How Star Trek: Lower Decks creator Mike McMahan drew inspiration from Kenneth Branagh's Much Ado About Nothing for the Orion homeworld.
The Big Picture Star Trek: Lower Decks creator Mike McMahan took inspiration from an unlikely source to create the planet Orion; Kenneth Branagh's 1993 adaptation of Much Ado About Nothing. He outlines the process behind creating a new planet in a new interview. In a new interview with TrekCore.
McMahan also wanted to get away from earlier series Star Trek: Enterprise's over-sexualized depiction of the race as a matriarchy that keeps its males in line with pheromones; "I tried to honor the stuff we had seen before about powerful women, but make it less of a sexual thing." Tendi has had quite a spotlight this season, as it has also explored her complicated relationship with crewmate Sam Rutherford, as discussed in McMahan's interview with Collider's Samantha Coley.
Who Are The Orions? First introduced in the unaired 1966 Star Trek pilot, the Orions were depicted as nubile, green-skinned seductresses. They later made more substantial appearances in Star Trek: The Animated Series, which revealed the Orions were infamous across the galaxy as space pirates. The Orion Syndicate criminal organization came up frequently in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, but no Orions ever appeared on-screen.
Star Trek: Lower Decks' fourth season is currently airing on Paramount Plus. Stay tuned to Collider for future updates, and watch the Season 4 trailer for Lower Decks below.
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