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were fired during production; co-creator Kurtzman replaced them. The 14-episode season was released from January 17 to April 18, 2019, on CBS All Access. A third season was ordered in February 2019. On November 2, 2015, CBS announced a new "Star Trek" television series to premiere in January 2017, "on the heels" of the ' 50th anniversary in 2016. In February 2016, Bryan Fuller, who began his career writing for the series "" and "", was announced as the
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the title "After Trek" and host Matt Mira. The series aired after each episode of "Discovery", and featured a rotating panel of guests, including celebrity Trekkies, former "Star Trek" actors, cast members and crew from "Discovery". It was produced by Embassy Row in association with Roddenberry Entertainment. CBS did not renew the series for Season 2 of "Discovery". Instead of a conventional aftershow for Season 2, CBS instead streamed a Facebook live show called "The Ready Room" hosted by
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Section 31, a storyline that is further explored in the of the series. On November 2, 2015, CBS announced a new "Star Trek" television series to premiere in January 2017, "on the heels" of the ' 50th anniversary in 2016, to be developed specifically for the on-demand service CBS All Access. In February 2016, Bryan Fuller was announced as the new series' showrunner. Fuller began his career writing for the series "" and "", and had publicly called for "Star
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window into the world of "Star Trek: Discovery"." Maureen Ryan of "Variety" gave muted praise, saying the series "has yet to prove itself a worthy successor to "" or "". But there are reasons to hope that "Discovery" will be a promising addition to the "Trek" canon". "USA Today"s Bill Keveney gave the premiere 2-and-a-half out of four stars, saying it "soars in ambition and devotion to "Star Trek" history and mythology,
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"Discovery" after producing a list for the executive producers featuring all the species they would like to use. John Eaves and Scott Schneider, designers of the starships for the series, were required to redesign the USS "Enterprise" for "Star Trek: Discovery", making it 25 percent different from Matt Jefferies' original design due to legal concerns regarding the ownership of different "Star Trek" elements. CBS ultimately confirmed that they were free to reuse Jefferies' design in "Star Trek: Discovery", but stood
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"Star Trek: Discovery" Season 2. Although not shown on-screen, it is implied that Una briefly takes command of the "Enterprise" when Captain Pike and his landing party first beam down to . She later beams down to the planet several times herself. During "The Cage," Una proves to her alien captors that humans would rather die than be slaves. Her official biography notes that she is secretly attracted to Pike. Una appears in the "Star Trek: Discovery" episode "An Obol for
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the roof of an LAX Airport building. The night before the series premiered on CBS, a model of the USS "Discovery" was flown above the Hudson River on Manhattan's west side. Created by Remarkable Media, the rig consisted of a truss skeleton covered in LEDs, and was suspended from a Black Hawk helicopter. On October 7, panels for the series were held at both the PaleyFest television festival and at New York Comic Con. "Star Trek: Discovery" premiered at the ArcLight Hollywood on September 19,
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for Vox, Todd VanDerWerff noted "the best thing about "Discovery" is that Michael Burnham, played beautifully by Martin-Green, does stuff. She gets in trouble. She breaks rules. She violates Starfleet protocol. She has emotions that get the best of her, even as she knows they shouldn't. She is, in other words, very human". Overall, he declared that ""Star Trek" is best when it's hopeful, but hope shines brightest amid horror. On some level,
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scope of the finale to a feature film. A goal of the showrunners for the season was to "cement "Discovery" firmly in the timeline" by reconciling some of the apparent continuity errors caused by the first season, such as why Burnham has never been mentioned by Spock in the franchise before, or why the advanced spore-drive technology used on the USS "Discovery" is not used on other starships in later "Star Trek" series. The season ends with "Discovery" and its crew traveling over 900
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Media Research, the CBS broadcast of the first episode was watched by a "decent" audience of 9.5 million viewers. The premiere of the series led to record subscriptions for All Access, with the service attributing its biggest day, week, and month of signups to the debut of "Star Trek: Discovery". According to "app analytics specialist" App Annie, the premiere of the series caused the number of downloads of the All Access mobile app to more than double. Following a 7-day trial period for new subscribers
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"Discovery" knows both of those things". Writing for "TVLine", Dave Nemetz graded the premiere episode a B+, saying "the nail-bitingly tense premiere delivered a cracking good action story, eye-popping special effects and a number of gasp-worthy twists" that was worth the wait. Maureen Ryan of "Variety", after watching the first two episodes, said the series "has yet to prove itself a worthy successor to [previous "Star Trek" series] "The Next Generation"
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in the original "Star Trek" universe. The first season of "Star Trek: Discovery" consisted of 15 episodes. On May 18, 2016, it was announced that "The Good Wife" would get a spin-off featuring Christine Baranski's character Diane Lockhart. The series, titled "The Good Fight", launched with a CBS broadcast premiere on February 19, 2017, with the remaining nine episodes exclusive to CBS All Access. The series became the first original drama on the platform when the "Star
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producer, specifically to help Kurtzman run the series' writers room. Olatunde Osunsanmi, who served as a director and co-executive producer during the first season, became a full executive producer as well and was set as producing director for the rest of the season's production. Additionally, Jenny Lumet, who joined as a consulting producer at the beginning of the season, was promoted to co-executive producer. In July, the season was confirmed to premiere in January 2019. Star Anson Mount revealed in December that the
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developed. After further disagreements with CBS, Fuller left the series in October 2016, replaced as showrunner by Gretchen J. Berg and Aaron Harberts for the first season, with producing support from Akiva Goldsman. Goldsman did not return after the first season, while Berg and Harberts were fired by CBS during production on the second; Kurtzman took over as sole showrunner, and was joined by Michelle Paradise for the third. "Star Trek: Discovery" premiered on September 19, 2017, at ArcLight Hollywood, before debuting on CBS and
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Jr. as R. A. Bryce, Ali Momen as Kamran Gant, and Julianne Grossman as the voice of "Discovery"s computer. David Benjamin Tomlinson also appears throughout the season as Linus. Hannah Spear and Yadira Guevara-Prip respectively reprise their "Star Trek: Short Trek" roles of Saru's sister Siranna (from the short "The Brightest Star") and Tilly's friend Me Hani Ika Hali Ka Po (from the short "Runaway"). The episode "If Memory Serves" begins with archival footage from the original
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"Star Trek" pilot "The Cage" featuring the original actors for several characters seen in the series, including Spock, Pike, and Number One, as well as Vina and the Keeper, portrayed in "Discovery" by Melissa George and Rob Brownstein, respectively. Several new sets for the "Discovery" were built for the second season, adding to the ones constructed for the first. These included a new "loop corridor" and new entrances to the mess hall and sick bay sets. The engineering set from
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of new storytelling", with "the casualties, the things that have grown in Starfleet as a result of the war" carrying over to the next season. By the end of the month, Berg and Harberts had developed a "road map" for a second season. After the first season premiered, Kurtzman explained that a "big idea" had been proposed mid-way through production on that season which became the "spine" of the second season, with the writers' "emotional compass" having pointed them
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or "Deep Space Nine". But there are reasons to hope that "Discovery" will be a promising addition to the "Trek" canon". Chaim Gartenberg for The Verge criticized the "extended prologue" approach, but called the two-part premiere "surprisingly satisfying". He praised Burnham as a "far more rounded, human character than any of the previous captains, with some serious trauma from a Klingon attack in her youth that's left her predisposed to hate the warrior race. And while "Star
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" "Star Trek" series had was examinations of the real world at the time of their creation, and so this season would address "building walls around ourselves, literally, to keep people out" and how that can "chip away at our essential understanding of Starﬂeet doctrine, and what it means to assume diversity". Mount felt that the season was able to "get back to those big questions" because it was no longer questioning the leadership of the "Discovery" as was done with Captain Gabriel Lorca in
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analytics specialist" App Annie, the premiere of the series also caused the number of downloads of the All Access mobile app to more than double, with revenue from the app for CBS doubling compared to the average in-app revenue during the previous 30 days. For the first season, the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reported an 82% approval rating with an average rating of 7.07/10 based on 67 reviews. The website's critical consensus reads, "Although it takes an episode to achieve liftoff, "Star Trek: Discovery
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"The second season of "Discovery" successfully—if stubbornly—cleans up the problematic storylines of "Trek" past while still effectively dramatizing new takes on the lore." The average episode rating for the season is 84%. Metacritic assigned it a score of 73 out of 100 based on reviews from 9 critics, again indicating "generally favorable reviews". In 2019, "Nerdist" ranked "Star Trek: Discovery", up to and including its second season, the fourth best out seven "Star Trek
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"". But there are reasons to hope that "Discovery" will be a promising addition to the "Trek" canon". "USA Today"s Bill Keveney gave the premiere 2-and-a-half out of four stars, saying it "soars in ambition and devotion to "Star Trek" history and mythology, but stalls with certain plot details and stilted dialogue". Merrill Barr of "Forbes" felt the show was "not bad, but it’s off to a strange start... [it] has every
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had indeed been cast as the series' lead, and in May 2017, the episode order was expanded to 15. That June, CBS announced a new premiere date of September 24. The season was divided into two chapters, with an airing break after the ninth episode to allow time for post-production on episodes in the second half of the season to be completed. Fuller wanted to differentiate the series from the previous 700+ episodes of "Star Trek" by taking advantage of the streaming format of All Access and
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that she would work with fellow "Star Trek" novelist David Mack and "Star Trek" comic writer Mike Johnson to ensure that all three media "are coming from the same place". The release of the books and comics was set to coincide with the series' premiere. Mack described writing around the continuity of "Discovery" as "tricky to get right", as the time period "is light on detail and almost unique within the "Star Trek" continuity. That made it a challenge to represent that
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season would consist of 13 episodes, and a month later, at "Star Trek"s 50th anniversary San Diego Comic-Con panel, he revealed the series' title to be "Star Trek: Discovery." He also said it would be set in the "Prime Timeline" alongside the previous "Star Trek" series. At the end of July, CBS hired David Semel, a veteran television procedural director who was under an overall deal with the studio, to direct the pilot for "Discovery". Fuller did not
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—and Anson Mount as original "Star Trek" captain Christopher Pike. Ethan Peck recurs as another original series character, Spock. These characters and their starship, the USS "Enterprise", were included as part of the series' attempt to explain its connections to the larger "Star Trek" franchise. The season was officially ordered in October 2017, and filming took place in Toronto, Canada from April to December 2018. Gretchen J. Berg and Aaron Harberts, the first season's showrunners, returned for the second but
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presents itself." The season begins with the arrival of the USS "Enterprise" (where the first season ended) on a specific mission, which ties into a larger story that does not involve the "Enterprise" and is the main arc for the whole second season; the storyline involves seven mysterious signals and a strange "red angel" figure that appears to several characters in visions. Harberts wanted to explore the character Christopher Pike, captain of the "Enterprise", feeling that he had not been seen much in
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premiere, in February, the series was renewed for a third season with writer Michelle Paradise promoted to co-showrunner alongside Kurtzman. The series' writers are based in Los Angeles, and include "fans who all have very different relationships to "Trek"," which Kurtzman said is "a healthy thing and it's a good thing". Fuller wanted to differentiate the series from the previous 700+ episodes of "Star Trek" by taking advantage of the streaming format of All Access and telling a single story arc
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multiple other series being produced including the direct spin-off "". Beginning roughly ten years before the events of "", the show sees the united Klingon houses in a war with the United Federation of Planets that involves the crew of the USS "Discovery" (NCC-1031). In the second season, after the war has ended, "Discovery" investigates seven mysterious signals and a strange figure known as the "Red Angel". On November 2, 2015, CBS announced a new "Star Trek" television
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Trek" has plumbed the 'main character has demons' well in the past—most notably with Sisko in "Deep Space Nine", and Picard in the later films, when it comes to the Borg—Burnham feels far more compelling for not being a flawless human being in other respects, as her series-protagonist predecessors were." Writing for "Entertainment Weekly", Darren Franich gave the two-part premiere a B grade, praising Martin-Green's performance as the lead and the production design as well
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season. In June 2018, when production on the second season was underway, CBS fired Berg and Harberts. This was due to the first episode of the season going significantly over budget, and alleged abusive behavior by the pair directed at the series' writing staff. Kurtzman was made sole showrunner, and was set to "regroup" the writers without causing any delay to the season's production timeline. After Kurtzman took over, the second season was confirmed to be on track for a January 2019 premiere. Shortly after that
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Star Trek: Picard


