{"id":46363,"date":"2017-07-19T13:46:36","date_gmt":"2017-07-19T20:46:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/?p=46363"},"modified":"2017-07-19T13:46:36","modified_gmt":"2017-07-19T20:46:36","slug":"details-on-star-trek-discoverys-saru-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2017\/07\/details-on-star-trek-discoverys-saru-released\/","title":{"rendered":"Details On Star Trek: Discovery’s Saru Released"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fans curious about Saru, the new alien character on Star Trek: Discovery<\/em> to be played by Doug Jones<\/strong>, now have some information on the character.<\/p>\n

Showrunner Aaron Harberts<\/strong> 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\u2019s the first of his kind to make it to Starfleet.”<\/p>\n

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.”<\/p>\n

Jones explained that “Saru is the Spock of the series; he’s the Data of the series \u2014 and those are beloved characters that I always connect with whenever I would watch the past incarnations of Star Trek<\/em>. On Falling Skies<\/em>, 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.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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