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A starship is only as good as the engineer that keeps it running, and Star Trek 's legendary USS Enterprise is no exception. As established by the legendary Captain Montgomery "Scotty" Scott (James Doohan) in Star Trek: The Original Series , the Chief Engineer is an integral part of each Star Trek show's main line-up. From TOS to Star Trek: Picard season 3, there have been seven ships to bear the name Enterprise, and each of them have had a dedicated team of engineers, headed up by an excellent Chief.

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Even shows that don't focus on one of the many versions of the USS Enterprise have their own Chief Engineers in the line-up. Star Trek: Voyager had Lt. B'Elanna Torres (Roxann Dawson), while Star Trek: Deep Space Nine had Chief Miles O'Brien (Colm Meaney), who had cut his teeth in the transporter room aboard the USS Enterprise-D. Modern Star Trek shows have placed Scotty and his Star Trek: The Next Generation successor Lt. Commander. Geordi La Forge (LeVar Burton) within a long history of Enterprise engineers, which goes all the way back to the birth of the Federation itself.

10 Commander Trip Tucker, Enterprise NX-01

The Enterprise NX-01 was the first warp five capable starship to launch humanity's mission of exploration out among the stars. Its engineer, Commander Charles "Trip" Tucker III's role in Star Trek: Enterprise 's central trio was similar to Dr. Leonard "Bones" McCoy (DeForest Kelley) - the close human friend of the starship captain. As Enterprise depicted Starfleet's first deep space exploration mission it made perfect sense to make the NX-01's engineer part of the central trio.

Operating at the forefront of human warp drive technology, the crew of the Enterprise NX-01 were incredibly reliant on their engineer. Trip often had to improvise solutions and learn on the job when it came to the capabilities of the Enterprise NX-01. Tragically, Trip was killed protecting his beloved ship from hijackers in Star Trek: Enterprise 's controversial finale. However, his legacy as the first Chief Engineer of the starship Enterprise outshines his disappointing ending.

9 Commander Kelby, Enterprise NX-01

In Star Trek: Enterprise season 4, Trip transferred to the Columbia NX-02 to hasten the ship's long-delayed first voyage. Trip's replacement aboard the Enterprise was Commander Kelby (Derek Agyar), who had a baptism of fire when the ship fell victim to Klingon sabotage. Trip quickly transferred back over to help Kelby repair Enterprise, leading to the two men clashing before Kelby filled the vacant position aboard the Columbia NX-02.

8 Lt. Hemmer, USS Enterprise

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds ' Lt. Hemmer (Bruce Horak) was another Enterprise engineer who met a tragic end in the line of duty. Hemmer was an Aenar, the genetic cousins of Star Trek 's Andorians, who lived underground and had developed incredibly strong psychic abilities to replace their lost sight. Hemmer succeeded Louvier, the previous Chief Engineer of the USS Enterprise under Captain Christopher Pike (Anson Mount) was brief, but he made a lasting impact on Cadet Nyota Uhura (Celia Rose Gooding), who spent time working in engineering.

Hemmer helped Uhura find her purpose, effectively ensuring the legendary Star Trek: The Original Series character's place on the bridge of the Enterprise. Like Trip, Hemmer's death was a noble sacrifice, although it had a much stronger impact on the crew. Pinned down by the Gorn on the wreck of a Starfleet vessel, Hemmer acted as bait for the young Gorn, giving his life to allow the Enterprise away team to escape. Hemmer's brutal death had a major impact on Uhura, but it also impacted Lt. Spock (Ethan Peck) who is still dealing with his grief in Strange New Worlds season 2.

7 Commander Pelia, USS Enterprise

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds ' season 1 finale teased that a young Montgomery Scott may replace Hemmer on the Enterprise. However, Scotty's current predecessor - if she can avoid the fate of Hemmer and Trip - is Strange New Worlds ' Lanthanite engineer, Commander Pelia (Carol Kane). The Lanthanites are a rare species that are said to have lived alongside human beings undetected for centuries, which means that Pelia likely has gained a large set of skills learned during her long life on Earth.

Interestingly, Spock, rather than Captain Christopher Pike (Anson Mount), recruited Pelia to the Enterprise. In the Strange New Worlds season 2 opener, Spock was left in charge of the Enterprise and assigned Pelia as Chief Engineer to mitigate the consequences of stealing the Enterprise. Although she technically blackmailed Spock into giving her the position, her role at Starfleet Academy presumably means she's well-placed to run engineering on the Federation flagship.

6 Chief Engineer Montgomery Scott, USS Enterprise & Enterprise-A (Kelvin Timeline)

Chief Engineer Montgomery Scott (Simon Pegg) is the only TOS character who doesn't start J.J. Abrams Star Trek movie on the USS Enterprise. Originally Olson (Greg Ellis) was the original Enterprise Chief Engineer, but he was killed during the attack of Vulcan by Nero (Eric Bana). When James T. Kirk (Chris Pine) was thrown off the Enterprise for insubordination, he was helped by the elderly Spock (Leonard Nimoy) Keenser (Deep Roy), and Scotty. Using the Prime Universe Scotty's secret to transwarp beaming, Kirk, Keenser and Kelvin Scotty arrived back on the Enterprise.

Scotty was made Chief Engineer of the USS Enterprise soon after his arrival and continued to serve in the role throughout the Kelvin Timeline movies. In Star Trek Into Darkness , Enterprise's Chief Engineer took a leave of absence to investigate the Dreadnought-class starships being constructed by Star Trek 's Section 31 at the behest of Admiral Alexander Marcus (Peter Weller). However, he was soon back in engineering aboard the Enterprise until its subsequent destruction over Altamid. By the end of Star Trek Beyond , Scotty was about to take the role of Chief Engineer aboard the newly minted USS Enterprise-A.

5 Ensign Pavel Chekov, USS Enterprise (Kelvin Timeline)

While Scotty and Keenser investigated the Dreadnought-class starships, Ensign Pavel Chekov (Anton Yelchin) took over as Chief Engineer on the USS Enterprise. The Kelvin timeline's Chekov was something of a prodigy and was just as capable of being Chief Engineer as he was being the navigator of the USS Enterprise. Chekov went back to navigating the Enterprise when Scotty returned to the Enterprise with information about Marcus' plans.

