DIS Season 2

This page contains information specifically pertaining to the second season of Star Trek: Discovery, whose episode premieres were consecutively streamed on CBS All Access for the USA and broadcast on Space/Z for Canada from 17 January 2019 through 18 April 2019, with the rest of the world following suit with one day delay through streaming service Netflix.

Episodes[]

Title	Episode	Production number	Stardate	US release date
"Brother"	2x01	201	1025.19	2019-01-17
"New Eden"	2x02	202	1027.32	2019-01-24
"Point of Light"	2x03	203	1029.46	2019-01-31
"An Obol for Charon"	2x04	204	1834.2512	2019-02-07
"Saints of Imperfection"	2x05	205	Unknown	2019-02-14
"The Sound of Thunder"	2x06	206	1035.86	2019-02-21
"Light and Shadows"	2x07	207	Unknown	2019-02-28
"If Memory Serves"	2x08	208	1532.9	2019-03-07
"Project Daedalus"	2x09	209	Unknown	2019-03-14
"The Red Angel"	2x10	210	Unknown	2019-03-21
"Perpetual Infinity"	2x11	211	Unknown	2019-03-28
"Through the Valley of Shadows"	2x12	212	1048.66	2019-04-04
"Such Sweet Sorrow"	2x13	213	1050.8–1051.8	2019-04-11
"Such Sweet Sorrow, Part 2"	2x14	214	1201.7	2019-04-18

Summary[]

Background information[]

• Even before Star Trek: Discovery started to be released, Aaron Harberts was already hopeful that this season could tie up some of the loose ends of continuity as regards how the series related to the rest of the Star Trek franchise, thereby answering inevitable questions about that aspect of the show. "What I hope happens is […] [in the] second season, we'll start creating our own slice of it," he said, "so that we're adding to canon in our way, and those questions come up less and less." [8]
• In this, Harberts had to an extent already undone the emphatic statement his colleague Akiva Goldsman later made at the October 2017 New York Comic Con, shortly after the series had premiered, that "(…)Discovery will exist within its own universe," and while "[w]e are wildly aware of everything that appears to be a deviation from canon and we will close out all of those issues before they arrive at the 10-year period and hit The Original Series," adding that "Discovery viewers will never see Spock". [9] The apparently premature second season introduction of Christopher Pike and his ship and crew (including Spock) after all, was therefore indicative of the producers' reconsideration of their position in the wake of fan criticism regarding canon/(Roddenberry) philosophy/(visual) continuity issues, conceded as such at a later point in time by co-creator, show runner and Executive Producer Alex Kurtzman himself in his 2019 podcast interview (see: below).
• Harberts also expressed hope that this season might include many episodes which Goldsman would direct. [10]
• On 23 October 2017, it was announced that the series had been renewed for a second season. [11]
• Filming for Season 2 began on 16 April 2018, with Shazad Latif stating that he would begin filming in May 2018. [12][13][14]
• It was originally reported that Season 2 would have two fewer episodes than Season 1, but Anson Mount revealed on 8 December 2018 that an additional episode had been added. [15][16]
• In May 2018, co-creator Alex Kurtzman stated that season two wouldn't be broadcast until 2019 at the earliest. "Breaking story is, in some ways, the easier and faster thing; it's the ability to execute on it that's much harder. We want to take the right amount of time and don't want to rush," he stated. [17] In July 2018, he confirmed that the season premiere was being targeted for release in January 2019. [18]
• Harberts and Gretchen J. Berg resigned as showrunners after production on the fifth episode, after the budget for the season premiere overran, and reports that they had become abusive towards the show's writers, [19] though in the latter case, not a single independent corroboration from any one "abusee" has ever materialized in support of that particular claim, making it in all likelihood a fake assertion to begin with.
• The season premiere date was announced at the New York Comic Con Discovery panel on 6 October 2018, [20] and a trailer for the season was shown there, being released online immediately afterwards. [21]
• As had been the case with the first season, episodes were released internationally on Netflix the day after their CBS All Access debut. [22]
• Accompanying the season two debut on 17 January 2019 was a red carpet premiere affair held at the multiplex movie theater of the Conrad hotel in New York City, which was attended by the series' cast and crew. [23] Also invited were members of Visual Effects Society in the hope of improving the show's chances of a 2019 VES Award, [24] to no avail however, as season two was not considered for a 2019 VES award by the society, contrary to season one which received two award nominations – but no wins.
• Unlike the first season, however, there was not a mid-season break. [25]
• Characters which 'cross over' from other incarnations of Star Trek: Christopher Pike and Spock ("Brother"), Una Chin-Riley ("An Obol for Charon"), Vina and The Keeper ("If Memory Serves"), Siranna ("The Sound of Thunder"), and Me Hani Ika Hali Ka Po ("Such Sweet Sorrow").

