Series: Picard

Character(s): Dahj, Soji, Jana, Sutra

In 2019, Briones was cast in Star Trek: Picard, playing two sets of synthetic twins: Dahj and Soji, and Jana and Sutra. Briones sent tapes of herself to audition for Picard while she was playing multiple roles on stage in Hamilton, and learned during her final callback that she would portray twins in the series. Briones identified most closely with Soji who, after Romulan attacks, learns she is an android created from a neuron recovered from Data. She trained for a month to perform many of her own stunts.

For the season one finale, “Et In Arcadia Ego, Part 2”, Irving Berlin’s “Blue Skies” was set to play during Data’s final scene as a bookend to his performance in Star Trek: Nemesis. Composer Jeff Russo wrote a new arrangement for the episode, and series co-creator Alex Kurtzman suggested that Briones perform the vocals. Briones said, “it’s so right that this is the song” playing at the end of Data’s journey.

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