Moodie, who played Teku Fonsei on Dark Matter as well as Jacob in Star Trek: Discovery, claimed, “As opposed to being on the set of Star Trek. Which I was on the set of Star Trek. Worst experience… Sorry, I will be very careful about what I say.”
“But I could tell…what I will say is the crew and the cast were traumatized by a production team and a writers room that was in constant flux and power dynamics where you could just tell that they felt threated. You could tell they felt threatened,” he added.
He then claimed he was threatened, “And I eventually, the producers of Star Trek threatened me. And I was just like, ‘I don’t care.'”
“Yeah, they came after me. Yeah. The showrunner was fired and there was a new showrunner. And I was brought into to do ADR and they wanted me to redo my entire performance because the new showrunner didn’t like my acting, ultimately didn’t like my acting,” he relayed.
He continued, “But you could just tell that something happened. So the new people at the head of Star Trek…whoever is running it now, they are just terrified of whoever is running it now. Whoever is running Star Trek now is running it with an iron fist and they didn’t like anything that I did so they completely replaced my voice. I don’t know who is voicing my character.”
Timestamped YT link for the discussion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbDzrFP3-sc&t=1290sOne of the co-hosts, Nina Infinity, then mentions Star Trek head Alex Kurtzman.
Moodie reacts by zipping his lips shut, but he does say, “Did I say anything? I’m not saying anything. Maybe you’re right? Did I say anything? I don’t know.”
So yeah, no surprise here. Less than competent higher-ups covering up for their incompetence by creating an atmosphere of hostility and forcing the people below them to act like everything is fine. Sounds like typical corporate culture at play.
