US Edition‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’ Team on Bringing in Mary Wiseman’s Tilly for ‘Our Town’ Episode
- Sylvia Tilly, played by Mary Wiseman, comes back in Episode 8 to teach Starfleet Academy cadets using Thornton Wilder's Our Town, helping them process the Miyazaki training incident.
- The writers' room decided to tackle the fallout, realizing Episodes 7–8 had not fully addressed the Miyazaki emotional impact while Gaia Violo, Noga Landau, and Jane Maggs developed the episode.
- The Doctor's arc and SAM's reboot provide a key emotional pivot, with SAM collapsing mid-class revealing unresolved photonic glitches and being rebooted with two memory sets, production used twins for babies, and Alex Kurtzman contributed a distinctive creative imprint.
- The cadets ultimately stage the performance themselves, and Wiseman said Tilly leaves them in better stead, while Tarima's transfer and the Doctor's mentorship deepen relationships.
- The episode deepens Voyager ties by echoing `Real Life` and signals interest in more Discovery characters like Mary Wiseman returning, positioning Star Trek: Starfleet Academy as emotionally messier.
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