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Go behind the scenes of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds to see how Jim Henson’s Creature Shop transformed the Enterprise crew into custom puppets for the episode “Level-Five Transporter Accident!” From capturing the characters’ familiar looks to bringing their puppet counterparts to life, see what went into creating one of the show’s most unexpected transformations. Stream Star Trek: Strange New Worlds on Paramount+.

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00:05Yeah you ready for a TED talk? So in episode level five transporter accident
00:11everyone's turned as a puppet except for Spock. It's funny a lot of people have
00:17been asking me are you sad you're not a puppet oh if there's no puppet for you
00:21you must be so bummed and no I'm not because I'm the one that gets to work
00:25with the puppets you have talked to her since she became a puppet haven't you
00:31the first time I saw my puppet was at the read-through for the episode and oh my
00:36goodness I can't believe we get to be actual puppets a bunch of the actors have
00:44come to set to visit and see them work because it's really special we're
00:48shooting on the bridge and Celia and I ran over to another stage to check out the
00:53puppets and we lost our minds seeing myself as a puppet for the first time
00:59was one of those like real pinch me moments where like I was like this is
01:02gonna be a huge part of my like life story it's amazing totally biased but I
01:08think puppet Ortegas is the most like her character her likeness my eyebrows I feel
01:14like they've particularly got what the hell did we just turn into my goodness
01:20Kelly as puppet I think is my favorite with her tiny little body and her crazy
01:25big hair they are so talented it's crazy it's really uncanny what they're able to
01:33do the first time I saw a puppet sort of come alive literally in the hands of the
01:40puppeteers it's pretty shocking they have the gestures and mannerisms of the actors
01:46playing the characters and they really honed in on what the actors are doing in
01:51their roles as an actor who wants to be able to do all the things we get to do
01:57all the genres and also get to see our puppet likenesses and so it was very
02:01cool getting to see the puppeteers work and just getting to be on set and see
02:05the way that our our camera team and our whole crew kind of adapted to working
02:10with puppets and puppeteers versus us it was sort of easy for me in a way to
02:18dive into having scenes with the puppets because we imagine so much on the show so
02:25often are we sort of exercising our focus and imagination on things that
02:28aren't there there could be ships outside there could be an alien on the
02:34viewscreen on the ship and so we do I think exercise our imaginations quite a lot
02:38and because the puppeteers are so talented and they really do bring life
02:43and spirit into these puppets it's sort of easy to meet them and their reality
02:48whatever it is Spock do it sorry darling did I get you that's alright I can't
02:54actually see out of these I never in a million years thought I would see a
02:58puppet version of a character that I play so it was really beyond thrilling like
03:02childhood dream come true
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