Details On Star Trek: Discovery’s Saru Released
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Fans curious about Saru, the new alien character on Star Trek: Discovery to be played by Doug Jones, now have some information on the character.
Showrunner Aaron Harberts said that “What we can tell you that adds the context to that clip where he says he can sense the coming of death is that he comes from a planet where he’s a ‘prey species.’ He’s the first of his kind to make it to Starfleet.”
On Saru’s home planet, a dominant predator species “constantly imperils another weaker species called Kelpiens. As part of the latter group, Saru has evolved with heightened survival instincts. Such prey species tend to have a cowardly reputation in the Federation, but Saru should not be underestimated.”
Jones explained that “Saru is the Spock of the series; he’s the Data of the series — and those are beloved characters that I always connect with whenever I would watch the past incarnations of Star Trek. On Falling Skies, I played an alien species who came to Earth to help the humans fight back the bad aliens who’d taken over, and I was intelligent, well-spoken, had a lot of answers and science-y smart. Saru is all of those things and then some.”
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