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Star Trek: Discovery season one teaser poster

The first season of Star Trek: Discovery premiered on 24 September 2017 on the CBS All Access streaming service, with fifteen episodes that ran through 11 February 2018.

The first season broadcast on the same day on Space/Z in Canada, with episodes released to an international audience on Netflix the next day.

Episodes

Watched? Title Episode Production number Stardate US release date
Chapter One

"The Vulcan Hello" 1x01 101 1207.3 2017-09-24

"Battle at the Binary Stars" 1x02 102 1207.3 2017-09-24

"Context Is for Kings" 1x03 103 Unknown 2017-10-01

"The Butcher's Knife Cares Not for the Lamb's Cry" 1x04 104 Unknown 2017-10-08

"Choose Your Pain" 1x05 105 Unknown 2017-10-15

"Lethe" 1x06 106 Unknown 2017-10-22

"Magic to Make the Sanest Man Go Mad" 1x07 107 2136.8–2137.2 2017-10-29

"Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum" 1x08 108 1308.9 2017-11-05

"Into the Forest I Go" 1x09 109 Unknown 2017-11-12
Chapter Two

"Despite Yourself" 1x10 110 Unknown 2018-01-07

"The Wolf Inside" 1x11 111 Unknown 2018-01-14

"Vaulting Ambition" 1x12 112 Unknown 2018-01-21

"What's Past Is Prologue" 1x13 113 1834.2 2018-01-28

"The War Without, The War Within" 1x14 114 Unknown 2018-02-04

"Will You Take My Hand?" 1x15 115 Unknown 2018-02-11

Summary

Background information

Reception

The critical review site Rotten Tomatoes has given the first season of Discovery a score of eighty-three percent, with an average rating of 7.07 out of ten. However, it has also recorded an audience score of fifty-two percent, with an average rating of three out of five. [9] Rotten Tomatoes' audience findings were corroborated by the customer reviews on Amazon.com showing a very similar audience rating, with an approximate sixty-forty like/dislike divide. [10]

Additionally, the critical review site Metacritic quoted a seventy-two percent critics rating score for the first season – against Tomatoes' seventy-point-o-seven percent average rating – but also reported a more substantially lower viewership rating of four-point-six out of ten, along the same lines as reported by Amazon, but now with the like/dislike divide showing a rough fifty-fifty split. [11]

The sharp like/dislike divide provided an indication that the once more-or-less homogeneous Star Trek fanbase had become split, a development that had started with the advent of the alternate reality Star Trek films in 2009, with the discourse over Discovery waged with such vehemence on social media, that it baffled outside observers. [12] In an effort to explain the phenomenon after-the-fact in regard to Discovery, some critics likened this split in "Trekdom" to the divided response to the 2017 Star Wars film The Last Jedi, with a fandom previously assumed to have been dominated by white males, supposedly resisting and/or resenting the perceived centering of women and people of color. [13] [14] [15] [16] [17] In the process these critics solely focused on Star Trek: The Original Series and Star Trek: The Next Generation, thereby conveniently bypassing the fact that the primary cast of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine was headed by an Afro-American male, whereas that of Star Trek: Voyager was headed by a female captain, with both series having been fairly well received by fandom in their day – particularly by people of color in the former case, and by women in the latter case – , the then relatively small, in comparison to Discovery, dissenting part of "Trekdom" notwithstanding, for reasons entirely unrelated to racial/gender bias. [18] [19] In the UK, Voyager even became the most rewatched Star Trek series on Netflix by the time Discovery premiered. [20]

Former VAM producer (and Original Series fan) Robert Meyer Burnett, coining himself a "canonista", sided with those fans, critical of the series for what they themselves perceived as canon/(Roddenberry) philosophy/(visual) continuity violations. [21] [22] Despite their assurances and emphatic assertions to the contrary shortly before the series debuted, [23] Burnett flat-out accused the Discovery producers in a podcast, put online on 3 March 2019, of not caring about Star Trek canon, and has cited Star Trek: The Motion Picture as a prime counterpoint example of reverence towards canon. Burnett was in particular enraged over a 2 November 2018 retweet from CBS Consumer Products head John Van Citters in which he had enigmatically postulated in response to the persistent fan accusations of canon violations, "WHAT IF...the multiverse is real and ALL Star Trek stories are canon??" [24]

Awards

Announced and launched with much fanfare, industry award nomination announcements have followed suit in the wake of the series' first season, such as for the 2018 GLAAD Media Award on 19 January 2018, [25] five Saturn Awards on 27 June 2018, [26] and two of the prestigious Emmy Awards on 12 July 2018. [27]