Reception[]

The critical review site Rotten Tomatoes has given the second season of Discovery a score of 81%, with an average rating of 7.32 out of 10, similar to the score for the preceding season. However, it has also recorded a worsening audience score of 36%, with an average rating of 2.33 out of 5, indicative of the developing rift between critics and viewers/fans growing even stronger after Season 1. [26] Unlike with that initial season, Rotten Tomatoes' audience findings were not corroborated for this season by the customer reviews on Amazon.com, which showed a substantially higher audience rating of 3.8 out of 5, as well as a higher rough 70/30 like/dislike divide within the viewership/fanbase itself [27] – though the Amazon rating system has become suspect since.^[1]

On the other hand, the critical review site Metacritic did corroborate Rotten Tomatoes' critical findings by quoting the equal 73% critics' rating score for the second season – against Tomatoes' 73.2% average rating – and also reported a similar viewership rating of 5.3 out of 10, with the like/dislike divide showing a rough 52/48 split, a very slight improvement over the first season. [28]

What both Amazon and Metacritic had in common though, was that the from season one carried over like/dislike divide remained rather sharp in all reported cases, with fans pitted against each other at either end of the spectrum with very few positioned in the middle. The what Kurtzman had hereafter called "course-correct" had not resulted in the hoped-for improvement of the series' overall perception by fans.

Exemplary of the deep fan divide was the one-minute homage clip initially made for the Apple TV+ app and also featured in a Carpool Karaoke episode (Season 2, Episode 11, 31 January 2019) in which the uniform-clad primary cast of Discovery were singing a song (adapted from a song featured in the musical Rent) on the bridge set, profusely thanking the "nerds" – "nerds" being emphasized with flashy, sing-along captions – for keeping the franchise alive for all these decades. As social media reactions to this supposedly well-meant clip have shown, Discovery fans loved the homage, whereas the critical fans seriously doubted CBS' motivations for even allowing the clip to be made in the first place, and took offense, vehemently so, considering it a severely misguided derogatory slur – and an intentionally insulting one at that, in their opinion. [29][30][31] The clip would never be mentioned again, be it in any of the aftershows, or in any of the special features of the later released second season home video formats.

After the second season had concluded its run, showrunner Alex Kurtzman did concede the fan base split in a 17 June 2019 Deadline podcast, though he endeavored to put a positive spin on it by stating that "(…) if you are at a 50/50 split, then you're doing well. It's when you're at 90/10 then you're in real trouble." In the same podcast Kurtzman concurrently added, "I can definitely start by saying that I have, and this isn't just lip service, I actually...the fan's point of view has become necessary for me, because the fans have kept Trek alive for fifty-three years. And the internet has now made it possible for me in real time to know how people are receiving our choices and as you're writing you can suddenly course-correct you know." [32] In this, Kurtzman – who reiterated his stance almost ad verbatim one year later to Space.com [33] – distanced himself from the presumed "Old Guard" racial/gender bias left-wing critics had accused the critical classic fanbase of after the conclusion of season one, but rather addressed concerns those fans had with what they perceived as canon/(Roddenberry) philosophy/continuity violations, something only a handful of their critics actually touched upon or were even willing to address, [34] though those very few that did kept concurrently maintaining that in their opinion white male racial/gender bigotry still remained the actual root cause. [35][36] Kurtzman referred to the "course-correct" again when he made the later released remark, "We make huge moves in the [second season] finale. So both synchronize with canon and then free ourselves from it". (DIS Season 2 Blu-ray-special feature, "Putting It Together") He thereby confirmed in his closing remark that Goldsman's aforementioned "arrival" at The Original Series was definitively off the table, something that had already been implied in the Star Trek: Short Treks season one episode "Calypso", [37] which streamed two months before the second season of Discovery did.