reprising his role of Jean-Luc Picard from the series "". Kurtzman and Akiva Goldsman (who worked on the first season of "Discovery") were attached to the project. When CBS first approached him about making more "Star Trek" series, Kurtzman believed Picard was the greatest "Star Trek" captain and included a series featuring the character on his wish list. Kurtzman and Goldsman first contacted Stewart in late 2017 despite his previous statements that he was done with the franchise. The pair and "Discovery"
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Screen Rant. They say they would rank the Mirror universe Lorca even lower, due to him being a villain that impersonates the real Lorca just to get back to his mirror universe. Hugh Culber (portrayed by Wilson Cruz) is a medical officer of the "Discovery". Culber is married to Paul Stamets. They are jointly the first openly gay characters in a Star Trek series. Ash Tyler kills Culber in Episode 10 of the first season. Culber later returns to life in season 2 after it is discovered that he
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's individual episodes is 87%. Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned a score of 72 out of 100 based on reviews from 20 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews". Matt Zoller Seitz of "Vulture" praised the series' premiere, feeling it "stands tall alongside the best-regarded incarnations of the "Trek" franchise... with an almost entirely new slate of characters... and casts them with actors you can't help but like even when they're getting on your last nerve." Writing
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Trek: Discovery" fourth in its list of series most watched together by families in 2017. Martin-Green was named TVLine's Performer of the Week for her performance in "The Wolf Inside", in which Burnham is "put through the emotional wringer with a barrage of jaw-dropping twists, giving Martin-Green an opportunity to deliver her finest performance of the season." In January 2019, Comic Book Resources rated "Discovery"s first season as the ninth best season of all "Star Trek" series up to
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years into the future, and Spock recommending to Starfleet that the starship or its crew never be mentioned again to prevent the events of the season from ever being repeated. Kurtzman said this solution was chosen after months of work with the writers, and was additionally made because of the implications it has for the future of the series; he compared the decision to that of the film "Star Trek" (2009) starting a new timeline to avoid established continuity. The season stars the returning Sonequa Martin-Green as Burnham,
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The Greatest Generation (podcast)


