goodobservationshirley:

this article is hilarious, from the actress playing Ortegas:

I took it super seriously from the start. Word got around to everybody, including Paramount+ publicity, that Melissa is serious about this. Like I was having Zoom calls about the way that the engines work, the way the ship is built. So I have my way to go to warp, to go to impulse. Then there’d be times when I’m like doing evasive maneuvers where it’s not necessarily playing on my screen. So I would have the graphics guys just build that for me. And they’d be like, ‘Well, it’s probably not going to play in the shot.’ And I’m like, ‘Yeah, but it plays on my face.’ And so the way I look at it is that at any point, if we’re looking at it like ‘This is all just set,’ then we might as well all go home. So for me, like when I sit down there, like I become super dorky, super serious. I am flying a starship. Sometimes I’ll miss lines and people be like, ‘What happened?’ I was like, ‘Guys, I’m flying the ship. I’m just very focused.