Even though the producers had bowed in to the fan's concerns about the series, fans remained sharply divided in their opinions of the series proper as not only evidenced by the ratings and Kurtzman's concession, but also by the impromptu polls organized on several Star Trek (fan) websites, among others those on the reference website Ex Astris Scientia. However, fans were by and large unanimous in their praise for the Original Series characters introduction, Anson Mount's Christopher Pike in particular, which infused the series with some, what they deemed, much needed Star Trek spirit, in no small measure due to the way Mount played the role. Kurtzman had actually implied at the end of season one that the introduction of the Original Series characters had from the very start been part of his master plan all along, when he stated in AT: "Will You Take My Hand?" that, "(…)the whole season was reverse-engineered knowing really at the beginning where we wanted to end," [38] contridicting not only his own, later made "course-correct" statement, but also his producer collegues. Mount's Christopher Pike was so well received that at least two separate online fan petitions were organized for his very own Star Trek series, with several petition signers in their motivations to do so, preferring it to become a replacement for Discovery altogether. [39] [40]

In the wake of the December 2019 "reunification" of the Star Trek film, and television franchises, reports started to surface that this option had indeed come under consideration with both CBS All Access Head of Original Content Julie McNamara and showrunner Kurtzman on record stating that "fans have been heard", though concurrently stressing that if it came to pass, as an addition to the Star Trek line-up (at the time already consisting of three more series, beyond Discovery, Short Treks, and Star Trek: Picard alone), and not as a replacement. [41] [42] [43]

Initially, the producers intended the introduction of the Original Series characters to be a temporary one, as they were signed for season two only. [44] [45] It prompted Anson Mount to quip with a "#WillActForFood" hashtag on his Twitter account that he and fellow Spock performer Ethan Peck were on the job market again shortly after live-action production on season two had wrapped. [46] It solicited a fan outpouring in support for his own series instead of Discovery, which provided the spark for the online petitions in the first place, [47] as a happy aside not something Mount was likely and intentionally after when he made the humorous posting on his account – even though he was by then well aware of the favorable reception of his character (reiterating how "humbled and deeply touched by this amount of love" he was on his 14 April 2019 Facebook entry [48]) as the season had already premiered when he made his posting on 27 January 2019. He and Peck subsequently did reprise their roles in three late 2019 season two episodes of Short Treks (as did Una Chin-Riley performer Rebecca Romijn), all three of them taking place outside the Discovery framework, and therefore arguably conceived as preambles for a potential "Christopher Pike" series.

On 15 May 2020, CBS formally announced Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, featuring all three characters, along with a video message recorded by Mount, Peck, and Romijn uploaded to social media channels, all three of them expressing their gratitude for the fan support. Aside from emphatically restating his April 2019 Facebook posting, Mount additionally stated that they were going to get "(…)to work on a classic Star Trek show, that deals with optimism and the future," indirectly referring to the perceived Roddenberry-philosophy violations in Discovery, critical fans had put forward. [49]

Incidentally and his favorable fan reception notwithstanding, Mount has, unlike colleague Peck, not received a single nomination for his performance in any of the hereafter mentioned actor award categories.

Awards[]

Several industry award nomination announcements have followed suit in the wake of the series' second season, such as for five Saturn Awards on 15 July 2019, [50] and for four of the prestigious Emmy Awards on 16 July 2019, [51] in the latter case doubling its number of nominations in comparison to the first season. Other award nominations were added to the array, eventually bringing the total for the second season up to twenty-four, one more than the preceding season had garnered.

Still, having won six out of the twenty-four award nominations, including the series' first Emmy Award, it actually meant that Season 2 was in the mind of critics twice as successful than the preceding one had been – achieving a win ratio of 25% versus 13%.

The increasing number of Canadian industry awards incidentally, such as the CAFTCAD Awards which were first issued in 2020, [52] is indicative of the growing importance of the Canadian motion picture industry and the diminishing one of Hollywood; Discovery is entirely Canadian produced. The below-listed older Directors Guild of Canada Awards are among Canada's more prestigious motion picture awards and was won for the first time in 2019 for the franchise by Discovery's Tamara Deverell. [53]

