Spoilers First hand behind the scenes information

[The Wormhole]

And lo and behold, and nearly right out of the gate once ST: D S2 production began suddenly it's: "Ethan Peck cast as Mr. Spock..."

Hardly. Production began April last year. Ethan Peck wasn't announced until August.

 

[starfleettanner]

Another question, if it hasn't been asked: How easily would all this firsthand information be traced back to you Hoity? You might want to release less information as to not immediately identify yourself and be forced away from the production areas. If there's still the potential for legal ramifications, I would recommend you keep the info spreading at a more slower pace.

 

[Turtletrekker]

Damn, she must have got into a world of trouble for spilling it.

She never actually specified that it was the bridge, just that there was a set that made her, as a fan of the original series, very emotional.

 

[Nerys Myk]

She never actually specified that it was the bridge, just that there was a set that made her, as a fan of the original series, very emotional.

As I recall her late mother was a big fan and that emotional connection was why she teared up.

 

[Cyrus]

Maybe she just saw the door to Spocks room

This is what she said:

I was a huge Trekkie as a kid, I watched The Original Series in reruns with my mom—who’s no longer with us, she passed two years ago—and being on the set I was on, which I’m not allowed to talk about, in the gold uniform I was wearing, I was like “ah!” I mean it was emotional for me, actually. Very.

https://trekmovie.com/2019/01/19/in...ber-one-knows-her-sht-on-star-trek-discovery/

 

[DaveyNY]

Yeah, many of us just kinda-sorta assumed it was the bridge.

 

[Mudd]

Hardly. Production began April last year. Ethan Peck wasn't announced until August.

Exactly. I doubt that full-grown Spock was part of the plan under the fired showrunners.

 

[Mr Awe]

Yeah, don't enter a thread that has the red SPOILER banner in the title and bitch about spoilers. You were warned, you should have known what to expect.

I will say, I was expecting something like this. My theory is that the Red Angel will show the characters their future. Pike will see his injury, Spock will see his death in TWOK, and Michael will see something that will be featured in the third season.

I like the theory and I like your guesses for what they'll see!

 

[Galaxy]

That's a huge spill. Even 3 weeks ago all head production staff were publicly pretending it didn't exsist in any interview.

Back on December 15 Dennys Ilic posted a picture of himself together with Kurtzman with the caption "On the bridge of the sunning USS Enterprise build with producer Alex Kurtzman. I’d love to point the camera in the other direction but I’d have to kill you Or me!"

https://www.instagram.com/p/BraVy4-HZiN/

 

[TrickyDickie]

Back on December 15 Dennys Ilic posted a picture of himself together with Kurtzman with the caption "On the bridge of the sunning USS Enterprise build with producer Alex Kurtzman. I’d love to point the camera in the other direction but I’d have to kill you Or me!"

https://www.instagram.com/p/BraVy4-HZiN/

That background looks like the Discovery bridge set, to me. If it is, the camera in the opposite direction would mean that they have the two bridge sets built virtually side-by-side?

 

[Galaxy]

Well, they have the largest soundstage in the world, so room wise it would be possible.

 

[F. King Daniel]

Exactly. I doubt that full-grown Spock was part of the plan under the fired showrunners.

Doesn't Peck voice over Spock's log entry in the first episode of season 2? Plans can't have changed too late, if they did.

 

[Michael]

That background looks like the Discovery bridge set, to me. If it is, the camera in the opposite direction would mean that they have the two bridge sets built virtually side-by-side?

That‘s actually the Shenzhou/Section 31 bridge set, not Discovery.

 

[TrickyDickie]

Thanks for the info.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Doesn't Peck voice over Spock's log entry in the first episode of season 2?

Yep.

 

[Tim Thomason]

Doesn't Peck voice over Spock's log entry in the first episode of season 2? Plans can't have changed too late, if they did.

Hypothetically, they could've had Peck ADR his voice in over someone else later in production. Or even the whole scene could've been added in to include a voice recording.

 

[Noname Given]

Doesn't Peck voice over Spock's log entry in the first episode of season 2? Plans can't have changed too late, if they did.

Plus I believe it was stated the first 4 episodes of Season 2 were scripted and in production BEFORE said showrunners were fired; and Ep. 5 was the first actual episode done fully with the new show runners.

 

[MvRojo]

It looked good to the average lifelong Trek fan. It likely didn't look good to the average viewer, who would have seen it and said "Oh, hoaky 60s sci-fi". Discovery doesn't have to hook the former audience, but they do the latter.

Oh, and PS: I thought the bridge looked hoaky in IaMD, and I am a lifelong Trek fan. It was quaint and fun in "Relics", and fit with the theme of the show --- outdated things. Not so in ENT, I felt.

I agree. The times they've recreated TOS sets (Relic, Trials and Tribble-ations, In a Mirror Darkly), it was neat from a nostalgia standpoint, but not something I would want to see on a regular basis.

 

[Mudd]

Hypothetically, they could've had Peck ADR his voice in over someone else later in production. Or even the whole scene could've been added in to include a voice recording.

Exactly.

 

[seigezunt]

I agree. The times they've recreated TOS sets (Relic, Trials and Tribble-ations, In a Mirror Darkly), it was neat from a nostalgia standpoint, but not something I would want to see on a regular basis.

Indeed, that was part of the charm and humor of the DS9 episode, all the cracks about the look of everything. That episode works because of nostalgia.