Spoilers Star Trek: Discovery 1x15 - "Will You Take My Hand?"

The large pillared structure behind the Eiffel tower. It (the wings)looks similar to the court of St. Peters....sort of.

 

The UFP building Burnham was at is roughly here
https://goo.gl/maps/Pzxh9a72yqD2

 

So their virtual camera was aimed "South"...

(Nice touch having that particular UFP/FPU building fronting on l'avenue des Nations Unies there!)

 

North West-ish

 

Looks like the DiscOrions are indeed VFX rather than paint:

 

Cool. Though that does ruin the image of Clint Howard slathered in green body makeup.

 

Yeah, no one had that image one hour and seventeen minutes ago! Thanks a lot....

Is that a screen shot? It looks like a youtuber video game reviewer photoshop thumbnail to make it look like a cooking show(if that makes sense).

 

I hope you relish it as much as I.

 

It's a set photo from the Instagram page of the guys who made the props

 

Ah, I see. It looks like he does have a lot of make up on, just not very green. Maybe they did green make up tests and didn't like how it looked on camera.

Don't ask.

 

This is the first time we've seen "written" Orion (or whatever they call it in their own language(s)) on-screen, right?

 

I think it was in Enterprise also, but I'm not positive.

 

I've been reminded on Facebook that your memories re: ENT and Orion writing are correct.

 

I was trying to find it in Discovery, but found it in Enterprise on google images-


It's kinda cool looking. I think I like this better than Klingon letters. I wonder if they show up in that DS9 Episode "O'Brien as Donnie Brasco."

 

Yeah they do use some of the same letters in DSC.

 

I tried breaking down the Orion texts seen in the show; it's English, but written using an alien font. Thus far I've been able to identify 18 letters.

https://twitter.com/piqad/status/963195200981127168?s=21

 

I love that they're using 'real' Klingon.

 

That is dedication

 

I was intrigued that they came up with a new Klingon typeface instead of the same one we've seen for decades. More of a Helvetica type than what came before. Aside from the abysmal Klingon ships, their art department has done an excellent job overall, IMO.

 

I think the old type face showed up in a couple scenes (or maybe it was just marketing)

I think the carvings on the D'k tahg, and the Torchbearer's EV suit used the classic typeface, but that isn't really noticeable on screen, only on closeup shots on display.



Maybe the old typeface has been retconned to be a classical style, or something fancy like cursive.