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I need more dilithium.
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The only place I can trade
for it is at the mercantile.
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One of the big challenges
this season is,
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for our characters
and for our world,
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is the lack of dilithium.
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So dilithium plays a
big part in this season.
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We were challenged with
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actually making
physical dilithium.
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You know, we looked at a
lot of the original colors
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and came up with this sort of
dyed acrylic.
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One of the challenges
was to
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make it look as though
it's a mined piece,
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and how they would mine
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is, they would laser-cut
out of a rock,
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so what we did was we took a
big piece of this dyed acrylic,
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and we sorta hacked away
at it,
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and then we laser-cut
one edge.
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It's a small detail that we'll
really never see on camera,
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but it's something that
we know exists
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and the actors know exists,
so when they're handling it,
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they know exactly that
this piece was cut from,
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you know, a larger rock.
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So these are the
dilithium pieces
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that are so sought-after
this season.
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This year we'll meet a
character called Cosmo,
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a Betelgeusian
who's chasing Book,
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and this is
Cosmo's weapon.
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We were trying to push the,
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push what phasers look
like with our bad guys
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and what different designs
we could come up with,
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so, you know,
this was just a,
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just an interesting shape, we
started working with shapes,
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and came up with
this shape and
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kinda went with it
from there
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and did some detailing
breakdown on there.
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One of the things about
this season was that
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we're in a bit more of
a broken-down world.
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We're in that sort of
post-Federation
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and post-shiny
gleam on everything.
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So what you'll see on a lot
of our work this year for
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our bad guys is a lot
more grunge and a lot more
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sort of a rusted appearance
on a lot of things,
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to give that idea that our world
is a bit more broken-down
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than when we left it.
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So one of the cool
technological advances
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that we have in this season
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was something called
programmable matter,
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which is a sort of, like,
these tiny nano-molecules
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that can redistribute themselves
and redesign themselves
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to become
preprogrammed shapes.
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One of those things that
you'll see, this Starfleet box
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with the Starfleet flag
inside that gets unveiled.
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Again, we wanted to give,
you know, actors like
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proper weight to feel when
they're lifting that up,
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so if you feel that,
that's actually-
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Wow.
It's got, yeah.
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That's actually a milled, aluminum
piece, so it gives a bit of,
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you know, like gravitas
to the performance
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when they're actually
feeling this.
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And then the great thing is,
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because we didn't want to make
the whole thing weigh a ton,
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this thing's actually
just 3D-printed in foam.
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The flag was designed
by our art department.
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They update the
Federation's flag,
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I think it's like every
20 years of Starfleet.
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For us, this year, we
had to jump, you know,
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quite a distance, so they
sort of had to track through,
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and it was a bit of a
process for them, but they,
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they really, I think, they came
up with a really cool flag.
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Only a commissioned
officer may raise it,
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and I've waited so long
to see it on that wall.