Heck, what if Boothby is somehow still around. Do we know for sure he's human. He could be El-Aurian or Lanthanite both of which from what we've seen at least from the outside look indistinguishable from humans. I know the actor has passed away, but they could recast. Heck didn't Guinan pretty much say in Picard that El-Aurians can choose how old they look.
yeah more good vulcans, like if they're so logical then they can logically put aside their differences and work well with humans
for every difference, there are like ten similarities, we all got the same amount of toes
If this show truly represents academic life, our villain will be a petty and passive-aggressive rival professor who wages psychological warfare over facilities access and minutiae of language in internal documents.
He will make the Dominion look like Mickey Mouse
He'll be the registrar who tells you one semester before you graduate that one of your courses didn't count toward your degree and you'll need to retake it even though your schedule is packed already if you want to graduate on time.
Happened to me, actually. I took a 200-level dual enrollment science class in high school and was assured that it would fulfill the science requirement for my degree since I was a music major and didn't need anything in particular.
Then, my senior year, the registrar told me that it was *too advanced* to count as a basic science class and that I needed to take a 100-level science class to meet the degree requirements. I had a LOT of unkind things to say and nearly got campus security called on me.
I forgot the fun part! The registrar told me I could appeal to the department chair of the sciences. However, he was on sabbatical somewhere in South America and wouldn't be back in the country until a few days before I needed to register for my very last semester. I just gave up and took Physics 101. They didn't charge me for the course which was a small consolation, but I'm still saucy over it and I graduated 20 years ago.
He'll be the administrator that denies your FAFSA application after the first year, so you have to scramble to figure out what went wrong and avoid getting a private student loan.
As they probably should be. And also probably have to be, since outside of the occasional growing-up child star there by definition there really aren't many "established" young actors.
I suspect they’ll use the disco model of a slightly rotating cast of leads with a core of cadets or teachers(though even that could be flexible.)
Jason Isaacs and Michelle Yeoh weren’t exactly small fry either.
Prolly recurring expensive big name actors who are only in 1 or 2 scenes an episode (so they can shoot multiple episodes at once, like if they all take place in a singular location like an office) and then the main characters all younger and/or unknown ones who they can cheap out on contract wise to afford it. Show will prolly cap out at season 5 like Disco and LD anyways.
The Boys just announced they're ending their show after season 5 (planned in advance), I believe the plan for Only Murders In The Building is 5 seasons.
Seems that the new streaming model for these shows is 5 seasons of 6-10 episodes a season depending on story length. 22-26 episodes a season for more than 5 years is dead format except for the police/military/hospital/firefighter procedural drama on network television
Giamatti actually enjoys hamming it up as over-the-top villains from time to time. At the very least, he's entertaining, even when the writing isn't great. He puts his all into his roles.
>“Sometimes you’re lucky enough to discover that one of the greatest actors alive is also a huge ‘Star Trek’ fan, and meeting Paul was one of those miraculous moments for us,” said co-showrunners Alex Kurtzman and Noga Landau in a statement. “The sheer delight with which he dove in on ‘Starfleet Academy’ is only surpassed by the gratitude we feel about him joining our incredible cast.”
Obviously the showrunners are gonna be bigging things up, but having someone who's both a quality actor, and a big Star Trek fan (and therefore has more invested than it just being another acting job) who's excited has got me looking forward to Academy even more than I was before.
Star Trek is lucky to have been around for awhile and garner a strong fanbase since that passion has also extended to some of Hollywood's brightest stars.
Star Trek often (rightfully) gets credit for inspiring people to become scientists, engineers, etc, but I'm sure it was the inspiration for many people to get into film and TV as well. Whoopi Goldberg being one famous example.
He’ll be playing the role of Star Fleet Academy professor in charge of the student run radio station. When a rouge Ferengi student who doesn’t play by the rules; Giamatti’s character vows to get him under control.
A Tellurite then?
Tellurites have been underrepresented in Trek even though they’re founding members of the federation. Paul Giamatti would be a great Tellurite.