The podcast, which is released the Tuesday after a new episode of "Star Trek: Discovery" is aired, reviews each episode in the same format as "The Greatest Generation". When "Star Trek: Discovery" is off the air, the podcast is released monthly with Pranica and Harrison discussing "Star Trek" related news, interviewing guests and reviewing other "Star Trek" media related to "Star Trek: Discovery", such as comics and specific episodes of "." On February 14, 2016"
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Kurtzman noted that casting for Spock took into consideration a balance between Vulcan logic and revealing "emotion in the eyes and in the small gestures". Mount revealed in July that he would star for the full season, and that Rebecca Romijn would portray the original series character Number One. Mount and Romijn both signed one year deals for the series, with their characters included as part of the series attempt to have the season align closer to the wider "Star Trek" continuity. In August, Ethan Peck was announced as portraying
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with Gretchen J. Berg and Aaron Harberts replacing him as showrunner. In June 2017, co-creator Alex Kurtzman said that he and Fuller had discussed plans for future seasons before the latter's departure. In August 2017, before the series premiere, executive producer Akiva Goldsman stated that though the series is not an anthology as Fuller first proposed, "it's kind of a hybridized approach. I don't think we're looking for an endless, continuing nine or 10 year story. We're looking at arcs which will have
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took place in Toronto, Canada from January to October 2017, with additional filming on location in Jordan for the series premiere. The season premiered on September 19, 2017, at ArcLight Hollywood, before debuting on CBS on September 24. The premiere episode was also made available on CBS All Access, where the rest of the 15-episode season was streamed weekly. The season was split into two chapters, with the first ending on November 12 and the second releasing from January 7 to February 11, 2018. The season's release
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USS Enterprise (NCC-1701)