4 Chief Engineer Montgomery Scott, USS Enterprise & Enterprise-A

Scotty was already a very skilled engineer by the time he took the position of Chief Engineer of the USS Enterprise. Scotty was also a master of managing expectations, revealing that he would always tell Captain Kirk that a job would take longer than it actually would. Scotty wasn't workshy, however, and was a proper genius when it came to managing the warp drive and transporters. When the Enterprise was demoted to a training ship, Scotty moved on to the Excelsior project, but never felt the same passion for the "great experiment " in transwarp technology.

It's unclear if Scotty worked out the equation for transwarp beaming while working on the Excelsior-class starships, or if he did it at a later point in time. After serving aboard the USS Enterprise-A, Scotty was invited to participate in the first flight of the USS Enterprise-B, where he witnessed Kirk's "death" . Scotty was resurrected in the 24th century after he was rescued from a transporter pattern buffer in Star Trek: The Next Generation . Believing himself to no longer be relevant, Scotty realized he still had something to teach the future Starfleet officers, but - in screen canon at least - it's unclear what he did after he left the USS Enterprise-D.

3 Star Trek: The Next Generation Season 1 Engineers, USS Enterprise-D

In Star Trek: The Next Generation season 1, the USS Enterprise-D had a rotation of Chief Engineers, who each stepped up when required by Captain Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart). The most obvious replacement for Scotty was Lt. Commander Argyle (Biff Yeager), who spoke with a soft Scottish accent and had a suitably Caledonian surname. Lt. Commander Leland T. Lynch (Walker Boone) irritated Picard with his habit of announcing his full name when answering a comms. Meanwhile, Lt. Commander Sarah McDougal (Brooke Bundy) was unaffected by the polywater intoxication in "The Naked Now", which allowed her to aid Commander William T Riker (Jonathan Frakes) in saving the Enterprise from destruction.

And finally, there was Lt. Commander Logan (Vyto Ruginis) who tried to pull rank to take control of the Enterprise when then-Lieutenant Geordi was left in charge during the Minosian incident. La Forge stood his ground and sent his senior officer back to engineering. Interestingly, Logan was the only one of TNG 's rotating engineers that didn't later return to serve under La Forge, suggesting that one of the men held a grudge after the events of "The Arsenal of Freedom".

2 Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge, USS Enterprise-D & E

Star Trek: TNG promoted Geordi to Chief Engineer in season 2, he served on both the USS Enterprise-D and E until the final TNG movie, Star Trek: Nemesis . Geordi saved the USS Enterprise-D from destruction many times, most notably when he restored the Galaxy-class starship to its former glory after the crash on Veridian III. Other highlights of Geordi's career include repairing and befriending the abandoned Borg drone Hugh (Jonathan Del Arco), and helping Zefram Cochrane (James Cromwell) complete his historic first warp flight in Star Trek: First Contact .

Geordi clearly became something of a legend in Starfleet, because he was the only TNG character to immediately impress Captain Liam Shaw (Todd Stashwick) . Interestingly, Geordi was initially overwhelmed to meet the legendary Scotty in the TNG episode "Relics", until he began to wonder if it was true what people say about meeting one's heroes. It's possibly for this reason that Geordi shut down Shaw's attempt to " geek out " with him in Star Trek: Picard season 3, to put some distance between him and his own legend.

1 Star Trek: Picard Engineers On The USS Enterprise-F & G

Details are vague on the service history of the USS Enterprise-F, which had several different Captains during its 15 years of service. As the launch of the USS Enterprise-G in the Star Trek: Picard season 3 finale focused on the bridge crew, it's unknown who fills the role of Chief Engineer. If Star Trek: Legacy is commissioned at Paramount+, it wouldn't be surprising if Ensign Alandra La Forge (Mica Burton) follows in her father's footsteps to take up a position in engineering. It would be very fitting for Star Trek 's next generation to have another La Forge in engineering.

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See USS Enterprise’s Engineering In ‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ Created Using Virtual Production Tech

| May 18, 2022 | By: TrekMovie.com Staff 31 comments so far

The AR Wall virtual set technology introduced in season four of Star Trek: Discovery is being put to good use by Star Trek: Strange New Worlds . Not only is the AR wall being used to help create some of those alien worlds, but it is also being used for some sets within the USS Enterprise itself. Thanks to team behind the show’s visual effects, we can now get a closer look at how it’s done.

Pixomondo’s virtual engineering

The often talked about AR Wall used by Star Trek: Strange New Worlds (and Star Trek: Discovery ) is located at Pixomondo’s and William F. White International’s virtual production stage in Toronto. Pixomondo has been working on the Star Trek shows since the launch of Discovery and introduced the AR wall for use in season four of Discovery .

The following video shows how practical set pieces and the AR wall are combined to create the set for engineering on the USS Enterprise.

Pixomondo also provided us with this photo from the production on Thursday’s episode “ Ghosts of Illyria ” showing off the engineering set.

USS Enterprise engineering set (Pixomondo)

The AR wall is also used for the Enterprise mess hall. Writer/producer Bill Wolkoff shared a video this week showing the ship at warp effect in action.

The Enterprise mess hall, in warp! This AR wall set by the genius Pixomondo artists was seen in the Strange New Worlds pilot. Best cafeteria view in the galaxy. pic.twitter.com/wvNbQxb9x7 — Bill Wolkoff (@flying_lobster) May 17, 2022

Of course, a big selling point for the AR Wall is creating alien worlds. Pixomondo shared some photos showing how the AR wall was used for Spock and T’Pring’s date on Vulcan in the premiere episode of the series. You can see in the following two photos a sort of before and after once the AR wall displays the virtual Vulcan environment.

AR wall stage getting set up (Pixomondo)

AR wall showing virtual Vulcan (Pixomondo)

Gaming tech driving new virtual sets

Pixomondo’s virtual set and AR wall utilizes technology from the Unreal Engine, which is gaming technology being applied for film production. Unreal released their own video showing off how the tech was used in season four of Discovery .

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Nice, but where are the huge vats?

This is no brewery!

Starfleet finally figured out that beer was not a good catalyst for generating a warp field.

Nope, just mushrooms.

Technically that wasn’t engineering as in the engine room but more the water reclamation room.

nice. It’s modern but enough of a reflection of what’s been done in TOS that you can almost hand wave TOS away as being the ‘standard def / you might have cataracts’ release and now we’re finally seeing the same ship but in high def and with our glasses on.

