Michael Burnham Gets a Starfleet Insignia Upgrade in New STAR TREK: DISCOVERY Season 3 Artwork

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Michael Burnham Gets a Starfleet Insignia Upgrade in New STAR TREK: DISCOVERY Season 3 Artwork

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We’re still more than two months away from the return of Star Trek: Discovery this October, but as we dive into the 23-week marathon of new Trek episodes that kick off this Thursday, CBS All Access has teased something from the far future in a new promotional image.

Released on social media today, this new Lower Decks – Discovery image was meant to hype up the five-month marathon of new episodes that run from the Lower Decks launch on August 6 through the Discovery finale in January, but along with a nice new photo of Sonequa Martin-Green sporting Michael Burnham’s new look, eagle-eyed fans spotted something else on the Discovery half of the graphic.

The traditional Discovery uniform badge — the split-delta Starfleet design seen in use since the series premiered — seems to have been replaced with a new, oval-shaped badge that (when examined closely) features an inscribed representation of that split-delta graphic, along with hash marks to represent Burnham’s rank of Commander.

This isn’t the first time we’ve seen this new badge design, though it is the first official image released with it in view — in mid-2019, Discovery actor Wilson Cruz tweeted (and later deleted) an on-set photo of himself and Raven Dauda (who plays Dr. Pollard) wearing the badges (which we’ve held back from publishing until this official look today).

Raven Dauda and Wilson Cruz on the set of ‘Discovery’ Season 3 – sporting the new badges.

What does this mean for the state of Starfleet, 900 years after the Discovery crew warped from their home time period? Little is still known about the state of the universe on the other side of that Red Angel wormhole, but we’ll know more once the series returns in October.

Star Trek: Discovery Season 3 returns to CBS All Access and CTV Sci Fi Channel on October 15, and is expected to return internationally to Netflix on October 16 worldwide.

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