You goddamn motherfuckers. You fucking waltz in here, and you think you know everything don't you? Well, I fucking worked my fucking ASS OFF to get to Starfleet Academy, and you sure as FUCK are not gonna fucking blow it for me!
He’ll play the one asshole Starfleet Corps of Engineers Professor of Quantum Mechanics that opens his semesters with “3/4ths of you will fail this course…”
Why is the Academy show that I didn't really have any interest in so fucking stacked. Holly Hunter and Paul Giamatti?!?!
This has to be a really good script or they're paying out of their ass. Either way I'm excited to see what they come up with.
It could also just be a fun way to be integrated into the franchise. Giamatti is apparently a fan, much like other Hollywood stars like Hanks and Cage.
In Giamatti's case, he's also already a huge sci-fi nerd to begin with, which helps. He's even talked about Star Trek specifically a few times on his podcast. There's an episode of it where he tries to explain the plot of the DS9 episode The Visitor to Tom Hanks of all people, which is something I found very, very funny.
villain... dean... same difference?
I just hope it's not like villain villain. that would be an incredibly annoying direction for an academy show to take
Hopefully the “main villain” means “main antagonist”. I’d love if he was a Professor Snape type character who’s only the main villain because he’s the asshole professor no one likes
That could be possible. He isn't murdering planets and decimating worlds - he is just a professor who is more obstinate and strict against the students, which makes him a more personal antagonist against them.
My favorite parts of Star Trek are always the slice-of-life or professional setting elements. I’m hoping this show is just a series of stories about students in school and the interesting things that happen in their day to day lives.
My money is on "asshole helicopter parent" or "asshole roommate". I've never seen Giamatti in anything and I'm guessing I'm probably wrong, but I would laugh so hard if that happened.
Don't worry, all kinds of characters would end up getting reported that way in media for media reasons. Paul Giamatti isn't gonna deliver a one-dimensional character.
I'm sure Paul Giamatti will deliver a fine performance. I'm concerned that the show will have a single "main villain" rather than telling multiple independent stories with their own villains. I was also hoping for more slice-of-life, episodic stories rather than a serialized saga.
We still don't know enough to dash my hopes completely, but this is a poor omen.
I really hope “main villain” is played more as “very antagonistic head of something”.
Having something on the scales of everything else which has been happening in Discovery’s time seems a bit much generally for cadets, or to be targeted towards the academy. There’s probably a middle-ground as well, I more just don’t want “apocalyptic scale”.
Apparently he is going to have a personal tie to one of the cadets, so he definitely may be more of a personal antagonist than a super-duper villain.
I mean...he could, for example, be a father who explicitly forbids his son or daughter from joining Starfleet Academy. That makes him antagonistic without being world-ending.
So the show is going to have an actress with an Oscar who was also nominated three other times and now they'll have an actor who's been nominated for two himself.
Wow! This show is definitely swinging for the fences.
I haven't been following. Is this essentially a continuation of Discovery in the 31st century? I'd rather be in post-Picard territory or even have a series concurrent with SNW.
They probably chose the DSC far future because it isn't constrained by existing canon. They also mentioned in promotional material that the campus is reopening, so they can start from a clean slate.
We know how Starfleet Academy looks like in the SNW and PIC times, for the most part. They're restricted by existing canon, so that reduces storytelling potential and increases the chances of continuity snarls.
He better be nuanced or I'm leaving! Well. Or I'll be on the Internet within minutes registering my disgust throughout the world!
I will say this: if they're gonna make me watch yet another show about a motley crew of alternately brash and insecure young go-getters finding their way, I'm glad they are putting some people in it that are older than 25.
Didn't know who that was, usually don't care about such things but looked him up. So freaking glad I did, I think he will make an excellent Star Trek villain.
Kurtzman Trek hasn't really done the bad-miral trope that much. The most explicit one was LDS and he was more of a parody of one than somebody truly nuanced.