" and "Popular Mechanics" called the original "Enterprise" the best version of the franchise's various ships named "Enterprise." "The New York Times" called it "a joy" to see the redesigned original "Enterprise" in "Star Trek: Discovery"'s second-season premiere. Writing in the "Journal of Popular Film & Television", National Air and Space Museum curator Margaret Weitekamp points to two distinct celebrity "Enterprise"s: the fictional spaceship depicted in "Star Trek" and the actual filming
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which was intended to be an homage to past "Star Trek" series as well as an introduction to the more grounded and gritty tone of "Discovery". "Star Trek: Discovery" is filmed at Pinewood Toronto Studios. Some of the series' sets took over six weeks to create, and new sets were being built up until the end of production of the season. "Discovery" took advantage of multiple soundstages at the studio, including the largest soundstage in North America. Some episodes for the show were filmed
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" franchise television series. They call it "a very ambitious show that does a lot of things right, but just as many things wrong", praising the "uniformly wonderful" cast and high production values, but criticising the writing as "hit and miss". In 2019, "Radio Times" (a British publication) listed "Star Trek: Discovery" as one of the top ten shows on Netflix (an internet television service), remarking "... the first Star Trek TV series since Enterprise found its
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the first season. Kurtzman noted that religion is a controversial topic among "Star Trek" fans, and the series' study of faith was "never about picking on religion as much as it was about faith in each other and in themselves". He felt that protagonist Michael Burnham "really wrestled" with faith in the season because she was not raised with it, but in the end was rewarded for finding it. He interpreted this message as being, "If you believe in yourself, ultimately, the best outcome
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series to premiere in January 2017, "on the heels" of the ' 50th anniversary in 2016. It is the first "Star Trek" series since "" concluded in 2005, and the first show to be developed specifically for the CBS All Access on demand service. Alex Kurtzman, co-writer of the films "Star Trek" (2009) and "Star Trek Into Darkness" (2013), and Heather Kadin were set as executive producers on the series, which would not be related to the 2016
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-Luc Picard, ""; the animated comedy ""; another untitled animated series for Nickelodeon; and several direct spin-offs from Star Trek: "Discovery": Kurtzman announced in July 2018 that a spin-off miniseries of shorts would be released between the first two seasons of "Discovery" to "deliver closed-ended stories while revealing clues about what's to come in future "Star Trek: Discovery" episodes. They'll also introduce audiences to new characters who may inhabit the larger world of "
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"Star Trek" previously and provided "an interesting opportunity ... to delve into and flesh out a character who I think is a pretty darn heroic and selfless captain". Burnham's adoptive brother Spock is also a crew member of the "Enterprise", but Harberts was less interested in him given his many appearances throughout previous iterations of "Star Trek", and was reluctant to have an actor other than Leonard Nimoy or Zachary Quinto portray the character. However, Spock was confirmed to be included in April 2018, and
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the panel before being released online. The season premiered on January 17, 2019 on CBS All Access in the United States. Bell Media broadcasts the series in Canada on the specialty channels Space (English) and Z (French) before streaming episodes on Crave, while Netflix has streaming rights for the series in another 188 countries. Netflix releases each episode of the series for streaming within 24 hours of its U.S. debut. The review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reported an 82% approval rating with an average rating of 7.15/10 based on
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further despite his contract being for the second season of the series only. Composer Jeff Russo planned to begin work on the second season in May 2018, after receiving the first script for the season. He did not expect to significantly change the tone of his music for the season, feeling that so much work in the first season had gone towards creating a unique sound for the series within the "Star Trek" franchise which he would like to continue moving forward. Russo did feel that the score for the second season would
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Star Trek: The Original Series (season 2)