2019-2020 Star Trek: Discovery Season 2 awards and honors
Award	Category	Nominee(s)	Result
CAFTCAD Awards	Best Costume Design in TV Sci-Fi/ Fantasy ("Such Sweet Sorrow, Part 2")	Gersha Phillips (costume designer), Daina Valiulis, Kim Harkness, Paria Shirvani, Erin Holman, Kaitlyn Fifield, Kimberly Memory Stanley, Daniela Agosta, Tanya Batanau-Chuiko, Wing Lee, Nina Topic, Ray Wong, Gulay Cokgezen, Christy Zaporozan, Bonnie McCabe, Ian Campbell, Andrew Cook, Jenn Burton, Robin Careless, Lisa Creelman, Heather Constable, Kymn Keating, Chelsea Oliver, Alexandra Boultzi, Karen Lee, and Carly Nicodemo	Nominated
CDG Awards	Outstanding Sci-Fi/Fantasy Television Series	Gersha Phillips
Directors Guild of Canada Awards	Outstanding Achievement in Production Design – Dramatic Series ("Such Sweet Sorrow, Part 2")	Tamara Deverell	Won
Dragon Awards	Best Science Fiction or Fantasy TV Series	Bryan Fuller and Alex Kurtzman	Nominated
Emmy Awards	Outstanding Main Title Design	Ana Criado-Zahonero (creative director), Nader Husseini (animator), Francisco Sanchez de Cañete (art director), Zachary Kinney (animator), Christian Antolin (designer), and Kyle Cooper (creative director)
	Outstanding Special Visual Effects ("Such Sweet Sorrow, Part 2")	Jason Michael Zimmerman (VFX supervisor), Ante Dekovic (VFX supervisor), Ivan Kondrup Jensen (VFX supervisor), Mahmoud Rahnama (associate VFX supervisor), Alexander Wood (VFX plate supervisor), Aleksandra Kochoska (VFX producer), Charles Collyer (lead VFX artist), Fausto Tejeda (CG supervisor), and Darcy Callaghan (special effects coordinator)
	Outstanding Sound Editing for a One Hour Comedy or Drama Series ("Such Sweet Sorrow, Part 2")	Matthew E. Taylor (sound supervisor), Tim Farrell (sound designer), Michael Schapiro (sound effects editor), Clayton Weber (sound effects editor), Dan Kenyon (sound effects editor), Rickley W. Dumm (adr editor), Sean Heissinger (dialogue editor), Bob Jackson (dialogue editor), Matt Decker (music editor), Alyson Dee Moore (Foley artist), and Christopher Moriana (Foley artist)
	Outstanding Prosthetic Makeup for a Series, Limited Series, Movie or Special ("If Memory Serves")	Glenn Hetrick (special makeup effects department head), James MacKinnon (special makeup effects department head), Hugo Villasenor (special makeup effects artist), Rocky Faulkner (special makeup effects artist), Chris Bridges (additional makeup effects artist), Nicola Bendrey (special makeup effects artist), Neville Page (prosthetic designer), and Michael O'Brien (prosthetic designer)	Won
GLAAD Media Awards	Outstanding Drama Series	CBS Television Studios/All Access	Nominated
Hollywood Makeup Artist and Hair Stylist Guild Awards	Best Special Makeup Effects – Television and New Media Series	Glenn Hetrick, James MacKinnon, and Rocky Faulkner
Hollywood Music In Media Awards	Best Original Score – TV Show/Limited Series	Jeff Russo
Hollywood Post Alliance Awards	Outstanding Visual Effects – Television Over 13 Episodes ("Such Sweet Sorrow, Part 2")	Jason Michael Zimmerman, Ante Dekovic, Aleksandra Kochoska, Charles Collyer, and Alexander Wood
IGN Awards (2019)	Best TV Action Series	CBS Television Studios/All Access
	Best TV Ensemble	Sonequa Martin-Green, Doug Jones, Anthony Rapp, Mary Wiseman, Emily Coutts, Shazad Latif, Oyin Oladejo, Patrick Kwok-Choon, Ronnie Rowe, Wilson Cruz, Sara Mitich, Michelle Yeoh, Anson Mount, Ethan Peck, Rachael Ancheril, and Hannah Cheesman
Joey Awards	Best Actress in a Principal Role in a Television Series 11+	Arista Arhin
OFTA Television Awards	Best Makeup/Hairstyling in a Series	CBS Television Studios/All Access
	Best Visual Effects in a Series
	Best Best Costume Design in a Series	Gersha Phillips (costume designer)
ReFrame Stamp	Top 100 Popular Television 2018-2019 (Season two)	CBS All Access	Won
Saturn Awards	Best Streaming Science Fiction, Action & Fantasy Series	Accepted on behalf of CBS All Access by showrunner Michelle Paradise, and writer/producers Bo Yeon Kim and Erika Lippoldt [54]
	Best Actress in Streaming Presentation	Sonequa Martin-Green
	Best Supporting Actor in Streaming Presentation	Doug Jones
		Wilson Cruz	Nominated
		Ethan Peck
World Soundtrack Awards	Television Composer of the Year (DIS Season 2, among others)	Jeff Russo
Young Artist Awards	Best Performance Recurring Teen Artist – TV Series	Arista Arhin
Young Entertainer Awards	Best Recurring Young Actress – Television Series

Credits[]

Starring[]

Sonequa Martin-Green as Michael Burnham

Doug Jones as Saru

Anthony Rapp as Paul Stamets

Mary Wiseman as Sylvia Tilly ("Brother"–"Perpetual Infinity", "Such Sweet Sorrow", "Such Sweet Sorrow, Part 2")