CBS Broadcasting made substantial efforts in the form of an elaborate mailer, online videos, social media, outdoor campaign and multiple events, to gain traction for their Emmy Award nomination chances, [28] [29] to no avail as it turned out as; much to their disappointment, only two nominations in minor technical categories were secured, neither of which won. Despite the efforts made, the series was not considered for any of the hoped-for major, or artistic, Emmy Awards; the ones in the various acting categories in particular none of the Star Trek television shows had ever won or had even been nominated for, when discounting three "Best Supporting Actor" nominations that Leonard Nimoy had received between 1967 and 1969. Adding insult to injury for Discovery was that the heavily Star Trek-inspired fourth-season episode "USS Callister", of the British Channel 4 cautionary tale anthology series Black Mirror, was alone nominated for six out of eight fourth-season Emmy Awards, most of them in the major categories, of which it won no less than four, including the most prestigious one of them all, for "Outstanding Television Movie". [30] [31] However, Star Trek did win a consolation Emmy Award that year, the honorary "Governors Award", but that was for the entire television franchise, of which Discovery was at that point in time only a small part as "the new kid on the block". That award, though, was not presented at the highly publicized glamorous major Emmy Award ceremony, where Black Mirror received its, but at the as-usual virtually unnoticed "Creative Arts Emmys Show", the weekend prior to the "real" ceremony. [32]

Meanwhile, the Saturn Awards had started to distinguish between productions for (classic) television and those for streaming services, which applied for Discovery. This was exemplified by the circumstance that Seth MacFarlane's Star Trek: The Next Generation-inspired science fiction series The Orville – which was rapidly becoming a franchise competitor – had won a "Best Series" award for its first season, though in its case in the original "Best Science Fiction Television Series" category.

In total, the first season of Discovery was nominated for twenty-three industry awards, of which it won three.

2017-2018 Star Trek: Discovery Season 1 awards and honors
Award Category Nominee(s) Result
CDG Awards Outstanding Sci-Fi/Fantasy Television Series Gersha Phillips Nominated
Dragon Awards Best Science Fiction or Fantasy TV Series Bryan Fuller, and Alex Kurtzman
Emmy Awards Outstanding Prosthetic Makeup for a Series, Limited Series, Movie or Special ("Will You Take My Hand?") Glenn Hetrick (special makeup effects department head), James MacKinnon (special makeup effects department head), Hugo Villasenor (special makeup effects artist), Rocky Faulkner (special makeup effects artist), Chris Bridges (additional makeup effects artist), Shane Zander (additional makeup effects artist), Neville Page (prosthetic designer), and Michael O'Brien (prosthetic designer)
Outstanding Sound Editing for a One Hour Comedy or Drama Series ("What's Past Is Prologue") Jon Mete (supervising sound editor), Tim Farrell (sound designer), Christopher Assells (sound editor), Matt Taylor (adr editor), Trevor Sperry (foley editor), Ashley Harvey (dialogue editor), Angelo Palazzo (sound effects editor), Peter D. Lago (sound effects editor), Christopher Scarabosio (sound effects editor), Matt Decker (music editor), James Bailey (foley artist), Alex Ullrich (foley artist), and Matt Salib (foley artist)
Empire Awards Best Actor in a TV Series Jason Isaacs Won
GLAAD Media Awards Outstanding Drama Series CBS Television Studios/All Access Nominated
Hugo Awards Best Dramatic Presentation - Short Form ("Magic to Make the Sanest Man Go Mad" Aron Eli Coleite (writer), Jesse Alexander (writer), and David Barrett (director)
ICG Publicists Award [33] Maxwell Weinberg Award (Television) Kristen Hall [34]
IGN Award (2017) Best TV Action Series CBS Television Studios/All Access
Best New TV Series
Joey Award Best Actress in a Principal Role in a Television Series 7-12 years Arista Arhin
OFTA Television Awards Best Makeup/Hairstyling in a Series CBS Television Studios/All Access
Best Sound in a Series
Best Visual Effects in a Series
Peabody Awards Entertainment, Children's & Youth
Saturn Awards Best Actress on Television Sonequa Martin-Green Won
Best New Media Television Series CBS Television Studios/All Access
Best Actor on Television Jason Isaacs Nominated
Best Supporting Actor on Television Doug Jones
Best Guest Performance in a Television Series Michelle Yeoh
VES Awards Outstanding Visual Effects in a Photoreal Episode ("The Vulcan Hello") Jason Michael Zimmerman, Aleksandra Kochoska, Ante Dekovic, and Mahmoud Rahnama
Outstanding Compositing in a Photoreal Episode Phil Prates, Rex Alerta, John Dinh, and Karen Cheng
Young Artist Awards Best Performance in a TV Series - Recurring Young Actress Arista Arhin

Credits

Starring

Sonequa Martin-Green as Michael Burnham
Doug Jones as Saru
Shazad Latif as Ash Tyler ("Choose Your Pain"–"Vaulting Ambition", "The War Without, The War Within"–"Will You Take My Hand?")
Anthony Rapp as Paul Stamets ("Context Is for Kings"–"Will You Take My Hand?")
Mary Wiseman as Sylvia Tilly ("Context Is for Kings"–"Will You Take My Hand?")
And
Jason Isaacs as Gabriel Lorca ("Context Is for Kings"–"What's Past Is Prologue")

Special guest star

Michelle Yeoh as Philippa Georgiou/Philippa Georgiou (mirror) ("The Vulcan Hello", "Battle at the Binary Stars", "The Butcher's Knife Cares Not for the Lamb's Cry", "The Wolf Inside–"Will You Take My Hand?")

