Are there more opportunities for humour in this new series?

Oh, definitely. We want this show to be much funnier.They're not quite as buttoned up as the Captain Picard crew. We have a linguist who doesn't like travelling through space, for instance, and is a white knuckle flier. Loves alien languages but really doesn't like going at warp speeds and hates, just like you or I would hate flying, she hates flying. She really doesn't want to be on a spaceship at all. But it's part of her job.

There are a lot of little eccentric, more neurotic character dimensions to this show.