Star Trek: Discovery – Specials

"Will You Take My Hand?" Bonus Scene

Sometime after the USS Discovery leaves Qo’noS, the former Emperor Georgiou is running the Orion cabaret. She is approached by a man pretending to be a Trill, but recognized by her as being a Federation operative. He offers her a black Starfleet insignia, inviting her to join a mysterious organization.

Discovering Discovery: The Concepts and Casting of Star Trek: Discovery

Interviews with producers, writers and stars of Star Trek: Discovery about casting of the debut season.

Standing In The Shadow of Giants: Creating The Sound of Discovery

A discussion with executive producer Alex Kurtzman and composer Jeff Russo about creating the Discovery theme and score for the show.

Creature Comforts

A behind-the-scenes look at the makeup and prosthetics department on Star Trek: Discovery, as they both modernize well-known Star Trek species like the Klingons, Vulcans and the Andorians, and bring to life a new species, the Kelpiens.

Star Trek Discovery: The Voyage of Season 1

The cast, writers and producers comment on the overall Klingon War arc and many individual episodes.

Dress for Success: Season 1

Gersha Phillips talks about creating the uniform for the show. The cast and other member of the costume department comment on the costumes (including the Klingon costumes).

A Woman's Journey

The producers and cast speak to the characterization of the show being about the life journey of Michael Burnham, a woman.

Feeding Frenzy

The crew talk about the work to make food that can be use for the various scenes where the cast is eating.

Prop Me Up: Season 1

All about creating the phaser, the tricorder and the communicator. There is also discussion about the weapons used by the Klingons and all the props used in the Mirror Universe.

Creating Space: Season 1

Creating the CG characters and scenes for the show. Many different shots showing designers, animatics and the final product. Alex Kurtzman comments on how this work has to match the best seen in contemporary movies. Many shots about green screen work done on Stage 16 at Paramount Studios for the pilot episode.

Designing Discovery: Season 1

Todd Cherniawsky discusses the challenge of keeping canon, yet doing something new and fresh in creating the ships for use in the show. He says that the designs were influenced by large navel vessels (e.g. submarines and surface ships). Taking over for Todd Cherniawsky, Tamara Deverell did production design for the second half of season one and talks about designing the Orion Embassy/Encampment on the Klingon home world.

Designing Discovery: Season 2

On a show where no location exists in our world, the production and lighting design teams must create every space. Look at the locations and spaces created for Season Two.

Prop Me Up: Season 2

Propmaster Mario Moreira takes fans through the world of Discovery props.

Dress for Success: Season 2

Each species has its own fashion style dictated by both culture and physical attributes. Gersha Phillips and her team discuss how costumes inform a character and how they create a spectacular array of clothing, uniforms and armor for every kind of species.

Creature Comforts: Season 2

Producers, craftsmen and actors discuss the design process, the implementation and the performance required to bring characters to life.

Creating Space: Season 2

There are some shots that simply can't be done practically when you are set in space. The VFX team, headed by Jason Zimmerman, pushes the envelope every week to create amazing computer graphics to give fans a realistic feel of space.

Star Trek Discovery: The Voyage of Season 2

A look at the adventures and plot twists encountered in Season 2 by the crew of the Discovery.

Enter the Enterprise

Captain Pike shepherds U.S.S. Discovery through Season Two, but must return to his original command on the U.S.S. Enterprise. The production designer, builders, actors and producers discuss the daunting task of reviving the iconic ship's bridge.

The Red Angel

A major plot point of the season is the Red Angel. Go behind-the- scenes with producers, directors and Sonequa Martin-Green, along with the craftspeople that created it and made it come to life.

Season 2 Gag Reel

Easter Egg: Mary Chieffo and James MacKinnon Chat in the Make-up Trailer

Fans can also catch a one-on-one discussion with makeup artist James McKinnon and L'Rell actress, Mary Chieffo.

Putting it Together

Follow the real life Discovery crew through preparation, shooting and posting the amazing Season Two finale. A true in-depth look at the many talents that come together to bring Discovery to life.

Star Trek Discovery: The Voyage of Season 3

Jump to the future with the crew of the Discovery as they discuss the new adventures with writers and producers, and dive into how their visions were realized by the cast, sets, costumes and props.

Stunted

Featuring interviews with cast and stunt coordinator Christopher McGuire, fans get a behind-the-scenes look at the creation of the stunts from rehearsal to the expertise required to make them safe, believable and executed to perfection.

Being Michael Burnham

Sonequa Martin-Green takes fans on her season-long journey as Michael Burnham with her personal record of the season and this beloved character.