The second and penultimate season of the American science fiction television series , premiered on NBC on September 15, 1967 and concluded on March 29, 1968. It consisted of twenty-six episodes. Star Trek: The Original Series is an American science fiction television series created by Gene Roddenberry, and the original series of the Star Trek franchise. It features William Shatner as Captain James T. Kirk, Leonard Nimoy as Spock and DeForest Kelley as Leonard McCoy. The season originally aired Fridays at 8:30-9:30 pm (EST) on
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revealing clues about what's to come in future "Star Trek: Discovery" episodes. They'll also introduce audiences to new characters who may inhabit the larger world of "Star Trek"." The shorts were expected to be around 10 to 15 minutes long. CBS CCO David Nevins indicated in December 2018 that there would be more shorts released between the end of "Discovery"s second season and the release of the a new series featuring the "Star Trek" character Jean-Luc Picard. A month later, CBS All
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they would be directed by "Discovery" producing director Olatunde Osunsanmi and composer Michael Giacchino—who wrote the score for the "Star Trek" "Kelvin Timeline" films that Kurtzman wrote. Producer Heather Kadin revealed that the animated shorts would answer questions that previous "Discovery" seasons had left and "fill in some blanks", while Kurtzman elaborated that the two shorts would also have different animation styles from one another which would tie into the story and tone of each installment. "Star Trek: Discovery" composer Jeff Russo
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that the season would feature a "truly alien" character for which they had to figure out new ways to reduce the weight of the prosthetics and make it breathable for the actor, as well as try improve the actor's vision because the eyes of the creature did not align with where human eyes are positioned. Hetrick added that there would be more interesting prosthetics for extras playing background characters, while the pair were able to use a species from earlier "Star Trek" canon that had not been in the first season of
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new soundstage for the series specifically for the two-part season finale, rather than being a repurposed set. James Cawley, owner of the "Official Star Trek Set Tour", provided reproductions of the buttons from the original bridge set for Deverell to base her buttons on. Filming for the season began at Pinewood Toronto Studios on April 16, 2018, under the working title "Green Harvest". Production was set to take place on the series at the studio until November 8. At the time of Berg and Harberts
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Number One (Star Trek)


" appears in the "Star Trek: Discovery" episode "Such Sweet Sorrow, Part 2" (at about 40:30), when Pike says, "I'm giving you the conn, Una." Michelle Paradise, executive producer of "Discovery", confirmed that the show had taken the name from the novels. In 2019, it was annouced that the character Numer One would appear in three . During the development of the first pilot for "" (""), Roddenberry wrote the part of Number One specifically
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Netflix for another 188 countries. In Canada, the premiere was broadcast on September 24, 2017, on both the CTV Television Network and on the specialty channels Space (English) and Z (French) before being streamed on CraveTV, with subsequent episodes just broadcast on Space and Z before streaming on CraveTV. In the other countries, Netflix released each episode of the series for streaming within 24 hours of its U.S. debut. This agreement with CBS also saw Bell and Netflix acquire all previous "Star Trek" series to stream
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the bridge scenes and a funeral sequence. He named "Crimson Tide" (1995) as an influence for the filming style. Frakes reiterated the cinematic approach to the series, especially comparing the camera work to the style of the "Star Trek" films directed by J.J. Abrams. He added that Osunsanmi encouraged the episodic directors to "express ourselves visually in as exciting a way as possible" which was different to the restrictions Frakes was used to from other series. During filming of one of the season's episodes in August
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sole showrunner of the series "", Alex Kurtzman signed a five-year overall deal with CBS Television Studios to expand the "Star Trek" franchise beyond "Discovery" to several new series, miniseries, and animated series. A month later, he announced at San Diego Comic Con that a spin-off miniseries titled "Star Trek: Short Treks", consisting of four shorts, would be released monthly between the first two seasons of "Discovery". He said they would "deliver closed-ended stories while
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season of "Star Trek: Discovery". Throughout the first live action and animated "Star Trek" television series, Captain James T. Kirk commands the ship on an exploration mission from 2264 to 2269. "Star Trek: The Motion Picture" begins in 2270 with the "Enterprise" completing an 18-month refit overseen by its new captain, Willard Decker. Decker describes the refit vessel as "an almost totally new "Enterprise"" when Admiral Kirk takes command of the ship to address a threat to Earth. "Star
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characters are on a journey." Goldsman said the story of the Klingon War would cover only the first season of the series, ending with the creation of the Neutral Zone, something Goldsman said is "sufficiently inexact [in previous "Star Trek" stories] that we can now fill in how we got there." He noted that the season is set in a time period that has been mentioned a lot in "Star Trek" previously, and that has been widely covered by previous "Star Trek" novels,
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The Best of Both Worlds (Star Trek: The Next Generation)