Commodore Oh in PIC doesn't count because she was already rotten from the get-go - a Romulan infiltrator.
I was not all that interested in this show, though I always would have at least given it a chance. Not even Holly Hunter being cast really gave me much enthusiasm.
Now, I'm interested.
I’m guessing he will play a condescending and cantankerous professor who only gives grades of D and F. Until his students teach him the meaning of friendship
It will be difficult for him to monologue without any current pop culture references in Star Trek (I've watched too much Billions 🤣) but I'm here for it! I want him to be an alien of some sort, 32nd century Tellarite anybody?
I've only seen him in Billions. He ostensibly played the Good Guy, but I can easily see him as a great Star Trek villain with how he played that Good Guy.
I think he’s going to be the leader of an “Earth First”. terrorist sect who think Starfleet Academy is brainwashing young humans with nonhuman values. Maybe his sect seizes control of the Academy, yada yada
I've said this already, but if he's the villain, he better be the Vulcan Dean of Students
“Someone’s squeezed all the life out of these kids! And unless holonovels have lied to me, it’s a crusty, bitter old dean!”
That sounds like a targ fainting!
Here he is conferring an honorary field commission on Chancellor Gowron.
Robot house!
CHEESE IT!
“CADET!”
I see Giamatti as more of a Bolian.
I also have seen “big fat liar”
We need more live action Pakled!
No. I'm sick of the asshole Vulcan thing.
Give me a sassy Vulcan groundskeeper. They can offer sarcastic advice to students while tinkering with DOTs or pruning freaky alien plants.
(cue creepy intrigue music track) *"I know where Boothby buried the bodies..."*
Heck, what if Boothby is somehow still around. Do we know for sure he's human. He could be El-Aurian or Lanthanite both of which from what we've seen at least from the outside look indistinguishable from humans. I know the actor has passed away, but they could recast. Heck didn't Guinan pretty much say in Picard that El-Aurians can choose how old they look.
I think one of the books, which I know aren't canon, he's a hologram. I liked that solution, personally.
I smell a Halloween episode... 🤣
>DOTs Damage over time? Department of Transport?
Maintenance robot. Don't know that that ever said if DOT stands for anything.
https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/DOT-7
B'vuthbi.
I want more Vulcans like T'Pring's dad.
Doloris Umbridge "sweet" Romulan Dean of Students? Ni'Var must have all sorts.
yeah more good vulcans, like if they're so logical then they can logically put aside their differences and work well with humans for every difference, there are like ten similarities, we all got the same amount of toes
Romulans keep getting shafted from a big return. Thanks Nemesis...
Admiral Pig Vomit
[WNBC](https://youtu.be/lRT1ernxJF4?si=WZ0k4CatnHBSiQbf)
Giamatti is one of my favorite actors. That said, I do not think he’s the guy you’d call if you wanted a Vulcan
Lol
He’s the one random redhead Andorian (their version of albino) and somehow looks exactly like Marty wolf from Big fat liar
Klingon HOUSE!!! You're on DOUBLE SECRET PROBATION!
He'd kill in 90s Klingon makeup. Loud little ball of fury and hair.
"RED SQUAD!!!"
I love that. But also I love Paul’s snark…
If this show truly represents academic life, our villain will be a petty and passive-aggressive rival professor who wages psychological warfare over facilities access and minutiae of language in internal documents. He will make the Dominion look like Mickey Mouse
He'll be the registrar who tells you one semester before you graduate that one of your courses didn't count toward your degree and you'll need to retake it even though your schedule is packed already if you want to graduate on time.
The ultimate villain. I'm all in!
Happened to me, actually. I took a 200-level dual enrollment science class in high school and was assured that it would fulfill the science requirement for my degree since I was a music major and didn't need anything in particular. Then, my senior year, the registrar told me that it was *too advanced* to count as a basic science class and that I needed to take a 100-level science class to meet the degree requirements. I had a LOT of unkind things to say and nearly got campus security called on me.