Crew

Casting by
Margery Simkin, CSA
Orly Sitowitz, CSA
Music and Theme by
Jeff Russo
Costume Designer
Gersha Phillips
Visual Effects Supervisor
Jason Zimmerman
Edited by
Jon Dudkowski, A.C.E. ("The Vulcan Hello", "Context Is for Kings", "Lethe", "Into the Forest I Go", "Will You Take My Hand?")
Scott Gamzon, A.C.E. ("Battle at the Binary Stars", "Choose Your Pain", "The Wolf Inside", "The War Without, The War Within")
Andrew Coutts ("The Butcher's Knife Cares Not for the Lamb's Cry", "Magic to Make the Sanest Man Go Mad", "Despite Yourself", "What's Past Is Prologue")
Steve Haugen ("Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum", "Vaulting Ambition")
Andreas Karrer ("Vaulting Ambition")
Production Designer
Mark Worthington ("The Vulcan Hello")
Todd Cherniawsky ("Battle at the Binary Stars"–"Choose Your Pain")
Mark Steel ("Lethe")
Tamara Deverell ("Magic to Make the Sanest Man Go Mad"–"Will You Take My Hand?")
Director of Photography
Guillermo Navarro, A.S.C. ("The Vulcan Hello")
Colin Hoult, C.S.C. ("Battle at the Binary Stars", "The Butcher's Knife Cares Not for the Lamb's Cry", "Lethe", "Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum", "Despite Yourself", "Vaulting Ambition", "The War Without, The War Within")
Darran Tiernan, I.S.C. ("Context Is for Kings")
Glen Keenan, C.S.C. ("Choose Your Pain", "Magic to Make the Sanest Man Go Mad", "Into the Forest I Go", "The Wolf Inside", "What's Past Is Prologue", "Will You Take My Hand?")
Producers
Geoffrey Hemwall ("The Vulcan Hello"–"Battle at the Binary Stars")
April Nocifora
Aaron Baiers
Jill Danton ("The Vulcan Hello")
Thom J. Pretak ("Battle at the Binary Stars"–"The Wolf Inside")
Ted Miller ("The Wolf Inside"–"Will You Take My Hand?")
Consulting Producers
Nicholas Meyer ("The Vulcan Hello"–"What's Past Is Prologue")
Craig Sweeny ("The Vulcan Hello"–"What's Past Is Prologue")
Co-Executive Producers
Jesse Alexander ("The Vulcan Hello"–"Magic to Make the Sanest Man Go Mad")
Aron Eli Coleite ("The Vulcan Hello"–"Magic to Make the Sanest Man Go Mad")
Joe Menosky ("The Vulcan Hello"–"Magic to Make the Sanest Man Go Mad")
Olatunde Osunsanmi
Lisa Randolph ("Magic to Make the Sanest Man Go Mad"–"Will You Take My Hand?")
Jordon Nardino ("Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum"–"Will You Take My Hand?")
Frank Siracusa ("Battle at the Binary Stars"–"Will You Take My Hand?")
John Weber ("Battle at the Binary Stars"–"Will You Take My Hand?")
Ted Sullivan ("Context Is for Kings"–"Will You Take My Hand?")
Executive Producers
Bryan Fuller
David Semel ("The Vulcan Hello")
Eugene Roddenberry
Trevor Roth
Akiva Goldsman
Heather Kadin
Gretchen J. Berg
Aaron Harberts
Alex Kurtzman
Based Upon Star Trek Created by
Gene Roddenberry
Created by
Bryan Fuller
Alex Kurtzman

