Discovery’s legacy and Saru’s possible future

Doug Jones starred as Saroo for all five seasons of Star Trek: Discovery. on the 27th of August, Star Trek: Discovery – The Final Season And Star Trek: Discovery – The Complete Series are available on DVD and Blu-ray.

Portraying the first Kelpie in Starfleet and getting to create a brand new one Star Trek Alien raceDoug Jones turned Saru into one of Star Trek: Discoverys most favorite letters. in Star Trek: Discovery In season 5, Saru became a Federation ambassador and played a key role in saving the galaxy once again. Saru also married his Vulcan love, President T’rina (Tara Rosling) at the end of Star Trek: Discovery Season 5.

Screen Rant Had the pleasure of chatting with Doug Jones, who looked back on his favorite Star Trek: Discovery memories and considers what Saru’s Star Trek Future may be.

Doug Jones’ favorite Star Trek: Discovery moment after 5 seasons

“Was quite touched by Saru’s storyline when he went through Vahar’ai.”

Screen Rant: Congratulations again on five incredible seasons of Star Trek: Discovery. I don’t think I’ve ever asked you this: do you have a special season of Discovery What stands out as your favorite?

Doug Jones: Oh, wow. I have favorite moments that appear in certain seasons. Back to season 2, I think a favorite moment of mine that stood out to me personally, and many fans out there as well, was quite touched by Saru’s storyline when he went through Vahar’ai. He was born into the prey species that lives in fear all the time, and the predator species calls us and kills us before we go through Vaharai, where our threat ganglia get inflamed and we get sick. And what we don’t know is that for generations and centuries they have deceived us into thinking that this is the end of our lives, and they will make a mercy killing for us. When in reality, this is where a kelpie goes through adolescence and has quite a long adult life ahead of them, and our threat ganglia are replaced with quills that can shoot poisonous darts at humans. So we are stronger and more powerful than we thought.

So being away from the Predator species on a starship now as part of Starfleet, he’s the only Kelpin to ever do that. That’s why he goes through the UHR on his own and discovers the new life on his own. And now he has a quest to go back to his home planet and free everyone from the domination they live under. The master. They were wicked to do this to us, but now he went back, not to destroy the master, but he was very diplomatic to bring them together, the two species, to live in harmony and peace, finally. So that was a special moment for me, that season two could achieve all of that.

What would Saru and T’rina’s children look like?

Screen Rant: Yes, this was an amazing storyline for Saru that really changed and evolved the character in fantastic new ways. Saru and T’rina, of course, got married at the end of the series. Are you curious what Saru and T’rina’s children would look like? Whose genes are dominant?

Doug Jones: Intraspecies relations bring up this question. What would our kids look like? And I’ll tell you, there’s a fan slash cosplayer named Missy, Missy has shown up at conventions as what they call a Kelpican. So it’s part kelp, part vulcan, it was kind of a blend. A little squeeze that kind of worked. It is not unattractive.

Screen Rant: I have a vision of pointy ears that can spin quills.

Doug Jones: Right? (laughs)

Hope Is Star Trek: Discovery’s Legacy

“We have danger, but we get through it with diplomacy.”

Screen Rating: Deep Space Nine And Enterprise have been kind of reevaluated, and are even more appreciated now than during their first runs. I feel like Discovery Will be the same in a few years. What’s something you want future audiences to understand about revelation, As someone who lived it from start to finish?

Doug Jones: Yes. I see what you are saying, that it has a life while it is published for the first time, and then on further review after binge watching in the future. I think Discovery will find its place as a show of hope among the entire franchise. Our show brings a lot of hope. Yes, we have danger, but we get through it with diplomacy. We get through it with a peaceful outcome, mostly. And we have conflicting personalities, conflicting species, finding a way to live in peace together. I think this is a message of hope that we can all live with, and we can all take to heart. Where the world is going at the moment, and if the world continues in this direction, our show will hopefully be more and more a beacon of what it can be.

Screen Rant: Yeah, that’s one of the things I loved about it Discovery. From the beginning, it was a reassessment and a reclaiming of that Star Trek And Starfleet meant. And then you guys lived it, jumped into the distant future, and then brought it to a broken federation. The story, I think, is just spectacular.

Doug Jones: I agree. When we jump forward 1000 years to find what has become Federation now, we find it broken and fledgling. Be a part of rebuilding and re-establishing what the Federation can be, and bring all the planets back together. As such, Earth and Vulcan, now the planet Ni’Var, have left the Federation. Unthinkable in the previous series and the previous timeline. And now, in the future, they found their independence and got away from it all. So finding a way to hug everybody back together was something our show ended with grace, I thought.

Would Doug Jones return as Saru in Star Trek: Starfleet Academy?

Screen Rant: Mary Wiseman, Oeded Fehr and Tig Notaro were announced as part of Starfleet Academys figure. Is returning as Saru something you’re chomping at the bit for, or are you more like, ‘You know, guys, take your time and call me a little later’?

Doug Jones: Well, you know, I’ve enjoyed being out of the rubber bits, I’m not going to lie. I have worn a lot of rubber bits in my career of 38 years. And now, since I took Saru off for the last time, I’ve had the last year and a half of playing nothing but humans. Many people in different forms. Whether they’re good guys, bad guys, funny guys, serious guys, I have a great time playing people. But should anyone need Saru at Starfleet Academy? I would never say never. That would be a fun guest star to do, for sure, but I haven’t gotten the call yet.

Saru: Besides Starfleet AcademyIs there any other Star Trek Show your fantasies about crossing like Saru?

Doug Jones: Strange New Worlds is ongoing and it taps into everyone’s nostalgia with the Star Trek franchise, it seems. It would be kind of fun to show up in Strange New Worlds, and Saru is already familiar with Captain Pike and with Spock. We already had our interactions in the second season of Discovery, where they were launched. So a nice little reunion would be kind of fun. However, he has to travel back in time to do this because we jump ahead 1000 years.

About Star Trek: Discovery Season 5

The fifth and final season of Star Trek: Discovery finds Captain Burnham and the crew of the USS Discovery uncovering a mystery that will send them on an epic adventure across the galaxy to find an ancient power whose existence has been deliberately hidden for centuries. But there are others on the hunt as well… dangerous enemies who are desperate to claim the prize for themselves and will stop at nothing to get it.

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