Wilson Cruz as Hugh Culber ("Brother", "Saints of Imperfection"–"The Sounds of Thunder", "If Memory Serves", "The Red Angel", "Through the Valley of Shadows"–"Such Sweet Sorrow, Part 2")

Shazad Latif as Ash Tyler ("Point of Light", "Saints of Imperfection"–"If Memory Serves", "The Red Angel"–"Such Sweet Sorrow, Part 2")

And

Anson Mount as Christopher Pike

Special guest star[]

Michelle Yeoh as Philippa Georgiou/Philippa Georgiou (mirror) ("Point of Light", "Saints of Imperfection", "Light and Shadows", "If Memory Serves", "The Red Angel"–"Such Sweet Sorrow, Part 2")

Crew[]

Casting by

Margery Simkin, CSA

Orly Sitowitz, CSA

Music and Theme by

Jeff Russo

Costume Designer

Gersha Phillips

Visual Effects Supervisor

Jason Zimmerman

Edited by

Jon Dudkowski, ACE ("Brother", "An Obol for Charon", "Light and Shadows", "The Red Angel", "Such Sweet Sorrow")

Scott Gamzon, ACE ("New Eden", "Saints of Imperfection", "If Memory Serves", "Perpetual Infinity")

Andrew Coutts, CCE ("Point of Light", "The Sounds of Thunder", "Project Daedalus", "Through the Valley of Shadows", "Such Sweet Sorrow, Part 2")

Matthew Kovach ("The Red Angel")

John Mullin ("Perpetual Infinity")

Production Designer

Tamara Deverell

Director of Photography

Glen Keenan, CSC ("Brother", "Point of Light", "Saints of Imperfection", "Light and Shadows", "Project Daedalus", "Perpetual Infinity", "Such Sweet Sorrow", "Such Sweet Sorrow, Part 2")

Colin Hoult, CSC ("New Eden", "An Obol for Charon")

Philip Lanyon ("The Sounds of Thunder")

Tico Poulakakis, CSC ("If Memory Serves", "The Red Angel", "Through the Valley of Shadows")

Co-Producers

Bo Yeon Kim

Erika Lippoldt

Producers

Alan McElroy

April Nocifora

Produced by

Thom J. Pretak

Consulting Producer

Dan Dworkin ("Light and Shadows"–"Such Sweet Sorrow, Part 2")

Jay Beattie ("Light and Shadows"–"Such Sweet Sorrow, Part 2")

Akiva Goldsman

Co-Executive Producers

Andrew Colville

Jenny Lumet

Jordon Nardino ("Brother"–"Saints of Imperfection")

Michelle Paradise ("An Obol for Charon"–"Such Sweet Sorrow, Part 2")

Ted Sullivan

Vaun Wilmott ("Brother"–"Light and Shadows")

Aaron Baiers

Executive Producers

Olatunde Osunsanmi

Frank Siracusa

John Weber

Eugene Roddenberry

Trevor Roth

James Duff ("Light and Shadows"–"Such Sweet Sorrow, Part 2")

Heather Kadin

Gretchen J. Berg ("Brother"–"The Sounds of Thunder")

Aaron Harberts ("Brother"–"The Sounds of Thunder")

Alex Kurtzman

Based Upon Star Trek Created by

Gene Roddenberry

Created by

Bryan Fuller

Alex Kurtzman

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Supervising Associate Producer

Dana N. Wilson

Associate Producer

Emma Sampson

Robyn Johnson ("Light and Shadows"–"Such Sweet Sorrow, Part 2")

Production Managers

David Till

B.E. Sharp

First Assistant Director

Woody Sidarous ("Brother", "Saints of Imperfection", "If Memory Serves", "Perpetual Infinity")

Patrick Tidy ("New Eden", "An Obol for Charon", "Light and Shadows", "The Red Angel", "Such Sweet Sorrow"–"Such Sweet Sorrow, Part 2")

Felix Gray ("Point of Light", "The Sound of Thunder", "Project Daedalus", "Through the Valley of Shadows")

Second Assistant Director

Ben Marrello ("Brother", "Saints of Imperfection", "Perpetual Infinity")

Jeff Muhsoldt ("New Eden", "An Obol for Charon", "Light and Shadows", "The Red Angel", "Such Sweet Sorrow"–"Such Sweet Sorrow, Part 2")

Shannon Hawes ("Point of Light", "The Sound of Thunder", "Project Daedalus", "Through the Valley of Shadows")

Sara Macdonald ("If Memory Serves")

