‘Lower Decks’ Supervising Producer Barry J. Kelly Talks Legacy Star Trek Stars And “Insane” Finale – TrekMovie.com
A lot of work goes into making an episode of Star Trek: Lower Decks and the guy overseeing much of that is supervising producer/supervising director Barry J. Kelly. TrekMovie had a chance to talk to Kelly about some of the challenges putting together season 5 including a special effort for latest episode “Fully Dilated,” and he also teased some of what we can expect for the “super-sized” season (and series) finale.
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The latest episode is quite a big one, bringing in Brent Spiner. When you have such a major legacy star is it just another week or are there special things you guys do for such an event?
Usually at the script phase, there’s always something where I’m like, “Oh, wow, this episode’s super fun, but oh crap, how am I going to make it?” There’s always a challenge in eve...