Kenneth Mitchell: To Boldly Go

Traditionally the man behind the mask in Discovery, Kenneth Mitchell is unveiled as Aurellio in the third season. Featuring cast and crew interviews, this emotional and intimate look touches on Kenneth's life with ALS. Discussed on camera for the first time, the featurette highlights how Kenneth's wheelchair was included for his on-screen character, his own take on the various roles he played in Discovery and what those roles mean to the show.

Bridge Building

Fans have been intrigued by Starship Discovery's Bridge Crew for three seasons. Now, they can immerse themselves in all things crew-related in this behind-the-scenes look showcasing the characters and actors who bring them to life each week.

Writer's Log: Michelle Paradise

Showrunner Michelle Paradise provides a personal log about shooting the beginning of season three in Iceland.

Season 3 Gag Reel

Easter Egg: 15 Claps

A quick two-minute bonus that shows the new season 3 on-set tradition of doing 15 claps to get the team amped up started with two of the camera crew; camera dolly grip James Parsons introduces the segment.

The Toll It Took

The stress and difficulties and challenges of shooting a major TV production during the pandemic.

Creating Space: Season 4

A comprehensive look at sets, production design, and production value with an emphasis on pushing the boundaries of new technologies to facilitate the show creation process.

Star Trek Discovery: The Voyage of Season 4

A comprehensive look at story, arc, character evolutions and journeys, and more.

Being Michael Burnham: The Captain's Log

Cast and crew reflect on the show's lead role and the part's demands on the screen and on the set. It also looks at Martin-Green's performance.

Season 4 Gag Reel

A Team Effort

Focuses on the production departments that make Discovery come to life. Co-showrunner Michele Paradise talks about the pressure of making a high quality show and how it comes down to teamwork to pull off a show.

Discovery's Creative Force

A tribute to Olatunde Osunsanmi. Known to most as 'Tunde, he's been a driving force on set in Toronto as the on-site executive producer and in-house director for Discovery. He's by all accounts a very nice guy, and he really took the role of being the "producer on the ground" for all 5 seasons with a lot of heart and dedication to the production.

Being Michael Burnham

Sonequa Martin-Green takes fans through her personal journey as Captain Michael Burnham. This entry is particularly bittersweet since season 5 was the last season, and includes reflection on her entire time on Discovery plus a visit behind the scenes of filming the epilogue, where Sonequa Martin-Green and David Ajala in old age makeup meet Sawandi Wilson, the actor who will be playing their adult son, for the first time in the makeup trailer.

Character Development

The cast and showrunners discuss the characters' growth over all 5 seasons.

Star Trek Discovery: The Voyage of Season 5

Writers, producers, directors, and cast are interviewed about the making of the 10 episodes as well and the epilogue, once they found out the fifth season would be the last.

Season 5 Gag Reel

'Battle at the Binary Stars' Deleted Scene

'The Butcher's Knife Cares Not for the Lamb's Cry' Deleted Scene

'Choose Your Pain' Deleted Scenes

'Magic to Make the Sanest Man Go Mad' Deleted/Extended Scenes

'What's Past is Prologue' Deleted Scenes

'New Eden' Deleted Scenes

'Point of Light' Deleted Scenes

'Light and Shadows' Extended Scene

'Project Daedalus' Deleted Scene

'The Red Angel' Extended Scene

'Through the Valley of Shadows' Deleted/Extended Scenes

'Such Sweet Sorrow (1)' Deleted Scenes

'Such Sweet Sorrow (2)' Extended Scene

'People of Earth' Deleted Scene

'Forget Me Not' Extended Scene

'Unification III' Deleted Scene

'Terra Firma (1)' Deleted Scene

'Terra Firma (2)' Deleted/Extended Scenes

'Su'Kal' Deleted/Extended Scenes

'There is a Tide' Deleted Scene

'That Hope Is You (2)' Deleted Scene

'Choose to Live' Deleted Scenes

'The Examples' Deleted Scene

'Rosetta' Deleted Scene

'Life, Itself' Deleted Scene

The Art of Discovery: Costumes

A pictorial slideshow presentation of the costume designs as utilized throughout the entire run of the series (without accompanying spoken commentary, only with the series’ score).

The Art of Discovery: Production Design

A pictorial slideshow presentation of the production designs as utilized throughout the entire run of the series (without accompanying spoken commentary, only with the series’ score).

Series Roundtable

Alex Kurtzman, Sonequa Martin-Green, Doug Jones, David Ajala, Blu del Barrio, and Wilson Cruz discuss their time and involvement on the series.

Star Trek: Short Trek: The Brightest Star

An additional story of Saru's people, the Kelpiens, as they live on their home world of Kaminar.

Star Trek: Short Trek: Runaway

Tilly encounters an alien princess on board Discovery. This short is vital viewing prior to the season's two final episodes.