Next Generation". They remark that Elizabeth Dennehy does a great job of holding her own with the rest of the cast and portraying a capable officer. In one ranking in 2017 of the 25 greatest episodes of all "Star Trek" series prior to "Star Trek: Discovery", "The Best of Both Worlds" (Part I & II) was ranked as the second best. In 2017, "Nerdist" ranked this the third best episode(s) of "Star Trek: The Next Generation". In 2017
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The second season of the American television series "" is set roughly a decade before the events of the and follows the crew of the USS "Discovery" as they investigate seven mysterious signals. The season was produced by CBS Television Studios in association with Secret Hideout and Roddenberry Entertainment, with Alex Kurtzman serving as showrunner. Sonequa Martin-Green stars as Michael Burnham, along with the returning Doug Jones, Anthony Rapp, Mary Wiseman, and Shazad Latif; they are joined by Wilson Cruz—promoted from a recurring guest role
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the proposal as a platform for "a universe of "Trek" shows". CBS instead suggested he create a single serialized show to see how that performed first, and Fuller began further developing the concept of a prequel to the original series. Fuller announced in June 2016 that the first season would consist of 13 episodes, though he would prefer to produce 10 episodes a season. A month later, Fuller announced the series' title to be "Star Trek: Discovery", and revealed that it would be set in
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not use the same shot twice; this was to encourage them to use more inventive shot choices rather than just typical "coverage" (filming a master shot of the scene followed by angles from several different sides if time permitted). Kurtzman also wanted as many options available to the editors as possible during post-production. Addressing the fact that "Star Trek" was originally inspired by naval tradition, Kurtzman said that the season would be leaning further into that than the first did, especially in the way that they filmed
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place during the last years and the immediate post-years of "The Next Generation" (2369–2375) and aired for seven seasons, debuting the week of . Star Trek: Voyager ran for seven seasons, airing from , to , launching a new Paramount-owned television network, UPN. Star Trek: Enterprise, originally titled Enterprise, is a prequel to "The Original Series". It aired from to . Star Trek: Discovery is a direct prequel to "The Original Series", set roughly ten years before
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and the adopted sister of original series character Spock. Doug Jones, Shazad Latif, Anthony Rapp, and Mary Wiseman also star. They were joined by Jason Isaacs for the first season and Anson Mount for the second. Characters seen previously in "Star Trek" also appear in recurring roles, including Spock's father Sarek, portrayed by James Frain, and Harry Mudd, portrayed by Rainn Wilson. The following list includes "Star Trek: Discovery"s main cast, as well as all guest stars deemed to have had recurring roles
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: Discovery"s third season. After it was confirmed that Anson Mount would be leaving "Star Trek: Discovery" with the second season finale, fans of the series began calling—including through online petitions—for him to reprise his role of Christopher Pike in a spin-off set on the USS "Enterprise", alongside Rebecca Romijn as Number One and Ethan Peck as Spock. Mount and Peck both responded positively to the idea, though Mount said his return would involve "a lot of creative conversations". In April
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, 2015, CBS announced a new "Star Trek" television series to premiere in January 2017, "on the heels" of the ' 50th anniversary in 2016. In February 2016, Bryan Fuller was announced as the new series' showrunner and co-creator alongside Alex Kurtzman. In July, at "Star Trek"s 50th anniversary San Diego Comic-Con panel, Fuller announced the series' title to be "Star Trek: Discovery". At the end of that month, CBS hired David Semel, a veteran television
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after the prologue episodes, which was inspired by film sequels that begin with significant events having transpired since the previous installment such as "" (1991). The third episode reveals that the season's story involves the development of a new form of space travel that could win the war for the Federation. When it was noted that this form of travel is not known in the previous "Star Trek" series (set later in the canon), actor Jason Isaacs stated that the writers were aware of this, and were
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"truly cinematic", and because of the appearances of Sarek and the Klingons in the footage, "this is the "Star Trek" you know and love." Aja Romano at "Vox" called the trailer's visuals "sumptuous" and "modern, but still very much in keeping with the aesthetic of previous "Trek" series". She continued, "What gets short shrift in this trailer is the series' overarching plot". In July 2017, "Discovery" had an "extensive" presence
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, with its 10 episodes split into five blocks total. Jonathan Frakes, who also previously directed for "Discovery", directs the second block of episodes and stated his belief that this block system had more to do with amortization than any story-based reasons. Filming is expected to conclude on October 1, 2019. "Star Trek: Picard" is expected to premiere in early 2020 on CBS All Access in the United States, and run for 10 episodes. Like "Discovery" before it, each episode of the
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as only being called Number One in the series. Fuller deliberately gave the character a traditionally male name as he did with the female leads of three previous (non-"Star Trek") productions. Martin-Green decided that the character was named after her biological father. Saru (portrayed by Doug Jones) is a commander serving as first officer of the USS "Discovery", and the first Kelpien to enter Starfleet. Saru was introduced in the series premiere as a lieutenant commander serving as chief science officer on the USS "Shenzhou
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to using that idea. He added that the series' producers wanted to avoid announcing release dates for future seasons just to delay them, but he hoped a second season would be available in early 2019 as long as the quality and scope of the series was not compromised to achieve that. On October 23, a 13-episode second season was officially ordered by CBS All Access. CBS Interactive President Marc DeBevoise cited the increased subscriptions for All Access since the series' debut, as well as critical acclaim and fan interest, when announcing
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The Survivors (Star Trek: The Next Generation)


" prior to "Star Trek: Discovery", this episode, "Survivors" was ranked as the 24th best of "Star Trek". In a review of fictional Star Trek aliens, the Douwd was a powerful alien species. CBR notes Kevin says he existed for thousands of years, but regrets destroying the Husnock. The episode was released with "Star Trek: The Next Generation" season three DVD box set, released in the United States on September 3, 2002. It was released in high-definition Blu
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"Discovery" season was announced on February 27, 2019. Additional All Access series are under development including one featuring Patrick Stewart reprising his role as Jean-Luc Picard, a Lower Decks adult animated series, and a show centered around the "Discovery" character Philippa Georgiou. CBS's goal is to have new "Star Trek" content year-round on All-Access. Seven television series make up the bulk of the "Star Trek" mythos: "The Original Series", "The Animated Series",
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the "Shenzhou" and the "Discovery", respectively. Fuller said in August 2016 that "once we get through this first season and establish our own "Star Trek" universe" and characters, the series could "open up to more familiar characters". He did express interest in including the character Amanda Grayson, saying, "there's much to be told about that". She was later confirmed to be appearing in the season. By January 2017, James Frain was cast as Grayson's husband Sarek.
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2018, Mount was involved in an "on-set physical altercation" with the episode's director when he touched the director while rehearsing a pointing action before beginning a scene. The incident was reported to CBS's HR department who reviewed it and decided against any disciplinary action for Mount. The actor had apologized to the director at the time. The incident had no effect on Mount's involvement with the series, as work on the season continued without interruption and the series production was believed to be interested in working with Mount
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List of Star Trek films and television series


