If you're like me, you probably walked out of
Star Trek: Beyond wondering what the heck happened to Carol Marcus. In the original series, Carol is a microbiologist, founder of the Genesis Project, and mother of Kirk's child. She was last seen in
Into Darkness, and writer Simon Pegg has explained her absence from
Beyond in the latest official Star Trek
podcast.
We thought rather than have Carol Marcus be not used to a reasonable
capacity, let’s just not include her, have her be alive, in canon, and
be ready to come back at any time. I think we had some lines to explain her absence in one of the initial
drafts that had her going off to start work on the Genesis project and
do sort of very, very early research on that. But it didn’t make it into the final cut.
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