okay THIS WAS A BLAST thank you for all the questions! i am so sorry i couldn’t answer every single one i have to run to set now but feel free to dm me on IG @team_karim if you want to ask me anything else and i’ll try my best to answer!! 🖖

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    dozens of costume fittings, a few days of prosthetics and makeup tests, eye contact lens fittings, dozens of hours of work with vocal coach to drop my voice, a couple hours of practice with klingon language coach, watched a TON of star trek, particularly any episodes that featured klingons

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      Do they provide actors with easy access to the entire Star Trek catalogue so they can prepare, or is it something the actors have to do on their own?

      I don’t think they actually do it this way. But, if I were in charge, I’d build a tool for actors, writers, costumers, prop artists, etc. that allowed them to quickly search through the entire Star Trek catalogue going all the way back to the 60s to find examples of whatever they were looking for. So, you could search for “Klingon” or “Klingon marriage” or “Klingon ship console” and it would pull up relevant clips. Basically imagine something like YouTube, but containing only Star Trek content, and designed to help all the creative people match their stuff to the existing lore, rather than something built for entertainment.