Star Trek: Deep Space Nine's Nana Visitor hails Star Trek: Strange New Worlds' Lt. Erica Ortegas , a character Nana says Star Trek has waited for since the 1960s Releasing October 1st, Visitor's first book, Star Trek: Open a Channel: A Woman's Trek, contains in depth profiles of Star Trek's vast universe of female characters.
Nana Visitor Explains How Star Trek’s Original Pilot Concept Became Strange New Worlds’ Ortegas Erica Ortegas has roots in a scrapped Star Trek pilot Close In an excerpt from Star Trek: Open a Channel: A Woman's Trek shared exclusively with Screen Rant, Nana Visitor describes how Gene Roddenberry's first concept for Star Trek's pilot, José Ortega, morphed into José Tyler , and finally, decades later, into Lt. Erica Ortegas in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds.
Sixty years ago, it seemed inevitable that the Enterprise’s pilot would be a man. In those days, the characteristics of a hotshot pilot seemed fundamentally male, and the person flying the ship was bound to be inspired by John Glenn or Neil Armstrong. Discovery had already put Emily Coutts’s Detmer at the helm. Strange New Worlds would double down on that.
Nana Visitor interviewed Melissa Navia for Star Trek: Open a Channel: A Woman's Trek, and, no doubt, Lt. Erica Ortegas' chapter will prove fascinating and insightful. In 2024, female Star Trek pilots are now par for the course. Like Ortegas, Emily Coutts' Lt. Commander Kayla Detmer flies the USS Discovery on Star Trek: Discovery and Ashlei Sharpe Chestnut plays Ensign Sidney La Forge, the USS Titan-A's pilot in Star Trek: Picard season 3.
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