Lower Decks takes place a few years before the earliest flashback in Star Trek: Picard, meaning it could be chronologically possible for characters from the animated series to cross over. “But, when I'm back doing conventions, I will have purple hair, and I will try my best at the uniform. “I’m not sure about safety precautions yet,” Quaid says. And when the opportunity arises, he plans to honor a promise made on Twitter that, at any Trek convention, he’ll come dressed as Brad Boimler. But he’s ready to hit up in-person events when the time is right. But, yeah, Jonathan told me, ‘Oh, you’re going to come work on my ship.’ And that’s how I found out about Boimler’s storyline.”īeam Him Up – Given the pandemic, Quaid has been prevented from attending fan conventions to promote Lower Decks, The Boys, and now My Adventures With Superman. I mean: it’s Bones and Number One having dinner together. “Trek fans in that restaurant were freaking out to see Karl and Jonathan together,” says Quaid. Two years ago, before Quaid knew Boimler’s story arc in Lower Decks, the actor says fellow Lower Decks voice star Frakes – reprising his legacy Star Trek role as Riker – ruined the Season 1 finale for him over a dinner in Toronto with Karl Urban, who played Leonard ‘Bones’ McCoy in the recent Star Trek live-action films. We're sticking to that, which is really, really interesting.” Big events happen: I got transferred, and Shax died. I think you especially saw that in our Season 1 finale. “They grow, they change, they learn things about themselves, and they rank up – they get demoted. “You could easily write us off as ‘the funny Star Trek show,’ but I love that Mike and the writers made sure to make these people feel as real as possible,” says Quaid. Actually, make that Lieutenant Boimler.Īt the end of Lower Decks Season 1, Brad was promoted and transferred off the sleepy USS Cerritos – and, in theory, plunged straight into the action with Captain Will Riker (Jonathan Frakes) on the USS Titan.īoimler on the bridge of the USS Titan in the season 1 finale of Star Trek: Lower Decks. However Quaid plays the character, it appears a good bet that his interpretation will exist far removed from the darker Superman of Zack Snyder’s DC entries, and perhaps closer to what we’ve seen of the beloved character on The CW’s Superman and Lois.Īttack on Titan – For Trek fans, Quaid is already associated with earnest, well-meaning characters through his portrayal of the anxiously buttoned-up Ensign Bradward Boimler. “He's very earnest and just wants the best for everyone.” “There’s like this sheer purity to him,” Quaid says. Having the opportunity to portray this legendary character is “a gift,” he adds, though he can’t reveal much else about his upcoming take on the Man of Tomorrow – other than he’s researching with the help of the DC comic series All-Star Superman. “Playing Superman is the other side of the coin,” says Quaid. In that context, taking on the titular role in My Adventures With Superman felt like a refreshing change of pace. “It's all terrible: fun to watch, but terrible!” “In the world of The Boys, people are covered in blood all the time and screaming,” Quaid tells Inverse. Superman himself, a far cry from his best-known role in Amazon’s blood-soaked superhero series. Next, Quaid will expand his range by starring in HBO Max’s My Adventures With Superman, an animated series in which he’ll play. After two seasons playing vigilante Hughie Campbell on Amazon’s smash-hit series The Boys, Quaid joined the Star Trek franchise, lending his nervous vocal stylings to the role of Brad Boimler in Paramount+’s animated Lower Decks. Whichever fandom you belong to, there’s a good chance Jack Quaid is involved.
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