the episode's focus on the guest appearance of cast members of "The Next Generation". The cancellation of "Enterprise" ended an 18-year run of back-to-back new "Star Trek" television series, which began with "The Next Generation" in 1987. Star Trek: Discovery is a direct prequel to "", set roughly ten years beforehand. It premiered September 24, 2017 in the United States and Canada on CBS before moving to CBS All Access, while Netflix streams the series outside the United
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draw. After the series' premiere, Kurtzman said the producers wanted to avoid announcing release dates for any future seasons, due to the external pressure that having to delay them caused with the first season. Despite this, he hoped a second season would be available in early 2019. The second season was officially ordered in October 2017, consisting of 13 episodes. Goldsman did not return for the season after clashing with the series' writing staff during production on the first, while Meyer was not asked to return for the second
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" from the unproduced film "". The USS "Shenzhou" was designed to look older than the "Discovery", and was described as being closer to a submarine from "The Hunt for Red October" (1990) than previously seen "Star Trek" spaceships. The "Shenzhou" is a "Walker"-class starship, a new designation created for the series that is named for test pilot Joe Walker. Sets for the "Shenzhou" and the "Discovery"s interiors were built for the series, described as a "
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and explained that the writers considered those novels to be non-canon, "but we are aware of them. And, we are going to cross paths with components that "Trek" fans are familiar with". Discussing some of the characters' relationships, the showrunners noted that previous "Star Trek" series revolved around the relationships between central male characters, but "Discovery" focuses more on female characters with a "friendship structure" that goes from Captain Georgiou to First Officer Burnham, and from Burnham to Cadet Tilly
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Star Trek: Discovery


's there in terms of story and certainly in terms of set-up, character, big ideas, the big movement of the season, that's all stuff that Bryan and I talked about" and would not be altered. Goldsman said in August that future seasons would have "a hybridized [anthology] approach" with "arcs which will have characters that we know and characters that we don't know." Kurtzman added that the success of "Discovery" could lead to other new "Star Trek" series that
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"", criticizing the bridge crew and lore, and describing the series as an "unspectacular addition" to the franchise that was "perhaps most notable for its commercial mission, which is to entice new subscribers to CBS All Access." Discussing the season as a whole, Seitz praised it as the strongest first season of any "Star Trek" series since the original and defended it against fan criticisms, believing that most complaints about the series could be applied to all "Star Trek" series or were about intentional differences
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the audience of over 1 million viewers does not seem to have any such qualms. The season 2 premiere (April 26, 2012) drew strong ratings, up 50% on the season 1 premiere. On December 17, 2012, Discovery announced the cancellation of the series. Discovery said the decision had been made earlier, it was only announced in December. A spokesperson said "Discovery Channel chose not to renew the series and has no plans to air repeats of the show." The Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting is
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"Enterprise" during the first season finale, but this was ultimately saved for the second season. Deverell did extensive research on the original sets before trying to recreate them using "Discovery"s "new methodology", including searching through the CBS archives to do color tests on the original bridge sets which feature a distinctive red that sometimes appeared to be orange on the original series (the series includes a joke about it being orange, though Deverell insisted that it is red). The "Enterprise" bridge set was built on a
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Star Trek: The Original Series (season 1)


The first season of the American science fiction television series "". premiered on NBC on September 8, 1966 and concluded on April 13, 1967. It consisted of twenty-nine episodes, which is the highest number of episodes in a season of The Original Series of "Star Trek". "Star Trek: The Original Series" is an American science fiction television series created by Gene Roddenberry, and the original series of the Star Trek franchise. It features William Shatner as Captain James T. Kirk, Leonard Nimoy as
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to [the 23rd] century that it will be exactly like that." In 2019, Hugh Culber was ranked the 10th-sexiest "Star Trek" character by Syfy, ahead of Jadzia Dax and B'Elanna Torres but behind Hikaru Sulu. Christopher Pike (portrayed by Anson Mount) is captain of the USS "Enterprise". After the first season concluded with the "Discovery" receiving a distress call from the "Enterprise", specifically from Pike, Harberts expressed interest in exploring that character in the second season, feeling
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from those prior series that Seitz saw as "honorable attempts" to modernize the franchise "while still keeping the whole thing recognizably "Trek"." Seitz in particularly praised the more serialized storytelling, visual effects, original characters like Burnham and Saru, existing characters like Frain's Sarek and Wilson's Harry Mudd, and the themes of science vs. war that the series explored. On the latter, Seitz felt "Discovery" improved on the efforts of the J.J. Abrams "Star Trek" films. Discussing the "hits"
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Star Trek: Discovery