Associate Producer
Dana N. Wilson
Executive Story Editors
Bo Yeon Kim
Erika Lippoldt
Staff Writers
Kirsten Beyer
Sean Cochran ("Battle at the Binary Stars"–"Will You Take My Hand?")
Kemp Powers ("The Vulcan Hello"–"Choose Your Pain")
Production Managers
David Till ("The Vulcan Hello"–"What's Past Is Prologue")
David Vaughan ("Despite Yourself"–"Will You Take My Hand?")
First Assistant Directors
Beau Ferris ("The Vulcan Hello")
Libby Hodgson ("The Vulcan Hello", "Context Is for Kings", "Lethe", "Into the Forest I Go", "Vaulting Ambition", "Will You Take My Hand?")
Tim Singh ("Battle at the Binary Stars", "The Butcher's Knife Cares Not for the Lamb's Cry", "Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum", "The Wolf Inside", "The War Without, The War Within")
Woody Sidarous ("Choose Your Pain", "Magic to Make the Sanest Man Go Mad", "Despite Yourself", "What's Past Is Prologue")
Second Assistant Directors
Rita Colucci ("The Vulcan Hello", "Context Is for Kings", "Lethe", "Into the Forest I Go", "Vaulting Ambition", "Will You Take My Hand?")
Kira McCord ("Battle at the Binary Stars", "The Butcher's Knife Cares Not for the Lamb's Cry", "Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum", "The Wolf Inside", "The War Without, The War Within")
Jason Washington ("Choose Your Pain", "Magic to Make the Sanest Man Go Mad")
Ben Marrello ("Magic to Make the Sanest Man Go Mad", "Despite Yourself", "What's Past Is Prologue")
Canada Casting by
Lisa Parasyn, CSA
Jon Comerford, CSA
Original Star Trek Theme by
Alexander Courage
Set Decorator
Peter P. Nicolakakos
Property Masters
Mario Moreira ("The Vulcan Hello", "Context Is for Kings"–"Will You Take My Hand?")
Jim Murray ("The Vulcan Hello"–"Context Is for Kings")
Supervising Art Director
Mark Steel ("Context Is for King"–"Choose Your Pain")
Joshu De Cartier ("The War Without, The War Within"–"Will You Take My Hand?")
Art Directors
Greg Chown ("The Vulcan Hello"–"The Butcher's Knife Cares Not for the Lamb's Cry")
Matt Middleton
Mark Steel ("The Vulcan Hello"–"Battle at the Binary Stars")
Jody Lynn Clement ("Choose Your Pain"–"Will You Take My Hand?")
Motion Graphics
Timothy Peel
First Assistant Graphics
Andy Tsang
First Assistant Art Directors
Natasha Peschlow ("The Vulcan Hello"–"Magic to Make the Sanest Man Go Mad")
Joshu De Cartier ("Context Is for Kings"–"Choose Your Pain")
Chris Bretecher ("Context Is for Kings"–"Will You Take My Hand?")
Alex Brock ("Lethe"–"Will You Take My Hand?")
Shirin Rashid ("Context Is for Kings"–"Choose Your Pain", "Vaulting Ambition"–"Will You Take My Hand?")
Hayley Isaacs ("Context Is for Kings"–"Will You Take My Hand?")
Alexandra Juzkiw ("Context Is for Kings"–"Choose Your Pain")
Guinevere Cheung ("Context Is for Kings")
John Kim ("Context Is for Kings"–"The War Without, The War Within")
Matt Morgan ("Context Is for Kings"–"Will You Take My Hand?")
Dan Norton ("Context Is for Kings"–"Will You Take My Hand?")
Emilie Poulin ("Context Is for Kings"–"Will You Take My Hand?")
Jane Stoiacico ("Context Is for Kings"–"Will You Take My Hand?")
Itsuko Kurono ("Context Is for Kings")
Michael Stanek ("Context Is for Kings"–"Magic to Make the Sanest Man Go Mad")
Jeremy Gillespie ("Context Is for Kings"–"Will You Take My Hand?")
Martha Sparrow ("Into the Forest I Go")
Chris Penna ("The Wolf Inside"–"Will You Take My Hand?")
Assistant Production Manager
Kosta Orfanidis ("The Vulcan Hello"–"Battle at the Binary Stars")
Michael Stoyanov ("Context Is for Kings"–"Will You Take My Hand?")
Third Assistant Directors
Ross Vivian ("Context Is for Kings"–"The Wolf Inside")
Brooke Fifield ("Context Is for Kings"–"Will You Take My Hand?")
Jessica Kirec ("Vaulting Ambition", "The War Without, The War Within"–"Will You Take My Hand?")
Kieffer Moxness ("Vaulting Ambition"–"Will You Take My Hand?")
David Lester ("What's Past Is Prologue")
Jordan Roy ("What's Past Is Prologue")
Script Supervisor
Marta Borowski ("The Vulcan Hello", "The Butcher's Knife Cares Not for the Lamb's Cry", "Lethe", "Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum", "Despite Yourself", "Vaulting Ambition", "The War Without, The War Within")
Lisa Burling ("Battle at the Binary Stars"–"Context Is for Kings", "Choose Your Pain", "Magic to Make the Sanest Man Go Mad", "Into the Forest I Go", "The Wolf Inside", "What's Past Is Prologue")
Samantha Armstrong ("Will You Take My Hand?")
A Camera Operator
Tony Guerin
B Camera Operator
Sean Sealey ("The Vulcan Hello"–"Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum")
Brad Crosbie ("Into the Forest I Go"–"Despite Yourself")
Gilles Corbeil ("The Wolf Inside"–"Vaulting Ambition")
Yoann Malnati ("What's Past Is Prologue"–"Will You Take My Hand?")
Sound Mixer
