Melissa Navia Instagram – I remember the first time I saw the drawing of Sir Adya. Long before I got a script. It was me in rogue knight’s leather regalia. It was Aragorn and Indiana Jones and…me. I had no words. It was the character I had always wanted to play on a big screen standing right in front of me, albeit on paper, waiting for me to bring it to life. It was so perfectly me & yet also Star Trek & somehow also Lord of the Rings. A poster of Aragorn still hangs in my teenage bedroom in my parents’ home, and here I was a whole country away looking at me looking like him, sword & all. So I would be what…sword fighting? In space? As SIR Adya? And no one wanted to have a conversation about how any of that made sense? Because it made all the sense to me, but I’ve spent so much of my life explaining how “yes, I do make sense!” that the absolute ease of this felt unreal. Brian and I joked that the producers & writers must’ve had me followed. How else could this be? The role I worked my whole career for was turning out to be all the roles I had waited my life for (just wait ‘til you see what’s to come), all to be played out on the stage that is the USS Enterprise. 🥹⚔️🖖
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Illustrator: @costumeillustration
Writers: @onitrajohnson & @akelacooper
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