Creating The Props For Star Trek: Discovery

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♦Star Trek: Discovery starts this month on CBS All Access in the US and on Netflix in the UK. Here’s the team discussing the props on a video from TrekNetwork …

Props Master Mario Moreira explains in a new Star Trek: Discovery featurette how he and his team took a “period piece” approach to creating the props for the show.

The new phasers—which Mario describes as the “crown jewel” of Star Trek‘s Federation arsenal—definitely bear a resemblance to the phasers we know and love, but include additional flourishes appropriate to the time.

“Comparing it to the original series phaser, it has very similar lines,” Mario says. “We gave it more of that militaristic feel.

“A lot of today’s industrial design inspired the look of our props,” he adds.

Meanwhile, the alien Klingon armor and weaponry had to exude a totally different look and feel from those of Starfleet.

“We wanted to re-explore our Klingons as more of an aesthetic warrior race,” Mario says. So, the species’ helmets, for instance, which are incredibly ornate and textured, were inspired by Roman and Greek vases that were all inlaid and carved.”

Star Trek: Discovery is an upcoming American television series created by Bryan Fuller and Alex Kurtzman for CBS All Access. It is the first series developed specifically for that service, and the first Star Trek series since Star Trek: Enterprise concluded in 2005. Set roughly a decade before the events of the original Star Trek series, separate from the timeline of the concurrent feature films, Discovery explores a previously mentioned event from the history of Star Trek while following the crew of the USS Discovery. Gretchen J. Berg and Aaron Harberts serve as showrunners on the series, with producing support from Akiva Goldsman.

Star Trek: Discovery will follow the voyages of Starfleet on their missions to discover new worlds and new lifeforms, and one Starfleet officer who must learn that to truly understand all things alien, you must first understand yourself.

Star Trek, one of the most iconic and influential global television franchises, returns to television 50 years after it first premiered with Star Trek: Discovery.  The series will feature a new ship, new characters and new missions, while embracing the same ideology and hope for the future that inspired a generation of dreamers and doers.

Star Trek: Discovery is produced by CBS Television Studios in association with Alex Kurtzman’s Secret Hideout, Bryan Fuller’s Living Dead Guy Productions and Roddenberry Entertainment. Alex Kurtzman, Bryan Fuller, Heather Kadin, Gretchen J. Berg & Aaron Harberts, Akiva Goldsman, Rod Roddenberry and Trevor Roth serve as executive producers.

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Star Trek: Discovery is set to debut on CBS with a two-part premiere, before moving to All Access. The first season will consist of 13 episodes. it will be shown on Netflix in the UK.