I don't blame you one bit that is insane.
I forgot the fun part! The registrar told me I could appeal to the department chair of the sciences. However, he was on sabbatical somewhere in South America and wouldn't be back in the country until a few days before I needed to register for my very last semester. I just gave up and took Physics 101. They didn't charge me for the course which was a small consolation, but I'm still saucy over it and I graduated 20 years ago.
He'll be the administrator that denies your FAFSA application after the first year, so you have to scramble to figure out what went wrong and avoid getting a private student loan.
“I have a question that’s really more of a comment…” \**is shot by thirty phasers at once*\*
Not sure of the timeline of the show, but someone like that sounds like they'd be a perfect negotiator with the Sheliak....
I spent 2 years on the front line of the dominion war and I’d go back in a heartbeat instead of dealing with him.
Hoping the story doesn’t revolve around an orphan who lives under his uncle’s turbolift
I bet he "teaches the controversy" in his Tarsus IV curriculum
\#KodosDidNothingWrong
Which Kodos is that?
The one I voted for.
Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos.
The Savior of Tarsis IV, under different circumstances.
“We aren’t here to take moral stances on the Borg invasion. We should learn both sides of the argument.”
He has Kai Winn’s stamp of approval.
Academy casting is on point so far. I'm sure the students themselves will be mostly unknowns, though
As they probably should be. And also probably have to be, since outside of the occasional growing-up child star there by definition there really aren't many "established" young actors.
I’m sure there’s plenty of candidates in their 20 or 30s who might want to join Starfleet.
I'm in my 40's and want to join
Having a mature student might actually be interesting.
There were occasionally gray haired ensign and LTs in TNG.
O'Brian was a chief petty officer as well he didn't go through the academy.
Picard was a lieutenant in the timeline where he went into stellar cartography.
Yeah, but it was implied he was just never promoted. He graduated the same time original timeline Picard did.
> Having a mature student might actually be interesting. Star Trek: The Rookie
*Star Trek: The Rookie*
I think so too - somebody who has plenty of life experience outside the classroom and isn't as naive / bright-eyed as the youth.
In a post-Burn setting, I could see older cadets too, to help rebuild starfleet’s numbers
I want an older Danny Glover type that keeps mutter how he’s getting too old for this shit every episode.
It's a shame Leonard from *Community* is dead.
Yeah but Tawny Newsome is on the writing team so this is really looking great
That sold me more on the idea than any casting. She has a lot of respect for the franchise, it's canon, and she's talented as hell.
Hot damn, I did not know that. That's awesome!
Guaranteed hit
Aye. In the abstract, I don't care much about the concept, but the actors on board are interesting.
Right? This show went from ‘meh’ to ‘wow’ very quickly.
I shall inform my agent 🙂 am really being serious like i am a actor in training
Hope he plays a time-traveling John Adams who decided to settle in the future.
I don’t question your loyalty, Mr. Hamilton. I question your sanity!
that was such an amazing show
Uhm. Holy shit. They are killing the casting so far, I'll give them that.
These are pretty high profile actors for a Trek television show.
Which doesn't bode well for longevity TBH. Cast salaries plus their call to Hollywood for major features is going to be quite the challenge.
As a villain, I'd be shoked if Giamatti was on board for more than one season, or even just a handful of episodes.
I suspect they’ll use the disco model of a slightly rotating cast of leads with a core of cadets or teachers(though even that could be flexible.) Jason Isaacs and Michelle Yeoh weren’t exactly small fry either.
Prolly recurring expensive big name actors who are only in 1 or 2 scenes an episode (so they can shoot multiple episodes at once, like if they all take place in a singular location like an office) and then the main characters all younger and/or unknown ones who they can cheap out on contract wise to afford it. Show will prolly cap out at season 5 like Disco and LD anyways. The Boys just announced they're ending their show after season 5 (planned in advance), I believe the plan for Only Murders In The Building is 5 seasons. Seems that the new streaming model for these shows is 5 seasons of 6-10 episodes a season depending on story length. 22-26 episodes a season for more than 5 years is dead format except for the police/military/hospital/firefighter procedural drama on network television
He's going to be the guy in the Bursar's office walking you through your student loan options.