I like those designs. Retrofuturistic. Looks like an extension of the TOS-bridge to the engineering room, if they had the money back then.

I like this engineering design a lot, and a lot more than the version we’ve briefly seen on Short Treks. The physical set pieces of the warp core are super retro and the virtual conduits reflect the TOS basic design. The only downside is the frantic nature of this promo video. Not my style…

I definitely agree with that. I didn’t like the engineering look in Short Treks either, but yeah it was a quick thing to do for a few seconds, I don’t think anyone thought it would really look that way if it became a real show.

I still think this one looks ridiculously big but that’s the ship in general.

I assumed what was seen in Short Treks was the upper part of the warp core where the reactants are injected/directed, and what’s shown in Strange New Worlds is the actual intermix chamber & power distribution manifold.

It’s so interesting watching this concept in production tech evolve over the past 15 years or so. I remember using mods and Battlefield 2 for aircraft shots in a short film I was making back then… and then Sanctuary doing the old version of this with greenscreen physical “blocks” and MLG camera interfaces.

Beautiful. Looks TOS and functional. Love it!!! My only request would be the large display boards on the side where engineers can see the power distribution, warp fields, manipulate energy levels, etc and some ladders like TOS for access. Big displays, see TOS with some engineers for the chief engineer to demand more power from with the displays going red and sparks flying that he has to report to the Captain that she can’t do much more than this!!

I second that.

Yes, but where do they brew their beer?

Like I was saying…

Cool design but it looks way too big for a Constitution class ship. Or has SNW gone the JJVerse route of arbitrarily doubling the size of the ship?

Judging by the size of Pike’s quarters, the ship is bigger now.

It’s all way to big, just plainly showing this is not the TOS/TNG universe the producers keep insisting it is.

Oh, were you expecting canon? lol! The ship is gigantic now, I think the design is 442 meters vs ~289 for the original Connie

After seeing the vast empty spaces inside the ship in Discovery I don’t think anyone can or should care about this anymore :(

The sets are amazing but man this ship looks so big compared to the original Enterprise. And the ‘mess hall’ looks closer to a fancy New York restaurant lol. Not a huge deal it just feels more like a luxury cruise liner compared to the original which was closer to a Navy vessel; especially its more limited space.

But at least engineering doesn’t look like a brewery.

Baby steps. Some are still see TNG and think a hotel lobby is more the environment for drama and excitement than a cramped combat information centre. Hmm… what is more exciting warship navy environment complete with displays or the lobby of the Best Western complete with elevator door and couch? That being said I think some Producers/Directors on SNW who shoot a scene on a bridge set where people can talk to each other in a shot without screaming and without just a giant door in the background going “wow, this is amazing!!! Why hasn’t this been done before?!?!” Gives me hope for the future of Trek.

Is the part where everything comes at the camera like the lightning tunnel Spock passes through in TMP supposed to be a warp reaction? Couldn’t make head nor tail of any of that.

I can’t wait till I see some sort of official blueprints to see how Engineering fits into the Secondary Hull.

Might as well ask for a blueprint of the Tardis

Discovery make Tardis-style ship interior canon. I can’t care about those details (blueprints etc) anymore thanks to that.

Isn’t this nothing more than a high tech version of “blue-screen” Star Trek , “Hidden Frontier” from 2000-2007?! :) Another thing Fan Films did first!

It’s not a blue screen because the backgrounds are projected in real time so the actors actually have something to react to. If anything it’s closer to a 21st Century version of the front projection system that Kubrick used for the Dawn of Man scenes in 2001: A Space Odyssey where (and I’m really oversimplifying this) prehistoric backgrounds were projected onto a giant screen.

It’s a giant curved LED screen. The imagery on it is a virtual set, generated in real time by Unreal Engine software, most commonly used in game development.

It tracks the real-world camera position to match views / movement in the virtual set accordingly, so it doesn’t look like a flat mural, but a real 3D space.

Virtual lighting inside the scene is matched with on-set lighting rigs, and bonus, since the LED wall surrounds the actors, you get realistic reflections etc so they don’t look like they’re standing in front of a green screen.

Great behind-the-scenes video from the Discovery production team here: https://youtu.be/WDGmLE6IiGQ

No, because it’s displayed and then actually filmed with the actors, it also reacts to camera movements so it appears to have 3D depth.

If anything this is the exact OPPOSITE of a blue/greenscreen

Star Trek: Every Chief Engineer Ranked

They're all miracle workers, but which of them will be the one to rise to the top of the list?

Being Chief Engineer on board a starship can often be a thankless job. It is their responsibliity to ensure that the lifts are working, the sonic showers never break down and that the replicators are delivering something palatable. If any of these cease to function, they can quickly find themselves on the receiving end of harsh words from the captain.

Some of the entries on this list very clearly struggled in their roles. Not everyone is cut out to be the Chief. Sometimes, it is better just to be part of the team, rather than having to be the one who makes the tough decisions. When your role is ensuring that the very ship you're flying in doesn't explode thanks to a misaligned system, that can be tough on the nerves.

Thankfully, most examples in Starfleet seem up to the task. It is also clear that one doesn't have to be the Chief on a ship named Enterprise to excel in their role. There are other ships and there are many challenges facing them, breaking them down and getting in their way.

How many times must a system keep breaking? How many calls must come in from an officer who can't work their console? Have they tried switching it off and turning it back on again?

These are the Chiefs who must deal with these issues on the day to day.

9. MacDougal, Argyle, Logan And Lynch

The first season of the Next Generation had something of a revolving door of Chief Engineers. Initially, the show had not been written with any scenes in main engineering, with a preference to stage scenes on the bridge. Thankfully, Gene Roddenberry added a line to Encounter at Farpoint that necessitated the building of a Main Engineering set.

However, that called for a Chief Engineer. First up was Lt. Commander Sarah MacDougal. She appeared in The Naked Now, where she is outwitted by Wesley Crusher, losing complete control of her section. Her contract was not renewed.

Next up was Lt. Commander Argyle, who was in control of Engineering in Where No One Has Gone Before. Under his command, the ship ended up stuck in another Galaxy. His contract was not renewed.

He was followed by Lt. Logan (who would later appear in the pilot of the Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Angel as a nasty Vampire), appearing in The Arsenal of Freedom. He was quite horrible to La Forge when the latter was commanding the ship. Guess what happened with his contract?

