So I watched all of Next Gen when it was on,” Cruz says with a laugh. “Luckily, I was an enormous Next Gen fan. So, how did he prepare for this shift in roles? Was a Counselor Deanna Troi-centric Next Generation marathon in the cards? For Wilson Cruz’s Culber, the pressure to be a great Starfleet counselor exists just as much in real life as it does on the show. This means that before Culber took up the challenge in Discovery Season 4, the only other Trek regular counselor we’ve seen in the 21st century is the bird-like Dr. Nicole de Boer’s Ezri Dax was technically the counselor for DS9 in its final season, but Voyager, Enterprise, and the first three seasons of Discovery have all lacked a regular character in the counselor role.
DR WILSON CRUZ SERIES
As Discovery returns for the second half of Season 4, Wilson Cruz jumped on the phone to discuss Culber’s journey so far, his inspirations for his character’s journey, where Discovery Season 5 might take us, and why he has so much “pride” for the Strange New Worlds crew.Īlthough we’ve had a few new Star Trek series since Deep Space Nine, it’s actually been a while since a regular Trek character was also the resident counselor. It’s one thing to mend those phaser burns, but quite something else to maintain the mental health of the Disco crew. And in Season 4 of Star Trek: Discovery, Culber’s new gig as ship’s counselor in addition to his regular job as a physician, has added a lot of extra stress. Culber was given two jobs instead of one. So, when the USS Discovery jumped from 2258 to 3188, suddenly, Dr. In the 23rd century, Starfleet didn’t have ship counselors. Spoilers ahead for Star Trek: Discovery Season 4, Episode 8, “All In.”
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