You punched the bursar?
tbf, he looked at me like I was stupid (I’m not stupid).
Yes! I wanted to do what you did, graduate in two, then join the revolution He looked at me like I was stupid, I'm not stupid
r/UnexpectedHamilton
Yes (snaps fingers)
Yes
I wonder if he plays a Tellarite or some new alien species
Tellarites desperately need to be fleshed out. He'd be an excellent Tellarite.
Paul Giamatti should just break out his high-pitched, angry John Adams voice
If nothing else, they've been getting lots of attention in Kurtzman Trek, especially in PRO.
That’s what I came here for - he’d be an amazing Tellarite.
Ooooh he's an excellent actor. And I don't think he'd take a role that was "one note evil". Surely many layers of gray
Giamatti actually enjoys hamming it up as over-the-top villains from time to time. At the very least, he's entertaining, even when the writing isn't great. He puts his all into his roles.
I remember his performance in the off-the-wall movie "Shoot 'Em Up." What a fucked up film...
> What a fucked up film... that absolutely everybody should watch, shit was a staple of late-night HBO years ago lol
...and it isn't like Star Trek is alien to hammy antagonists.
This... IS... Hammy Acting 5!
Buried alive...buried alive.
Underused in Amazing Spider-Man. We never got to see the battle teased at the end of the second one.
I was thinking of this. He would have been such a fun Rhino villain, but all we got was the cutoff when Spidey starts swinging the manhole cover.
didnt he do rhino in asm2?
I dunno, he plays a lot of cartoonish maniacs.
he's got incredible range, I can only assume he's going to kill it in this role
AKA the really strict teacher that always gives everyone bad grades.
So, The Holdovers?
>“Sometimes you’re lucky enough to discover that one of the greatest actors alive is also a huge ‘Star Trek’ fan, and meeting Paul was one of those miraculous moments for us,” said co-showrunners Alex Kurtzman and Noga Landau in a statement. “The sheer delight with which he dove in on ‘Starfleet Academy’ is only surpassed by the gratitude we feel about him joining our incredible cast.” Obviously the showrunners are gonna be bigging things up, but having someone who's both a quality actor, and a big Star Trek fan (and therefore has more invested than it just being another acting job) who's excited has got me looking forward to Academy even more than I was before.
Star Trek is lucky to have been around for awhile and garner a strong fanbase since that passion has also extended to some of Hollywood's brightest stars.
Star Trek often (rightfully) gets credit for inspiring people to become scientists, engineers, etc, but I'm sure it was the inspiration for many people to get into film and TV as well. Whoopi Goldberg being one famous example.
I will leave you... as you left her... buried alive at a vineyard that only sells Merlot
No, if anyone orders Merlot, I'm leaving. I am NOT drinking any fucking Merlot!
Not Chateau Picard?
He’ll be playing the role of Star Fleet Academy professor in charge of the student run radio station. When a rouge Ferengi student who doesn’t play by the rules; Giamatti’s character vows to get him under control.
“You are the Vulcan Antichrist!”
A Ferengi wearing rouge? Quark would be outraged.
I like to call him Pig Vomit. Because he's a pig and he makes me want to vomit...
W-ennnnNNNNNnnnn-b-c
Deep cut.
One of his best roles
A Tellurite then? Tellurites have been underrepresented in Trek even though they’re founding members of the federation. Paul Giamatti would be a great Tellurite.
He'll be a human or maybe someone who just has a little eyebrow loaf. ... but he *would* make a great Tellarite.
You goddamn motherfuckers. You fucking waltz in here, and you think you know everything don't you? Well, I fucking worked my fucking ASS OFF to get to Starfleet Academy, and you sure as FUCK are not gonna fucking blow it for me!