Last up was the oddly formal Lt. Commander Leland T. Lynch, who is in charge of Engineering in Skin of Evil. He probably does the best job of the lot, though unfortunately he would only appear once.

Each of these characters is both unmemorable in most cases, incompetent. Thankfully, when the show returned for its second year, a new Chief would be in charge.

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Guinan's backstory was a tragic one. She was an El-Aurian and a refugee from a planet that was destroyed by the Borg and rescued by the Federation. Until this was revealed in the film Star Trek: Generations , most viewers only knew her as the bartender in Ten Forward.

Goldberg had been a lifelong Star Trek fan, and the character was her idea. Guinan rarely had a major role in the plot, with her appearances contingent on Goldberg's availability, and she often acted as a theme or expository character that others could come to for advice or information.

Jean Luc-Picard

A selfless captain and gentle father-figure.

• Played By: Patrick Stewart

Jean-Luc Picard was a model captain in a lot of ways, but a big part of why he was so great is how dedicated he was to the Enterprise. That not only refers to the ship itself but also the crew of almost a thousand and their families, along with the many residents and workers that called the ship home.

Despite a few brushes with close friendship or even love, Picard never grew close to any of his shipmates, always remaining distant for the sake of his work. He was so selfless that he sacrificed his personal life to serve the ship, and in one of the best endings of any TV show in history, the finale of Star Trek: The Last Generation gives him a chance to finally enjoy a card game with his closest friends and colleagues.

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Cast Michael Dorn, LeVar Burton, Brent Spiner, Wil Wheaton, Jonathan Frakes, Patrick Stewart, Marina Sirtis, Whoopi Goldberg, Gates McFadden, Denise Crosby

Creator Gene Roddenberry

Number of Episodes 178

Release Date September 28, 1987

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Star Trek: Discovery’s Michelle Paradise Explains How The Finale’s Big Enterprise Easter Egg Came To Be

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Warning! The following contains SPOILERS for the Star Trek: Discovery finale "Life, Itself." Watch it now with a Paramount+ subscription , and read at your own risk!

Star Trek: Discovery is finished, but not before giving fans some big things to ponder as it bows. While upcoming Star Trek shows may eventually unravel the full story of the USS Discovery 's fate, CinemaBlend was able to get the details on that fun little connection between this beloved series and another great one, Enterprise . As we learned in the finale, Kovich was actually a character from the previous show; we just didn't know it.

The big moment came when Michael Burnham met with Kovich and finally felt brave enough to ask what his "real" name was. The mysterious Federation figurehead stated that he was Daniels, also known as the Temporal Agent who kept in contact with Captain Archer during Enterprise . It was a fun twist I didn't see coming, so I asked showrunner Michelle Paradise how it came to be. She told me:

It’s something that evolved. The way David [Cronenberg] plays Kovich is so interesting and mysterious, and we found ourselves any time he was on screen just leaning in and wondering like, what is this character? There is a mystery here and, and as writers, we wanted to figure out what is the most satisfying answer to that mystery?

The showrunner praised David Cronenberg 's portrayal of Kovich, and she's not the only one. Doug Jones confessed to CinemaBlend that he didn't recognize him the first time they worked together , but was so surprised by his performance. It turns out the acclaimed director behind so many great movies is also a great addition to Star Trek and a link between Enterprise and Discovery .

It's a fun connection and something I had to know more about. Michelle Paradise shared how the idea of Kovich playing Daniels came about, as well as the cool thing for Discovery fans to do now that it's over:

I don't remember if it was Season 4 or 5. It may have been Season 4. Two of our writers. I think it was Carlos [Cisco] and Eric [J. Robbins] pitched, ’What if it was Daniels?’ Because they both watched everything. The minute they said that, it just hit us. Yes. That is it. And so, if you watch Season 5 back through now knowing that, you can see the little easter eggs along the way. He's writing with pen and paper. Things like that ultimately will hint this is a guy who's kind of out of time if you will.

Kovich, being a well-known Temporal Agent, raises many questions, some of which I'd love to get answered in the spinoff Starfleet Academy if he appears. At this time, the only casting known for the series is award-winning actress Holly Hunter , and I happen to believe Mary Wiseman will be announced , especially after this nod in the finale that Tilly was the most tenured member of the Academy.

Ultimately, I would love to see more of David Cronenberg in Star Trek 's future, especially with this connection. At the same time, I know he's not primarily known as an actor, so if he's fine with Discovery being his sole contribution to the franchise, I'm ok with that too. Still, with all the crazy time-related stuff happening in Strange New Worlds , wouldn't Daniels' re-emergence clear up some misconceptions on whether the Temporal Wars are over?

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Unfortunately, we won't be getting those answers from Star Trek: Discovery because it's over. On the bright side, we have a satisfying ending to celebrate and the opportunity to binge all five seasons all over again whenever we choose to do so. For those who need a little time before that, our 2024 TV schedule should be the first stop for anyone who needs something new to watch.

Mick Joest is a Content Producer for CinemaBlend with his hand in an eclectic mix of television goodness. Star Trek is his main jam, but he also regularly reports on happenings in the world of Star Trek, WWE, Doctor Who, 90 Day Fiancé, Quantum Leap, and Big Brother. He graduated from the University of Southern Indiana with a degree in Journalism and a minor in Radio and Television. He's great at hosting panels and appearing on podcasts if given the chance as well.

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What Star Trek: Enterprise's Linda Park Wanted For Hoshi, But Never Got

On "Star Trek: Enterprise," the character of Ensign Hoshi Sato, played by actress Linda Park, served as the communications officer on board the titular ship. "Enterprise" takes place a century before the events of the original "Star Trek" series , so the franchise's notorious universal translator hadn't yet been refined, leaving human translators like Hoshi to fill in the gaps. Hoshi had a talent for xenolinguistics, but didn't quite have the constitution for long-range space missions or combat situations. She was young and inexperienced, and had to constantly face her anxieties head-on. As the show progressed, Hoshi came into her own, displaying more and more confidence. 

The problem with characters that can be defined as "young and inexperienced" is that eventually they will have to become adult and experienced. They will then require other character traits to define them ... and TV writers don't always think that far ahead. Many of the "youthful" characters on "Star Trek" seem to lose personality as they get older. 

