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Melissa Navia Instagram - HAPPY DAYS. Secret’s out and @davyperez is posting pictures so here come mine, too! I got to hang with Riker on the bridge. Like yes, it was @jonathansfrakes, but every time he spoke it was totally Riker and I was a kid watching TNG and none of this is real but also MAGIC. Brian told me last year while we were filming Season 1 that I was clearly the Riker of Pike’s crew. So there are a number of reasons I’m so happy in this shot, but that’s definitely one of them. LET’S. GO. #ForBrian #StrangeNewWorlds #StarTrekLowerDecks #StarTrek #SDCC @StarTrekOnPPlus @StarTrek
Melissa Navia Instagram - When worlds collide.
Melissa Navia Instagram - Season 3 wrapped. Flight training underway. ✈️🚀
Melissa Navia Instagram - Silver Dystopian Fox • • • • Photographer: @davidnoles Hair & Makeup: @annamalskaya Color: @valsoloniewitz // @marierobinsonsalon
Melissa Navia Instagram - Sneak peek. Season 2. Coming 2023. ✨ clip in story ✨ #Mortegas #StarTrek #StrangeNewWorlds
Melissa Navia Instagram - Tonight we go on strike, but first: Star Trek & my late partner Brian Bannon changed my life. Next week’s #StrangeNewWorlds honors him. He was a force of nature, larger than life, and too bright for this world. So a nebula seems fitting. #BannonsNebula @AkivaGoldsman @alonsomyers
Melissa Navia Instagram - No rest for Starfleet. 🫡🖖
Melissa Navia Instagram - Why are we so cool?
Melissa Navia Instagram - When it’s Monday and you’re impatient for the week ahead but also helmsman of the Enterprise so you gotta cool your jets ‘cause the fate of TOS depends on your unflappable piloting skills. So…no pressure. #StarTrekDay 🚀 09.08.22 🚀 #StarTrek #StrangeNewWorlds @startrekonpplus
Melissa Navia Instagram - Hi from the helm. 🐶: @runa_ewok // @christinachongx
Melissa Navia Instagram - Got off my couch for the @saturnawards. And for @startrek. Or in the words of Norman Reedus last night, the Star Trek Awards. Makeup @scotiaboydmakeup Hair @creepycheekytiki Necklace @r_e_l_i_c.byonejessa Clutch @anavidesigns Ear Cuff @upandarmed Dress @aliceandolivia Tailoring @zoffranieri #SaturnAwards #StarTrek @startrekonpplus
Melissa Navia Instagram - Never met a dress I couldn’t pair with combat boots. 🖤 • • • • Photographed by @francishillsphotography Styled by @the_jorgemorales Makeup by @amandathesenbeauty Hair by @coreytuttlehair
Melissa Navia Instagram - Look, Ma. We made it. ✨ [I sent this picture to my mom and she texted back that I look beautiful and: “Take a pic with Anson, too!” I think she speaks for moms everywhere and really all of us.] #TeamPike #NYCC #StrangeNewWorlds #NYCC2022 #StarTrek
Melissa Navia Instagram - 🐉 • • • • Photographer: @davidnoles Hair & Makeup: @annamalskaya Color: @valsoloniewitz
Melissa Navia Instagram - Best space friends. ✨ Back at it June 15th. 🚀 Boimler & Mariner & Carol Kane, too. 🖖 #StrangeNewWorlds #StarTrek
Melissa Navia Instagram - Cooler than an AI rendering. Photographer: @davidnoles // DavidNoles.com Makeup: @amandathesenbeauty Hair: @coreytuttlehair
Melissa Navia Instagram - Not today. • • • • Photographed by @francishillsphotography Styled by @the_jorgemorales Makeup by @amandathesenbeauty Hair by @coreytuttlehair
Melissa Navia Instagram - BTS by Babs. #StrangeNewWorlds
Melissa Navia Instagram - Never give up. Happy 2023. 💫 #actorslife #Billions #StarTrek #WomenInSTEM #LatinasInSpace
Melissa Navia Instagram - Six months ago I didn’t want to leave my couch. I did not see the point. I only saw black. Problem was that not only did I need to leave my couch, I needed to leave the country and, ultimately, the planet, at the helm of a starship. These two beautiful angels made it happen. They put their lives on hold to make sure I made it back to Canada to film Season 2 of #StrangeNewWorlds. For me, for the show, for the fans, for my Brian, who always dropped everything to help when help was needed. ✨ This was us at our NYC premiere. Connor, @sorayadesignsthings, and me, wearing Brian’s black suede blazer and a space-age silver dress named Celeste. {Necklace by Patricia Von Musulin.} 👩‍🚀🖖 #ForBrian #WithBrian #StarTrek #StarTrekSNW #NotTodayGrief
Melissa Navia Instagram - 3 more days… 🖖 #StarTrek #StrangeNewWorlds 📸: Santiago Felipe // Getty
Melissa Navia Instagram - This piece I wrote for @talkhouse is a part of my heart. ✨Link in Bio✨ About my life’s work, my dream role, and my late prince. And a thank you to my family, friends, and the #StrangeNewWorlds cast & crew who held me up, honored Brian’s memory, and made me smile again. Thank you to everyone who has already read it and messaged me or posted in any way to share how my words have reflected your own experiences with grief. The extraordinary people in your lives have changed you forever. Your memories of them are powerful. Keep telling their stories. Furious hugs to all of you. Furious because this sucks. Hugs because they help. #Grief changes everything. The pain is real. But it’s okay. We got this. To the stars, through hardship… 😌🖖 #ForBrian @thesagespeaksnyc #StarTrek #StarTrekSNW @startrek @startrekonpplus @talkhouse #Talkhouse @imprintpr @take3talent @erabon @natashamatallanamarken @mattsherman #actorslife
Melissa Navia Instagram - This piece I wrote for @talkhouse is a part of my heart. ✨Link in Bio✨ About my life’s work, my dream role, and my late prince. And a thank you to my family, friends, and the #StrangeNewWorlds cast & crew who held me up, honored Brian’s memory, and made me smile again. Thank you to everyone who has already read it and messaged me or posted in any way to share how my words have reflected your own experiences with grief. The extraordinary people in your lives have changed you forever. Your memories of them are powerful. Keep telling their stories. Furious hugs to all of you. Furious because this sucks. Hugs because they help. #Grief changes everything. The pain is real. But it’s okay. We got this. To the stars, through hardship… 😌🖖 #ForBrian @thesagespeaksnyc #StarTrek #StarTrekSNW @startrek @startrekonpplus @talkhouse #Talkhouse @imprintpr @take3talent @erabon @natashamatallanamarken @mattsherman #actorslife
Melissa Navia Instagram - This piece I wrote for @talkhouse is a part of my heart. ✨Link in Bio✨ About my life’s work, my dream role, and my late prince. And a thank you to my family, friends, and the #StrangeNewWorlds cast & crew who held me up, honored Brian’s memory, and made me smile again. Thank you to everyone who has already read it and messaged me or posted in any way to share how my words have reflected your own experiences with grief. The extraordinary people in your lives have changed you forever. Your memories of them are powerful. Keep telling their stories. Furious hugs to all of you. Furious because this sucks. Hugs because they help. #Grief changes everything. The pain is real. But it’s okay. We got this. To the stars, through hardship… 😌🖖 #ForBrian @thesagespeaksnyc #StarTrek #StarTrekSNW @startrek @startrekonpplus @talkhouse #Talkhouse @imprintpr @take3talent @erabon @natashamatallanamarken @mattsherman #actorslife
Melissa Navia Instagram - This piece I wrote for @talkhouse is a part of my heart. ✨Link in Bio✨ About my life’s work, my dream role, and my late prince. And a thank you to my family, friends, and the #StrangeNewWorlds cast & crew who held me up, honored Brian’s memory, and made me smile again. Thank you to everyone who has already read it and messaged me or posted in any way to share how my words have reflected your own experiences with grief. The extraordinary people in your lives have changed you forever. Your memories of them are powerful. Keep telling their stories. Furious hugs to all of you. Furious because this sucks. Hugs because they help. #Grief changes everything. The pain is real. But it’s okay. We got this. To the stars, through hardship… 😌🖖 #ForBrian @thesagespeaksnyc #StarTrek #StarTrekSNW @startrek @startrekonpplus @talkhouse #Talkhouse @imprintpr @take3talent @erabon @natashamatallanamarken @mattsherman #actorslife
Melissa Navia Instagram - This piece I wrote for @talkhouse is a part of my heart. ✨Link in Bio✨ About my life’s work, my dream role, and my late prince. And a thank you to my family, friends, and the #StrangeNewWorlds cast & crew who held me up, honored Brian’s memory, and made me smile again. Thank you to everyone who has already read it and messaged me or posted in any way to share how my words have reflected your own experiences with grief. The extraordinary people in your lives have changed you forever. Your memories of them are powerful. Keep telling their stories. Furious hugs to all of you. Furious because this sucks. Hugs because they help. #Grief changes everything. The pain is real. But it’s okay. We got this. To the stars, through hardship… 😌🖖 #ForBrian @thesagespeaksnyc #StarTrek #StarTrekSNW @startrek @startrekonpplus @talkhouse #Talkhouse @imprintpr @take3talent @erabon @natashamatallanamarken @mattsherman #actorslife
Melissa Navia Instagram - This piece I wrote for @talkhouse is a part of my heart. ✨Link in Bio✨ About my life’s work, my dream role, and my late prince. And a thank you to my family, friends, and the #StrangeNewWorlds cast & crew who held me up, honored Brian’s memory, and made me smile again. Thank you to everyone who has already read it and messaged me or posted in any way to share how my words have reflected your own experiences with grief. The extraordinary people in your lives have changed you forever. Your memories of them are powerful. Keep telling their stories. Furious hugs to all of you. Furious because this sucks. Hugs because they help. #Grief changes everything. The pain is real. But it’s okay. We got this. To the stars, through hardship… 😌🖖 #ForBrian @thesagespeaksnyc #StarTrek #StarTrekSNW @startrek @startrekonpplus @talkhouse #Talkhouse @imprintpr @take3talent @erabon @natashamatallanamarken @mattsherman #actorslife
Melissa Navia Instagram - La’an & Ortegas, up to what? Wrong answers only. And Happy Season 2 Premiere Day! #StarTrek #StrangeNewWorlds
Melissa Navia Instagram - When you love your job and are really good at it and are also moving at tremendous speed. #StarTrek
Melissa Navia Instagram - When @sorayadesignsthings had to report to the bridge. #TBT #ForBrian @thesagespeaksnyc #StarTrek #StrangeNewWorlds #StarTrekSisters
Melissa Navia Instagram - space tango 🔥 For: IRK Magazine @irkmagazine Photography: Jayme Thornton @jaymethornton Stylist: Cannon @thecannonmediagroup HMU: Andreas Schonagel @andreasschonagel #StarTrek #StrangeNewWorlds
Melissa Navia Instagram - Memories are everything. And ours were the best. This picture takes me right back to summer days, and lazy tube rides down rivers, on the way up to weekend getaways. Every day was an adventure; every day remains so. I’ve learned a lifetime of things this past year, not the least of which is that grief changes everything, and in that upheaval, it has the power to sink you or strengthen you. But it’s you who decides which of those it does. For me, and with Brian, it has done the latter. I feel invincible these days. I feel calm, I feel focused, I feel determined. That I got to spend so much time on this earth with my soulmate is a blessing that urges me onward. I was the luckiest, and I remain so. If you are grieving, I hope all the same for you. That the memories you shared be the fuel you need to thrive every day until at last you are reunited with your person again. They would want nothing less. And they know, more than anyone, that you are capable of even more.
Melissa Navia Instagram - Feliz Día de los Reyes Magos! My humble gift to you is this Star Trek Day flashback of sexy crew goals. Season 2, where are you? #StarTrek #StarTrekDay #StrangeNewWorlds
Melissa Navia Instagram - ⛓🔥⛓🔥 • • • • Photographed by @francishillsphotography Styled by @the_jorgemorales Makeup by @amandathesenbeauty Hair by @coreytuttlehair
Melissa Navia Instagram - Back to work we go! 💫 #SagAftraStrong
Melissa Navia Instagram - Hey there! Melissa Navia here. I play Lt. Erica Ortegas, helmsman of the USS Enterprise, on Star Trek: Strange New Worlds on Paramount , and I’ll be taking over CBS Studios’ Instagram stories today in honor of #WomensHistoryMonth. We’ve got plenty to talk about, photos to share, and a just-announced Season 2 premiere date to start counting down to…June 15th! So follow along. Adventure awaits. 💫🖖 #StarTrek #StrangeNewWorlds
Melissa Navia Instagram - Hey there! Melissa Navia here. I play Lt. Erica Ortegas, helmsman of the USS Enterprise, on Star Trek: Strange New Worlds on Paramount , and I’ll be taking over CBS Studios’ Instagram stories today in honor of #WomensHistoryMonth. We’ve got plenty to talk about, photos to share, and a just-announced Season 2 premiere date to start counting down to…June 15th! So follow along. Adventure awaits. 💫🖖 #StarTrek #StrangeNewWorlds
Melissa Navia Instagram - Hey there! Melissa Navia here. I play Lt. Erica Ortegas, helmsman of the USS Enterprise, on Star Trek: Strange New Worlds on Paramount , and I’ll be taking over CBS Studios’ Instagram stories today in honor of #WomensHistoryMonth. We’ve got plenty to talk about, photos to share, and a just-announced Season 2 premiere date to start counting down to…June 15th! So follow along. Adventure awaits. 💫🖖 #StarTrek #StrangeNewWorlds
Melissa Navia Instagram - Hey there! Melissa Navia here. I play Lt. Erica Ortegas, helmsman of the USS Enterprise, on Star Trek: Strange New Worlds on Paramount , and I’ll be taking over CBS Studios’ Instagram stories today in honor of #WomensHistoryMonth. We’ve got plenty to talk about, photos to share, and a just-announced Season 2 premiere date to start counting down to…June 15th! So follow along. Adventure awaits. 💫🖖 #StarTrek #StrangeNewWorlds
Melissa Navia Instagram - Hey there! Melissa Navia here. I play Lt. Erica Ortegas, helmsman of the USS Enterprise, on Star Trek: Strange New Worlds on Paramount , and I’ll be taking over CBS Studios’ Instagram stories today in honor of #WomensHistoryMonth. We’ve got plenty to talk about, photos to share, and a just-announced Season 2 premiere date to start counting down to…June 15th! So follow along. Adventure awaits. 💫🖖 #StarTrek #StrangeNewWorlds
Melissa Navia Instagram - Hey there! Melissa Navia here. I play Lt. Erica Ortegas, helmsman of the USS Enterprise, on Star Trek: Strange New Worlds on Paramount , and I’ll be taking over CBS Studios’ Instagram stories today in honor of #WomensHistoryMonth. We’ve got plenty to talk about, photos to share, and a just-announced Season 2 premiere date to start counting down to…June 15th! So follow along. Adventure awaits. 💫🖖 #StarTrek #StrangeNewWorlds
Melissa Navia Instagram - Hey there! Melissa Navia here. I play Lt. Erica Ortegas, helmsman of the USS Enterprise, on Star Trek: Strange New Worlds on Paramount , and I’ll be taking over CBS Studios’ Instagram stories today in honor of #WomensHistoryMonth. We’ve got plenty to talk about, photos to share, and a just-announced Season 2 premiere date to start counting down to…June 15th! So follow along. Adventure awaits. 💫🖖 #StarTrek #StrangeNewWorlds
Melissa Navia Instagram - One for the road. Back to work we go.
Melissa Navia Instagram - On the picket line this week with my niece & @the_furious_owl! Thank you to all the friends & family members & sister unions who have been fighting with us. Standing together is everything. Solidarity is why we know we will win. ✊🎭 I owe so very much of my ability to endure and succeed in this business to my family and my Brian, who have always and fervently supported my ambitions and championed my efforts. I have found that the people you surround yourself with are as important to artistic success (and sanity) as everything you yourself bring to the table, not least of which is that burning, at-times inexplicable passion from deep within that urges you in even the darkest moments to “never give up, never surrender!” I cannot wait to get back to work, to get back to doing what I love with a supremely talented cast & crew of storytellers. Until then, a life of uphill hustling has primed all us working actors & writers for this moment. However long they think we can go, we can go longer. Because the future of our industry is at stake. Because we deserve fair contracts, respect, transparency, and living wages for the work we do and the stories we look forward to getting back to telling. @sagaftra @sagaftrafound #SAGAFTRAstrike #SAGAFTRAstrong
Melissa Navia Instagram - On the picket line this week with my niece & @the_furious_owl! Thank you to all the friends & family members & sister unions who have been fighting with us. Standing together is everything. Solidarity is why we know we will win. ✊🎭 I owe so very much of my ability to endure and succeed in this business to my family and my Brian, who have always and fervently supported my ambitions and championed my efforts. I have found that the people you surround yourself with are as important to artistic success (and sanity) as everything you yourself bring to the table, not least of which is that burning, at-times inexplicable passion from deep within that urges you in even the darkest moments to “never give up, never surrender!” I cannot wait to get back to work, to get back to doing what I love with a supremely talented cast & crew of storytellers. Until then, a life of uphill hustling has primed all us working actors & writers for this moment. However long they think we can go, we can go longer. Because the future of our industry is at stake. Because we deserve fair contracts, respect, transparency, and living wages for the work we do and the stories we look forward to getting back to telling. @sagaftra @sagaftrafound #SAGAFTRAstrike #SAGAFTRAstrong
Melissa Navia Instagram - On the picket line this week with my niece & @the_furious_owl! Thank you to all the friends & family members & sister unions who have been fighting with us. Standing together is everything. Solidarity is why we know we will win. ✊🎭 I owe so very much of my ability to endure and succeed in this business to my family and my Brian, who have always and fervently supported my ambitions and championed my efforts. I have found that the people you surround yourself with are as important to artistic success (and sanity) as everything you yourself bring to the table, not least of which is that burning, at-times inexplicable passion from deep within that urges you in even the darkest moments to “never give up, never surrender!” I cannot wait to get back to work, to get back to doing what I love with a supremely talented cast & crew of storytellers. Until then, a life of uphill hustling has primed all us working actors & writers for this moment. However long they think we can go, we can go longer. Because the future of our industry is at stake. Because we deserve fair contracts, respect, transparency, and living wages for the work we do and the stories we look forward to getting back to telling. @sagaftra @sagaftrafound #SAGAFTRAstrike #SAGAFTRAstrong
Melissa Navia Instagram - ❤️‍🔥 🦋 ⚡️ 💖 • • • • Photographer: @01henrylou Stylist: @paulinacastrostyle Hair: @jasonlinkow Makeup: @makeovernao For: @photobookmagazine
Melissa Navia Instagram - ❤️‍🔥 🦋 ⚡️ 💖 • • • • Photographer: @01henrylou Stylist: @paulinacastrostyle Hair: @jasonlinkow Makeup: @makeovernao For: @photobookmagazine
Melissa Navia Instagram - ❤️‍🔥 🦋 ⚡️ 💖 • • • • Photographer: @01henrylou Stylist: @paulinacastrostyle Hair: @jasonlinkow Makeup: @makeovernao For: @photobookmagazine
Melissa Navia Instagram - ❤️‍🔥 🦋 ⚡️ 💖 • • • • Photographer: @01henrylou Stylist: @paulinacastrostyle Hair: @jasonlinkow Makeup: @makeovernao For: @photobookmagazine
Melissa Navia Instagram - Big eyes, short hair, and an affinity for uniforms. Ortegas in the making. 🚀 2 more days! 06.15.23 #StarTrek #StrangeNewWorlds #GirlWithShortHair @gwshorthair
Melissa Navia Instagram - Me in Versace. ⚜️ Link in Bio ⚜️ PhotoBook Editor-In-Chief: Alison Hernon @718blonde PhotoBook Creative Director: Mike Ruiz @mikeruiz.one @mikeruizone Photographer: Henry Lou @ ABTP Agency @01henrylou @abtp_news Talent: Melissa Navia @mcnavia Fashion Stylist: Paulina Castro @paulinacastrostyle Hair: Jason Linkow @ ABTP Agency using SEVEN Haircare: Sculpt Gel, Working Hairspray and Fibre/Dyson — Supersonic Hair Dryer @jasonlinkow Makeup: Naoko Kitano @makeovernao Tearsheets: Daniel López, Associate Art Director, PhotoBook Magazine @alarcn.daniel Interview: Lola Jarzemsky, Contributor, PhotoBook Magazine @lolajarzemsky Tank Top by ATM Coat by @versace Pants by @versace Chain Choker by @versace Necklace by Model’s Own (#StarTrek Delta gifted by @chrissychong after S1 wrap of #StrangeNewWorlds) @photobookmagazine @imprintpr @take3talent @startrekonpplus @gwshorthair #StarTrek
Melissa Navia Instagram - ⚔️ • • • • Photographer: @davidnoles Hair & Makeup: @annamalskaya Color: @valsoloniewitz // @marierobinsonsalon Blazer: @thesagespeaksnyc #ForBrian #WithBrian
Melissa Navia Instagram - My unbelievably talented & beautiful baby sister @sorayadesignsthings. The only thing that hasn’t changed for me these past bunch of months is how much I treasure her everything in my life. Even her bathroom selfie skills are the best. 🌟 #ForBrian #WithBrian #StarTrek #StrangeNewWorlds #NYC
Melissa Navia Instagram - On stage in Vegas. Talking banjos & stargazing & writers. #WGAstrike #SAGAFTRAstrong
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Melissa Navia Instagram - Find yourself a person who never takes selfies but puts up with yours. For that is your soulmate. ✨ Mi Brian, tan lindo siempre. ✨ T-minus 4 days to Star Trek Day. Last year I watched from home on the couch with my favorite person; this year I’ll be on stage in LA thinking about my favorite person. Happy of course but also & always now a wee bit sad - because that is #grief. And it’s okay. The sad is okay. The sad will never go away, because you miss your other half, but the happy can grow, I am finding, in spite of the sad, around it, through it, and even side-by-side with it. I absolutely know Brian will be with me on Star Trek Day, as he was last year, beaming, proud of me, making me laugh, making me think, encouraging me, reminding me that I have more work to do. My work and our work and Trek work. Looking forward to hanging out with our extended family again, Starfleet officers & fans alike, and for as long a time as I have to come. #ForBrian #StarTrek @startrek @startrekonpplus #StarTrekDay