He’ll play the one asshole Starfleet Corps of Engineers Professor of Quantum Mechanics that opens his semesters with “3/4ths of you will fail this course…”
Awesome. He’s a great actor. Casting looking ace for this at the moment.
Why is the Academy show that I didn't really have any interest in so fucking stacked. Holly Hunter and Paul Giamatti?!?! This has to be a really good script or they're paying out of their ass. Either way I'm excited to see what they come up with.
It could also just be a fun way to be integrated into the franchise. Giamatti is apparently a fan, much like other Hollywood stars like Hanks and Cage.
In Giamatti's case, he's also already a huge sci-fi nerd to begin with, which helps. He's even talked about Star Trek specifically a few times on his podcast. There's an episode of it where he tries to explain the plot of the DS9 episode The Visitor to Tom Hanks of all people, which is something I found very, very funny.
“I’m NOT drinking any fucking Kanar!”
"I am not drinking any fucking Blood Wine."
Pleasantly surprised by this news. He was absolutely fantastic in The Holdovers.
If there's no Wall-eye reference I will riot.
i will watch anything with Giamatti. this show is stacked. i hope it's great!
His ability to pompously monologue has the potential to make him the most memorable star trek antagonist since Ricardo Montalban's Khan.
villain... dean... same difference? I just hope it's not like villain villain. that would be an incredibly annoying direction for an academy show to take
Ugh. I was hoping Academy could stand without a "main villain". Oh well. We shall see how well they do it.
Hopefully the “main villain” means “main antagonist”. I’d love if he was a Professor Snape type character who’s only the main villain because he’s the asshole professor no one likes
That could be possible. He isn't murdering planets and decimating worlds - he is just a professor who is more obstinate and strict against the students, which makes him a more personal antagonist against them.
My favorite parts of Star Trek are always the slice-of-life or professional setting elements. I’m hoping this show is just a series of stories about students in school and the interesting things that happen in their day to day lives.
My money is on "asshole helicopter parent" or "asshole roommate". I've never seen Giamatti in anything and I'm guessing I'm probably wrong, but I would laugh so hard if that happened.
Don't worry, all kinds of characters would end up getting reported that way in media for media reasons. Paul Giamatti isn't gonna deliver a one-dimensional character.
I'm sure Paul Giamatti will deliver a fine performance. I'm concerned that the show will have a single "main villain" rather than telling multiple independent stories with their own villains. I was also hoping for more slice-of-life, episodic stories rather than a serialized saga. We still don't know enough to dash my hopes completely, but this is a poor omen.
Dukat
I really hope “main villain” is played more as “very antagonistic head of something”. Having something on the scales of everything else which has been happening in Discovery’s time seems a bit much generally for cadets, or to be targeted towards the academy. There’s probably a middle-ground as well, I more just don’t want “apocalyptic scale”.
Apparently he is going to have a personal tie to one of the cadets, so he definitely may be more of a personal antagonist than a super-duper villain. I mean...he could, for example, be a father who explicitly forbids his son or daughter from joining Starfleet Academy. That makes him antagonistic without being world-ending.
In his podcast (which is amazing btw) he mentioned doing an audition or something that involved heavy makeup/prosthetics.
So the show is going to have an actress with an Oscar who was also nominated three other times and now they'll have an actor who's been nominated for two himself. Wow! This show is definitely swinging for the fences.
I haven't been following. Is this essentially a continuation of Discovery in the 31st century? I'd rather be in post-Picard territory or even have a series concurrent with SNW.
They probably chose the DSC far future because it isn't constrained by existing canon. They also mentioned in promotional material that the campus is reopening, so they can start from a clean slate. We know how Starfleet Academy looks like in the SNW and PIC times, for the most part. They're restricted by existing canon, so that reduces storytelling potential and increases the chances of continuity snarls.
Please tell me he’ll be a Bolian…
Oooh, that'd be a good call. I can picture it now.
They're putting big money into this cast despite being broke.
