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!! 🖖
To be clear, this is for 4pm EST
30 more minutes! God I’m excited!
+24 hours. But you can still be excited!
Oh well. Guess I gotta be patient. Thanks for the heads up!
We wanted to make sure there was lots of time to accumulate questions, but the Fediverse is unsurprisingly rising to the occasion.
This sparks joy in me!
aww well this is kind, haha thank you for your enthusiasm!! i really appreciate it
Omg he responded to me twice! ☺️
Over a million upvotes on this post!
Incredible engagement all.
Certainly an instance record but is that a Lemmy record? Are many of those upvotes coming via other APIs or is it just Lemmy’s
I have no idea where you’re seeing a million, I’m seeing 1,300. But that’s still very high for the fediverse! And it’s definitely the highest we’ve ever had in one of our local communities.
LOL — saw k, thought thousand, wrote million
What I get for posting after an IM, screen heavy workday.
Yes, a thousand is huge, even if an order of magnitude lower. 🖖🏼
Might as well had been a million, I don’t think it could have gone better! ❤️
This is incredible, my respect and gratitude to those that are making it happen. Also can’t wait.
Is that the UTC-0500 one?
Is that the UTC-0500 one?
lmao thanks for the reminder that there are four timezones which could be called “EST” 😭
(but UTC-5 is the only one properly called that)
I wish more people would use that format. It’s much easier to relate to your own time zone.
Depends… I grew up with TV stations advertising shows in Eastern/Pacific time zones while I lived in neither.
I’ve also driven to both of those time zones and can picture how many time zones away they are in my head.
Either one of those is easier for me.
There’s an entire world of timezones that aren’t the US.
It’s easier for you to remember your timezone in ± utc than making everyone else on the planet look up whatever the fuck est is every time we need to.
Well I don’t live in the US, so yeah I know. Anyway, my point is that “easier” is subjective and very much based on a person’s experience.
I’ve looked up UTC compared to my time many times and it just doesn’t stick. I don’t know what the current UTC time is but I could tell you what time it is in Newfoundland no problem. 🤷♂️
You don’t need to. Jesus christ.
UTC-3:30
That’s all you need to remember to be able to refer anyone else to your time zone to any other timezone on the planet.
Ok get mad about it, because that’s a reasonable response.
Is it hard to do that voice? Do ya drink a lot of tea on set or are ya naturally baritone.
Oh wow, I didn’t know this corner of the internet got AMA’s. 8O
Late to the party and not really a star trek fan, but still, good on Karim for popping by! 🤗
What’s the Klingon food like on-set, for scenes where you have to actually eat it? Do they try and make it taste good, or is it as gross as it looks?
Love your work on the show! Is the voice hard to do? It seems like it would be hard to do all day.
at first it was hard, now it feels like second nature.
Wildly unexpected. 💜
I’m a huge Star Trek as well as lover of Birds. imagine my surprise to see a Klingon carrying binos and then saying, “I watch birds.” My family started laughing because I wear a t-shirt often that simply says, “I like birds” and they were really really hoping that you would say that. Haha. Close enough!
I have a very serious two part question:
- What is Jay-Den’s favorite bird? And…
- What is Karim’s favorite bird?
🐦 🖖🏽
Don’t misunderstand me, I’m incredibly excited that you’re doing this AMA on the 'verse, but I’m curious why you chose this over reddit?
also: Are you going to play the voyager game that was released today?
Maybe they don’t want ICE to know their location :P
why not? What are you trying to say about the 'verse?! are you not worthy?! I think this community is cool af!
As for the game, with my shooting schedule i have zero time for games, but i might in the future
Have you been privy to any of the discussions about what it means for the show to be set a thousand years later than most of the franchise, like where it makes sense for a previous entry to guide the interpretation, and where it maybe makes as much or more sense to let things go a little crazy. The interplay probably has to drift more toward storytelling realities within the brand than it does gaming-out what would “really” happen over a millennium of Star Trek time.
Honestly, when I think about it, the post-Burn era seems downright conservative in terms of societal change, certainly at least within Starfleet. That’s obviously necessary for it to be recognizable as a property, but it’s kind of funny to think that it’s as static as it seems, like closer to the difference between 426 and 1426 than between 1026 and 2026 CE, and I’m probably understating how different the first two were.
Do the writers and directors give you a lot of input into how to play your character and the direction of his story/development?
If it were up to you, what kind of scenes or storylines would you most like to play or see Jay-Den Kraag in?
Stealing from Colbert, what is the best sandwich? Both for you and for your character?
Star Trek has pushed progressive ideas throughout the years, from your experience on set, how do the people making the show, actors included, still try to carry that banner with the mounting political landscape?
Star Trek has always been a show using sci-fi elements to draw parallels to our own culture. What mirror do you feel Jay-Den holds up to people in the real world?
What would you like to say to people like myself who think that Starfleet Academy is written by people who seem to have never watched or understood our favorite science fiction series? (Or at least never understood the point)
that you should touch grass about it. you’re smothering your favorite franchise by expecting it to remain unchanged after 6 decades
Oh I agree there, but they could exist in the same “universe” as TNG, DS9, or Voyager rather than throwing it all out with the bath water. Edit: or even Enterprise. These could all be more than set dressing for whatever this is.
tawny newsome is literally in our writer’s room lol
Tawny started writing with lower decks though, yes?
Star Trek started in 1966. The last 5-6 years have not been kind to the franchise in the slightest…
Did you watch Lower Decks and/or see all Star Trek releases as they came out? Tawny Newsome is a real one, and Lower Decks pays such homage to the entire franchise in a beautiful way.
Then again, can’t satisfy everyone. Enjoy what you enjoy, and be happy that the things you don’t - but are harmless - are at least enjoyed by others <3
How do you and your co-stars stay entertained during downtime on set?
we are SO playful on set. play soccer in the green room. board games. read books. on our phones/computers. but mostly we just talk to each other, laugh, and have fun.
What board games? Ethan Peck is huge into MTG. If you ever get to meet him.
Hello Karim! How does it feel to be the first (or at least one of the first) celebrities to do an AMA on Lemmy?
looooool! It’s an honor!! 🖖
It’s an honor to have you.