Melissa Navia Instagram - Brian used to joke that I learned my eyebrow raise from him. I would laugh and remind him that contrary to what he might think, as perfect as we were together, I had indeed existed on my own before we met. I was arching my eyebrow long before we crossed paths, not realizing that my match was waiting for me just around the corner. The picture on the left is Brian in the Berkshires in March 2020. I still remember taking it. How struck I was by him standing in the snowy woods. He was tall, handsome, charming, in his element. Fast forward two years and the picture on the right was suddenly everywhere I looked. What Brian had helped me achieve had arrived - there was a poster to prove it. And I couldn’t place it for a while, but I knew I’d seen it before. The stance, the confidence, the outfit, the eyebrow. And then it hit me. But of course. It was me and it was Brian. My other half. Which is perfect and is how I feel all the time now. As impossibly difficult and absurdly unexpected as these last six months have been, what has helped me get a little stronger every day is fully realizing this: Yes, my best friend died, and yes, half of me went with him. But if that is true, and it is, then as long as I live, half of him still does, too. That keeps me going. The work we have still to do. The adventures we have yet to take. Thank you to everyone who has reached out to share their own grief experiences. Even if I have not been able to respond, know that I have read your messages and appreciate them more than I could ever properly express in a caption. I have so much more to share of Brian’s life, his music, his talent, and his spirit. He was a force of nature. Everyone who knew him and had the privilege of being in his company knows exactly what I mean; and everyone who didn’t, will. #ForBrian #StarTrek #StrangeNewWorlds
Melissa Navia Instagram - My resting brow arch. Photographer: @davidnoles // DavidNoles.com Makeup: @amandathesenbeauty Hair: @coreytuttlehair
Melissa Navia Instagram - ⛓️💖⛓️ Makeup @scotiaboydmakeup Hair @creepycheekytiki Necklaces @upandarmed Dress & Jacket @majeparis #PortrayHer #GirlsLeadSTEM #SeeItBeIt @geenadavisorg @ifthenshecan
Melissa Navia Instagram - Great minds.
Melissa Navia Instagram - Suspenders! My outfit didn’t originally have suspenders, but when I saw that @wayofbabs & @ansonmount’s leather pants, which were the same as my leather pants, had suspenders, I made some inquiries and voilà, life was easier. Made the sword fight much more comfortable. First go-round putting them on I criss-crossed them in front because ya think you know suspenders until you have to actually wear them. 🎩 #SirAdya #Ortegas #StrangeNewWorlds #StarTrekSNW @startrek @startrekonpplus
Melissa Navia Instagram - When they won’t let you pilot a shuttle to Mars, get yourself a starship and go to planets they’ve never even heard of. #MondayMotivation #actorslife #Billions #StrangeNewWorlds #StarTrek
Melissa Navia Instagram - “One of the most charming ensembles in the business” - that’s us! #StarTrek #StrangeNewWorlds
Melissa Navia Instagram - For my mom, who says I don’t show my teeth enough. 🙂 Photographer: @davidnoles // DavidNoles.com Makeup: @amandathesenbeauty Hair: @coreytuttlehair
Melissa Navia Instagram - I did a lot of press these past few months for Strange New Worlds. Every interview proved to be uplifting, engaging, and intriguing thanks to the journalists who genuinely appreciated all that the Star Trek universe entails and whose poignant questions made for enlightening conversations. But the two that stood out for me the most and still have me smiling were my first-ever interviews in Spanish for Colombia. 🇨🇴 They were challenging and momentous and truly made me reflect on what it means to be a Latina and Colombian-American at the helm of the USS Enterpise. Both now can be found on my Linktree ✨see bio for link✨ along with a few additional selections, including my first interview with Ireland. 🇮🇪 Thank you to my amazing parents, my tías, and my cousin @versca who helped me brush up on my Spanish, and my sisters @sorayadesignsthings & @the_furious_owl who helped immensely logistically. And to Gustavo Gómez Córdoba from Caracol Radio and Pilar Schmitt from Noticias Caracol. 💛💙❤️ #StarTrek #ForBrian #StrangeNewWorlds @gustavogomezcordoba @caracolradio @pilarschmitt @noticiascaracol #Colombia #LatinasInSpace #EricaOrtegas
Melissa Navia Instagram - Not sure if @robert_picardo and I wrangled donkeys Milo and Danny Boy or if they wrangled us. Either way, @onthepoint_lakerotorua was one of many highlights during our New Zealand odyssey with @armageddonexponz. To more donkey encounters. And many more space adventures.
Melissa Navia Instagram - I remember the first time I saw the drawing of Sir Adya. Long before I got a script. It was me in rogue knight’s leather regalia. It was Aragorn and Indiana Jones and…me. I had no words. It was the character I had always wanted to play on a big screen standing right in front of me, albeit on paper, waiting for me to bring it to life. It was so perfectly me & yet also Star Trek & somehow also Lord of the Rings. A poster of Aragorn still hangs in my teenage bedroom in my parents’ home, and here I was a whole country away looking at me looking like him, sword & all. So I would be what…sword fighting? In space? As SIR Adya? And no one wanted to have a conversation about how any of that made sense? Because it made all the sense to me, but I’ve spent so much of my life explaining how “yes, I do make sense!” that the absolute ease of this felt unreal. Brian and I joked that the producers & writers must’ve had me followed. How else could this be? The role I worked my whole career for was turning out to be all the roles I had waited my life for (just wait ‘til you see what’s to come), all to be played out on the stage that is the USS Enterprise. 🥹⚔️🖖 Costume Designer: @berncroft Illustrator: @costumeillustration Writers: @onitrajohnson & @akelacooper 💫: @alonsomyers, @ajgoldsman1629, @widgetfactoryco & @billwearsties #StrangeNewWorlds #StarTrekSNW @startrekonpplus @startrek @paramountplus
Melissa Navia Instagram - I remember the first time I saw the drawing of Sir Adya. Long before I got a script. It was me in rogue knight’s leather regalia. It was Aragorn and Indiana Jones and…me. I had no words. It was the character I had always wanted to play on a big screen standing right in front of me, albeit on paper, waiting for me to bring it to life. It was so perfectly me & yet also Star Trek & somehow also Lord of the Rings. A poster of Aragorn still hangs in my teenage bedroom in my parents’ home, and here I was a whole country away looking at me looking like him, sword & all. So I would be what…sword fighting? In space? As SIR Adya? And no one wanted to have a conversation about how any of that made sense? Because it made all the sense to me, but I’ve spent so much of my life explaining how “yes, I do make sense!” that the absolute ease of this felt unreal. Brian and I joked that the producers & writers must’ve had me followed. How else could this be? The role I worked my whole career for was turning out to be all the roles I had waited my life for (just wait ‘til you see what’s to come), all to be played out on the stage that is the USS Enterprise. 🥹⚔️🖖 Costume Designer: @berncroft Illustrator: @costumeillustration Writers: @onitrajohnson & @akelacooper 💫: @alonsomyers, @ajgoldsman1629, @widgetfactoryco & @billwearsties #StrangeNewWorlds #StarTrekSNW @startrekonpplus @startrek @paramountplus
Melissa Navia Instagram - I remember the first time I saw the drawing of Sir Adya. Long before I got a script. It was me in rogue knight’s leather regalia. It was Aragorn and Indiana Jones and…me. I had no words. It was the character I had always wanted to play on a big screen standing right in front of me, albeit on paper, waiting for me to bring it to life. It was so perfectly me & yet also Star Trek & somehow also Lord of the Rings. A poster of Aragorn still hangs in my teenage bedroom in my parents’ home, and here I was a whole country away looking at me looking like him, sword & all. So I would be what…sword fighting? In space? As SIR Adya? And no one wanted to have a conversation about how any of that made sense? Because it made all the sense to me, but I’ve spent so much of my life explaining how “yes, I do make sense!” that the absolute ease of this felt unreal. Brian and I joked that the producers & writers must’ve had me followed. How else could this be? The role I worked my whole career for was turning out to be all the roles I had waited my life for (just wait ‘til you see what’s to come), all to be played out on the stage that is the USS Enterprise. 🥹⚔️🖖 Costume Designer: @berncroft Illustrator: @costumeillustration Writers: @onitrajohnson & @akelacooper 💫: @alonsomyers, @ajgoldsman1629, @widgetfactoryco & @billwearsties #StrangeNewWorlds #StarTrekSNW @startrekonpplus @startrek @paramountplus
Melissa Navia Instagram - Thank you to all the fans who shared this picture all month and tagged me to let me know it was the June picture of this year’s Strange New Worlds calendar. In the words of @oneimpossiblethingatatime: “Two years ago today ‘The Elysian Kingdom’ aired. How wonderful that a little girl wrote her favourite characters as queer just because she could. Thanks to melissaCnavia & @RebeccaRomijn who played it beautifully. 🖖🏻🌈” Happy Pride. Today and every day. #LLAP #StarTrek #StrangeNewWorlds
Melissa Navia Instagram - Honored to have been invited to speak and to share a poem at the @IrishArtsCenter’s 13th Annual PoetryFest this past weekend. A series of events and a serendipitous encounter in Canada (thanks to Star Trek and Irish dancing) led me right back to Brian’s old neighborhood of Hell’s Kitchen in NYC, our friends at @ardesiawinebar, and a splendid opening night of favorite poems presented by poets & guests alike in the gorgeous space that is the Irish Arts Center. I spoke about Brian and read “The Winding Banks of Erne” by William Allingham, a poem inspired by Ballyshannon, Co. Donegal - Brian’s hometown - written by a poet known as the bard of #Ballyshannon. I will be making my way there for a third time this year and still have not been able to put on paper any words that would do the landscape and the people proper justice. So I defer for now to Mr. Allingham and can only hope that one day I might find my way to being able to write something of value about a part of this world that holds a piece of my heart. Also, note the silver hair. Brian was always telling me how much silver hair suited me and encouraged me to rock it. Much like he championed my Ortegas haircut. So for this December, I’ve gone silver. And who knows…maybe for a good bit longer. #ForBrian #WithBrian 📸: @rebeccasmeyne for the @irishartscenter
Melissa Navia Instagram - Beam me up. My crew, too. ✨ • • • • Stylist: @paulinacastrostyle Makeup: @amandathesenbeauty Hair: @coreytuttlehair #StrangeNewWorlds #StarTrek
Melissa Navia Instagram - Beam me up. My crew, too. ✨ • • • • Stylist: @paulinacastrostyle Makeup: @amandathesenbeauty Hair: @coreytuttlehair #StrangeNewWorlds #StarTrek
Melissa Navia Instagram - Beam me up. My crew, too. ✨ • • • • Stylist: @paulinacastrostyle Makeup: @amandathesenbeauty Hair: @coreytuttlehair #StrangeNewWorlds #StarTrek
Melissa Navia Instagram - Happy Father’s Day to my dad, who first showed me the stars, who encouraged me to always be myself, who raised me on the wisdom of ancient philosophers, who told me that all we can ever do is try our best, and who fully supported my early blazer & Ninja Turtle aesthetic.
Melissa Navia Instagram - What convention are you most looking forward to this year and can I come? 📸: @paigexrage for @hollywoodlife at @newyorkcomiccon #NYCC2022
Melissa Navia Instagram - Space business. #ISDC2024
Melissa Navia Instagram - ☄️ ☄️ ☄️ By @scotiaboydmakeup For @thenationalspacesociety #ISDC2024 With @joey_flaherty & @innovativeartists
Melissa Navia Instagram - Little Ortegas! Star Trek fans are creative & talented AF. Fan art and fan fiction is no joke. But this one I came across has especially stuck with me because it reminds me of a younger, smaller, bolder me, with my big eyes & short hair, finally with the cut of my tomboy dreams. I hope Ortegas inspires generations of little girls, boys, and enbys to proudly rock whatever makes them and their faces happy. And to stay bold. No matter what life chucks at you. Bolder, wiser, stronger. Always. 🎨🖖: @foodcu_be #StarTrek #StrangeNewWorlds @gwshorthair #GirlWithShortHair
Melissa Navia Instagram - Pure heaven is right. This show really is something very special. So proud of our cast, our writers, and our crew. A true ensemble endeavor. #StrangeNewWorlds #FYC #StarTrek @paramountplus @cbstvstudios
Melissa Navia Instagram - Woo-trekking-hoo! Just 3 more weeks until Season 2. #StarTrek #StrangeNewWorlds #Mortegas
Melissa Navia Instagram - Starship pilot vest game strong. 🚀 I met so many unbelievable, inspiring, determined, and passionate people at the annual @exploremars Humans to Mars Summit in Washington, DC, but meeting Dr. Sian “Leo” Proctor, a real-life starship pilot, still has me beaming. I gave her a #Mortegas pin, courtesy of @openpike, and she gave me some of her (literally) out-of-this-world artwork. An astronaut, explorer, geoscientist, professor, and space artist, Dr. Proctor was also the mission pilot for SpaceX Inspiration4, the first all-civilian orbital mission. She showed me pictures she took of the Earth at night from space and I showed her…pictures I took of the clouds on my flight from NYC to DC. 😂 So much still to process about what I learned at the #HumansToMars conference, about what is possible, what is already underway, and what is going to take us all working together to finally make happen, but my main takeaway can be summed up by Dr. Proctor’s words: “When we solve for space, we solve for Earth.” Space travel is more than *just* space travel. It’s our future. 🖖 #LLAP
Melissa Navia Instagram - That feeling when you cross paths with the one & only @jonathansfrakes on the set of the Enterprise and he shouts he’s a big fan and you get to shout back that you’re an even bigger fan and it’s not weird at all and then you both keep walking determinedly in your respective directions because there is so much work to do and more episodes to shoot of the most amazing show coming your way in just five days. MAY 5TH. #StarTrek #StrangeNewWorlds #Riker #Ortegas @startrekonpplus
Melissa Navia Instagram - Yo. We look so good. ✨ #StarTrek #StrangeNewWorlds #TheIllyrianEnigma @idwpublishing
Melissa Navia Instagram - I remember being with my parents right before I left to Toronto this past February and crying, freely, because I couldn’t see tomorrow. If I could safely collapse anywhere, it was with them. Maybe it was the thought of that, in the moment, and the thought of having to now do things without Brian physically at my side, that made me say to my dad: “I’m all alone now.” And he looked at me, held my face, and said, “No, you’re not. You have me.” I think of that a lot. I remind myself. One, because he’s right, but two, because my father, a man of few words these days, found the exact words I needed to hear without any difficulty, without any hesitation, without any doubt. When I was little I wanted to grow up to be just like him. I asked my mom to buy me a blazer just like the ones he wore. I started writing his name at the top of my worksheets in kindergarten because it had a better ring to it than mine. He introduced me to Laurel & Hardy and Gilbert & Sullivan and Indiana Jones. To James Cagney and Peter O’Toole and Giuseppe Verdi. I asked to watch Amadeus and The Scarlet Pimpernel over and over and for years never realized how disturbing both movies began because he used to skip the bloody parts without me noticing. (As I’m writing this I’m remembering that Brian, who had an encyclopedic knowledge of movies, knew how much I still don’t care for the bloody bits, and he’d recommend movies with that in mind or skip past parts accordingly.) We went on adventures and listened to classical music and watched World War II documentaries. He took me to his classes & lectures & research sessions. I went to school for Career Day dressed as him with a briefcase full of books he had written and explained to my confused friends what a PhD was and how I was gonna grow up to be a philosopher one day. He showed me the stars and the moon from our backyard on a telescope that was bigger than me. Space didn’t feel all that far. Nothing ever felt far. Or impossible. My dad never told me who I should be or needed to be when I grew up. He only showed me time and again who I could be. Way Out West. Pirates of Penzance. Raiders of the Lost Ark. He saw Ortegas in me way before I ever did.
Melissa Navia Instagram - Gorn problems. 💥🦎💥 #StarTrek #StrangeNewWorlds @startrekonpplus
Melissa Navia Instagram - Made it through this year with the help of these two angels. And Star Trek. And Brian, who was inside singing and playing music for a packed house when this picture was taken last year. We had stepped outside for better lighting, to capture our shirts on a perfect night, organized by my talented man. Still here smiling because of him. And still going. To more nights like this. #WithBrian #ForBrian
Melissa Navia Instagram - Miss that face so much. He loved cycling, too. What didn’t we do together? He bought me a bright yellow vest because I wanted one just like his. But I do still see him everywhere. He was my other half after all. He still makes me smile and laugh and I correct myself when I’m home alone singing and hit a (rare) note out of tune. I miss every bit of him, but that’s how it should be, right? Because I loved every bit of him. Even how he didn’t like it when I cried about something that I now see was silly or when I seemed even the slightest bit down. He would want to fix it and make it better. Sometimes he’d give me an abrupt hug and say, “There. Better?” Which would inevitably make me laugh and make whatever was wrong, immediately, better. Not sure he’d be too impressed I’m out here still making everyone cry with my memories of us and our Star Trek journey. Because he’d be doing the opposite by now. He’d be making sure everyone remembers the good times, gently reminding us we have to accept what has happened, and helping us move forward with renewed determination. He’d also buy us all a few rounds of whiskey and keep you at the pub long past you were due home, charming you with his wit and regaling you with stories and making you forget your troubles if even just for a few hours. But then I’d remind him, in a moment alone, that crying is okay. Crying is helpful. Crying is necessary. And I know he’d agree. He’d understand. Especially now. Crying is a release for me, after which I find myself able to focus and reminisce and smile again. I have to ride my bike and I have to pick up my banjo. Goals for the next couple of weeks. Things he’d want me to be doing because he knows they once made me happy. I’ll add it to my list. Brian knows how I love my lists. He’s No. 1 on all of them. But at least that’s nothing new. How lucky we were. How lucky we remain. 🚵‍♂️💘🔥
Melissa Navia Instagram - Space cowboy country blues on the purple #StarTrekDay carpet. A wish to one day ride into a western and a nod to my Brian’s “Irish Cowboy Country Blues” album. (And also a denim tuxedo, so a shout-out to 🇨🇦 where we film.) • • Styling by @paulinacastrostyle Makeup by @tracyraffelsonmakeup Hair by @alexhenrichs Shirt by Levi’s Pants by Son-Ya Boots by Nine West Necklace by Alexa Leigh • • #StarTrek #StrangeNewWorlds #ForBrian #LLAP @startrek @startrekonpplus @paramountplus @cbstvstudios @paramountplusuk @paramountplusla @paramountplusbr
Melissa Navia Instagram - live chat and chill
Melissa Navia Instagram - Hang out with people who make you beam. ✨ @drsianproctor is a space pilot (and beyond). I play one on TV. We met up to talk flying, science, art, hiking, family, space advocacy, World Ocean Day, coloring books, ice hockey, and very big things to come. You’d think we’d be exhausted, but we’re only just getting started. #WomenInSTEAM #actorlife #astronautlife
Melissa Navia Instagram - Big things coming. ✨ #StrangeNewWorlds @startrekonpplus
Melissa Navia Instagram - How was your Star Trek Day? 🖖💫😎 Styling by @paulinacastrostyle Makeup by @tracyraffelsonmakeup Hair by @alexhenrichs 🚀🚀🚀 #StarTrekDay #StarTrek #StrangeNewWorlds @startrek @startrekonpplus @paramountplus @secrethideoutco @cbstvstudios
Melissa Navia Instagram - Part 2.
Melissa Navia Instagram - Hit it. 🚀💫
Melissa Navia Instagram - Just over here making franchise history. 😎 Strange New Worlds is now the most-watched @startrek original series debut on @paramountplus ever and is also one of the top two most-watched original series on @paramountplusuk. Bring on Star Trek Day. ✨09.08.22✨ See you in LA. 🖖 #StarTrek #StrangeNewWorlds #StarTrekSNW #StarTrekDay #NYC #actorslife
Melissa Navia Instagram - Only gonna be able to rock out at 2 conventions this year: Las Vegas and NYC. Going big and going home. 😌 Still tix left for @newyorkcomiccon in October, so get in on it. See my IG story for links. After that…see you in 2023! 🖖 #NYCC #NYCC2022
Melissa Navia Instagram - Oh hey there, Sir Adya. 👑⚔️👑 #StrangeNewWorlds #StarTrekSNW @startrekonpplus
Melissa Navia Instagram - Yayyy. Number one. Brian called it. He saw the scripts, heard the Zoom cast reads, listened to my stories after every day of filming, knew my castmates’ resumes better than I did, filled me in on franchise details I had no idea about, watched The Original Series, Deep Space Nine, and The Next Generation with me, had the movies prepped for me to watch when I was ready (but we never got the chance because f*ck holidays forever), and had no doubt that this would not only be the best new show when it debuted, but that it’d be the best Star Trek show ever. (His words, not mine.) And he did all this with such a nonchalant coolness that I don’t think it ever truly dawned on me just how much of a fan he was, an undercover Trekkie if you will, and how very proud he was of me and impressed by what we accomplished. He did all this while still doing all his own work, writing and recording music, cooking the best dinners, playing guitar and piano, working on his computers, helping me in every single one of my auditions, going for walks and drives with me and bike rides, surprising me with gifts that I didn’t ask for but that now I can’t go a day without. Yesterday was five months. Five strange, overwhelming months. I didn’t cry because I didn’t have the time and because Brian wouldn’t have wanted it. I was on set all day, shooting Season 2 - a day that started early in the morning with me watching a scene from Frasier where Frasier gives his son a Bar Mitzvah blessing (unknowingly) in Klingon. You need to watch the full episode for context, but the scene is brilliant and heartwarming. So I started the day laughing, with Brian. Please continue to speak his name, share his stories, listen to his music (@thesagespeaksnyc is only a start), and do things as he would’ve done, with an appreciation for life that was unparalleled. Plenty of Bickie celebrating to come this summer and fall, in NYC and Ballyshannon and wherever I go, so get ready. And please do not worry about me or be sad for me and especially not for Brian. It’s the last thing he’d ever want. It’s not us at all. I’ve got Brian watching over me more than ever and he’s got me looking out for him. #StrangeNewWorlds
Melissa Navia - 13.2K Likes - HAPPY DAYS. Secret’s out and @davyperez is posting pictures so here come mine, too! I got to hang with Riker on the bridge. Like yes, it was @jonathansfrakes, but every time he spoke it was totally Riker and I was a kid watching TNG and none of this is real but also MAGIC. Brian told me last year while we were filming Season 1 that I was clearly the Riker of Pike’s crew. So there are a number of reasons I’m so happy in this shot, but that’s definitely one of them. LET’S. GO. #ForBrian #StrangeNewWorlds #StarTrekLowerDecks #StarTrek #SDCC @StarTrekOnPPlus @StarTrek