Ao Loo ("The Vulcan Hello"–"Magic to Make the Sanest Man Go Mad", "The Wolf Inside"–"Will You Take My Hand?")
Shawn Kirkby ("Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum"–"Despite Yourself")
Boom Operator
Sean Armstrong
Casting Associate
Emily Cook
Canadian Casting Assistants
Sara Dang
Lisa Demeo
Emily Johnston
Location Managers
John Musikka ("The Butcher's Knife Cares Not for the Lamb's Cry"–"Into the Forest I Go")
Melissa Warry-Smith ("Despite Yourself"–"Will You Take My Hand?")
Studio Manager
Robert Jones
Location Production Assistants
Chris Vargas ("The Vulcan Hello"–"Battle at the Binary Stars")
Kevin Allen ("Context Is for Kings"–"The Wolf Inside")
Fermin Balado ("Context Is for Kings"–"What's Past Is Prologue")
Gordon Byford ("Vaulting Ambition"–"Will You Take My Hand?")
Richard St. Onge ("The War Without, The War Within"–"Will You Take My Hand?")
Costume Supervisor
Karen Lee
Assistant Costume Designers
Kimberly Catton ("The Vulcan Hello")
Megan Oppenheimer ("The Vulcan Hello")
Damion Saliani ("The Vulcan Hello"–"Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum")
Bernadette Croft ("Battle at the Binary Stars"–"The Butcher's Knife Cares Not for the Lamb's Cry")
Avery Plewes ("Choose Your Pain"–"Lethe")
John Dunnett ("Lethe"–"What's Past Is Prologue")
Erin Daprato ("Magic to Make the Sanest Man Go Mad"–"Will You Take My Hand?")
Deanna Sciortino ("Magic to Make the Sanest Man Go Mad"–"Will You Take My Hand?")
Lead Creature Designer
Neville Page
Department Head Make-Up
Colin Penman
Department Head Hair
Ryan Reed
Make-Up Effects Department Heads
Glenn Hetrick
James MacKinnon
Additional Prosthetic Make-Up
Paul Jones ("Context Is for Kings"–"Will You Take My Hand?")
Prosthetic Makeup Special Effects and Specialty Armor Designed and Created by
Glenn Hetrick and Neville Page's Alchemy Studios
Production Accountant
Debbie Van Dusen
First Assistant Accountants
Dawn Howat
Vess Stoeva
Susan Al'Thor ("Into the Forest I Go"–"Will You Take My Hand?")
Darleen Abbott ("Into the Forest I Go"–"The War Without, The War Within")
First Assistant Construction Accountant
Susan Al'Thor ("Context Is for Kings"–"Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum")
Second Assistant Accountants
Rebecca Pearson
Shane Pollard
Vanna Roopchand ("The Vulcan Hello"–"What's Past Is Prologue")
Payroll Accountants
Mark Bilas
Melanie Foley
Lighting Design by
Franco Tata
First Company Grip
Robert Daprato
1st Assistant A Camera
Barrett Axford ("The Vulcan Hello"–"Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum")
Andrew Stretch ("Into the Forest I Go"–"Will You Take My Hand?")
1st Assistant B Camera
Brian White
1st Assistant C Camera
Craig Jewell ("What's Past Is Prologue", "Will You Take My Hand?")
2nd Assistant A Camera
Christina Louie ("The Vulcan Hello"–"Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum")
Stephen Gould ("Into the Forest I Go"–"Will You Take My Hand?")
2nd Assistant B Camera
Craig Jewell ("The Vulcan Hello"–"Vaulting Ambition", "The War Without, The War Within")
Digital Imaging Technician
Rob Stronghill
Production Coordinator
Janet Gayford ("The Vulcan Hello"–"Context Is for Kings")
Alison Waxman ("The Butcher's Knife Cares Not for the Lamb's Cry"–"Will You Take My Hand?")
Script Coordinator
Melissa Goldstein
First Assistant Production Coordinators
Allison Lahav ("Context Is for Kings"–"Will You Take My Hand?")
Nicole Lane ("The Vulcan Hello"–"Magic to Make the Sanest Man Go Mad")
Taylor Danton ("Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum"–"Will You Take My Hand?")
Second Assistant Production Coordinator
Derrick O'Toole ("The Vulcan Hello"–"Context Is for Kings")
Laura Miles ("The Butcher's Knife Cares Not for the Lamb's Cry"–"Will You Take My Hand?")
Office Production Assistants
Tom Fitzpatrick
Laura Miles ("The Vulcan Hello"–"Context Is for Kings")
Michaela Peker ("The Vulcan Hello"–"Battle at the Binary Stars")
Chris Stiebel ("Context Is for Kings"–"Will You Take My Hand?")
Cornelia Audrey ("The Butcher's Knife Cares Not for the Lamb's Cry"–"What's Past Is Prologue")
Kevin Hazlehurst ("The War Without, The War Within"–"Will You Take My Hand?")
Additional Production Design by
Todd Cherniawsky ("The Vulcan Hello")
Second Assistant Art Director
Hyebin Yoon ("The Vulcan Hello"–"Battle at the Binary Stars")
Playback Supervisor
Mark Lewandowski ("The Vulcan Hello")
Storyboard Artists
Rob McCallum
Amro Attia ("Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum")
Concept Artists
Goran Delic
Bartol Rendulic ("The Vulcan Hello"–"Choose Your Pain")
John Eaves ("Lethe"–"Will You Take My Hand?")
Digital Asset Manager
James Jarvis ("Battle at the Binary Stars"–"Will You Take My Hand?")
Art Department Coordinator
Katie Brock
Stunt Coordinator