Executive Story Editor

Kirsten Beyer

Story Editor

Sean Cochran

Executive Consultant

Bryan Fuller

Canadian Casting by

Lisa Parasyn, CSA

Jon Comerford, CSA

Original Star Trek Theme by

Alexander Courage

Set Decorator

Peter Nicolakakos

Property Master

Mario Moreira

Supervising Art Director

Joshu De Cartier

Art Directors

Matt Middleton

Jody Clement

First Assistant Art Directors – Motion Graphics

Timothy Peel

Stephanie Chris

Matthew Harris

Nicola Rose ("Brother"–"Saints of Imperfection")

Alex Melvin ("An Obol for Charon"–"Such Sweet Sorrow, Part 2")

Jane Stevens ("Such Sweet Sorrow"–"Such Sweet Sorrow, Part 2")

First Assistant Art Directors – Graphics

Andy Tsang

Kristin Herbst ("Through the Valley of Shadows"–"Such Sweet Sorrow, Part 2")

First Assistant Art Directors – Illustration

Chris Penna

Joelle Craven ("Such Sweet Sorrow"–"Such Sweet Sorrow, Part 2")

First Assistant Art Director – Illustrator (Costumes)

Bartol Rendulic ("Brother")

First Assistant Art Directors – Set Design

Michael Stanek

Hayley Isaacs

John Kim ("Brother"–"The Red Angel")

Matt Morgan

Dan Norton ("Brother", "Point of Light"–"An Obol for Charon")

Emilie Poulin

Shirin Rashid

Monica Navarrette

Itsuko Kurono ("Brother"–"Point of Light")

Robert Emery ("Brother"–"New Eden")

James Usas ("Brother"–"New Eden")

Third Assistant Directors

Ross Vivian

Brooke Fifield

Script Supervisor

R. Emerson John ("Brother"–"New Eden")

Angela Mastronardi ("Point of Light", "Saints of Imperfection"–"Such Sweet Sorrow, Part 2")

Tammy Rae Beltrami ("An Obol for Charon")

A Camera Operator

Francois Daignault

B Camera Operator

JP Locherer

Sound Mixer

Ao Loo

Boom Operator

Sean Armstrong

Casting Associate

Gina Gallego

Canadian Casting Assistants

Emily Johnston

Sara Dang ("New Eden"–"An Obol for Charon")

Meghan Maguire ("Saints of Imperfection"–"Such Sweet Sorrow, Part 2")

Location Manager

Tim Owen ("Brother", "Point of Light", "Saints of Imperfection", "Light and Shadows", "Project Daedalus", "Perpetual Infinity", "Such Sweet Sorrow"–"Such Sweet Sorrow, Part 2")

Melissa Warry-Smith ("New Eden", "An Obol for Charon", "The Sound of Thunder", "If Memory Serves", "The Red Angel", "Through the Valley of Shadows")

Assistant Location Manager

Justin Cossette ("New Eden"–"Such Sweet Sorrow, Part 2")

Studio Manager

Tom Nicholls ("Brother")

Robert Jones ("New Eden"–"Such Sweet Sorrow, Part 2")

Assistant Studio Manager

Tom Nicholls ("New Eden"–"Such Sweet Sorrow, Part 2")

Location Production Assistants

Ramin Radnik

Dan Potter ("Brother"–"Saints of Imperfection")

Josh Campbell ("The Sound of Thunder"–"Such Sweet Sorrow, Part 2")

Costume Supervisor

Karen Lee

Assistant Costume Designers

Carly Nicodemo

Sydney Cavanaugh ("Brother"–"If Memory Serves")

Kim Harkness ("Project Daedalus"–"Such Sweet Sorrow, Part 2")

Daina Valiulis ("Brother", "Point of Light"–"Such Sweet Sorrow, Part 2")

Lead Creature Designer

Neville Page

Department Head Make-Up

Shauna Llewellyn

Department Head Hair

Sandy Sokolowski

Make-Up Effects Department Heads

Glenn Hetrick

James MacKinnon

Prosthetic Makeup Special Effects and Specialty Armor Designed and Created by

Glenn Hetrick and Neville Page's Alchemy Studios

Production Accountant

Joanne Barrington

First Assistant Accountants – General

Rose Lister

Tim Hay

First Assistant Accountants – Payroll

Melanie Foley

Jesse Rupert

First Assistant Accountant – Construction

Emily Halfon

Second Assistant Accountants

Rebecca Pearson

Vanna Roopchand

Lighting Design by

Franco Tata

First Company Grip

Robert Daprato

1st Assistant A Camera

Andrew Stretch

1st Assistant B Camera

Rob Mountjoy

1st Assistant C Camera

Andrew Macklin

2nd Assistant A Camera

Stephen Gould

Digital Imaging Technician

Ron Schlueter

Production Coordinator

Alison Waxman

Script Coordinator

Dan Hindmarch

First Assistant Production Coordinators

Allison Lahav

Taylor Danton

Second Assistant Production Coordinator

Laura Miles

Office Production Assistants

Chris Stiebel

Tom Fitzpatrick

Kevin Hazlehurst

Storyboard Artist

Rob McCallum

First Assistant Art Director – Concepts

Lucas Wareing ("Brother", "An Obol for Charon")