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Caption : HAPPY DAYS. Secret’s out and @davyperez is posting pictures so here come mine, too! I got to hang with Riker on the bridge. Like yes, it was @jonathansfrakes, but every time he spoke it was totally Riker and I was a kid watching TNG and none of this is real but also MAGIC. Brian told me last year while we were filming Season 1 that I was clearly the Riker of Pike’s crew. So there are a number of reasons I’m so happy in this shot, but that’s definitely one of them. LET’S. GO. #ForBrian #StrangeNewWorlds #StarTrekLowerDecks #StarTrek #SDCC @StarTrekOnPPlus @StarTrek
Likes : 13150Melissa Navia - 10.8K Likes - When worlds collide.

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Caption : When worlds collide.
Likes : 10754Melissa Navia - 10.3K Likes - Season 3 wrapped. Flight training underway. ✈️🚀

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Caption : Season 3 wrapped. Flight training underway. ✈️🚀
Likes : 10322Melissa Navia - 9.9K Likes - Silver Dystopian Fox • • • • Photographer: @davidnoles Hair & Makeup: @annamalskaya Color: @valsoloniewitz // @marierobinsonsalon

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Caption : Silver Dystopian Fox • • • • Photographer: @davidnoles Hair & Makeup: @annamalskaya Color: @valsoloniewitz // @marierobinsonsalon
Likes : 9868Melissa Navia - 8.7K Likes - Sneak peek. Season 2. Coming 2023. ✨ clip in story ✨ #Mortegas #StarTrek #StrangeNewWorlds

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Caption : Sneak peek. Season 2. Coming 2023. ✨ clip in story ✨ #Mortegas #StarTrek #StrangeNewWorlds
Likes : 8675Melissa Navia - 7.7K Likes - Tonight we go on strike, but first: Star Trek & my late partner Brian Bannon changed my life. Next week’s #StrangeNewWorlds honors him. He was a force of nature, larger than life, and too bright for this world. So a nebula seems fitting. #BannonsNebula @AkivaGoldsman @alonsomyers

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Caption : Tonight we go on strike, but first: Star Trek & my late partner Brian Bannon changed my life. Next week’s #StrangeNewWorlds honors him. He was a force of nature, larger than life, and too bright for this world. So a nebula seems fitting. #BannonsNebula @AkivaGoldsman @alonsomyers
Likes : 7700Melissa Navia - 7.4K Likes - No rest for Starfleet. 🫡🖖

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Caption : No rest for Starfleet. 🫡🖖
Likes : 7412Melissa Navia - 7K Likes - Why are we so cool?

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Caption : Why are we so cool?
Likes : 6985Melissa Navia - 6.6K Likes - When it’s Monday and you’re impatient for the week ahead but also helmsman of the Enterprise so you gotta cool your jets ‘cause the fate of TOS depends on your unflappable piloting skills. So…no pressure. #StarTrekDay 🚀 09.08.22 🚀 #StarTrek #StrangeNewWorlds @startrekonpplus

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Caption : When it’s Monday and you’re impatient for the week ahead but also helmsman of the Enterprise so you gotta cool your jets ‘cause the fate of TOS depends on your unflappable piloting skills. So…no pressure. #StarTrekDay 🚀 09.08.22 🚀 #StarTrek #StrangeNewWorlds @startrekonpplus
Likes : 6550Melissa Navia - 6.5K Likes - Hi from the helm. 🐶: @runa_ewok // @christinachongx

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Caption : Hi from the helm. 🐶: @runa_ewok // @christinachongx
Likes : 6515Melissa Navia - 6.5K Likes - Got off my couch for the @saturnawards. And for @startrek. Or in the words of Norman Reedus last night, the Star Trek Awards. Makeup @scotiaboydmakeup Hair @creepycheekytiki Necklace @r_e_l_i_c.byonejessa Clutch @anavidesigns Ear Cuff @upandarmed Dress @aliceandolivia Tailoring @zoffranieri #SaturnAwards #StarTrek @startrekonpplus

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Caption : Got off my couch for the @saturnawards. And for @startrek. Or in the words of Norman Reedus last night, the Star Trek Awards. Makeup @scotiaboydmakeup Hair @creepycheekytiki Necklace @r_e_l_i_c.byonejessa Clutch @anavidesigns Ear Cuff @upandarmed Dress @aliceandolivia Tailoring @zoffranieri #SaturnAwards #StarTrek @startrekonpplus
Likes : 6462Melissa Navia - 6.4K Likes - Never met a dress I couldn’t pair with combat boots. 🖤 • • • • Photographed by @francishillsphotography Styled by @the_jorgemorales Makeup by @amandathesenbeauty Hair by @coreytuttlehair

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Caption : Never met a dress I couldn’t pair with combat boots. 🖤 • • • • Photographed by @francishillsphotography Styled by @the_jorgemorales Makeup by @amandathesenbeauty Hair by @coreytuttlehair
Likes : 6446Melissa Navia - 6.3K Likes - Look, Ma. We made it. ✨ [I sent this picture to my mom and she texted back that I look beautiful and: “Take a pic with Anson, too!” I think she speaks for moms everywhere and really all of us.] #TeamPike #NYCC #StrangeNewWorlds #NYCC2022 #StarTrek

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Caption : Look, Ma. We made it. ✨ [I sent this picture to my mom and she texted back that I look beautiful and: “Take a pic with Anson, too!” I think she speaks for moms everywhere and really all of us.] #TeamPike #NYCC #StrangeNewWorlds #NYCC2022 #StarTrek
Likes : 6275Melissa Navia - 6.2K Likes - 🐉 • • • • Photographer: @davidnoles Hair & Makeup: @annamalskaya Color: @valsoloniewitz

