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Star Trek: Starfleet Academy actor Kerrice Brooks cried tears of joy during her NYCC panel, and it was one of the most genuine moments I saw the whole convention
Star Trek’s Kerrice Brooks’s tears of joy gave us one of the realest and rawest moments at NYCC
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As a writer for Popverse, I watch a lot of convention panels. Even when I’m not attending conventions in person, I watch livestreams and playbacks of panels, looking for stories and interesting moments. Of the hundreds of panels I’ve watched this year, none of them had a moment as real or as raw as what I saw from New York Comic Con’s Star Trek panel.
The cast of the new series Star Trek: Starfleet Academy was brought out, and when it was Kerrice Brook’s turn to speak, she held back tears as she explained what it meant for her to be on Star Trek, and to be onstage at NYCC.
“It’s really crazy because I feel like, especially right now, we’re in such a just really dark time in the world,” Kerrice Brooks says during a Star Trek panel at New York Comic Con. “I know Star Trek has always been like a beacon of hope, but to see the younger generation also be brought into that, I feel like we’re also like the darkest generation, and it’s kind of fun to be dark sometimes in a little bit of a sadistic way.”
“We really do need a beacon of hope these days. And so, just to be here embraced in such a family with you guys, it’s an honor that transcends the English language. There might be a word in Spanish for it, but I don’t really know Spanish. But it’s just an honor. It’s a real honor.”
This was not a scripted PR moment or an inauthentic Hollywood soundbite. It was real, it was raw, and it was powerful. And it’s one of those special moments that happens at convention panels. Kerrice Brooks, thank you for keeping it real and sharing your joy with us. With that kind of spirit, I can’t wait to see what you do on Star Trek: Starfleet Academy.
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