First Assistant Art Directors

Jane Stoiacico ("Brother")

Tijana Petrovic ("Brother")

Digital Asset Manager

James Jarvis

Art Department Coordinators

Taylor Flook

Cassidy Watkins ("An Obol for Charon"–"Such Sweet Sorrow, Part 2")

Jennifer Jozwiak ("New Eden"–"Point of Light", "Saints of Imperfection"–"Such Sweet Sorrow, Part 2")

Stunt Coordinator

Christopher McGuire

Fight Coordinator

Hubert Boorder

Special Effects Coordinator

Darcy Callaghan

Special Effects Key

Mike Kavanagh ("Brother"–"Light and Shadows")

Lead Dressers

Jesse O'Connor ("If Memory Serves"–"Such Sweet Sorrow, Part 2")

Matt Ceolin ("If Memory Serves"–"Project Daedalus")

Mark Pellar ("Brother"–"Light and Shadows")

Chris Deeley ("Point of Light"–"Perpetual Infinity")

Yuri Shevts ("Through the Valley of Shadows"–"Such Sweet Sorrow, Part 2")

Contact Lens Supervisor

Mandy Ketcheson

Key Scenic

Jason Kirk

Head Painters

Tim Campbell

Clinton Guitard

On Set Painter

Gregory Aquila

Construction Coordinator

Marc Kuitenbrouwer

Head Carpenter

Traceley Young

On Set Carpenter

Peter Constantenides

Transportation Coordinator

Rob Davis

Transportation Captain

Andrew Langevin

Transportation Co-Captain

Craig Dwyer

VFX Supervisor

Ante Dekovic

VFX Producer

Aleksandra Kochoska

VFX Lead Artist

Charles Collyer

Lead VFX Coordinator

Julie Rothfarb

VFX Coordinators

Shawn Ewashko

Chelsea Wynne

Valeria Rocha

Julian Boice ("The Red Angel"–"Such Sweet Sorrow, Part 2")

VFX Plate Supervisor

Alex Wood

Associate VFX Supervisor

Mahmoud Rahnama ("Brother"–"New Eden", "Light and Shadows"–"Such Sweet Sorrow, Part 2")

VFX Previs Supervisor

Stephen J. Pavelski ("Brother"–"New Eden", "Light and Shadows"–"Such Sweet Sorrow, Part 2")

Additional Editing by

John Mullin ("New Eden", "Saints of Imperfection")

Assistant Editor

Matthew Kovach ("Brother", "An Obol for Charon", "Light and Shadows", "Such Sweet Sorrow")

Corey Trench ("Point of Light", "The Sound of Thunder")

Preston Rapp ("The Sound of Thunder", "Project Daedalus", "Through the Valley of Shadows", "Such Sweet Sorrow, Part 2")

John Mullin ("If Memory Serves")

VFX Editors

Jason Sikora

Greg Minihan ("Perpetual Infinity"–"Such Sweet Sorrow, Part 2")

VFX Assistant Editors

Kevin Laneave ("Brother"–"Saints of Imperfection")

Greg Minihan ("Brother"–"The Red Angel")

Post Production Coordinator

Ruben Michael Molina

Post Production Assistant

Ryan Miles ("Brother"–"Light and Shadows")

Researcher

Anthony Maranville

Assistants to the Writers

Chris Silvestri

Brandon Schultz

Eamon Hartnett ("The Red Angel"–"Such Sweet Sorrow, Part 2")

Dialect Coach

Rea Nolan

Additional Dialect Coach

Jeffrey Simlett

Translator

Robyn Stewart

Kelpien Language Consultant

Marc Okrand ("The Sound of Thunder")

Craft Services

Star Grazing Inc.