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Caption : 🐉 • • • • Photographer: @davidnoles Hair & Makeup: @annamalskaya Color: @valsoloniewitz
Likes : 6228Melissa Navia - 6K Likes - Best space friends. ✨ Back at it June 15th. 🚀 Boimler & Mariner & Carol Kane, too. 🖖 #StrangeNewWorlds #StarTrek

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Caption : Best space friends. ✨ Back at it June 15th. 🚀 Boimler & Mariner & Carol Kane, too. 🖖 #StrangeNewWorlds #StarTrek
Likes : 6037Melissa Navia - 6K Likes - Cooler than an AI rendering. Photographer: @davidnoles // DavidNoles.com Makeup: @amandathesenbeauty Hair: @coreytuttlehair

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Caption : Cooler than an AI rendering. Photographer: @davidnoles // DavidNoles.com Makeup: @amandathesenbeauty Hair: @coreytuttlehair
Likes : 6007Melissa Navia - 5.8K Likes - Not today. • • • • Photographed by @francishillsphotography Styled by @the_jorgemorales Makeup by @amandathesenbeauty Hair by @coreytuttlehair

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Caption : Not today. • • • • Photographed by @francishillsphotography Styled by @the_jorgemorales Makeup by @amandathesenbeauty Hair by @coreytuttlehair
Likes : 5796Melissa Navia - 5.8K Likes - BTS by Babs. #StrangeNewWorlds

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Caption : BTS by Babs. #StrangeNewWorlds
Likes : 5755Melissa Navia - 5.6K Likes - Never give up. Happy 2023. 💫 #actorslife #Billions #StarTrek #WomenInSTEM #LatinasInSpace

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Caption : Never give up. Happy 2023. 💫 #actorslife #Billions #StarTrek #WomenInSTEM #LatinasInSpace
Likes : 5577Melissa Navia - 5.4K Likes - Six months ago I didn’t want to leave my couch. I did not see the point. I only saw black. Problem was that not only did I need to leave my couch, I needed to leave the country and, ultimately, the planet, at the helm of a starship. These two beautiful angels made it happen. They put their lives on hold to make sure I made it back to Canada to film Season 2 of #StrangeNewWorlds. For me, for the show, for the fans, for my Brian, who always dropped everything to help when help was needed. ✨ This was us at our NYC premiere. Connor, @sorayadesignsthings, and me, wearing Brian’s black suede blazer and a space-age silver dress named Celeste. {Necklace by Patricia Von Musulin.} 👩‍🚀🖖 #ForBrian #WithBrian #StarTrek #StarTrekSNW #NotTodayGrief

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Caption : Six months ago I didn’t want to leave my couch. I did not see the point. I only saw black. Problem was that not only did I need to leave my couch, I needed to leave the country and, ultimately, the planet, at the helm of a starship. These two beautiful angels made it happen. They put their lives on hold to make sure I made it back to Canada to film Season 2 of #StrangeNewWorlds. For me, for the show, for the fans, for my Brian, who always dropped everything to help when help was needed. ✨ This was us at our NYC premiere. Connor, @sorayadesignsthings, and me, wearing Brian’s black suede blazer and a space-age silver dress named Celeste. {Necklace by Patricia Von Musulin.} 👩‍🚀🖖 #ForBrian #WithBrian #StarTrek #StarTrekSNW #NotTodayGrief
Likes : 5443Melissa Navia - 5.4K Likes - 3 more days… 🖖 #StarTrek #StrangeNewWorlds 📸: Santiago Felipe // Getty

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Caption : 3 more days… 🖖 #StarTrek #StrangeNewWorlds 📸: Santiago Felipe // Getty
Likes : 5422Melissa Navia - 5.4K Likes - This piece I wrote for @talkhouse is a part of my heart. ✨Link in Bio✨ About my life’s work, my dream role, and my late prince. And a thank you to my family, friends, and the #StrangeNewWorlds cast & crew who held me up, honored Brian’s memory, and made me smile again. Thank you to everyone who has already read it and messaged me or posted in any way to share how my words have reflected your own experiences with grief. The extraordinary people in your lives have changed you forever. Your memories of them are powerful. Keep telling their stories. Furious hugs to all of you. Furious because this sucks. Hugs because they help. #Grief changes everything. The pain is real. But it’s okay. We got this. To the stars, through hardship… 😌🖖 #ForBrian @thesagespeaksnyc #StarTrek #StarTrekSNW @startrek @startrekonpplus @talkhouse #Talkhouse @imprintpr @take3talent @erabon @natashamatallanamarken @mattsherman #actorslife

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Caption : This piece I wrote for @talkhouse is a part of my heart. ✨Link in Bio✨ About my life’s work, my dream role, and my late prince. And a thank you to my family, friends, and the #StrangeNewWorlds cast & crew who held me up, honored Brian’s memory, and made me smile again. Thank you to everyone who has already read it and messaged me or posted in any way to share how my words have reflected your own experiences with grief. The extraordinary people in your lives have changed you forever. Your memories of them are powerful. Keep telling their stories. Furious hugs to all of you. Furious because this sucks. Hugs because they help. #Grief changes everything. The pain is real. But it’s okay. We got this. To the stars, through hardship… 😌🖖 #ForBrian @thesagespeaksnyc #StarTrek #StarTrekSNW @startrek @startrekonpplus @talkhouse #Talkhouse @imprintpr @take3talent @erabon @natashamatallanamarken @mattsherman #actorslife
Likes : 5386Melissa Navia - 5.4K Likes - This piece I wrote for @talkhouse is a part of my heart. ✨Link in Bio✨ About my life’s work, my dream role, and my late prince. And a thank you to my family, friends, and the #StrangeNewWorlds cast & crew who held me up, honored Brian’s memory, and made me smile again. Thank you to everyone who has already read it and messaged me or posted in any way to share how my words have reflected your own experiences with grief. The extraordinary people in your lives have changed you forever. Your memories of them are powerful. Keep telling their stories. Furious hugs to all of you. Furious because this sucks. Hugs because they help. #Grief changes everything. The pain is real. But it’s okay. We got this. To the stars, through hardship… 😌🖖 #ForBrian @thesagespeaksnyc #StarTrek #StarTrekSNW @startrek @startrekonpplus @talkhouse #Talkhouse @imprintpr @take3talent @erabon @natashamatallanamarken @mattsherman #actorslife

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Caption : This piece I wrote for @talkhouse is a part of my heart. ✨Link in Bio✨ About my life’s work, my dream role, and my late prince. And a thank you to my family, friends, and the #StrangeNewWorlds cast & crew who held me up, honored Brian’s memory, and made me smile again. Thank you to everyone who has already read it and messaged me or posted in any way to share how my words have reflected your own experiences with grief. The extraordinary people in your lives have changed you forever. Your memories of them are powerful. Keep telling their stories. Furious hugs to all of you. Furious because this sucks. Hugs because they help. #Grief changes everything. The pain is real. But it’s okay. We got this. To the stars, through hardship… 😌🖖 #ForBrian @thesagespeaksnyc #StarTrek #StarTrekSNW @startrek @startrekonpplus @talkhouse #Talkhouse @imprintpr @take3talent @erabon @natashamatallanamarken @mattsherman #actorslife
Likes : 5386Melissa Navia - 5.4K Likes - This piece I wrote for @talkhouse is a part of my heart. ✨Link in Bio✨ About my life’s work, my dream role, and my late prince. And a thank you to my family, friends, and the #StrangeNewWorlds cast & crew who held me up, honored Brian’s memory, and made me smile again. Thank you to everyone who has already read it and messaged me or posted in any way to share how my words have reflected your own experiences with grief. The extraordinary people in your lives have changed you forever. Your memories of them are powerful. Keep telling their stories. Furious hugs to all of you. Furious because this sucks. Hugs because they help. #Grief changes everything. The pain is real. But it’s okay. We got this. To the stars, through hardship… 😌🖖 #ForBrian @thesagespeaksnyc #StarTrek #StarTrekSNW @startrek @startrekonpplus @talkhouse #Talkhouse @imprintpr @take3talent @erabon @natashamatallanamarken @mattsherman #actorslife

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Caption : This piece I wrote for @talkhouse is a part of my heart. ✨Link in Bio✨ About my life’s work, my dream role, and my late prince. And a thank you to my family, friends, and the #StrangeNewWorlds cast & crew who held me up, honored Brian’s memory, and made me smile again. Thank you to everyone who has already read it and messaged me or posted in any way to share how my words have reflected your own experiences with grief. The extraordinary people in your lives have changed you forever. Your memories of them are powerful. Keep telling their stories. Furious hugs to all of you. Furious because this sucks. Hugs because they help. #Grief changes everything. The pain is real. But it’s okay. We got this. To the stars, through hardship… 😌🖖 #ForBrian @thesagespeaksnyc #StarTrek #StarTrekSNW @startrek @startrekonpplus @talkhouse #Talkhouse @imprintpr @take3talent @erabon @natashamatallanamarken @mattsherman #actorslife
Likes : 5386Melissa Navia - 5.4K Likes - This piece I wrote for @talkhouse is a part of my heart. ✨Link in Bio✨ About my life’s work, my dream role, and my late prince. And a thank you to my family, friends, and the #StrangeNewWorlds cast & crew who held me up, honored Brian’s memory, and made me smile again. Thank you to everyone who has already read it and messaged me or posted in any way to share how my words have reflected your own experiences with grief. The extraordinary people in your lives have changed you forever. Your memories of them are powerful. Keep telling their stories. Furious hugs to all of you. Furious because this sucks. Hugs because they help. #Grief changes everything. The pain is real. But it’s okay. We got this. To the stars, through hardship… 😌🖖 #ForBrian @thesagespeaksnyc #StarTrek #StarTrekSNW @startrek @startrekonpplus @talkhouse #Talkhouse @imprintpr @take3talent @erabon @natashamatallanamarken @mattsherman #actorslife

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Caption : This piece I wrote for @talkhouse is a part of my heart. ✨Link in Bio✨ About my life’s work, my dream role, and my late prince. And a thank you to my family, friends, and the #StrangeNewWorlds cast & crew who held me up, honored Brian’s memory, and made me smile again. Thank you to everyone who has already read it and messaged me or posted in any way to share how my words have reflected your own experiences with grief. The extraordinary people in your lives have changed you forever. Your memories of them are powerful. Keep telling their stories. Furious hugs to all of you. Furious because this sucks. Hugs because they help. #Grief changes everything. The pain is real. But it’s okay. We got this. To the stars, through hardship… 😌🖖 #ForBrian @thesagespeaksnyc #StarTrek #StarTrekSNW @startrek @startrekonpplus @talkhouse #Talkhouse @imprintpr @take3talent @erabon @natashamatallanamarken @mattsherman #actorslife
Likes : 5386Melissa Navia - 5.4K Likes - This piece I wrote for @talkhouse is a part of my heart. ✨Link in Bio✨ About my life’s work, my dream role, and my late prince. And a thank you to my family, friends, and the #StrangeNewWorlds cast & crew who held me up, honored Brian’s memory, and made me smile again. Thank you to everyone who has already read it and messaged me or posted in any way to share how my words have reflected your own experiences with grief. The extraordinary people in your lives have changed you forever. Your memories of them are powerful. Keep telling their stories. Furious hugs to all of you. Furious because this sucks. Hugs because they help. #Grief changes everything. The pain is real. But it’s okay. We got this. To the stars, through hardship… 😌🖖 #ForBrian @thesagespeaksnyc #StarTrek #StarTrekSNW @startrek @startrekonpplus @talkhouse #Talkhouse @imprintpr @take3talent @erabon @natashamatallanamarken @mattsherman #actorslife

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Caption : This piece I wrote for @talkhouse is a part of my heart. ✨Link in Bio✨ About my life’s work, my dream role, and my late prince. And a thank you to my family, friends, and the #StrangeNewWorlds cast & crew who held me up, honored Brian’s memory, and made me smile again. Thank you to everyone who has already read it and messaged me or posted in any way to share how my words have reflected your own experiences with grief. The extraordinary people in your lives have changed you forever. Your memories of them are powerful. Keep telling their stories. Furious hugs to all of you. Furious because this sucks. Hugs because they help. #Grief changes everything. The pain is real. But it’s okay. We got this. To the stars, through hardship… 😌🖖 #ForBrian @thesagespeaksnyc #StarTrek #StarTrekSNW @startrek @startrekonpplus @talkhouse #Talkhouse @imprintpr @take3talent @erabon @natashamatallanamarken @mattsherman #actorslife
Likes : 5386Melissa Navia - 5.4K Likes - This piece I wrote for @talkhouse is a part of my heart. ✨Link in Bio✨ About my life’s work, my dream role, and my late prince. And a thank you to my family, friends, and the #StrangeNewWorlds cast & crew who held me up, honored Brian’s memory, and made me smile again. Thank you to everyone who has already read it and messaged me or posted in any way to share how my words have reflected your own experiences with grief. The extraordinary people in your lives have changed you forever. Your memories of them are powerful. Keep telling their stories. Furious hugs to all of you. Furious because this sucks. Hugs because they help. #Grief changes everything. The pain is real. But it’s okay. We got this. To the stars, through hardship… 😌🖖 #ForBrian @thesagespeaksnyc #StarTrek #StarTrekSNW @startrek @startrekonpplus @talkhouse #Talkhouse @imprintpr @take3talent @erabon @natashamatallanamarken @mattsherman #actorslife

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Caption : This piece I wrote for @talkhouse is a part of my heart. ✨Link in Bio✨ About my life’s work, my dream role, and my late prince. And a thank you to my family, friends, and the #StrangeNewWorlds cast & crew who held me up, honored Brian’s memory, and made me smile again. Thank you to everyone who has already read it and messaged me or posted in any way to share how my words have reflected your own experiences with grief. The extraordinary people in your lives have changed you forever. Your memories of them are powerful. Keep telling their stories. Furious hugs to all of you. Furious because this sucks. Hugs because they help. #Grief changes everything. The pain is real. But it’s okay. We got this. To the stars, through hardship… 😌🖖 #ForBrian @thesagespeaksnyc #StarTrek #StarTrekSNW @startrek @startrekonpplus @talkhouse #Talkhouse @imprintpr @take3talent @erabon @natashamatallanamarken @mattsherman #actorslife
Likes : 5386Melissa Navia - 5.3K Likes - La’an & Ortegas, up to what? Wrong answers only. And Happy Season 2 Premiere Day! #StarTrek #StrangeNewWorlds

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Caption : La’an & Ortegas, up to what? Wrong answers only. And Happy Season 2 Premiere Day! #StarTrek #StrangeNewWorlds
Likes : 5318Melissa Navia - 5.3K Likes - When you love your job and are really good at it and are also moving at tremendous speed. #StarTrek

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Caption : When you love your job and are really good at it and are also moving at tremendous speed. #StarTrek
Likes : 5288Melissa Navia - 5.3K Likes - When @sorayadesignsthings had to report to the bridge. #TBT #ForBrian @thesagespeaksnyc #StarTrek #StrangeNewWorlds #StarTrekSisters

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Caption : When @sorayadesignsthings had to report to the bridge. #TBT #ForBrian @thesagespeaksnyc #StarTrek #StrangeNewWorlds #StarTrekSisters
Likes : 5253Melissa Navia - 5.1K Likes - space tango 🔥 For: IRK Magazine @irkmagazine Photography: Jayme Thornton @jaymethornton Stylist: Cannon @thecannonmediagroup HMU: Andreas Schonagel @andreasschonagel #StarTrek #StrangeNewWorlds

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Caption : space tango 🔥 For: IRK Magazine @irkmagazine Photography: Jayme Thornton @jaymethornton Stylist: Cannon @thecannonmediagroup HMU: Andreas Schonagel @andreasschonagel #StarTrek #StrangeNewWorlds
Likes : 5087Melissa Navia - 5K Likes - Memories are everything. And ours were the best. This picture takes me right back to summer days, and lazy tube rides down rivers, on the way up to weekend getaways. Every day was an adventure; every day remains so. I’ve learned a lifetime of things this past year, not the least of which is that grief changes everything, and in that upheaval, it has the power to sink you or strengthen you. But it’s you who decides which of those it does. For me, and with Brian, it has done the latter. I feel invincible these days. I feel calm, I feel focused, I feel determined. That I got to spend so much time on this earth with my soulmate is a blessing that urges me onward. I was the luckiest, and I remain so. If you are grieving, I hope all the same for you. That the memories you shared be the fuel you need to thrive every day until at last you are reunited with your person again. They would want nothing less. And they know, more than anyone, that you are capable of even more.