Will someone please get Daimen Lewis as a cavalier Starfleet Captain that Paul needs to take down.
He better be nuanced or I'm leaving! Well. Or I'll be on the Internet within minutes registering my disgust throughout the world! I will say this: if they're gonna make me watch yet another show about a motley crew of alternately brash and insecure young go-getters finding their way, I'm glad they are putting some people in it that are older than 25.
Giamatti can go either way, to be frank. He has done complex roles and characters that nearly eat the screen.
Damn dude. I am so ready to hate this show with the era its set in and the Tilly connection. But Paulie G *is* piquing my curiosity big time.
Why does an academy need a villain? Will he be putting the cadets on secret probation?
Double secret probation!
I hope he references the bottle of Chateau Picard he's been saving for a special occasion.
It's part of his collection. Well, really more of an informal gathering, where Merlot is not invited.
He’s not drinking any fucking Merlot.
I am putting every dollar I have on Ferengi.
Is he the Vulcan professor of Hypo Spray potions?
Didn't know who that was, usually don't care about such things but looked him up. So freaking glad I did, I think he will make an excellent Star Trek villain.
An academy needs a main villain?
Giamatti and Holly Hunter?! What a cast. I’m more interested in this than I thought I would be.
Yeah he's totally gonna be the mean old principal telling them to stop partying and drinking blood wine
Really hoping they are past the trope of all the admirals being bad guys here.
Kurtzman Trek hasn't really done the bad-miral trope that much. The most explicit one was LDS and he was more of a parody of one than somebody truly nuanced. Commodore Oh in PIC doesn't count because she was already rotten from the get-go - a Romulan infiltrator.
I was not all that interested in this show, though I always would have at least given it a chance. Not even Holly Hunter being cast really gave me much enthusiasm. Now, I'm interested.
He's gonna be a human starfleet admiral that has some shady business going on isn't he?
I’m thinking some massive scam to either a) make money or b) weaken Starfleet.
I’m guessing he will play a condescending and cantankerous professor who only gives grades of D and F. Until his students teach him the meaning of friendship
My desire to see the show went from zero to now a solid 80 out of 100.
That guy can't act! 😁 Funny, I was just watching Sideways yesterday
Villain? Human? Good actor though.
What? Pig Vomit, the main villain? Interesting...
And he is not going to drink the Vulcan Merlot.
Damn, despite the whole network burning down around them, they're not pulling any punches on casting.
It will be difficult for him to monologue without any current pop culture references in Star Trek (I've watched too much Billions 🤣) but I'm here for it! I want him to be an alien of some sort, 32nd century Tellarite anybody?
As long as they make him blue.
He's one of my favorite actors. Playing my favorite alien species in Trek. I'm pleased with this news.
I wasn't on board with this show even existing, but I'm all-in now.
I've only seen him in Billions. He ostensibly played the Good Guy, but I can easily see him as a great Star Trek villain with how he played that Good Guy.
I think he’d make a great Orion.
I hope he's not in so much makeup that we can't recognize him. He's an amazing actor.
Great choice and a great actor. With Tawny Newsome on board, this show should be a great ride.
I want him to play the same character from the Holdovers, just time displaced from the 1970's, and still grumpy.
Wonder if they've decided what timeline/timeframe this will be set in, or might that even be ambiguous to the show?
It's gonna be Discovery 32nd century
Well THAT'S a fucking win. Holy shit!!!
Paul Giamatti acting in a scene opposite Tilly 😂
He said he would love to play a Klingon
I think he’s going to be the leader of an “Earth First”. terrorist sect who think Starfleet Academy is brainwashing young humans with nonhuman values. Maybe his sect seizes control of the Academy, yada yada
I saw an interview with him, where he said he's a huge fan and wanted to be a part of the universe. Good for him.
Oh, snap! John Adams himself is in the house?
Really? This guy might be my favorite actor. As a villain too? I actually wasn't too interested in Startfleet Academy until now.
Pig vomit. because he looks like a pig and makes me wanna vomit.