Servers

Darlene Ibbitson

Monica Madden

On Set Caterers

Gourmet Catering

Assistants to A. Kurtzman

Robyn Johnson ("Brother"–"The Sound of Thunder")

May Darmon ("Brother"–"If Memory Serves")

Monica Shapiro ("New Eden"–"Such Sweet Sorrow, Part 2")

T'Essence Minnitee ("Project Daedalus"–"Such Sweet Sorrow, Part 2")

Assistant to G. Berg and A. Harberts

Chris Danby ("Brother"–"The Sound of Thunder")

Assistant to J. Duff

Chris Danby ("Light and Shadows"–"Such Sweet Sorrow, Part 2")

Assistant to H. Kadin

Megan Talmidge

Assistant to A. Baiers

Kristen Gross

Executive Assistant Toronto

Cornelia Audrey

Writer's PA

Eamon Hartnett ("Saints of Imperfection"–"Project Daedalus")

Ryan Miles ("If Memory Serves"–"Such Sweet Sorrow, Part 2")

Sound Services by

Warner Bros. Post Production Creative Services

Sound Supervisor

Matthew E. Taylor

Sound Designer

Tim Farrell

Re-Recording Mixers

Alexander Gruzdev

Brad Sherman

Mix Tech

Brad Bell

Sound Effects Editor

Michael Schapiro ("Brother"–"Perpetual Infinity")

Sound Editors

Michael Schapiro ("Through the Valley of Shadows"–"Such Sweet Sorrow, Part 2")

Clayton Weber ("Through the Valley of Shadows"–"Such Sweet Sorrow, Part 2")

Dan Kenyon ("Such Sweet Sorrow, Part 2")

Dialogue Editors

Robert Jackson ("The Red Angel"–"Such Sweet Sorrow, Part 2")

Sean Heissinger ("Brother"–"Project Daedalus", "Through the Valley of Shadows", "Such Sweet Sorrow, Part 2")

Foley Editor

Travis Crotts ("Through the Valley of Shadows"–"Such Sweet Sorrow, Part 2")

Rickley Dumm ("Such Sweet Sorrow, Part 2")

Foley Artists

Hilda Hodges ("Brother", "The Sound of Thunder")

Alyson Moore ("New Eden"–"Saints of Imperfection", "Light and Shadows"–"Project Daedalus", "Through the Valley of Shadows"–"Such Sweet Sorrow, Part 2")

Alyson Dee Moore ("The Red Angel"–"Perpetual Infinity")

Chris Moriana

Patricia Nedd ("The Red Angel")

Foley Mixer

John Sanacore, MPSE, C.A.S. ("Brother"–"Project Daedalus", "Perpetual Infinity"–"Such Sweet Sorrow, Part 2")

Kyle Rochlin ("The Red Angel")

Sound Assistant Editors

Deron Street

Damon Cohoon ("New Eden"–"Such Sweet Sorrow, Part 2")

Music Editor

Matt Decker

Score Engineer and Mixer

Michael Perfitt

Scoring Assistant

Perrine Virgile

Orchestrator

Amie Doherty

MIDI Tech

Tracie Turnbull

Score Wrangler

Matea Prljevic

Camera, Lenses, and Post Production Services by

SIM

SIM Supervising Producer

Byron Smith

SIM Online Editor

Chad Cole

Final Colorist

Todd Bochner

Editing Systems

Pacific Post

Grip and Lighting Equipment by

Sim Lighting and Grip

Main Title Design by

Prologue

Visual Effects by

Pixomondo

Crafty Apes

Ghost VFX ("Brother"–"Perpetual Infinity", "Such Sweet Sorrow, Part 2")

FX3X ("Brother", "An Obol for Charon"–"The Red Angel", "Through the Valley of Shadows"–"Such Sweet Sorrow, Part 2"")

Spin VFX ("An Obol for Charon", "The Sound of Thunder", "If Memory Serves"–"Such Sweet Sorrow")

Filmworks FX ("Saints of Imperfection", "Light and Shadows")

CBS Digital ("Saints of Imperfection", "The Red Angel")

Double Negative ("Project Daedalus")

Produced with the Participation of the

Canadian Production Services Tax Credit

Secret Hideout

Roddenberry Entertainment

CBS All Access Originals

CBS Television Studios

Netflix

Uncredited[]

• Nicola Bendrey – Special Makeup Effects Artist (Emmy Award winner)
• Chris Bridges – Additional Makeup Effects Artist (Emmy Award winner)
• Rocky Faulkner – Special Makeup Effects Artist (Emmy Award winner)
• Michael O'Brien – Prosthetic Designe: Alchemy Studios (Emmy Award winner)
• Erin Palmer – Rigging Electric

See also[]

• DIS Season 2 performers
• DIS Season 2 Blu-ray
• DIS Season 2 DVD

Footnote[]

External links[]

• Star Trek: Discovery season 2 at Memory Beta, the wiki for licensed Star Trek works
• Star Trek Discovery Season 2 episode reviews at Ex Astris Scientia

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