In Hoshi's case, she began the series relying on Captain Archer (Scott Bakula) and her fellow crewmates for support. As she gained confidence, however, the character started to become more isolated. Most of the Hoshi Sato stories on "Enterprise" involved many scenes of the character alone, experiencing transporter psychosis or gallivanting off with an alien co-star. She didn't have too many notable, one-on-one scenes with her co-stars, with only John Billingsley (who played Dr. Phlox) notwithstanding. 

Park talked to StarTrek.com in 2010 , and aired her grievances about her issues with Hoshi, while also citing the episodes wherein she felt she had the most to do.

Park wanted more personal interaction with her Star Trek co-stars

When asked what more Park wanted to see for Hoshi on "Enterprise," the actress was quick to answer, saying:

"What I would have liked to have seen was more personal interaction. A lot of what Hoshi did in her side stories was very introverted and personal and isolated. Except for the Mirror Universe episodes, her personal scenes were usually isolated from the rest of the crew. She did have the one where she went off, that kind of Beauty and the Beast episode, and she was away from everybody else." 

The Mirror Universe episode was called "In a Mirror Darkly" (April 22 and 29, 2005), and featured an evil version of Hoshi Sato who connived and manipulated other characters in order to become empress of the galaxy. The Beauty and the Beast episode was called "Exile" (October 15, 2003), wherein Hoshi was telepathically contacted by a handsome alien (Maury Sterling), only to find that he was beastly in person. Hoshi was left alone with the alien to aid a translation project, but she soon learned that he wanted to keep her on his planet indefinitely; he was very lonely. It's a fine story, but it did indeed keep Hoshi isolated from her fellow crewmates. 

Park continued:

"'Vanishing Point' was kind of in her own mind, and even then she couldn't really interact with anybody else because she was becoming a non-entity. I did get some interaction with Phlox, which I loved because I loved acting with John Billingsley and I loved being around him. We actually had a lot of great personal scenes, and that's my own personal taste." 

"Vanishing Point" (November 7, 2002) saw Hoshi mysteriously phasing out of existence after using the ship's transporter. The entire episode was eventually revealed to be a dream.

Park hoped for deeper relationships between Hoshi Sato, Captain Archer, and Trip Tucker

Park noted that "Star Trek" was great in its ability to tell deeply personal stories inside a fantastical, futuristic context . She felt, however, that Hoshi's stories were personal to the point of loneliness. She felt that Hoshi's relationship with Captain Archer could have been more deeply explored, or perhaps her interactions with the ship's engineer, Trip Tucker, played by Connor Trinneer. She didn't even care what kind of relationship Hoshi had with these characters, so long as they were richer than what she got: 

"I love sci-fi and drama and comedy, but the unifying thread of the shows I like is that the personal stories are ingrained very richly into whatever else is going on. So I would have loved more interaction with Connor and Scott, more coloring outside the lines of the boss-employee relationship, whether it was conflict or romantic. I don't mean to the level of soap opera, but they're out in space and they're going to fight and have awkward moments." 

Park went on to reiterate that her favorite episode was "In a Mirror Darkly," as she was allowed to play against type, and turn Hoshi into an aggressive, evil person. She also got to end the episode becoming Empress, which was likely fun for her. She noted that it was her favorite, however, merely because it broke with the status quo; if she played an evil character in every episode of "Enterprise," and was suddenly asked to be kind and meek, then she would likely have liked that, too. 

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Star Trek: Discovery Boss Breaks Down That ‘Calypso’ Nod, Kovich’s Surprising Reveal in Emotional Series Finale

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The following contains major spoilers from Star Trek: Discovery ‘s series finale on Thursday. Proceed accordingly.

After five ambitious seasons, Star Trek: Discovery has sent its last transmission.

In Thursday’s 90-minute series finale, Burnhum found herself cut off from her crew after following Moll through the portal that contained the Progenitors’ life-altering tech and, to her astonishment, doors to other worlds. While the captain fought the latter inside, her Discovery cohorts battled Breen warriors out in space.

 When the dust settled — Action Saru having fended off the Breen army — later scenes set in the future reveal that the Kelpian ambassador and T’Rina married. Book and Burnham also wed, then settled on Sanctuary Four (where Book planted Kwejian’s World Root) and had a son named Leto. The series wrapped with an older Burnham, now an admiral, taking Discovery out to space one last time, where it will sit abandoned for a thousand years until someone else finds it.

Read on for our interview with co-showrunner Michelle Paradise, who breaks down the episode’s biggest reveals and how it all came together.

[Note: Season 5 was originally filmed as a season finale. Following its cancellation , cast and crew were given an opportunity, aka a coda, to film additional scenes that wrapped up the show.]

The other thing it gave us is the chance to resolve the character of the ship because Discovery itself, Zora, is a huge character in the show. In the same way that it was emotionally important for us to wrap up Burnham’s story and know what had happened with her and Book, and just to know that they had their happy ending and she’s become an admiral, we wanted to have an emotional wrap-up for the ship Discovery and know what was going to happen to [it]. And so, tying it in with “Calypso” felt like a way to honor the fans who had seen the short and had that question, and it also felt like honoring fans who hadn’t ever seen the short but would want to know, ‘What’s going to happen to the ship now?’ Well, it has a very important mission. She’s going to go out and it’s going to take some time, but she has something very important to do as well.

TVLINE | You had a very short window for this coda, so was there any story that you wrote but had to unfortunately leave out? No, because we were very clear. We knew from the time we found out that we were going to have three days to shoot, which tells us, ‘OK, we can do maybe 10 to 12 pages or so.’  We knew that there were certain limitations with the sets because some sets had already been struck, but we had the bridge. [EP Kyle Jarrow], [co-showrunner Alex Kurtzman] and I just sat down and said, ‘OK, what are the most important things?’

TVLINE | We did learn that Book and Burnham have a son who is now going to be a captain. Talk to me about the importance of that and carrying their legacy. Is this setting him up to potentially be seen somewhere else in the future? We wanted to know what would happen with Burnham and Book in the future. It felt like, ‘Oh yeah, they would start a family,’ that their son would be the combo platter of the two of them. And we were very intentional about all of that, including his name Leto, which is the name of Book’s [nephew], who we met back in Season 3 and who was on Kwejian [in Season 4, Episode 1 when the DMA destroyed the planet]. Being able to honor his [nephew] in that way by naming their son after him, and that their son is going into Starfleet and following in mom’s footsteps by becoming a captain, it all felt right for the characters and also like a happy ending for us to be able to see that.

