Last week’s Star Trek The Cruise offered fans a lot of fun opportunities to interact with Star Trek celebs and a few members of the cast were able make the embarkation right after they wrapped work on the second season of Star Trek: Starfleet Academy. This included Robert Picardo (The Doctor) and Zoë Steiner (Tarima Sadal) who delighted fans with a live performance. Steiner also had a chance to run into the original Betazoid, Marina Sirtis.

“San Francisco” at sea

The series Starfleet Academy is set around the relaunch of the titular school back home at its campus in San Francisco. To emphasize this point, the series premiere featured new recording of Rufus Wainwright performing a cover of the classic 1967 Scott McKenzie song “San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flower Covers in Your Hair).” On Star Trek: The Cruise, Steiner performed the song live, and she was accompanied by a narration from Robert Picardo. She posted the performance on her Instagram, which you can watch below.

Betazoid summit

On Starfleet Academy Zoë Steiner plays a Betazoid, and while on the cruise, she had a chance to meet Marina Sirtis, who in 1987 introduced the telepathic race with her Deanna Troi, in Star Trek: The Next Generation. Steiner posted a photo of the pair from the cruise on her Instagram story over the weekend.

Sirtis and Steiner on Star Trek: The Cruise (Zoë Steiner/Instagram)

Speaking to TrekMovie ahead of the premiere, Steiner admitted she didn’t know anything about Betazoids before being cast, but after doing her research for the role, she felt an affinity, saying:

“I just, I feel like I am a Betazoid. So, my whole life, I’ve been told I was too sensitive and all that kind of thing, and [it’s] kind of like an Achilles’ heel of mine. So it’s been such a privilege to get to play a role like Tarima, where that is not a weakness. It’s literally the requirement of the actor to have that sensitivity to play an empath, a Betazoid.”

Zoe Steiner as Tarima Sadal in season 1 of Starfleet Academy streaming on Paramount+. Photo Credit: Nino Munoz/Paramount+