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Caption : Memories are everything. And ours were the best. This picture takes me right back to summer days, and lazy tube rides down rivers, on the way up to weekend getaways. Every day was an adventure; every day remains so. I’ve learned a lifetime of things this past year, not the least of which is that grief changes everything, and in that upheaval, it has the power to sink you or strengthen you. But it’s you who decides which of those it does. For me, and with Brian, it has done the latter. I feel invincible these days. I feel calm, I feel focused, I feel determined. That I got to spend so much time on this earth with my soulmate is a blessing that urges me onward. I was the luckiest, and I remain so. If you are grieving, I hope all the same for you. That the memories you shared be the fuel you need to thrive every day until at last you are reunited with your person again. They would want nothing less. And they know, more than anyone, that you are capable of even more.
Likes : 5041Melissa Navia - 4.9K Likes - Feliz Día de los Reyes Magos! My humble gift to you is this Star Trek Day flashback of sexy crew goals. Season 2, where are you? #StarTrek #StarTrekDay #StrangeNewWorlds

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Caption : Feliz Día de los Reyes Magos! My humble gift to you is this Star Trek Day flashback of sexy crew goals. Season 2, where are you? #StarTrek #StarTrekDay #StrangeNewWorlds
Likes : 4935Melissa Navia - 4.9K Likes - ⛓🔥⛓🔥 • • • • Photographed by @francishillsphotography Styled by @the_jorgemorales Makeup by @amandathesenbeauty Hair by @coreytuttlehair

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Caption : ⛓🔥⛓🔥 • • • • Photographed by @francishillsphotography Styled by @the_jorgemorales Makeup by @amandathesenbeauty Hair by @coreytuttlehair
Likes : 4897Melissa Navia - 4.7K Likes - Back to work we go! 💫 #SagAftraStrong

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Caption : Back to work we go! 💫 #SagAftraStrong
Likes : 4703Melissa Navia - 4.6K Likes - Hey there! Melissa Navia here. I play Lt. Erica Ortegas, helmsman of the USS Enterprise, on Star Trek: Strange New Worlds on Paramount , and I’ll be taking over CBS Studios’ Instagram stories today in honor of #WomensHistoryMonth. We’ve got plenty to talk about, photos to share, and a just-announced Season 2 premiere date to start counting down to…June 15th! So follow along. Adventure awaits. 💫🖖 #StarTrek #StrangeNewWorlds

4.6K Likes – Melissa Navia Instagram

Caption : Hey there! Melissa Navia here. I play Lt. Erica Ortegas, helmsman of the USS Enterprise, on Star Trek: Strange New Worlds on Paramount , and I’ll be taking over CBS Studios’ Instagram stories today in honor of #WomensHistoryMonth. We’ve got plenty to talk about, photos to share, and a just-announced Season 2 premiere date to start counting down to…June 15th! So follow along. Adventure awaits. 💫🖖 #StarTrek #StrangeNewWorlds
Likes : 4630Melissa Navia - 4.6K Likes - Hey there! Melissa Navia here. I play Lt. Erica Ortegas, helmsman of the USS Enterprise, on Star Trek: Strange New Worlds on Paramount , and I’ll be taking over CBS Studios’ Instagram stories today in honor of #WomensHistoryMonth. We’ve got plenty to talk about, photos to share, and a just-announced Season 2 premiere date to start counting down to…June 15th! So follow along. Adventure awaits. 💫🖖 #StarTrek #StrangeNewWorlds

4.6K Likes – Melissa Navia Instagram

Caption : Hey there! Melissa Navia here. I play Lt. Erica Ortegas, helmsman of the USS Enterprise, on Star Trek: Strange New Worlds on Paramount , and I’ll be taking over CBS Studios’ Instagram stories today in honor of #WomensHistoryMonth. We’ve got plenty to talk about, photos to share, and a just-announced Season 2 premiere date to start counting down to…June 15th! So follow along. Adventure awaits. 💫🖖 #StarTrek #StrangeNewWorlds
Likes : 4630Melissa Navia - 4.6K Likes - Hey there! Melissa Navia here. I play Lt. Erica Ortegas, helmsman of the USS Enterprise, on Star Trek: Strange New Worlds on Paramount , and I’ll be taking over CBS Studios’ Instagram stories today in honor of #WomensHistoryMonth. We’ve got plenty to talk about, photos to share, and a just-announced Season 2 premiere date to start counting down to…June 15th! So follow along. Adventure awaits. 💫🖖 #StarTrek #StrangeNewWorlds

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Caption : Hey there! Melissa Navia here. I play Lt. Erica Ortegas, helmsman of the USS Enterprise, on Star Trek: Strange New Worlds on Paramount , and I’ll be taking over CBS Studios’ Instagram stories today in honor of #WomensHistoryMonth. We’ve got plenty to talk about, photos to share, and a just-announced Season 2 premiere date to start counting down to…June 15th! So follow along. Adventure awaits. 💫🖖 #StarTrek #StrangeNewWorlds
Likes : 4630Melissa Navia - 4.6K Likes - Hey there! Melissa Navia here. I play Lt. Erica Ortegas, helmsman of the USS Enterprise, on Star Trek: Strange New Worlds on Paramount , and I’ll be taking over CBS Studios’ Instagram stories today in honor of #WomensHistoryMonth. We’ve got plenty to talk about, photos to share, and a just-announced Season 2 premiere date to start counting down to…June 15th! So follow along. Adventure awaits. 💫🖖 #StarTrek #StrangeNewWorlds

4.6K Likes – Melissa Navia Instagram

Caption : Hey there! Melissa Navia here. I play Lt. Erica Ortegas, helmsman of the USS Enterprise, on Star Trek: Strange New Worlds on Paramount , and I’ll be taking over CBS Studios’ Instagram stories today in honor of #WomensHistoryMonth. We’ve got plenty to talk about, photos to share, and a just-announced Season 2 premiere date to start counting down to…June 15th! So follow along. Adventure awaits. 💫🖖 #StarTrek #StrangeNewWorlds
Likes : 4630Melissa Navia - 4.6K Likes - Hey there! Melissa Navia here. I play Lt. Erica Ortegas, helmsman of the USS Enterprise, on Star Trek: Strange New Worlds on Paramount , and I’ll be taking over CBS Studios’ Instagram stories today in honor of #WomensHistoryMonth. We’ve got plenty to talk about, photos to share, and a just-announced Season 2 premiere date to start counting down to…June 15th! So follow along. Adventure awaits. 💫🖖 #StarTrek #StrangeNewWorlds

4.6K Likes – Melissa Navia Instagram

Caption : Hey there! Melissa Navia here. I play Lt. Erica Ortegas, helmsman of the USS Enterprise, on Star Trek: Strange New Worlds on Paramount , and I’ll be taking over CBS Studios’ Instagram stories today in honor of #WomensHistoryMonth. We’ve got plenty to talk about, photos to share, and a just-announced Season 2 premiere date to start counting down to…June 15th! So follow along. Adventure awaits. 💫🖖 #StarTrek #StrangeNewWorlds
Likes : 4630Melissa Navia - 4.6K Likes - Hey there! Melissa Navia here. I play Lt. Erica Ortegas, helmsman of the USS Enterprise, on Star Trek: Strange New Worlds on Paramount , and I’ll be taking over CBS Studios’ Instagram stories today in honor of #WomensHistoryMonth. We’ve got plenty to talk about, photos to share, and a just-announced Season 2 premiere date to start counting down to…June 15th! So follow along. Adventure awaits. 💫🖖 #StarTrek #StrangeNewWorlds

4.6K Likes – Melissa Navia Instagram

Caption : Hey there! Melissa Navia here. I play Lt. Erica Ortegas, helmsman of the USS Enterprise, on Star Trek: Strange New Worlds on Paramount , and I’ll be taking over CBS Studios’ Instagram stories today in honor of #WomensHistoryMonth. We’ve got plenty to talk about, photos to share, and a just-announced Season 2 premiere date to start counting down to…June 15th! So follow along. Adventure awaits. 💫🖖 #StarTrek #StrangeNewWorlds
Likes : 4630Melissa Navia - 4.6K Likes - Hey there! Melissa Navia here. I play Lt. Erica Ortegas, helmsman of the USS Enterprise, on Star Trek: Strange New Worlds on Paramount , and I’ll be taking over CBS Studios’ Instagram stories today in honor of #WomensHistoryMonth. We’ve got plenty to talk about, photos to share, and a just-announced Season 2 premiere date to start counting down to…June 15th! So follow along. Adventure awaits. 💫🖖 #StarTrek #StrangeNewWorlds

4.6K Likes – Melissa Navia Instagram

Caption : Hey there! Melissa Navia here. I play Lt. Erica Ortegas, helmsman of the USS Enterprise, on Star Trek: Strange New Worlds on Paramount , and I’ll be taking over CBS Studios’ Instagram stories today in honor of #WomensHistoryMonth. We’ve got plenty to talk about, photos to share, and a just-announced Season 2 premiere date to start counting down to…June 15th! So follow along. Adventure awaits. 💫🖖 #StarTrek #StrangeNewWorlds
Likes : 4630Melissa Navia - 4.6K Likes - One for the road. Back to work we go.

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Caption : One for the road. Back to work we go.
Likes : 4585Melissa Navia - 4.5K Likes - On the picket line this week with my niece & @the_furious_owl! Thank you to all the friends & family members & sister unions who have been fighting with us. Standing together is everything. Solidarity is why we know we will win. ✊🎭 I owe so very much of my ability to endure and succeed in this business to my family and my Brian, who have always and fervently supported my ambitions and championed my efforts. I have found that the people you surround yourself with are as important to artistic success (and sanity) as everything you yourself bring to the table, not least of which is that burning, at-times inexplicable passion from deep within that urges you in even the darkest moments to “never give up, never surrender!” I cannot wait to get back to work, to get back to doing what I love with a supremely talented cast & crew of storytellers. Until then, a life of uphill hustling has primed all us working actors & writers for this moment. However long they think we can go, we can go longer. Because the future of our industry is at stake. Because we deserve fair contracts, respect, transparency, and living wages for the work we do and the stories we look forward to getting back to telling. @sagaftra @sagaftrafound #SAGAFTRAstrike #SAGAFTRAstrong

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Caption : On the picket line this week with my niece & @the_furious_owl! Thank you to all the friends & family members & sister unions who have been fighting with us. Standing together is everything. Solidarity is why we know we will win. ✊🎭 I owe so very much of my ability to endure and succeed in this business to my family and my Brian, who have always and fervently supported my ambitions and championed my efforts. I have found that the people you surround yourself with are as important to artistic success (and sanity) as everything you yourself bring to the table, not least of which is that burning, at-times inexplicable passion from deep within that urges you in even the darkest moments to “never give up, never surrender!” I cannot wait to get back to work, to get back to doing what I love with a supremely talented cast & crew of storytellers. Until then, a life of uphill hustling has primed all us working actors & writers for this moment. However long they think we can go, we can go longer. Because the future of our industry is at stake. Because we deserve fair contracts, respect, transparency, and living wages for the work we do and the stories we look forward to getting back to telling. @sagaftra @sagaftrafound #SAGAFTRAstrike #SAGAFTRAstrong
Likes : 4451Melissa Navia - 4.5K Likes - On the picket line this week with my niece & @the_furious_owl! Thank you to all the friends & family members & sister unions who have been fighting with us. Standing together is everything. Solidarity is why we know we will win. ✊🎭 I owe so very much of my ability to endure and succeed in this business to my family and my Brian, who have always and fervently supported my ambitions and championed my efforts. I have found that the people you surround yourself with are as important to artistic success (and sanity) as everything you yourself bring to the table, not least of which is that burning, at-times inexplicable passion from deep within that urges you in even the darkest moments to “never give up, never surrender!” I cannot wait to get back to work, to get back to doing what I love with a supremely talented cast & crew of storytellers. Until then, a life of uphill hustling has primed all us working actors & writers for this moment. However long they think we can go, we can go longer. Because the future of our industry is at stake. Because we deserve fair contracts, respect, transparency, and living wages for the work we do and the stories we look forward to getting back to telling. @sagaftra @sagaftrafound #SAGAFTRAstrike #SAGAFTRAstrong

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Caption : On the picket line this week with my niece & @the_furious_owl! Thank you to all the friends & family members & sister unions who have been fighting with us. Standing together is everything. Solidarity is why we know we will win. ✊🎭 I owe so very much of my ability to endure and succeed in this business to my family and my Brian, who have always and fervently supported my ambitions and championed my efforts. I have found that the people you surround yourself with are as important to artistic success (and sanity) as everything you yourself bring to the table, not least of which is that burning, at-times inexplicable passion from deep within that urges you in even the darkest moments to “never give up, never surrender!” I cannot wait to get back to work, to get back to doing what I love with a supremely talented cast & crew of storytellers. Until then, a life of uphill hustling has primed all us working actors & writers for this moment. However long they think we can go, we can go longer. Because the future of our industry is at stake. Because we deserve fair contracts, respect, transparency, and living wages for the work we do and the stories we look forward to getting back to telling. @sagaftra @sagaftrafound #SAGAFTRAstrike #SAGAFTRAstrong
Likes : 4451Melissa Navia - 4.5K Likes - On the picket line this week with my niece & @the_furious_owl! Thank you to all the friends & family members & sister unions who have been fighting with us. Standing together is everything. Solidarity is why we know we will win. ✊🎭 I owe so very much of my ability to endure and succeed in this business to my family and my Brian, who have always and fervently supported my ambitions and championed my efforts. I have found that the people you surround yourself with are as important to artistic success (and sanity) as everything you yourself bring to the table, not least of which is that burning, at-times inexplicable passion from deep within that urges you in even the darkest moments to “never give up, never surrender!” I cannot wait to get back to work, to get back to doing what I love with a supremely talented cast & crew of storytellers. Until then, a life of uphill hustling has primed all us working actors & writers for this moment. However long they think we can go, we can go longer. Because the future of our industry is at stake. Because we deserve fair contracts, respect, transparency, and living wages for the work we do and the stories we look forward to getting back to telling. @sagaftra @sagaftrafound #SAGAFTRAstrike #SAGAFTRAstrong

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Caption : On the picket line this week with my niece & @the_furious_owl! Thank you to all the friends & family members & sister unions who have been fighting with us. Standing together is everything. Solidarity is why we know we will win. ✊🎭 I owe so very much of my ability to endure and succeed in this business to my family and my Brian, who have always and fervently supported my ambitions and championed my efforts. I have found that the people you surround yourself with are as important to artistic success (and sanity) as everything you yourself bring to the table, not least of which is that burning, at-times inexplicable passion from deep within that urges you in even the darkest moments to “never give up, never surrender!” I cannot wait to get back to work, to get back to doing what I love with a supremely talented cast & crew of storytellers. Until then, a life of uphill hustling has primed all us working actors & writers for this moment. However long they think we can go, we can go longer. Because the future of our industry is at stake. Because we deserve fair contracts, respect, transparency, and living wages for the work we do and the stories we look forward to getting back to telling. @sagaftra @sagaftrafound #SAGAFTRAstrike #SAGAFTRAstrong
Likes : 4451Melissa Navia - 4.3K Likes - ❤️‍🔥 🦋 ⚡️ 💖 • • • • Photographer: @01henrylou Stylist: @paulinacastrostyle Hair: @jasonlinkow Makeup: @makeovernao For: @photobookmagazine

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Caption : ❤️‍🔥 🦋 ⚡️ 💖 • • • • Photographer: @01henrylou Stylist: @paulinacastrostyle Hair: @jasonlinkow Makeup: @makeovernao For: @photobookmagazine
Likes : 4251Melissa Navia - 4.3K Likes - ❤️‍🔥 🦋 ⚡️ 💖 • • • • Photographer: @01henrylou Stylist: @paulinacastrostyle Hair: @jasonlinkow Makeup: @makeovernao For: @photobookmagazine

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Caption : ❤️‍🔥 🦋 ⚡️ 💖 • • • • Photographer: @01henrylou Stylist: @paulinacastrostyle Hair: @jasonlinkow Makeup: @makeovernao For: @photobookmagazine
Likes : 4251Melissa Navia - 4.3K Likes - ❤️‍🔥 🦋 ⚡️ 💖 • • • • Photographer: @01henrylou Stylist: @paulinacastrostyle Hair: @jasonlinkow Makeup: @makeovernao For: @photobookmagazine

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Caption : ❤️‍🔥 🦋 ⚡️ 💖 • • • • Photographer: @01henrylou Stylist: @paulinacastrostyle Hair: @jasonlinkow Makeup: @makeovernao For: @photobookmagazine
Likes : 4251Melissa Navia - 4.3K Likes - ❤️‍🔥 🦋 ⚡️ 💖 • • • • Photographer: @01henrylou Stylist: @paulinacastrostyle Hair: @jasonlinkow Makeup: @makeovernao For: @photobookmagazine

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Caption : ❤️‍🔥 🦋 ⚡️ 💖 • • • • Photographer: @01henrylou Stylist: @paulinacastrostyle Hair: @jasonlinkow Makeup: @makeovernao For: @photobookmagazine
Likes : 4251Melissa Navia - 4.2K Likes - Big eyes, short hair, and an affinity for uniforms. Ortegas in the making. 🚀 2 more days! 06.15.23 #StarTrek #StrangeNewWorlds #GirlWithShortHair @gwshorthair