TVLINE | I loved the reveal of Kovich as Agent Daniels, the temporal agent from Star Trek: Enterprise . How early on did you know that would be his true identity? Where’d that come from? It was a pitch in the writers’ room. Carlos Cisco and Eric J.  Robbins know every iteration of everything, and they really love Enterprise . And from the moment David Cronenberg started playing that role, we all found ourselves leaning in whenever he was on screen. He plays that character so wonderfully and mysteriously that from moment one, I was asking myself, ‘What is happening? Who is this guy? There is a mystery here.’ We wanted to answer that question and we knew we would be doing the fans a disservice if we didn’t answer whatever that mystery was going to be.

It was probably Season 4 when this idea for him to be Daniels came up… In Season 5, we started planting little seeds: him writing with pen and paper as opposed to the holoPADDs that everyone uses. Even just his choice of wardrobe. When we meet him, he’s in glasses and a tie. This is a guy that, from the moment he joined the show, has been a little out of time. And so, Daniels felt like the perfect choice to highlight all of that.

TVLINE | Do you think that this series finale will be a satisfying ending for longtime Star Trek fans? Why so? I hope it is. I hope it feels emotionally satisfying for people who have invested seven or eight years in the five seasons of this show. We didn’t want any hanging questions. We wanted it to be an emotionally satisfying, happy ending for people who have loved the show [and] these characters. And for folks who are fans of Discovery and all the other iterations, we hope it will also be satisfying. We’ve put our hearts into it and we are fans of the show as much as we also work on the show. We know what this show means to people, and what the characters mean to people and what they represent to people. And so, we really wanted to honor the characters and the fans in the way that we ended. I hope it will feel satisfying and that people won’t feel like anything was left out. Hopefully, they’ll come away and feel joy for having been on the ride with us.

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I’m glad for those who enjoyed Discovery but it never seemed like Trek to me but instead its own special story.

It’s a shame that Surik, Spock, and Georgiou couldn’t return for the finale.

They all have other shows to appear on

I meant Sarek.

Move over Star Trek: Enterprise, we have a new undisputed worst Trek finale of all time. What better way to say what a waste of time this season was than have a finale that resulted in nothing of consequence happening despite stringing along the Progenitor’s saga for ten episodes.

I completely disagree with you. This episode was very Star Trek and it had a satisfying ending for the series.

Exactly, wasted 10 episodes really. Terrible ending. Instead of focusing on the crew it was all about Burnham and Book.

Also, is it that hard for Burnham not to whisper her way through half the episode?

Glad some people liked it, and the creatives seem like nice people, but wow, this season was painful to watch.

I’m glad we got to see Detmer and Owosekun for a brief moment in the bridge scene as Burnham reflected on her Discovery family, but it’s still a complete mystery to me why the actors were essentially not in the final season. Yes, their characters were piloting Enterprise back to Starfleet. But why make the decision to have their characters to that? I’ve not found an answer to this.

We have an answer for you. Stay tuned!

Great! My first thought was these 2 actors were doing a side project together so they weren’t available to ST:D but my searches have come up empty… Looking forward to your reveal!

They were not available for much of time during filming of the season. It’s been reported before around the Star Trek socials

They reportedly had scheduling conflicts. That’s what I read in another article released yesterday on a different site.

When she flew it out one last time, didn’t some need to be in engineering that was a compatible pilot to activate the spore drive?

In the intervening 40ish years, presumably they solved that problem.

Really loved the finale! I couldn’t tell that it was originally planned as a season finale- they did a good job steering the ship to a satisfying finale and wrapping things up. I’ll miss this crew.

So Discovery ended as it began then…as a show about one. Never understood why they took the route of making Burnham the sole focus of this show when every other Trek show has thrived by being an ensemble piece. One thing I’ll never slight this show on though is the effects. Absolutely top notch.

The original series focused on Capt. Kirk, Deep Space 9 focused on Capt. Cisco.

Might want to go back and re-watch those shows. Discovery was all about Burnham, at least with TOS and DS9 they fleshed out the bridge crew, and DS9 went so far as to flesh out the secondary cast as well.

Look at those episode counts per season between Discovery and ENT, TNG, DS9 and VOY. This was also always a story of Burnham’s journey. However, there was still plenty of room for Saru, Tilly, Stamets, Culber, Book, Adira and Georgiou.They were the main cast. Not the secondaries on the bridge

For being the DEI Trek and the strange need to go against established cannon the writting wasn’t so bad.

Keep holding out for the KKK Trek of your dreams and a normal person’s nightmare

For me, season 5 was a little lackluster compared to the other 4 seasons. While I do understand the need for reflections and the emotional settling for the characters, I was expecting a little more. Just my opinion.

I watched each episodes and the final was to much like Alice In Wonderland/ Darkside of the Looking Glass. I will also comment that these last two series of Star Trek have been the worse! Picard and Discovery. I definently looking forward to seeing the next season of Strange New Worlds. The acting and story lines are superb compared to the two previous series.

I think it was maybe the best possible way to end the show. I liked season 5, and I liked how the main part of the finale resolved the storyline, and I think the coda was a nice sendoff. Nobody died, and everybody lives happily ever after. To quote podcaster Tom Merritt, thank you for your service, Discovery.

As usual, STD was terrible. Grateful it’s over just like Prodigy and Lower Decks

We all really know why you don’t like this show. Afraid of black women all over “your” Trek.

Utter nonsense. You’re projecting your own issues onto the commenter. The show stank from episode one, to episode last, for all the reasons that been stated a million times. Nothing to do with “black women”.

It was the best Trek show on television.

Ah, so you hate Star Trek. The only time Discovery was decent was when it was it introduced the cast of Strange New Worlds. The rest of its seasons fill the bottom of the rungs in the Star Trek universe.

The series was a mess from day one. From non-canon Klingons to a season long antagonist – Moll – who just sort of goes away – this was the least coherent, interesting and satisfying iteration of Trek. Bring on Academy and please, for the love of God, Legacy (or whatever it’s to be called) with 7 in charge.

I really enjoyed the episode until they got to the Calypso part, I have always hated Calypso because it felt so unfair to Zora, and after getting to know Zora for 3 years, I hate it even more. It is so stupid on many levels to leave Zora there alone — the waste of a star ship, the waste of the spore drive, and especially forcing a sentient ship to sit alone for a thousand years FOR NO REASON AT ALL other than to take a character who we know nothing about and care even less home. Calypso is cruelty against a sentient creature and ending it this way has ruined the series for me, No rewatching here.