Rick Forsayeth ("The Vulcan Hello"–"Battle at the Binary Stars")
Christopher McGuire ("Context Is for Kings"–"Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum", "What's Past Is Prologue"–"Will You Take My Hand?")
Neil Davison ("Into the Forest I Go"–"Vaulting Ambition")
Fight Coordinator
Hubert Boorder ("The Butcher's Knife Cares Not for the Lamb's Cry"–"Will You Take My Hand?")
Special Effects Coordinator
Darcy Callaghan
Special Effects Key
Sophie Vertigan ("The Vulcan Hello"–"Magic to Make the Sanest Man Go Mad", "Into the Forest I Go"–"Will You Take My Hand?")
Hudson Kenny ("Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum")
Lead Dressers
Kevin Haeberlin ("The Vulcan Hello"–"Choose Your Pain")
Greg Langham
Greg Carson ("Lethe")
Byron Patchett ("Lethe")
Contact Lens Supervisor
Mandy Ketcheson
Key Scenic
Jay Kirk ("Battle at the Binary Stars"–"Will You Take My Hand?")
Head Painters
Peter Aquilina ("Battle at the Binary Stars"–"Choose Your Pain", "Magic to Make the Sanest Man Go Mad"–"Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum")
Soux Ellis ("Battle at the Binary Stars"–"Will You Take My Hand?")
Dave Rosa ("Lethe", "Into the Forest I Go"–"The Wolf Inside")
Tim Campbell ("Vaulting Ambition"–"Will You Take My Hand?")
On Set Painter
Brad Francis ("Battle at the Binary Stars"–"Despite Yourself", "The War Without, The War Within"–"Will You Take My Hand?")
Katarina Tarrant ("The Wolf Inside"–"What's Past Is Prologue")
Construction Coordinator
Ross Fraser ("The Vulcan Hello"–"Vaulting Ambition")
Kevin McCullagh ("What's Past Is Prologue"–"Will You Take My Hand?")
Head Carpenter
Travis Israel Staley ("The Vulcan Hello"–"The Wolf Inside")
Tyson Snels ("Vaulting Ambition")
Paul Jefferson ("What's Past Is Prologue"–"Will You Take My Hand?")
On Set Carpenter
Tyson Snels ("The Butcher's Knife Cares Not for the Lamb's Cry"–"Despite Yourself")
Andrew Casement ("The Wolf Inside"–"Will You Take My Hand?")
Transportation Coordinator
Jazz Helie
Transportation Captain
Michael Corazza
Transportation Co-Captain
Grant Volkers
VFX Supervisor
Ante Dekovic
VFX Producer
Aleksandra Kochoska
VFX Lead Artist
Charles Collyer
Senior VFX Coordinator
David Takemura
VFX Coordinators
Ayana Reid
Julie Rothfarb
Lauren Kramer ("Into the Forest I Go"–"Will You Take My Hand?")
VFX Plate Supervisor
Alexander Wood ("Choose Your Pain"–"Will You Take My Hand?")
Associate VFX Supervisor
Mahmoud Rahnama ("Into the Forest I Go"–"Will You Take My Hand?")
VFX Previs Supervisor
Stephen J. Pavelski ("Vaulting Ambition"–"Will You Take My Hand?")
VFX Art Director LA
William Budge ("Lethe")
VFX Production Manager
Helen Jen ("The Vulcan Hello"–"Battle at the Binary Stars")
Additional Editing by
Cecily Rhett ("The Butcher's Knife Cares Not for the Lamb's Cry")
Assistant Editors
Matthew Kovach ("The Vulcan Hello", "Context Is for Kings", "Lethe", "Into the Forest I Go", "Will You Take My Hand?")
Jeffrey D. Brown ("Battle at the Binary Stars")
John Mullin ("Battle at the Binary Stars", "Choose Your Pain", "The Wolf Inside", "The War Without, The War Within")
Dennis Alaniz ("The Butcher's Knife Cares Not for the Lamb's Cry", "Magic to Make the Sanest Man Go Mad", "Despite Yourself", "What's Past Is Prologue")
Disha Patel-Webb ("The Butcher's Knife Cares Not for the Lamb's Cry")
Andreas Karrer ("Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum")
Matthew Barton ("Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum")
Tim Brinker ("Despite Yourself", "What's Past Is Prologue")
VFX Editors
Jonathan Angus ("The Vulcan Hello"–"Battle at the Binary Stars")
Glenn Cote
VFX Assistant Editors
Greg Minihan
Jason Sikora ("Into the Forest I Go"–"Will You Take My Hand?")
Post Production Supervisor
Bradley Ramirez ("The Butcher's Knife Cares Not for the Lamb's Cry"–"Will You Take My Hand?")
Post Production Coordinator
Ruben Michael Molina
Post Production Assistant
Ryan Miles
Researcher
Anthony Maranville
Assistants to the Writers
Tyler Dinucci ("The Vulcan Hello"–"What's Past Is Prologue")
Brandon Schultz
Christopher Silvestri
Dialect Coach
Rea Nolan
Additional Dialect Coach
Jeffrey Simlett
Klingon Translator
Robyn Stewart
Craft Services
Star Grazing Inc. ("Context Is for Kings"–"Will You Take My Hand?")
Servers
Darlene Ibbitson ("Context Is for Kings"–"Will You Take My Hand?")
Monica Madden ("Context Is for Kings"–"Will You Take My Hand?")
On Set Caterers
Gourmet Catering
Assistants to A. Kurtzman
Julian Gross ("The Vulcan Hello"–"Choose Your Pain")
Robyn Johnson
Assistant to G. Berg and A. Harberts
Chris Danby
Assistant to H. Kadin
Kathryn Alsman
Assistant to A. Goldsman
Chloe Gebacz
Assistant to C. Sweeny
Kaycee Felton-Lui
Assistant to D. Semel
Chelsea Dowling ("The Vulcan Hello")
Executive Assistant Toronto
Emma Sampson