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Caption : Big eyes, short hair, and an affinity for uniforms. Ortegas in the making. 🚀 2 more days! 06.15.23 #StarTrek #StrangeNewWorlds #GirlWithShortHair @gwshorthair
Likes : 4245Melissa Navia - 4.2K Likes - Me in Versace. ⚜️ Link in Bio ⚜️ PhotoBook Editor-In-Chief: Alison Hernon @718blonde PhotoBook Creative Director: Mike Ruiz @mikeruiz.one @mikeruizone Photographer: Henry Lou @ ABTP Agency @01henrylou @abtp_news Talent: Melissa Navia @mcnavia Fashion Stylist: Paulina Castro @paulinacastrostyle Hair: Jason Linkow @ ABTP Agency using SEVEN Haircare: Sculpt Gel, Working Hairspray and Fibre/Dyson — Supersonic Hair Dryer @jasonlinkow Makeup: Naoko Kitano @makeovernao Tearsheets: Daniel López, Associate Art Director, PhotoBook Magazine @alarcn.daniel Interview: Lola Jarzemsky, Contributor, PhotoBook Magazine @lolajarzemsky Tank Top by ATM Coat by @versace Pants by @versace Chain Choker by @versace Necklace by Model’s Own (#StarTrek Delta gifted by @chrissychong after S1 wrap of #StrangeNewWorlds) @photobookmagazine @imprintpr @take3talent @startrekonpplus @gwshorthair #StarTrek

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Caption : Me in Versace. ⚜️ Link in Bio ⚜️ PhotoBook Editor-In-Chief: Alison Hernon @718blonde PhotoBook Creative Director: Mike Ruiz @mikeruiz.one @mikeruizone Photographer: Henry Lou @ ABTP Agency @01henrylou @abtp_news Talent: Melissa Navia @mcnavia Fashion Stylist: Paulina Castro @paulinacastrostyle Hair: Jason Linkow @ ABTP Agency using SEVEN Haircare: Sculpt Gel, Working Hairspray and Fibre/Dyson — Supersonic Hair Dryer @jasonlinkow Makeup: Naoko Kitano @makeovernao Tearsheets: Daniel López, Associate Art Director, PhotoBook Magazine @alarcn.daniel Interview: Lola Jarzemsky, Contributor, PhotoBook Magazine @lolajarzemsky Tank Top by ATM Coat by @versace Pants by @versace Chain Choker by @versace Necklace by Model’s Own (#StarTrek Delta gifted by @chrissychong after S1 wrap of #StrangeNewWorlds) @photobookmagazine @imprintpr @take3talent @startrekonpplus @gwshorthair #StarTrek
Likes : 4231Melissa Navia - 4.2K Likes - ⚔️ • • • • Photographer: @davidnoles Hair & Makeup: @annamalskaya Color: @valsoloniewitz // @marierobinsonsalon Blazer: @thesagespeaksnyc #ForBrian #WithBrian

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Caption : ⚔️ • • • • Photographer: @davidnoles Hair & Makeup: @annamalskaya Color: @valsoloniewitz // @marierobinsonsalon Blazer: @thesagespeaksnyc #ForBrian #WithBrian
Likes : 4155Melissa Navia - 4K Likes - My unbelievably talented & beautiful baby sister @sorayadesignsthings. The only thing that hasn’t changed for me these past bunch of months is how much I treasure her everything in my life. Even her bathroom selfie skills are the best. 🌟 #ForBrian #WithBrian #StarTrek #StrangeNewWorlds #NYC

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Caption : My unbelievably talented & beautiful baby sister @sorayadesignsthings. The only thing that hasn’t changed for me these past bunch of months is how much I treasure her everything in my life. Even her bathroom selfie skills are the best. 🌟 #ForBrian #WithBrian #StarTrek #StrangeNewWorlds #NYC
Likes : 4045Melissa Navia - 4K Likes - On stage in Vegas. Talking banjos & stargazing & writers. #WGAstrike #SAGAFTRAstrong

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Caption : On stage in Vegas. Talking banjos & stargazing & writers. #WGAstrike #SAGAFTRAstrong
Likes : 4041Melissa Navia - 4K Likes - 🤍

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Caption : 🤍
Likes : 3990Melissa Navia - 4K Likes - Find yourself a person who never takes selfies but puts up with yours. For that is your soulmate. ✨ Mi Brian, tan lindo siempre. ✨ T-minus 4 days to Star Trek Day. Last year I watched from home on the couch with my favorite person; this year I’ll be on stage in LA thinking about my favorite person. Happy of course but also & always now a wee bit sad - because that is #grief. And it’s okay. The sad is okay. The sad will never go away, because you miss your other half, but the happy can grow, I am finding, in spite of the sad, around it, through it, and even side-by-side with it. I absolutely know Brian will be with me on Star Trek Day, as he was last year, beaming, proud of me, making me laugh, making me think, encouraging me, reminding me that I have more work to do. My work and our work and Trek work. Looking forward to hanging out with our extended family again, Starfleet officers & fans alike, and for as long a time as I have to come. #ForBrian #StarTrek @startrek @startrekonpplus #StarTrekDay

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Caption : Find yourself a person who never takes selfies but puts up with yours. For that is your soulmate. ✨ Mi Brian, tan lindo siempre. ✨ T-minus 4 days to Star Trek Day. Last year I watched from home on the couch with my favorite person; this year I’ll be on stage in LA thinking about my favorite person. Happy of course but also & always now a wee bit sad – because that is #grief. And it’s okay. The sad is okay. The sad will never go away, because you miss your other half, but the happy can grow, I am finding, in spite of the sad, around it, through it, and even side-by-side with it. I absolutely know Brian will be with me on Star Trek Day, as he was last year, beaming, proud of me, making me laugh, making me think, encouraging me, reminding me that I have more work to do. My work and our work and Trek work. Looking forward to hanging out with our extended family again, Starfleet officers & fans alike, and for as long a time as I have to come. #ForBrian #StarTrek @startrek @startrekonpplus #StarTrekDay
Likes : 3987Melissa Navia - 4K Likes - Brian used to joke that I learned my eyebrow raise from him. I would laugh and remind him that contrary to what he might think, as perfect as we were together, I had indeed existed on my own before we met. I was arching my eyebrow long before we crossed paths, not realizing that my match was waiting for me just around the corner. The picture on the left is Brian in the Berkshires in March 2020. I still remember taking it. How struck I was by him standing in the snowy woods. He was tall, handsome, charming, in his element. Fast forward two years and the picture on the right was suddenly everywhere I looked. What Brian had helped me achieve had arrived - there was a poster to prove it. And I couldn’t place it for a while, but I knew I’d seen it before. The stance, the confidence, the outfit, the eyebrow. And then it hit me. But of course. It was me and it was Brian. My other half. Which is perfect and is how I feel all the time now. As impossibly difficult and absurdly unexpected as these last six months have been, what has helped me get a little stronger every day is fully realizing this: Yes, my best friend died, and yes, half of me went with him. But if that is true, and it is, then as long as I live, half of him still does, too. That keeps me going. The work we have still to do. The adventures we have yet to take. Thank you to everyone who has reached out to share their own grief experiences. Even if I have not been able to respond, know that I have read your messages and appreciate them more than I could ever properly express in a caption. I have so much more to share of Brian’s life, his music, his talent, and his spirit. He was a force of nature. Everyone who knew him and had the privilege of being in his company knows exactly what I mean; and everyone who didn’t, will. #ForBrian #StarTrek #StrangeNewWorlds

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Caption : Brian used to joke that I learned my eyebrow raise from him. I would laugh and remind him that contrary to what he might think, as perfect as we were together, I had indeed existed on my own before we met. I was arching my eyebrow long before we crossed paths, not realizing that my match was waiting for me just around the corner. The picture on the left is Brian in the Berkshires in March 2020. I still remember taking it. How struck I was by him standing in the snowy woods. He was tall, handsome, charming, in his element. Fast forward two years and the picture on the right was suddenly everywhere I looked. What Brian had helped me achieve had arrived – there was a poster to prove it. And I couldn’t place it for a while, but I knew I’d seen it before. The stance, the confidence, the outfit, the eyebrow. And then it hit me. But of course. It was me and it was Brian. My other half. Which is perfect and is how I feel all the time now. As impossibly difficult and absurdly unexpected as these last six months have been, what has helped me get a little stronger every day is fully realizing this: Yes, my best friend died, and yes, half of me went with him. But if that is true, and it is, then as long as I live, half of him still does, too. That keeps me going. The work we have still to do. The adventures we have yet to take. Thank you to everyone who has reached out to share their own grief experiences. Even if I have not been able to respond, know that I have read your messages and appreciate them more than I could ever properly express in a caption. I have so much more to share of Brian’s life, his music, his talent, and his spirit. He was a force of nature. Everyone who knew him and had the privilege of being in his company knows exactly what I mean; and everyone who didn’t, will. #ForBrian #StarTrek #StrangeNewWorlds
Likes : 3968Melissa Navia - 3.9K Likes - My resting brow arch. Photographer: @davidnoles // DavidNoles.com Makeup: @amandathesenbeauty Hair: @coreytuttlehair

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Caption : My resting brow arch. Photographer: @davidnoles // DavidNoles.com Makeup: @amandathesenbeauty Hair: @coreytuttlehair
Likes : 3877Melissa Navia - 3.8K Likes - ⛓️💖⛓️ Makeup @scotiaboydmakeup Hair @creepycheekytiki Necklaces @upandarmed Dress & Jacket @majeparis #PortrayHer #GirlsLeadSTEM #SeeItBeIt @geenadavisorg @ifthenshecan

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Caption : ⛓️💖⛓️ Makeup @scotiaboydmakeup Hair @creepycheekytiki Necklaces @upandarmed Dress & Jacket @majeparis #PortrayHer #GirlsLeadSTEM #SeeItBeIt @geenadavisorg @ifthenshecan
Likes : 3821Melissa Navia - 3.8K Likes - Great minds.

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Caption : Great minds.
Likes : 3770Melissa Navia - 3.6K Likes - Suspenders! My outfit didn’t originally have suspenders, but when I saw that @wayofbabs & @ansonmount’s leather pants, which were the same as my leather pants, had suspenders, I made some inquiries and voilà, life was easier. Made the sword fight much more comfortable. First go-round putting them on I criss-crossed them in front because ya think you know suspenders until you have to actually wear them. 🎩 #SirAdya #Ortegas #StrangeNewWorlds #StarTrekSNW @startrek @startrekonpplus

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Caption : Suspenders! My outfit didn’t originally have suspenders, but when I saw that @wayofbabs & @ansonmount’s leather pants, which were the same as my leather pants, had suspenders, I made some inquiries and voilà, life was easier. Made the sword fight much more comfortable. First go-round putting them on I criss-crossed them in front because ya think you know suspenders until you have to actually wear them. 🎩 #SirAdya #Ortegas #StrangeNewWorlds #StarTrekSNW @startrek @startrekonpplus
Likes : 3646Melissa Navia - 3.6K Likes - When they won’t let you pilot a shuttle to Mars, get yourself a starship and go to planets they’ve never even heard of. #MondayMotivation #actorslife #Billions #StrangeNewWorlds #StarTrek

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Caption : When they won’t let you pilot a shuttle to Mars, get yourself a starship and go to planets they’ve never even heard of. #MondayMotivation #actorslife #Billions #StrangeNewWorlds #StarTrek
Likes : 3553Melissa Navia - 3.4K Likes - “One of the most charming ensembles in the business” - that’s us! #StarTrek #StrangeNewWorlds

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Caption : “One of the most charming ensembles in the business” – that’s us! #StarTrek #StrangeNewWorlds
Likes : 3418Melissa Navia - 3.3K Likes - For my mom, who says I don’t show my teeth enough. 🙂 Photographer: @davidnoles // DavidNoles.com Makeup: @amandathesenbeauty Hair: @coreytuttlehair

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Caption : For my mom, who says I don’t show my teeth enough. 🙂 Photographer: @davidnoles // DavidNoles.com Makeup: @amandathesenbeauty Hair: @coreytuttlehair
Likes : 3346Melissa Navia - 3.3K Likes - I did a lot of press these past few months for Strange New Worlds. Every interview proved to be uplifting, engaging, and intriguing thanks to the journalists who genuinely appreciated all that the Star Trek universe entails and whose poignant questions made for enlightening conversations. But the two that stood out for me the most and still have me smiling were my first-ever interviews in Spanish for Colombia. 🇨🇴 They were challenging and momentous and truly made me reflect on what it means to be a Latina and Colombian-American at the helm of the USS Enterpise. Both now can be found on my Linktree ✨see bio for link✨ along with a few additional selections, including my first interview with Ireland. 🇮🇪 Thank you to my amazing parents, my tías, and my cousin @versca who helped me brush up on my Spanish, and my sisters @sorayadesignsthings & @the_furious_owl who helped immensely logistically. And to Gustavo Gómez Córdoba from Caracol Radio and Pilar Schmitt from Noticias Caracol. 💛💙❤️ #StarTrek #ForBrian #StrangeNewWorlds @gustavogomezcordoba @caracolradio @pilarschmitt @noticiascaracol #Colombia #LatinasInSpace #EricaOrtegas

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Caption : I did a lot of press these past few months for Strange New Worlds. Every interview proved to be uplifting, engaging, and intriguing thanks to the journalists who genuinely appreciated all that the Star Trek universe entails and whose poignant questions made for enlightening conversations. But the two that stood out for me the most and still have me smiling were my first-ever interviews in Spanish for Colombia. 🇨🇴 They were challenging and momentous and truly made me reflect on what it means to be a Latina and Colombian-American at the helm of the USS Enterpise. Both now can be found on my Linktree ✨see bio for link✨ along with a few additional selections, including my first interview with Ireland. 🇮🇪 Thank you to my amazing parents, my tías, and my cousin @versca who helped me brush up on my Spanish, and my sisters @sorayadesignsthings & @the_furious_owl who helped immensely logistically. And to Gustavo Gómez Córdoba from Caracol Radio and Pilar Schmitt from Noticias Caracol. 💛💙❤️ #StarTrek #ForBrian #StrangeNewWorlds @gustavogomezcordoba @caracolradio @pilarschmitt @noticiascaracol #Colombia #LatinasInSpace #EricaOrtegas
Likes : 3343Melissa Navia - 3.3K Likes - Not sure if @robert_picardo and I wrangled donkeys Milo and Danny Boy or if they wrangled us. Either way, @onthepoint_lakerotorua was one of many highlights during our New Zealand odyssey with @armageddonexponz. To more donkey encounters. And many more space adventures.