Did burnam take the ship out alone? I did not see anyone else on the bridge. If she was alone, how did she get back from deep space?

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Jane Taylor was a Human female who served in Starfleet during the mid- 22nd century . Considered a gifted engineer , Charles Tucker III pulled her from the Saratoga to serve on Enterprise 's engineering team. Jane died in 2154 , after a Xindi attack severely damaged Enterprise .

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Taylor served aboard Enterprise for three years , presumably from its launch in 2151 until her death in 2154 . Prior to this, she served on the Saratoga . When Commander Tucker transferred her to Enterprise , it frustrated Captain Brody to the point of anger. Taylor was considered a gifted engineer , and was particularly adept at repairing fused power relays (especially those which Tucker was unable to isolate himself).

Taylor was one of eighteen crewmembers (affectionately referred to by Captain Jonathan Archer as "the eighteen") who were killed by the Xindi during the Battle of Azati Prime in February 2154. The section she was in (identified as either section 6 or 7 of C deck ) decompressed while she was heading to her station; she died right outside her quarters . It was said that, had she made it "a few more meters ," she would have survived the attack.

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Taylor served on Michael Rostov 's engineering team, and he frequently played practical jokes on her. Tucker maintained that, one day, Taylor would make a fine chief engineer ; she once found a glitch in the injector assembly that everyone else had missed.

Upon Taylor's death at the hands of the Xindi, Commander Tucker was ordered (over his objections) by Captain Archer to compose a personal letter to her parents. Tucker had difficulty writing the message and, after at least two false starts, successfully did so only after speaking with Taylor in a dream . The process was emotionally trying but therapeutic for Tucker, ultimately resulting in his coming to terms with his sister Elizabeth having recently died too.

The full text of Commander Tucker's letter to Jane Taylor's parents follows:

Mr. and Mrs. Taylor : By the time you get this, Starfleet will have already told you about Jane. Since I worked so closely with her, I wanted to add my personal condolences. I have to confess, I've been putting off writing this for a while. I convinced myself that my duties on Enterprise took precedence. But the truth is, I didn't want to face the fact that someone so young, with so much promise, could just be gone. But I'm facing it now. And I found myself thinking how important she was to me. She was a great engineer. And she was my friend. She won't be forgotten.

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Taylor kept a framed photograph of three people on her desk in her quarters. It was damaged during the Xindi attack in which she was killed. ( ENT : " The Forgotten ")

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Jane Taylor was portrayed by Kipleigh Brown in her only appearance.

In the final draft script of "The Forgotten", Taylor was described as "an attractive young woman".

Though Taylor was referred to in dialogue as "crewman" and her uniform rank insignia were those of enlisted personnel, she appeared to have her own quarters, which was unusual for noncoms during this period. ( Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country ) In addition, Tucker believed she was on her way to becoming a chief engineer, although this is not entirely impossible for an enlisted person (see Miles O'Brien ).

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Inside the ‘Star Trek: Discovery’ Series Finale: The Last-Minute Coda, the Surprise Easter Eggs, and What Season 6 Would Have Been About (EXCLUSIVE)

SPOILER WARNING: This story includes descriptions of major plot developments on the series finale of “ Star Trek : Discovery,” currently streaming on Paramount+.

Watching the fifth and final season of “ Star Trek: Discovery ” has been an exercise in the uncanny. Paramount+ didn’t announce that the show was ending until after the Season 5 finale had wrapped filming — no one involved with the show knew it would be its concluding voyage when they were making it. And yet, the season has unfolded with a pervasive feeling of culmination. 

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“I think there’s more to it than just, ‘Oh, it was a coinkydink!’” the actor says with a laugh, before explaining that she’s thinking more about subtext than direct intent. “I’ve gotta give Michelle her flowers. She has always asked the deeper questions of this story and these characters. Those questions of meaning and purpose led to questions of origin and legacy, and, yes, that is quite culminating.”

Martin-Green and Paradise spoke exclusively with Variety about filming the finale and the coda, including the surprising revelation about the origins of one of “Discovery’s” most memorable characters and what Paradise’s plans for Season 6 would have been.

“It’s the Most Complicated Thing I’ve Ever Seen”

Once the “Discovery” writers’ room decided the season would be organized around a search for the Progenitor’s technology, they also knew that, eventually, Burnham would find it. So then they had to figure out what it would be.

“That was a discussion that evolved over the course of weeks and months,” Paradise says. Rather than focus on communicating the intricate details of how the technology works, they turned their attention to delivering a visual experience commensurate with the enormity and complexity of something that could seed life across the entire galaxy.

“We wanted a sense of a smaller exterior and an infinite interior to help with that sense of power greater than us,” Paradise says. Inspired in part by a drawing by MC Escher, the production created an environment surrounded by towering windows into a seemingly endless procession of alien planets, in which it’s just as easy to walk on the walls as on the floor. That made for a daunting challenge for the show’s producing director, Olatunde “Tunde” Osunsanmi: As Burnham battles with the season’s main antagonist, Mol (Eve Harlow), inside this volume, they fall through different windows into another world, and the laws of gravity keep shifting between their feet.

“It’s the most complicated thing I’ve ever seen, directorially,” Paradise says. “Tunde had a map, in terms of: What did the background look like? And when the cameras this way, what’s over there? It was it was incredibly complex to design and shoot.”

Two of those planets — one in perpetual darkness and rainstorms, another consumed by constant fire — were shot on different parking areas on the Pinewood Toronto studio lot.

“The fire planet was so bright that the fire department got called from someone who had seen the fire,” Paradise says. “It should not be possible to pull those kinds of things off in a television show, even on a bigger budget show, with the time limitations that you have. And yet, every episode of every season, we’re still coming in on time and on budget. The rain planet and the fire planet we shot, I believe, one day after the other.”

Martin-Green jumps in: “Michelle, I think that was actually the same day!”

“It Felt Lifted”

The last time a “Star Trek” captain talked to a being that could be (erroneously) considered God, it was William Shatner’s James T. Kirk in 1989’s “Star Trek: The Final Frontier.” The encounter did not go well.

“I had my own journey with the central storyline of Season 5, just as a believer,” Martin-Green says. “I felt a similar way that Burnham did. They’re in this sort of liminal mind space, and it almost felt that way to me. It felt lifted. It really did feel like she and I were the only two people in this moment.”

