By now, it’s already Star Trek folk legend that Paul Giamatti was cast as the nefarious space pirate Nus Braka in the new series Starfleet Academy after he publicly said he wanted to play a Klingon. But when his dream actually came to fruition, he had to modify the Klingon thing a little bit.
“They said, yeah, we have another Klingon, but we can make him half. Maybe we'll make him half of that,” Giamatti tells Inverse. The result is a half-Klingon, half-Tellarite baddie, which Giamatti plays with equal parts menace and pathos. In short, this celebrity Star Trek fan’s dream has been achieved.
