Titan Announces AllNew Star Trek Explorer Magazine [EXCLUSIVE]

Titan Announces All-New Star Trek Explorer Magazine [EXCLUSIVE]

Screen Rant has an exclusive excerpt from Star Trek Explorer – The Official Magazine from an interview with Star Trek: Discovery star Blu del Barrio.

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Screen Rant has an exclusive excerpt from Star Trek Explorer – The Official Magazine. The all-new magazine from Titan Publishing is the number one destination for everything Star Trek including in-depth interviews and features taking readers behind the scenes of the movies and TV shows. The first issue of Star Trek Explorer will be available in stores on November 16.

The new Star Trek Explorer magazine will not only include interviews and features but also brand new, exclusive Star Trek short stories and a bonus 16-page themed supplement bound inside each issue. The first issue features a definitive guide to Captain Kirk as well as interviews with Star Trek: Discovery’s Ian Alexander, David Cronenberg, and showrunner Michelle Paradise. Subscribers of Star Trek Explorer will also receive an exclusive digital magazine direct to their inbox with every quarterly issue. The digital magazine will feature bouns short stories, printable, activities, and more. Fans who subscribe now can save 25%.

Screen Rant has an exclusive extract from Star Trek Explorer #1 from an interview with Star Trek: Discovery star Blu del Barrio. The actor talks about transiting straight from drama school to the set of Star Trek: Discovery and how they relate to the character of Adria. Read the exclusive preview and see the images below.

Debuting early in Star Trek: Discovery’s third season – and returning for the show’s fourth – not only has Blu del Barrio had to deal with this being their first screen role straight out of drama school, but they’ve also been making history as the first nonbinary actor to appear in Star Trek. Both factors might have been overwhelming, had it not been for the support of their fellow cast, the show’s fans, and that del Barrio’s character, Adira, has proved to be so multifaceted, not least in their complex relationship with Ian Alexander’s Gray.

“I’m from Topanga Canyon, California,” Blu del Barrio says, introducing themselves to Star Trek Explorer’s readers. “It’s just outside of LA, and sort of just mountains. We had a little theater called the Theatricum Botanicum, and I grew up doing Shakespeare there. I got into acting that way, and then just kept pursuing it, on and off, throughout elementary and middle school, and high school, and then got more serious about it in high school. I didn’t go to a regular academic college, I auditioned for conservatoires, and was accepted into LAMDA, which is the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art in London, and I got to go there for three years and study, which was great.”

And what is it about acting that del Barrio – who portrays Adira Tal on Star Trek: Discovery – appreciates most?

“One of the things is that it is very therapeutic,” replies del Barrio, who uses they/them pronouns. “Anyone who says that acting isn’t therapeutic is lying. It is! It’s about empathy. So, it is a really, really therapeutic thing to do. It makes me feel like a fuller human being. It makes me feel more alive and excited. It is a really interesting path for people to take. A lot of actors end up becoming therapists, because there’s an interest in how humans interact with each other. It’s a lot of different reasons, but for me, it’s fun. And I’m interested in human behavior.”

Direct to Discovery

Del Barrio laughs when addressing how they warped from LAMDA pretty much directly to Discovery. They are actually at a loss for words. “That was…” they begin. “I don’t fully understand how that happened. It was very fast, and I got incredibly lucky, basically. I was in my last year, and I was ready to graduate and settle down someplace to live and start auditioning. I’d been auditioning during my third year, my last year, and booked this job a couple of months before I graduated. I auditioned on tape. I sent in a tape with a couple of scenes they’d written for Adira. I really liked the character from the get-go. It was the most bizarre thing that ever happened to me, and the best thing that‘s ever happened to me. I’m very grateful.”

Adira and del Barrio also had something in common. The actor, fresh out of school and not particularly familiar with Star Trek, and Adira, who basically arrives on the U.S.S. Discovery out of nowhere, were both thrown into the deep end of the metaphorical pool and had to learn how to swim as they went along. “It was a good character for me because it does feel like that,” they note. “And no matter how much I prepared beforehand, there’s no way to fit the entire Star Trek universe into your brain. I went where people told me to go, and I watched things about the Trill, and I just kind of bounced to different places. But it’s so hard to just walk into a universe this massive, with this many people who care about it so deeply. So, it’s a constant learning experience.”

Del Barrio related to Adira – who was introduced in the third season’s third episode, “People of Earth,” as the human host of a Trill symbiont who recalls nothing of their past – in other ways as well. “I have a lot of similarities with Adira,” they say. “That being their anxiety. They’re a pretty introverted person. They choose who they want to be close with, and it’s a very small number of people. But those people, they feel like they can give everything to. Adira is a really, really interesting character, and I love them a lot. They’re incredibly intelligent in facts, but not the most intelligent in emotions.”

Pick up Star Trek Explorer #1 to read the rest of the interview! See the newsstand and the comic store covers of Star Trek Explorer #1 below.

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