L.A. Unit

Unit Production Manager
Joe Lotito ("The Vulcan Hello")
First Assistant Director
Susan M. Elmore ("The Vulcan Hello")
Second Assistant Director
Marcia Woske ("The Vulcan Hello")
LA Stunt Coordinator
Joel Kramer ("The Vulcan Hello")
LA Art Director
William Budge ("The Vulcan Hello")
LA Production Coordinator
Andrew McCulloch ("The Vulcan Hello")
LA Construction Coordinator
Eddie Esparza ("The Vulcan Hello")
LA Lead Crane Tech
Philip Hallford ("The Vulcan Hello")
LA Chief Lighting Technician
David Lee ("The Vulcan Hello")
LA Hair Department Head
Darrell Redleaf-Fielder ("The Vulcan Hello")
LA Make Up Department Head
Karen Iverson ("The Vulcan Hello")

Jordan Unit

Jordan Producers
Elan Dassani ("The Vulcan Hello")
Rajeev Dassani ("The Vulcan Hello")
Kosta Orfanidis ("The Vulcan Hello")
Jordan Unit Producer
Issam M. Husseini ("The Vulcan Hello")
Jordan Production Coordinator
Tala Olabi ("The Vulcan Hello")
Jordan Script Supervisor
Haya Kattan ("The Vulcan Hello")
Jordan Chief Lighting Technician
Hosni Al Baqa ("The Vulcan Hello")
Jordan Art Director
Sami Keilani ("The Vulcan Hello")
Sound Services by
Warner Bros. Post Production Creative Services
Sound Supervisor
Jon Mete
Sound Designer
Tim Farrell
Re-Recording Mixers
Alexander Gruzdev (credited as Alex Gruzdev in "The Vulcan Hello"–"Battle at the Binary Stars")
Brad Sherman
Mix Tech
Brad Bell ("Into the Forest I Go"–"What's Past Is Prologue", "Will You Take My Hand?")
Dialogue Editor
Ashley Harvey ("Lethe"–"Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum", "Vaulting Ambition")
Dialogue and ADR Editor
Kim Wilson ("Context Is for Kings")
Ashley Harvey ("The Butcher's Knife Cares Not for the Lamb's Cry"–"Choose Your Pain", "Into the Forest I Go"–"The Wolf Inside", "What's Past Is Prologue")
ADR and Dialogue Editor
Ashley Harvey ("The War Without, The War Within"–"Will You Take My Hand?")
ADR Editor
Ashley Harvey ("Context Is for Kings")
Matt Taylor ("Lethe"–"Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum")
Sound Effects Editors
Angelo Palazzo ("Context Is for Kings"–"Despite Yourself")
Peter D. Lago, M.P.S.E. ("Despite Yourself", "What's Past Is Prologue", "Will You Take My Hand?")
Chris Assells ("The War Without, The War Within")
Ken Young ("Will You Take My Hand?")
SFX and Foley Editor
Peter D. Lago, M.P.S.E. ("Lethe"–"Into the Forest I Go")
Foley Editor
Peter D. Lago, M.P.S.E. ("The Butcher's Knife Cares Not for the Lamb's Cry"–"Choose Your Pain")
Matt Taylor ("Will You Take My Hand?")
ADR And Foley Editor
Matt Taylor ("The Wolf Inside", "The War Without, The War Within")
Foley Artists
Jim Bailey ("Context Is for Kings"–"Will You Take My Hand?")
Sanaa Kelley ("Context Is for Kings"–"The Wolf Inside")
Alex Ullrich ("Vaulting Ambition")
Ginger Geary ("What's Past Is Prologue")
Hilda Hodges ("The War Without, The War Within")
Gretchen Thomas ("The War Without, The War Within"–"Will You Take My Hand?")
Foley Mixer
Trevor Sperry ("Context Is for Kings"–"Will You Take My Hand?")
Sound Assistant Editor
Deron Street ("Context Is for Kings"–"Lethe", "What's Past Is Prologue")
Damon Cohoon ("Magic to Make the Sanest Man Go Mad"–"The Wolf Inside", "The War Without, The War Within"–"Will You Take My Hand?")
