treks vast universe of female characters. Nana interviewed women involved in Star Trek In front of and behind the camera, as well as real-world scientists, soldiers and astronauts who call star treks female heroes their inspirations.
Lt. Erica Ortegas is a new character in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, but one that has roots in Star TrekS original, rejected pilot, “The Cage.” In 1964, Gene Roddenberry’s first crack at Star Trek Centered on the starship Enterprise led by Captain Christopher Pike (Jeffrey Hunter), with Assistant Number One (Majel Barrett Roddenberry) and Mr. Spock (Leonard Nimoy). NBC ordered a second pilot and for Star Trek to be recast. It took 58 years for Captain Pike’s version of the Enterprise to return Star Trek: Strange New WorldsWhat a brag Reimagined versions of “The Cage’s” characters, including Erica Ortegas, The helmsman of the Starship Enterprise.
Nana Visitor explains how the original pilot concept of Star Trek became Strange Ortages of New Worlds
Erica Ortegas has roots in a scrapped Star Trek pilot
In an excerpt from Star Trek: Open a Channel: A Woman’s Trek Shared exclusively with Screen RantNana Visitor describes as Gene Roddenberry’s first concept for Star Treks pilot, José Ortega, morphed into José Tyler (Peter Duryaa), and finally, decades later, into Lt. Erica Ortegas in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds. Guest also accurately charts what the Starship Enterprise’s pilot had to be a man in the 1960s and how that has changed today. Read the visitor’s quote below:
Star Trek has been waiting since the ’60s for Erica Ortegas. José Ortega never made it out of Gene Roddenberry’s notes. By the time Trek’s first pilot, “The Cage,” was filmed, he had morphed into José Tyler, who was very blond and blue-eyed. In fact, the entire cast was scrapped, except for Leonard Nimoy for the next – finally successful – pilot, leaving it for the best part of sixty years and the casting of Melissa Navia to give the character new life. Strange New Worlds’s Erica Ortegas (yes, there’s an s on the end, and yes, many Latinos spell their name that way, says Melissa) has links to the past, but drives us straight into the future.
Sixty years ago, it was inevitable that the Enterprise’s pilot would be a man. In those days, the characteristics of a hotshot pilot were fundamentally male, and the person flying the ship was bound to be inspired by John Glenn or Neil Armstrong. Discovery has already put Emily Coutts Detmer at the helm. Strange New Worlds would double down on that.
The breakdown for her character described a Latinx pilot, a soldier who could handle a gun and crack a joke, was capable and confident. Her frugal “abso-frickin-lutly” while flying the ship demonstrates that she is not caught in her head like Jose, concerned with instruments and calculations, but a pilot of passion. The character is free from any kind of stereotypes about performative femininity or limiting ideas about what it means to be a woman, and this is something that Melissa seems to share.
Nana Visitor interviewed Melissa Navia for Star Trek: Open a Channel: A Woman’s TrekAnd, no doubt, the chapter by L. Erica Ortegas will be fascinating and insightful. in 2024, Female Star Trek Pilots are now par for the course. Like Ortegas, Emily Coutts’ according to Commander Kayla Detmer flies on the USS Discovery on Star Trek: Discovery And Ashley Sharpe Chestnut plays Ensign Sidney Le Forge, the USS Titan-A pilot Star Trek: Picard Season 3. At the end of Star Trek: Picard In season 3, Sydney joined Ortegas as a female pilot of the Enterprise, and became a lieutenant and the helmsman of the USS Enterprise-G.
Star Trek fans have embraced Strange New Worlds Lt. Ortgas
#Mortegas is a call to action
Lt. Erica Ortegas has proven to be a fan favorite on Star Trek: Strange New Worlds. The snarky hotshot pilot of the Starship Enterprise was loved by audiences. Thanks to Melissa Navia’s burning and Strange New Worlds‘ Clever writers and directors, Erica is wildly entertaining, whether she’s butting heads with Captain Christopher Pike (Anson Berg) on ​​the bridge or tormenting time-traveling Ensign Brad Boimler (Jack Quaid) in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds‘ Crossover. Fans clamored to learn more about the Ortegas’ past And what makes you tick, spread the hashtag #Mortegas on social media to urge Strange New Worlds To tell more Erica stories.
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 3 promises more Lt. Erica Ortegas. Strange New Worlds Season 3 begins with Erika and several of her Enterprise crewmates being kidnapped by the Gorn. Consider how One of Ortegas’ wishes was to take a break from the Enterprise’s bridge and join a landing party mission.Her complete abduction becomes a nightmare scenario for Erica. However, this is just a hint of what’s to come for Lt. Erica Ortgas in Star Trek: Strange New WorldsOne of the pivotal women spotlighted in Nana Visitor’s Star Trek: Open a Channel: A Woman’s Trek.
Source: Star Trek: Open a Channel: A Woman’s Trek by Nana Visitor