Star Trek: Discovery is an American web television series created for CBS All Access by Bryan Fuller and Alex Kurtzman. Launched in 2017, it is the first scripted series developed specifically for that service. The seventh series in the "Star Trek" franchise, it is the first series in the franchise since "" concluded in 2005. Star Trek Discovery takes place in a time-frame roughly a decade before the events of and separate from the timeline of the concurrently produced feature films, "Discovery" follows the crew of
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apparently been threatened by Harberts after stating their intention to file a formal complaint. Kurtzman was made sole showrunner in their place, and was described as the "glue holding "Discovery" together". With this change came news that Goldsman had not returned as executive producer for the second season, after serving as Kurtzman's "right-hand man", because he had a "management style and personality that clashed with the writing staff". At the end of the month, James Duff joined the series as an executive
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her backstory through flashbacks, which a more traditional series may have done, the writers wanted to have a prologue that explored Burnham's initial actions and her relationship to Georgiou. Feeling that at least "two hours" were needed to convey this, the first two episodes of the season (released as the two-part premiere of the series) cover this prologue, with the season's main story beginning with the third episode, which was considered to be the series' equivalent of a pilot episode. It begins six months
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Marc DeBevoise confirmed a "fall" release date for the series, and announced that the episode order had been expanded to 15 episodes. In June, CBS announced a new premiere date of September 24, 2017, with the season airing through November 2017, and then beginning again in January 2018. This break gave more time to complete post-production on the second half of the season. Also that month, Kurtzman said that he and Fuller had discussed future seasons before the latter's departure, and promised that "what
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Rainn Wilson was cast as another original series character, Harry Mudd, that March. In September, Harberts revealed that Mia Kirshner had been cast as Grayson. Katherine Barrell portrays Mudd's wife Stella. Clint Howard, who appeared in several previous "Star Trek" series, has a role in the season finale as an Orion drug dealer. The role was written specifically for Howard, who is friends with Goldsman. The design of the USS "Discovery" is based on an unused Ralph McQuarrie design for the USS "Enterprise
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Star Trek: Discovery (season 2)


new series' showrunner. CBS did not have a plan for what the new show would be when Fuller joined, and he proposed an anthology series with each season being a standalone, serialized show set in a different era, beginning with a prequel to the original series. CBS told Fuller to just start with a single serialized show and see how that performs first, and he began further developing the prequel concept. By the end of 2016, Fuller had left the series due to further conflicts with CBS and other commitments,
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List of Star Trek: Discovery characters


"" is an American television series created for CBS All Access by Bryan Fuller and Alex Kurtzman. Set roughly a decade before the events of and separate from the timeline of the concurrent feature films, "Discovery" explores the Federation–Klingon cold war while following the crew of the USS "Discovery". It premiered on September 25, 2017. The series stars Sonequa Martin-Green as Michael Burnham, a Starfleet mutineer who is given a war-time field assignment as a science specialist on the USS "Discovery"
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Deadlock (Star Trek: Voyager)


, leaving the crew to shoot for extra days and write in extra material. "Deadlock" had a rating of 9/10 on TV.com, the highest of season 2 of Voyager. It had Nielsen ratings of 5.8 points when it debuted in 1996 on UPN television. It was later voted the favourite episode of the second season during a fan poll. Similarly Star Trek Monthly ranked the episode with 4/5 stars, and Cinefantastique 3/4. In 2015, a "Star Trek: Voyager" binge-watching guide by W.I.R.E.D. suggested this episode
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Star Trek"." In January 2019, two animated shorts were ordered to be released after the second season of "Discovery". The shorts have different animation styles to match the story and tone of each installment, and to differentiate from the other animated series that Kurtzman is producing. By November 2018, Michelle Yeoh was in talks with CBS to star in a spin-off series as her character Philippa Georgiou, with the series expected to follow her adventures as a member of the secretive organization Section 31. CBS was
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, revenue from the app for CBS doubled on October 1 compared to the average in-app revenue during the previous 30 days. The review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reported an 82% approval rating with an average rating of 7.07/10 based on 67 reviews. The website's critical consensus reads, "Although it takes an episode to achieve liftoff, "Star Trek: Discovery" delivers a solid franchise installment for the next generation—boldly led by the charismatic Sonequa Martin-Green." The average rating for each of the season
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Kazon


". The Kazon were replaced by storylines focusing on the Vidiians, the Borg, and the Hirogen. Prior to the premiere of "", Donna Dickens speculated that Andrew Lincoln's appearance on the series could be as a character from the Kazon. While acknowledging fans' negative response to the alien species during "Star Trek: Voyager", Dickens questioned if "Star Trek: Discovery" would be an appropriate venue for the Kazon to have a "cameo comeback". "Voyager"'s cast members had a negative
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The Shipment (Star Trek: Enterprise)


the crew follow a trail of information to a mining complex which is producing a compound used in the construction of a Xindi weapon, while Chief Engineer Charles "Trip" Tucker (Connor Trinneer) makes a discovery about the Xindi sidearms. The episode was filmed in late August and early September at the same time as the season premier was first aired. It used a combination of standing sets along with a handful of new sets to represent locations on the Xindi planet. Two actors resumed their roles from earlier in the season;
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