It’s in this conversation that Burnham learns that while the Progenitors did create all “humanoid” alien species in the galaxy in their image, they did not create the technology that allowed them to do so. They found it, fully formed, created by beings utterly unknown to them. The revelation was something that Martin-Green discussed with Paradise early on in the planning of Season 5, allowing “Discovery” to leave perhaps the most profound question one could ask — what, or who, came first in the cosmos? — unanswered.

“The progenitor is not be the be all end all of it,” Paradise says. “We’re not saying this is God with a capital ‘G.’”

“There’s Just This Air of Mystery About Him”

Starting on Season 3 of “Discovery,” renowned filmmaker David Cronenberg began moonlighting in a recurring role as Dr. Kovich, a shadowy Federation operative whose backstory has been heretofore undisclosed on the show.

“I love the way he plays Kovich,” Paradise says of Cronenberg. “There’s just this air of mystery about him. We’ve always wanted to know more.” When planning Season 5, one of the writers pitched revealing Kovich’s true identity in the (then-season) finale by harkening back to the “Star Trek” show that preceded “Discovery”: “Enterprise,” which ran on UPN from 2001 to 2005.

In the final episode, when Burnham debriefs her experiences with Kovich, she presses him to tell her who he really is. He reintroduces himself as Agent Daniels, a character first introduced on “Enterprise” as a young man (played by Matt Winston) and a Federation operative in the temporal cold war. 

This is, to be sure, a deep cut even for “Star Trek” fans. (Neither Cronenberg nor Martin-Green, for example, understood the reference.) But Paradise says they were laying the groundwork for the reveal from the beginning of the season. “If you watch Season 5 with that in mind, you can see the a little things that we’ve played with along the way,” she says, including Kovich/Daniels’ penchant for anachonistic throwbacks like real paper and neckties.

“I didn’t know that that was going be there,” Martin-Green says. “My whole childhood came back to me.”

“We Always Knew That We Wanted to Somehow Tie That Back Up”

Originally, Season 5 of “Discovery” ends with Burnham and Book talking on the beach outside the wedding of Saru (Doug Jones) and T’Rina (Tara Rosling) before transporting away to their next adventure. But Paradise understood that the episode needed something more conclusive once it became the series finale. The question was what.

There were some significant guardrails around what they could accomplish. The production team had only eight weeks from when Paramout+ and CBS Studios signed off on the epilogue to when they had to shoot it. Fortunately, the bridge set hadn’t been struck yet (though several standing sets already had been). And the budget allowed only for three days of production.

Then there was “Calypso.” 

To fill up the long stretches between the first three seasons of “Discovery,” CBS Studios and Paramount+ greenlit a series of 10 stand-alone episodes, dubbed “Short Treks,” that covered a wide variety of storylines and topics. The second “Short Trek” — titled “Calypso” and co-written by novelist Michael Chabon — first streamed between Season 1 and 2 in November 2018. It focuses on a single character named Craft (Aldis Hodge), who is rescued by the USS Discovery after the starship — and its now-sentient computer system, Zora (Annabelle Wallis) — has sat totally vacant for 1,000 years in the same fixed point in space. How the Discovery got there, and why it was empty for so long, were left to the viewer’s imagination. 

Still, for a show that had only just started its run, “Calypso” had already made a bold promise for “Discovery’s” endgame — one the producers had every intention of keeping.

“We always knew that we wanted to somehow tie that back up,” says Paradise, who joined the writers’ room in Season 2, and became showrunner starting with Season 3. “We never wanted ‘Calypso’ to be the dangling Chad.”

So much so, in fact, that, as the show began winding down production on Season 5, Paradise had started planning to make “Calypso” the central narrative engine for Season 6. 

“The story, nascent as it was, was eventually going to be tying that thread up and connecting ‘Discovery’ back with ‘Calypso,’” she says.

Once having a sixth season was no longer an option, Paradise knew that resolving the “Calypso” question was non-negotiable. “OK, well, we’re not going to have a season to do that,” she says. “So how do we do that elegantly in this very short period of time?”

“I Feel Like It Ends the Way It Needed to End”

Resolving “Calypso” provided the storytelling foundation for the epilogue, but everything else was about giving its characters one final goodbye.

“We want to know what’s happening to Burnham, first and foremost,” Paradise says. “And we knew we wanted to see the cast again.”

For the latter, Paradise and Jarrow devised a conceit that an older Burnham, seated in the captain’s chair on Discovery, imagines herself surrounded by her crew 30 years prior, so she (and the audience) could connect with them one final time. For the former, the makeup team designed prosthetics to age up Martin-Green and Ajala by 30 years — “I think they were tested as they were running on to the set,” Paradise says with a laugh — to illustrate Burnham and Book’s long and happy marriage together.

Most crucially, Paradise cut a few lines of Burnham’s dialogue with Book from the original Season 5 finale and moved it to a conversation she has with her son in the coda. The scene — which evokes the episode’s title, “Life Itself” — serves as both a culminating statement of purpose for “Discovery” and the overarching compassion and humanity of “Star Trek” as a whole.

To reassure her son about his first command of a starship, Burnham recalls when the ancient Progenitor asked what was most meaningful to her. “Do you know how you would answer that question now?” he asks.

“Yeah, just being here,” Burnham replies. “You know, sometimes life itself is meaning enough, how we choose to spend the time that we have, who we spend it with: You, Book, and the family I found in Starfleet, on Discovery.”

Martin-Green relished the opportunity to revisit the character she’s played for seven years when she’s reached the pinnacle of her life and career. “You just get to see this manifestation of legacy in this beautiful way,” she says. “I will also say that I look a lot like my mom, and that was that was also a gift, to be able to see her.”

Shooting the goodbye with the rest of her cast was emotional, unsurprisingly, but it led Martin-Green to an unexpected understanding. “It actually was so charged that it was probably easier that it was only those three days that we knew it was the end, and not the entirety of season,” she says.

Similarly, Paradise says she’s “not sure” what more she would’ve done had there been more time to shoot the coda. “I truly don’t feel like we missed out on something by not having one more day,” she says. “I feel like it ends the way it needed to end.”

Still, getting everything done in just three days was no small feat, either. “I mean, we worked ’round the clock,” Martin-Green says with a deep laugh. “We were delirious by the end — but man, what a way to end it.”

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