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Caption : Not sure if @robert_picardo and I wrangled donkeys Milo and Danny Boy or if they wrangled us. Either way, @onthepoint_lakerotorua was one of many highlights during our New Zealand odyssey with @armageddonexponz. To more donkey encounters. And many more space adventures.
Likes : 3330Melissa Navia - 3.3K Likes - I remember the first time I saw the drawing of Sir Adya. Long before I got a script. It was me in rogue knight’s leather regalia. It was Aragorn and Indiana Jones and…me. I had no words. It was the character I had always wanted to play on a big screen standing right in front of me, albeit on paper, waiting for me to bring it to life. It was so perfectly me & yet also Star Trek & somehow also Lord of the Rings. A poster of Aragorn still hangs in my teenage bedroom in my parents’ home, and here I was a whole country away looking at me looking like him, sword & all. So I would be what…sword fighting? In space? As SIR Adya? And no one wanted to have a conversation about how any of that made sense? Because it made all the sense to me, but I’ve spent so much of my life explaining how “yes, I do make sense!” that the absolute ease of this felt unreal. Brian and I joked that the producers & writers must’ve had me followed. How else could this be? The role I worked my whole career for was turning out to be all the roles I had waited my life for (just wait ‘til you see what’s to come), all to be played out on the stage that is the USS Enterprise. 🥹⚔️🖖 Costume Designer: @berncroft Illustrator: @costumeillustration Writers: @onitrajohnson & @akelacooper 💫: @alonsomyers, @ajgoldsman1629, @widgetfactoryco & @billwearsties #StrangeNewWorlds #StarTrekSNW @startrekonpplus @startrek @paramountplus

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Caption : I remember the first time I saw the drawing of Sir Adya. Long before I got a script. It was me in rogue knight’s leather regalia. It was Aragorn and Indiana Jones and…me. I had no words. It was the character I had always wanted to play on a big screen standing right in front of me, albeit on paper, waiting for me to bring it to life. It was so perfectly me & yet also Star Trek & somehow also Lord of the Rings. A poster of Aragorn still hangs in my teenage bedroom in my parents’ home, and here I was a whole country away looking at me looking like him, sword & all. So I would be what…sword fighting? In space? As SIR Adya? And no one wanted to have a conversation about how any of that made sense? Because it made all the sense to me, but I’ve spent so much of my life explaining how “yes, I do make sense!” that the absolute ease of this felt unreal. Brian and I joked that the producers & writers must’ve had me followed. How else could this be? The role I worked my whole career for was turning out to be all the roles I had waited my life for (just wait ‘til you see what’s to come), all to be played out on the stage that is the USS Enterprise. 🥹⚔️🖖 Costume Designer: @berncroft Illustrator: @costumeillustration Writers: @onitrajohnson & @akelacooper 💫: @alonsomyers, @ajgoldsman1629, @widgetfactoryco & @billwearsties #StrangeNewWorlds #StarTrekSNW @startrekonpplus @startrek @paramountplus
Likes : 3257Melissa Navia - 3.3K Likes - I remember the first time I saw the drawing of Sir Adya. Long before I got a script. It was me in rogue knight’s leather regalia. It was Aragorn and Indiana Jones and…me. I had no words. It was the character I had always wanted to play on a big screen standing right in front of me, albeit on paper, waiting for me to bring it to life. It was so perfectly me & yet also Star Trek & somehow also Lord of the Rings. A poster of Aragorn still hangs in my teenage bedroom in my parents’ home, and here I was a whole country away looking at me looking like him, sword & all. So I would be what…sword fighting? In space? As SIR Adya? And no one wanted to have a conversation about how any of that made sense? Because it made all the sense to me, but I’ve spent so much of my life explaining how “yes, I do make sense!” that the absolute ease of this felt unreal. Brian and I joked that the producers & writers must’ve had me followed. How else could this be? The role I worked my whole career for was turning out to be all the roles I had waited my life for (just wait ‘til you see what’s to come), all to be played out on the stage that is the USS Enterprise. 🥹⚔️🖖 Costume Designer: @berncroft Illustrator: @costumeillustration Writers: @onitrajohnson & @akelacooper 💫: @alonsomyers, @ajgoldsman1629, @widgetfactoryco & @billwearsties #StrangeNewWorlds #StarTrekSNW @startrekonpplus @startrek @paramountplus

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Caption : I remember the first time I saw the drawing of Sir Adya. Long before I got a script. It was me in rogue knight’s leather regalia. It was Aragorn and Indiana Jones and…me. I had no words. It was the character I had always wanted to play on a big screen standing right in front of me, albeit on paper, waiting for me to bring it to life. It was so perfectly me & yet also Star Trek & somehow also Lord of the Rings. A poster of Aragorn still hangs in my teenage bedroom in my parents’ home, and here I was a whole country away looking at me looking like him, sword & all. So I would be what…sword fighting? In space? As SIR Adya? And no one wanted to have a conversation about how any of that made sense? Because it made all the sense to me, but I’ve spent so much of my life explaining how “yes, I do make sense!” that the absolute ease of this felt unreal. Brian and I joked that the producers & writers must’ve had me followed. How else could this be? The role I worked my whole career for was turning out to be all the roles I had waited my life for (just wait ‘til you see what’s to come), all to be played out on the stage that is the USS Enterprise. 🥹⚔️🖖 Costume Designer: @berncroft Illustrator: @costumeillustration Writers: @onitrajohnson & @akelacooper 💫: @alonsomyers, @ajgoldsman1629, @widgetfactoryco & @billwearsties #StrangeNewWorlds #StarTrekSNW @startrekonpplus @startrek @paramountplus
Likes : 3257Melissa Navia - 3.3K Likes - I remember the first time I saw the drawing of Sir Adya. Long before I got a script. It was me in rogue knight’s leather regalia. It was Aragorn and Indiana Jones and…me. I had no words. It was the character I had always wanted to play on a big screen standing right in front of me, albeit on paper, waiting for me to bring it to life. It was so perfectly me & yet also Star Trek & somehow also Lord of the Rings. A poster of Aragorn still hangs in my teenage bedroom in my parents’ home, and here I was a whole country away looking at me looking like him, sword & all. So I would be what…sword fighting? In space? As SIR Adya? And no one wanted to have a conversation about how any of that made sense? Because it made all the sense to me, but I’ve spent so much of my life explaining how “yes, I do make sense!” that the absolute ease of this felt unreal. Brian and I joked that the producers & writers must’ve had me followed. How else could this be? The role I worked my whole career for was turning out to be all the roles I had waited my life for (just wait ‘til you see what’s to come), all to be played out on the stage that is the USS Enterprise. 🥹⚔️🖖 Costume Designer: @berncroft Illustrator: @costumeillustration Writers: @onitrajohnson & @akelacooper 💫: @alonsomyers, @ajgoldsman1629, @widgetfactoryco & @billwearsties #StrangeNewWorlds #StarTrekSNW @startrekonpplus @startrek @paramountplus

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Caption : I remember the first time I saw the drawing of Sir Adya. Long before I got a script. It was me in rogue knight’s leather regalia. It was Aragorn and Indiana Jones and…me. I had no words. It was the character I had always wanted to play on a big screen standing right in front of me, albeit on paper, waiting for me to bring it to life. It was so perfectly me & yet also Star Trek & somehow also Lord of the Rings. A poster of Aragorn still hangs in my teenage bedroom in my parents’ home, and here I was a whole country away looking at me looking like him, sword & all. So I would be what…sword fighting? In space? As SIR Adya? And no one wanted to have a conversation about how any of that made sense? Because it made all the sense to me, but I’ve spent so much of my life explaining how “yes, I do make sense!” that the absolute ease of this felt unreal. Brian and I joked that the producers & writers must’ve had me followed. How else could this be? The role I worked my whole career for was turning out to be all the roles I had waited my life for (just wait ‘til you see what’s to come), all to be played out on the stage that is the USS Enterprise. 🥹⚔️🖖 Costume Designer: @berncroft Illustrator: @costumeillustration Writers: @onitrajohnson & @akelacooper 💫: @alonsomyers, @ajgoldsman1629, @widgetfactoryco & @billwearsties #StrangeNewWorlds #StarTrekSNW @startrekonpplus @startrek @paramountplus
Likes : 3257Melissa Navia - 3.1K Likes - Thank you to all the fans who shared this picture all month and tagged me to let me know it was the June picture of this year’s Strange New Worlds calendar. In the words of @oneimpossiblethingatatime: “Two years ago today ‘The Elysian Kingdom’ aired. How wonderful that a little girl wrote her favourite characters as queer just because she could. Thanks to melissaCnavia & @RebeccaRomijn who played it beautifully. 🖖🏻🌈” Happy Pride. Today and every day. #LLAP #StarTrek #StrangeNewWorlds

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Caption : Thank you to all the fans who shared this picture all month and tagged me to let me know it was the June picture of this year’s Strange New Worlds calendar. In the words of @oneimpossiblethingatatime: “Two years ago today ‘The Elysian Kingdom’ aired. How wonderful that a little girl wrote her favourite characters as queer just because she could. Thanks to melissaCnavia & @RebeccaRomijn who played it beautifully. 🖖🏻🌈” Happy Pride. Today and every day. #LLAP #StarTrek #StrangeNewWorlds
Likes : 3145Melissa Navia - 3.1K Likes - Honored to have been invited to speak and to share a poem at the @IrishArtsCenter’s 13th Annual PoetryFest this past weekend. A series of events and a serendipitous encounter in Canada (thanks to Star Trek and Irish dancing) led me right back to Brian’s old neighborhood of Hell’s Kitchen in NYC, our friends at @ardesiawinebar, and a splendid opening night of favorite poems presented by poets & guests alike in the gorgeous space that is the Irish Arts Center. I spoke about Brian and read “The Winding Banks of Erne” by William Allingham, a poem inspired by Ballyshannon, Co. Donegal - Brian’s hometown - written by a poet known as the bard of #Ballyshannon. I will be making my way there for a third time this year and still have not been able to put on paper any words that would do the landscape and the people proper justice. So I defer for now to Mr. Allingham and can only hope that one day I might find my way to being able to write something of value about a part of this world that holds a piece of my heart. Also, note the silver hair. Brian was always telling me how much silver hair suited me and encouraged me to rock it. Much like he championed my Ortegas haircut. So for this December, I’ve gone silver. And who knows…maybe for a good bit longer. #ForBrian #WithBrian 📸: @rebeccasmeyne for the @irishartscenter

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Caption : Honored to have been invited to speak and to share a poem at the @IrishArtsCenter’s 13th Annual PoetryFest this past weekend. A series of events and a serendipitous encounter in Canada (thanks to Star Trek and Irish dancing) led me right back to Brian’s old neighborhood of Hell’s Kitchen in NYC, our friends at @ardesiawinebar, and a splendid opening night of favorite poems presented by poets & guests alike in the gorgeous space that is the Irish Arts Center. I spoke about Brian and read “The Winding Banks of Erne” by William Allingham, a poem inspired by Ballyshannon, Co. Donegal – Brian’s hometown – written by a poet known as the bard of #Ballyshannon. I will be making my way there for a third time this year and still have not been able to put on paper any words that would do the landscape and the people proper justice. So I defer for now to Mr. Allingham and can only hope that one day I might find my way to being able to write something of value about a part of this world that holds a piece of my heart. Also, note the silver hair. Brian was always telling me how much silver hair suited me and encouraged me to rock it. Much like he championed my Ortegas haircut. So for this December, I’ve gone silver. And who knows…maybe for a good bit longer. #ForBrian #WithBrian 📸: @rebeccasmeyne for the @irishartscenter
Likes : 3135Melissa Navia - 3.1K Likes - Beam me up. My crew, too. ✨ • • • • Stylist: @paulinacastrostyle Makeup: @amandathesenbeauty Hair: @coreytuttlehair #StrangeNewWorlds #StarTrek

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Caption : Beam me up. My crew, too. ✨ • • • • Stylist: @paulinacastrostyle Makeup: @amandathesenbeauty Hair: @coreytuttlehair #StrangeNewWorlds #StarTrek
Likes : 3106Melissa Navia - 3.1K Likes - Beam me up. My crew, too. ✨ • • • • Stylist: @paulinacastrostyle Makeup: @amandathesenbeauty Hair: @coreytuttlehair #StrangeNewWorlds #StarTrek

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Caption : Beam me up. My crew, too. ✨ • • • • Stylist: @paulinacastrostyle Makeup: @amandathesenbeauty Hair: @coreytuttlehair #StrangeNewWorlds #StarTrek
Likes : 3106Melissa Navia - 3.1K Likes - Beam me up. My crew, too. ✨ • • • • Stylist: @paulinacastrostyle Makeup: @amandathesenbeauty Hair: @coreytuttlehair #StrangeNewWorlds #StarTrek

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Caption : Beam me up. My crew, too. ✨ • • • • Stylist: @paulinacastrostyle Makeup: @amandathesenbeauty Hair: @coreytuttlehair #StrangeNewWorlds #StarTrek
Likes : 3106Melissa Navia - 3K Likes - Happy Father’s Day to my dad, who first showed me the stars, who encouraged me to always be myself, who raised me on the wisdom of ancient philosophers, who told me that all we can ever do is try our best, and who fully supported my early blazer & Ninja Turtle aesthetic.

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Caption : Happy Father’s Day to my dad, who first showed me the stars, who encouraged me to always be myself, who raised me on the wisdom of ancient philosophers, who told me that all we can ever do is try our best, and who fully supported my early blazer & Ninja Turtle aesthetic.
Likes : 3034Melissa Navia - 3K Likes - What convention are you most looking forward to this year and can I come? 📸: @paigexrage for @hollywoodlife at @newyorkcomiccon #NYCC2022

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Caption : What convention are you most looking forward to this year and can I come? 📸: @paigexrage for @hollywoodlife at @newyorkcomiccon #NYCC2022
Likes : 2977Melissa Navia - 3K Likes - Space business. #ISDC2024

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Caption : Space business. #ISDC2024
Likes : 2961Melissa Navia - 2.9K Likes - ☄️ ☄️ ☄️ By @scotiaboydmakeup For @thenationalspacesociety #ISDC2024 With @joey_flaherty & @innovativeartists

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Caption : ☄️ ☄️ ☄️ By @scotiaboydmakeup For @thenationalspacesociety #ISDC2024 With @joey_flaherty & @innovativeartists
Likes : 2939Melissa Navia - 2.9K Likes - Little Ortegas! Star Trek fans are creative & talented AF. Fan art and fan fiction is no joke. But this one I came across has especially stuck with me because it reminds me of a younger, smaller, bolder me, with my big eyes & short hair, finally with the cut of my tomboy dreams. I hope Ortegas inspires generations of little girls, boys, and enbys to proudly rock whatever makes them and their faces happy. And to stay bold. No matter what life chucks at you. Bolder, wiser, stronger. Always. 🎨🖖: @foodcu_be #StarTrek #StrangeNewWorlds @gwshorthair #GirlWithShortHair

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Caption : Little Ortegas! Star Trek fans are creative & talented AF. Fan art and fan fiction is no joke. But this one I came across has especially stuck with me because it reminds me of a younger, smaller, bolder me, with my big eyes & short hair, finally with the cut of my tomboy dreams. I hope Ortegas inspires generations of little girls, boys, and enbys to proudly rock whatever makes them and their faces happy. And to stay bold. No matter what life chucks at you. Bolder, wiser, stronger. Always. 🎨🖖: @foodcu_be #StarTrek #StrangeNewWorlds @gwshorthair #GirlWithShortHair
Likes : 2912Melissa Navia - 2.9K Likes - Pure heaven is right. This show really is something very special. So proud of our cast, our writers, and our crew. A true ensemble endeavor. #StrangeNewWorlds #FYC #StarTrek @paramountplus @cbstvstudios

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Caption : Pure heaven is right. This show really is something very special. So proud of our cast, our writers, and our crew. A true ensemble endeavor. #StrangeNewWorlds #FYC #StarTrek @paramountplus @cbstvstudios
Likes : 2864Melissa Navia - 2.8K Likes - Woo-trekking-hoo! Just 3 more weeks until Season 2. #StarTrek #StrangeNewWorlds #Mortegas

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Caption : Woo-trekking-hoo! Just 3 more weeks until Season 2. #StarTrek #StrangeNewWorlds #Mortegas
Likes : 2778Melissa Navia - 2.3K Likes - Starship pilot vest game strong. 🚀 I met so many unbelievable, inspiring, determined, and passionate people at the annual @exploremars Humans to Mars Summit in Washington, DC, but meeting Dr. Sian “Leo” Proctor, a real-life starship pilot, still has me beaming. I gave her a #Mortegas pin, courtesy of @openpike, and she gave me some of her (literally) out-of-this-world artwork. An astronaut, explorer, geoscientist, professor, and space artist, Dr. Proctor was also the mission pilot for SpaceX Inspiration4, the first all-civilian orbital mission. She showed me pictures she took of the Earth at night from space and I showed her…pictures I took of the clouds on my flight from NYC to DC. 😂 So much still to process about what I learned at the #HumansToMars conference, about what is possible, what is already underway, and what is going to take us all working together to finally make happen, but my main takeaway can be summed up by Dr. Proctor’s words: “When we solve for space, we solve for Earth.” Space travel is more than *just* space travel. It’s our future. 🖖 #LLAP

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Caption : Starship pilot vest game strong. 🚀 I met so many unbelievable, inspiring, determined, and passionate people at the annual @exploremars Humans to Mars Summit in Washington, DC, but meeting Dr. Sian “Leo” Proctor, a real-life starship pilot, still has me beaming. I gave her a #Mortegas pin, courtesy of @openpike, and she gave me some of her (literally) out-of-this-world artwork. An astronaut, explorer, geoscientist, professor, and space artist, Dr. Proctor was also the mission pilot for SpaceX Inspiration4, the first all-civilian orbital mission. She showed me pictures she took of the Earth at night from space and I showed her…pictures I took of the clouds on my flight from NYC to DC. 😂 So much still to process about what I learned at the #HumansToMars conference, about what is possible, what is already underway, and what is going to take us all working together to finally make happen, but my main takeaway can be summed up by Dr. Proctor’s words: “When we solve for space, we solve for Earth.” Space travel is more than *just* space travel. It’s our future. 🖖 #LLAP
Likes : 2337Melissa Navia - 2.3K Likes - That feeling when you cross paths with the one & only @jonathansfrakes on the set of the Enterprise and he shouts he’s a big fan and you get to shout back that you’re an even bigger fan and it’s not weird at all and then you both keep walking determinedly in your respective directions because there is so much work to do and more episodes to shoot of the most amazing show coming your way in just five days. MAY 5TH. #StarTrek #StrangeNewWorlds #Riker #Ortegas @startrekonpplus

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Caption : That feeling when you cross paths with the one & only @jonathansfrakes on the set of the Enterprise and he shouts he’s a big fan and you get to shout back that you’re an even bigger fan and it’s not weird at all and then you both keep walking determinedly in your respective directions because there is so much work to do and more episodes to shoot of the most amazing show coming your way in just five days. MAY 5TH. #StarTrek #StrangeNewWorlds #Riker #Ortegas @startrekonpplus
Likes : 2334Melissa Navia - 2.3K Likes - Yo. We look so good. ✨ #StarTrek #StrangeNewWorlds #TheIllyrianEnigma @idwpublishing

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Caption : Yo. We look so good. ✨ #StarTrek #StrangeNewWorlds #TheIllyrianEnigma @idwpublishing
Likes : 2277Melissa Navia - 2.3K Likes - I remember being with my parents right before I left to Toronto this past February and crying, freely, because I couldn’t see tomorrow. If I could safely collapse anywhere, it was with them. Maybe it was the thought of that, in the moment, and the thought of having to now do things without Brian physically at my side, that made me say to my dad: “I’m all alone now.” And he looked at me, held my face, and said, “No, you’re not. You have me.” I think of that a lot. I remind myself. One, because he’s right, but two, because my father, a man of few words these days, found the exact words I needed to hear without any difficulty, without any hesitation, without any doubt. When I was little I wanted to grow up to be just like him. I asked my mom to buy me a blazer just like the ones he wore. I started writing his name at the top of my worksheets in kindergarten because it had a better ring to it than mine. He introduced me to Laurel & Hardy and Gilbert & Sullivan and Indiana Jones. To James Cagney and Peter O’Toole and Giuseppe Verdi. I asked to watch Amadeus and The Scarlet Pimpernel over and over and for years never realized how disturbing both movies began because he used to skip the bloody parts without me noticing. (As I’m writing this I’m remembering that Brian, who had an encyclopedic knowledge of movies, knew how much I still don’t care for the bloody bits, and he’d recommend movies with that in mind or skip past parts accordingly.) We went on adventures and listened to classical music and watched World War II documentaries. He took me to his classes & lectures & research sessions. I went to school for Career Day dressed as him with a briefcase full of books he had written and explained to my confused friends what a PhD was and how I was gonna grow up to be a philosopher one day. He showed me the stars and the moon from our backyard on a telescope that was bigger than me. Space didn’t feel all that far. Nothing ever felt far. Or impossible. My dad never told me who I should be or needed to be when I grew up. He only showed me time and again who I could be. Way Out West. Pirates of Penzance. Raiders of the Lost Ark. He saw Ortegas in me way before I ever did.