Kim Morrell ("Vaulting Ambition")
Post Production Sound Services Provided by
Skywalker Sound, A Lucasfilm Ltd. Company,
Marin County, California ("The Vulcan Hello"–"Battle at the Binary Stars")
Sound Designer
Christopher Scarabosio ("The Vulcan Hello"–"Battle at the Binary Stars")
Music Editor
Matt Decker
Score Engineer and Mixer
Michael Perfitt ("Battle at the Binary Stars"–"Will You Take My Hand?")
Scoring Assistant
Perrine Virgile ("Battle at the Binary Stars"–"Will You Take My Hand?")
Orchestrator
Amie Doherty ("Battle at the Binary Stars"–"Will You Take My Hand?")
MIDI Tech
Traci Turnbull ("Battle at the Binary Stars"–"Will You Take My Hand?")
Score Wrangler
Matea Prljevic ("Battle at the Binary Stars"–"Will You Take My Hand?")
Dailies Services by
Bling Digital ("The Vulcan Hello"–"Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum")
Post Production Services by
Chainsaw ("The Vulcan Hello"–"Choose Your Pain")
Chainsaw Supervising Producer
Byron Smith ("The Vulcan Hello"–"Choose Your Pain")
Chainsaw Online Editor
Chad Cole ("The Vulcan Hello"–"Choose Your Pain")
Chainsaw Chief Engineer
Jeff Sengpiehl ("Context Is for Kings"–"Choose Your Pain")
Color Timing by
Company 3 ("The Vulcan Hello"–"Context Is for Kings")
Company 3 Final Colorist
Stefan Sonnenfeld ("The Vulcan Hello"–"Context Is for Kings")
Camera, Lenses and Post Production Services by
SIM ("Lethe"–"Will You Take My Hand?")
SIM Supervising Producer
Byron Smith ("Lethe"–"Will You Take My Hand?")
SIM Online Editor
Chad Cole ("Lethe"–"Will You Take My Hand?")
SIM Chief Engineer
Jeff Sengpiehl ("Lethe")
Final Colorist
Todd Bochner ("The Butcher's Knife Cares Not for the Lamb's Cry"–"Will You Take My Hand?")
Editing Systems
Hula Post
Camera and Lenses by
Sim Digital ("The Vulcan Hello"–"Choose Your Pain")
Grip and Lighting Equipment by
PS Production Services ("Lethe"–"Despite Yourself")
Sim Lighting and Grip ("The Wolf Inside"–"Will You Take My Hand?")
Main Title Design by
Prologue
Visual Effects by
Pixomondo
Crafty Apes ("The Vulcan Hello", "Context Is for Kings"–"Will You Take My Hand?")
Spin VFX ("The Vulcan Hello"–"Despite Yourself", "Vaulting Ambition"–"Will You Take My Hand?")
Ghost VFX ("Choose Your Pain"–"Lethe", "Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum", "The Wolf Inside"–"Vaulting Ambition", "The War Without, The War Within", credited as Ghost in "The Wolf Inside"–"Vaulting Ambition") [35]
Buf ("Choose Your Pain", "Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum")
Intelligent Creatures ("Context Is for Kings")
Monsters, Aliens, Robots, Zombies ("Context Is for Kings", "Choose Your Pain")
FX3X ("Despite Yourself"–"What's Past Is Prologue", "Will You Take My Hand?")
Redlab ("Vaulting Ambition"–"What's Past Is Prologue", "Will You Take My Hand?")
Produced with the Participation of the
Canadian Production Services Tax Credit
CBS Studios Inc.
Secret Hideout
Roddenberry Entertainment
Living Dead Guy
CBS All Access Originals
CBS Television Studios
Netflix

Uncredited

Unconfirmed

Production companies

See also

External links

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