We’re just two days away from the next installment of Star Trek: Discovery’s second season, and today we’ve got a first look at that new Jonathan Frakes-directed episode, “New Eden,” plus a bunch of other new media from the series!
The trailer dropped this afternoon first through Netflix’s social media feeds. “New Eden” is co-written by Vaun Wilmott and Sean Cochran, from a story by Cochran and Akiva Goldsman:
Here’s the first photo from Discovery 202 (with more to follow), where Captain Pike (Anson Mount) Commander Burnham (Sonequa Martin-Green), and Lt. Owosekun (Oyin Oladejo) visit a the seemingly-unexpected human colony of New Eden on a remote planet — one facing an impending disaster from space.
In addition to these new looks at “New Eden,” we’ve got a few new videos from the production of last week’s premiere, “Brother,” focused on director Alex Kurtzman and guest star Tig Notaro (Engineer Reno).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKncEadm8zs
We also got a look, through Michelle Yeoh’s Instagram feed, at a new Starfleet ship that we previously glanced in some of the Discovery Season 2 trailers.
Discovery executive producer Olatunde Osunsanmi shared a number of behind-the-scenes photos from “Brother,” where episode director Alex Kurtzman planned shots for the episode both on set and on location at the Integral House in Toronto, which served as Sarek’s home.
Alex Kurtzman/Glen Keenan on a Director/DP scout in Disco hallways. #brother #StarTrekDiscovery #spock They literally had hours of conversations about what they were planning to do. pic.twitter.com/mVdJatWn59
— Olatunde Osunsanmi (@CenterWillHold) January 22, 2019
Weeks of prep went into #brother. Here’s Director and Showrunner Alex Kurtzman walking DP Glen Keenan through the stairway sequence in Sarek’s House on our tech scout. Alex always knew precisely what he wanted. #StarTrekDiscovery pic.twitter.com/xdAKzHHR0a
— Olatunde Osunsanmi (@CenterWillHold) January 22, 2019
Alex loved the reflective blue! #brother #StarTrekDiscovery #spock pic.twitter.com/hdCOTgOXnk
— Olatunde Osunsanmi (@CenterWillHold) January 22, 2019
Alex pitching his vision for Burnham’s childhood bedroom to the crew. The unbelievable art team would then execute. #brother #StarTrekDiscovery #spock pic.twitter.com/1YJif6vxfm
— Olatunde Osunsanmi (@CenterWillHold) January 22, 2019
Exterior Sarek’s house, the scout continues! It was snowing! Too cold for us Californians, but the Torontonians seemed fine! They always seemed fine with it. #brother #StarTrekDiscovery #spock #too*******cold pic.twitter.com/G40wn0Q2qV
— Olatunde Osunsanmi (@CenterWillHold) January 22, 2019
The official Star Trek writers’ room account also showed off this cute sign from the Discovery set, featuring Saurian Linus:
From the #StarTrekDiscovery set. pic.twitter.com/nn0Bg8SFvT
— Discovery Writers (@StarTrekRoom) January 20, 2019
Discovery writer — and soon-to-be showrunner on the upcoming Section 31 series — Bo Yeon Kim released this on-set photo from production of “The Brightest Star,” the “Short Trek” she co-wrote with partner Erika Lippoldt.
I’m trying to look very busy on my phone so that my creepy Lyft driver doesn’t make small talk so here’s a BTS photo from “The Brightest Star.” #ShortTrek #StarTrekDiscovery pic.twitter.com/qY02RYrIaU
— Bo Yeon Kim (@extspace) January 21, 2019
The official Netflix Star Trek account has started to release new promos through Instagram for the season, including a psychadelic “New Season, New Spock” bumper and two longer videos, one featuring Paul Stamets (Anthony Rapp) directing viewers on when new episodes will go live on the service, and one with Doug Jones answering fan questions.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BswS-5HHf7Q/
https://www.instagram.com/p/Bs59-wYna5K/
Finally, from IMDB, a cute photo of actor Liam Hughes, who is playing young Spock this season, with Discovery’s lead Sonequa Martin-Green.
“New Eden” arrives this Thursday on CBS All Access and Space, with a Friday debut on Netflix around the world.
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