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Caption : I remember being with my parents right before I left to Toronto this past February and crying, freely, because I couldn’t see tomorrow. If I could safely collapse anywhere, it was with them. Maybe it was the thought of that, in the moment, and the thought of having to now do things without Brian physically at my side, that made me say to my dad: “I’m all alone now.” And he looked at me, held my face, and said, “No, you’re not. You have me.” I think of that a lot. I remind myself. One, because he’s right, but two, because my father, a man of few words these days, found the exact words I needed to hear without any difficulty, without any hesitation, without any doubt. When I was little I wanted to grow up to be just like him. I asked my mom to buy me a blazer just like the ones he wore. I started writing his name at the top of my worksheets in kindergarten because it had a better ring to it than mine. He introduced me to Laurel & Hardy and Gilbert & Sullivan and Indiana Jones. To James Cagney and Peter O’Toole and Giuseppe Verdi. I asked to watch Amadeus and The Scarlet Pimpernel over and over and for years never realized how disturbing both movies began because he used to skip the bloody parts without me noticing. (As I’m writing this I’m remembering that Brian, who had an encyclopedic knowledge of movies, knew how much I still don’t care for the bloody bits, and he’d recommend movies with that in mind or skip past parts accordingly.) We went on adventures and listened to classical music and watched World War II documentaries. He took me to his classes & lectures & research sessions. I went to school for Career Day dressed as him with a briefcase full of books he had written and explained to my confused friends what a PhD was and how I was gonna grow up to be a philosopher one day. He showed me the stars and the moon from our backyard on a telescope that was bigger than me. Space didn’t feel all that far. Nothing ever felt far. Or impossible. My dad never told me who I should be or needed to be when I grew up. He only showed me time and again who I could be. Way Out West. Pirates of Penzance. Raiders of the Lost Ark. He saw Ortegas in me way before I ever did.
Likes : 2264Melissa Navia - 2.2K Likes - Gorn problems. 💥🦎💥 #StarTrek #StrangeNewWorlds @startrekonpplus

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Caption : Gorn problems. 💥🦎💥 #StarTrek #StrangeNewWorlds @startrekonpplus
Likes : 2233Melissa Navia - 2.2K Likes - Made it through this year with the help of these two angels. And Star Trek. And Brian, who was inside singing and playing music for a packed house when this picture was taken last year. We had stepped outside for better lighting, to capture our shirts on a perfect night, organized by my talented man. Still here smiling because of him. And still going. To more nights like this. #WithBrian #ForBrian

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Caption : Made it through this year with the help of these two angels. And Star Trek. And Brian, who was inside singing and playing music for a packed house when this picture was taken last year. We had stepped outside for better lighting, to capture our shirts on a perfect night, organized by my talented man. Still here smiling because of him. And still going. To more nights like this. #WithBrian #ForBrian
Likes : 2217Melissa Navia - 2.2K Likes - Miss that face so much. He loved cycling, too. What didn’t we do together? He bought me a bright yellow vest because I wanted one just like his. But I do still see him everywhere. He was my other half after all. He still makes me smile and laugh and I correct myself when I’m home alone singing and hit a (rare) note out of tune. I miss every bit of him, but that’s how it should be, right? Because I loved every bit of him. Even how he didn’t like it when I cried about something that I now see was silly or when I seemed even the slightest bit down. He would want to fix it and make it better. Sometimes he’d give me an abrupt hug and say, “There. Better?” Which would inevitably make me laugh and make whatever was wrong, immediately, better. Not sure he’d be too impressed I’m out here still making everyone cry with my memories of us and our Star Trek journey. Because he’d be doing the opposite by now. He’d be making sure everyone remembers the good times, gently reminding us we have to accept what has happened, and helping us move forward with renewed determination. He’d also buy us all a few rounds of whiskey and keep you at the pub long past you were due home, charming you with his wit and regaling you with stories and making you forget your troubles if even just for a few hours. But then I’d remind him, in a moment alone, that crying is okay. Crying is helpful. Crying is necessary. And I know he’d agree. He’d understand. Especially now. Crying is a release for me, after which I find myself able to focus and reminisce and smile again. I have to ride my bike and I have to pick up my banjo. Goals for the next couple of weeks. Things he’d want me to be doing because he knows they once made me happy. I’ll add it to my list. Brian knows how I love my lists. He’s No. 1 on all of them. But at least that’s nothing new. How lucky we were. How lucky we remain. 🚵‍♂️💘🔥

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Caption : Miss that face so much. He loved cycling, too. What didn’t we do together? He bought me a bright yellow vest because I wanted one just like his. But I do still see him everywhere. He was my other half after all. He still makes me smile and laugh and I correct myself when I’m home alone singing and hit a (rare) note out of tune. I miss every bit of him, but that’s how it should be, right? Because I loved every bit of him. Even how he didn’t like it when I cried about something that I now see was silly or when I seemed even the slightest bit down. He would want to fix it and make it better. Sometimes he’d give me an abrupt hug and say, “There. Better?” Which would inevitably make me laugh and make whatever was wrong, immediately, better. Not sure he’d be too impressed I’m out here still making everyone cry with my memories of us and our Star Trek journey. Because he’d be doing the opposite by now. He’d be making sure everyone remembers the good times, gently reminding us we have to accept what has happened, and helping us move forward with renewed determination. He’d also buy us all a few rounds of whiskey and keep you at the pub long past you were due home, charming you with his wit and regaling you with stories and making you forget your troubles if even just for a few hours. But then I’d remind him, in a moment alone, that crying is okay. Crying is helpful. Crying is necessary. And I know he’d agree. He’d understand. Especially now. Crying is a release for me, after which I find myself able to focus and reminisce and smile again. I have to ride my bike and I have to pick up my banjo. Goals for the next couple of weeks. Things he’d want me to be doing because he knows they once made me happy. I’ll add it to my list. Brian knows how I love my lists. He’s No. 1 on all of them. But at least that’s nothing new. How lucky we were. How lucky we remain. 🚵‍♂️💘🔥
Likes : 2180Melissa Navia - 2.2K Likes - Space cowboy country blues on the purple #StarTrekDay carpet. A wish to one day ride into a western and a nod to my Brian’s “Irish Cowboy Country Blues” album. (And also a denim tuxedo, so a shout-out to 🇨🇦 where we film.) • • Styling by @paulinacastrostyle Makeup by @tracyraffelsonmakeup Hair by @alexhenrichs Shirt by Levi’s Pants by Son-Ya Boots by Nine West Necklace by Alexa Leigh • • #StarTrek #StrangeNewWorlds #ForBrian #LLAP @startrek @startrekonpplus @paramountplus @cbstvstudios @paramountplusuk @paramountplusla @paramountplusbr

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Caption : Space cowboy country blues on the purple #StarTrekDay carpet. A wish to one day ride into a western and a nod to my Brian’s “Irish Cowboy Country Blues” album. (And also a denim tuxedo, so a shout-out to 🇨🇦 where we film.) • • Styling by @paulinacastrostyle Makeup by @tracyraffelsonmakeup Hair by @alexhenrichs Shirt by Levi’s Pants by Son-Ya Boots by Nine West Necklace by Alexa Leigh • • #StarTrek #StrangeNewWorlds #ForBrian #LLAP @startrek @startrekonpplus @paramountplus @cbstvstudios @paramountplusuk @paramountplusla @paramountplusbr
Likes : 2171Melissa Navia - 2.2K Likes - live chat and chill

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Caption : live chat and chill
Likes : 2170Melissa Navia - 2.1K Likes - Hang out with people who make you beam. ✨ @drsianproctor is a space pilot (and beyond). I play one on TV. We met up to talk flying, science, art, hiking, family, space advocacy, World Ocean Day, coloring books, ice hockey, and very big things to come. You’d think we’d be exhausted, but we’re only just getting started. #WomenInSTEAM #actorlife #astronautlife

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Caption : Hang out with people who make you beam. ✨ @drsianproctor is a space pilot (and beyond). I play one on TV. We met up to talk flying, science, art, hiking, family, space advocacy, World Ocean Day, coloring books, ice hockey, and very big things to come. You’d think we’d be exhausted, but we’re only just getting started. #WomenInSTEAM #actorlife #astronautlife
Likes : 2147Melissa Navia - 2.1K Likes - Big things coming. ✨ #StrangeNewWorlds @startrekonpplus

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Caption : Big things coming. ✨ #StrangeNewWorlds @startrekonpplus
Likes : 2134Melissa Navia - 2.1K Likes - How was your Star Trek Day? 🖖💫😎 Styling by @paulinacastrostyle Makeup by @tracyraffelsonmakeup Hair by @alexhenrichs 🚀🚀🚀 #StarTrekDay #StarTrek #StrangeNewWorlds @startrek @startrekonpplus @paramountplus @secrethideoutco @cbstvstudios

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Caption : How was your Star Trek Day? 🖖💫😎 Styling by @paulinacastrostyle Makeup by @tracyraffelsonmakeup Hair by @alexhenrichs 🚀🚀🚀 #StarTrekDay #StarTrek #StrangeNewWorlds @startrek @startrekonpplus @paramountplus @secrethideoutco @cbstvstudios
Likes : 2122Melissa Navia - 2.1K Likes - Part 2.

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Caption : Part 2.
Likes : 2082Melissa Navia - 2.1K Likes - Hit it. 🚀💫

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Caption : Hit it. 🚀💫
Likes : 2082Melissa Navia - 2K Likes - Just over here making franchise history. 😎 Strange New Worlds is now the most-watched @startrek original series debut on @paramountplus ever and is also one of the top two most-watched original series on @paramountplusuk. Bring on Star Trek Day. ✨09.08.22✨ See you in LA. 🖖 #StarTrek #StrangeNewWorlds #StarTrekSNW #StarTrekDay #NYC #actorslife

2K Likes – Melissa Navia Instagram

Caption : Just over here making franchise history. 😎 Strange New Worlds is now the most-watched @startrek original series debut on @paramountplus ever and is also one of the top two most-watched original series on @paramountplusuk. Bring on Star Trek Day. ✨09.08.22✨ See you in LA. 🖖 #StarTrek #StrangeNewWorlds #StarTrekSNW #StarTrekDay #NYC #actorslife
Likes : 2021Melissa Navia - 2K Likes - Only gonna be able to rock out at 2 conventions this year: Las Vegas and NYC. Going big and going home. 😌 Still tix left for @newyorkcomiccon in October, so get in on it. See my IG story for links. After that…see you in 2023! 🖖 #NYCC #NYCC2022

2K Likes – Melissa Navia Instagram

Caption : Only gonna be able to rock out at 2 conventions this year: Las Vegas and NYC. Going big and going home. 😌 Still tix left for @newyorkcomiccon in October, so get in on it. See my IG story for links. After that…see you in 2023! 🖖 #NYCC #NYCC2022
Likes : 2003Melissa Navia - 2K Likes - Oh hey there, Sir Adya. 👑⚔️👑 #StrangeNewWorlds #StarTrekSNW @startrekonpplus

2K Likes – Melissa Navia Instagram

Caption : Oh hey there, Sir Adya. 👑⚔️👑 #StrangeNewWorlds #StarTrekSNW @startrekonpplus
Likes : 1971Melissa Navia - 1.9K Likes - Yayyy. Number one. Brian called it. He saw the scripts, heard the Zoom cast reads, listened to my stories after every day of filming, knew my castmates’ resumes better than I did, filled me in on franchise details I had no idea about, watched The Original Series, Deep Space Nine, and The Next Generation with me, had the movies prepped for me to watch when I was ready (but we never got the chance because f*ck holidays forever), and had no doubt that this would not only be the best new show when it debuted, but that it’d be the best Star Trek show ever. (His words, not mine.) And he did all this with such a nonchalant coolness that I don’t think it ever truly dawned on me just how much of a fan he was, an undercover Trekkie if you will, and how very proud he was of me and impressed by what we accomplished. He did all this while still doing all his own work, writing and recording music, cooking the best dinners, playing guitar and piano, working on his computers, helping me in every single one of my auditions, going for walks and drives with me and bike rides, surprising me with gifts that I didn’t ask for but that now I can’t go a day without. Yesterday was five months. Five strange, overwhelming months. I didn’t cry because I didn’t have the time and because Brian wouldn’t have wanted it. I was on set all day, shooting Season 2 - a day that started early in the morning with me watching a scene from Frasier where Frasier gives his son a Bar Mitzvah blessing (unknowingly) in Klingon. You need to watch the full episode for context, but the scene is brilliant and heartwarming. So I started the day laughing, with Brian. Please continue to speak his name, share his stories, listen to his music (@thesagespeaksnyc is only a start), and do things as he would’ve done, with an appreciation for life that was unparalleled. Plenty of Bickie celebrating to come this summer and fall, in NYC and Ballyshannon and wherever I go, so get ready. And please do not worry about me or be sad for me and especially not for Brian. It’s the last thing he’d ever want. It’s not us at all. I’ve got Brian watching over me more than ever and he’s got me looking out for him. #StrangeNewWorlds

1.9K Likes – Melissa Navia Instagram

Caption : Yayyy. Number one. Brian called it. He saw the scripts, heard the Zoom cast reads, listened to my stories after every day of filming, knew my castmates’ resumes better than I did, filled me in on franchise details I had no idea about, watched The Original Series, Deep Space Nine, and The Next Generation with me, had the movies prepped for me to watch when I was ready (but we never got the chance because f*ck holidays forever), and had no doubt that this would not only be the best new show when it debuted, but that it’d be the best Star Trek show ever. (His words, not mine.) And he did all this with such a nonchalant coolness that I don’t think it ever truly dawned on me just how much of a fan he was, an undercover Trekkie if you will, and how very proud he was of me and impressed by what we accomplished. He did all this while still doing all his own work, writing and recording music, cooking the best dinners, playing guitar and piano, working on his computers, helping me in every single one of my auditions, going for walks and drives with me and bike rides, surprising me with gifts that I didn’t ask for but that now I can’t go a day without. Yesterday was five months. Five strange, overwhelming months. I didn’t cry because I didn’t have the time and because Brian wouldn’t have wanted it. I was on set all day, shooting Season 2 – a day that started early in the morning with me watching a scene from Frasier where Frasier gives his son a Bar Mitzvah blessing (unknowingly) in Klingon. You need to watch the full episode for context, but the scene is brilliant and heartwarming. So I started the day laughing, with Brian. Please continue to speak his name, share his stories, listen to his music (@thesagespeaksnyc is only a start), and do things as he would’ve done, with an appreciation for life that was unparalleled. Plenty of Bickie celebrating to come this summer and fall, in NYC and Ballyshannon and wherever I go, so get ready. And please do not worry about me or be sad for me and especially not for Brian. It’s the last thing he’d ever want. It’s not us at all. I’ve got Brian watching over me more than ever and he’s got me looking out for him. #StrangeNewWorlds
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