WEBVTT 00:00:02.627 --> 00:00:04.921 We've reached the coordinates, Captain. 00:00:04.921 --> 00:00:06.589 Yellow alert. On screen. 00:00:06.589 --> 00:00:09.342 I love everything that I'm in this season. 00:00:09.342 --> 00:00:11.553 I can't sing our brilliant costume designer, 00:00:11.553 --> 00:00:13.638 Gersha Phillips' praises enough. 00:00:13.638 --> 00:00:16.891 It's a kaleidoscope of brilliance, the mind of that lady. 00:00:21.980 --> 00:00:25.525 Today would not be possible without the U.S.S. Discovery 00:00:26.776 --> 00:00:29.279 and your crew. 00:00:29.279 --> 00:00:32.323 It's always so exciting at the start of new seasons 00:00:32.323 --> 00:00:34.743 when I get to be in new things, 00:00:34.743 --> 00:00:37.370 and the dress uniform especially I think is gorgeous. 00:00:37.370 --> 00:00:39.205 I think it's gorgeous on everyone. 00:00:39.205 --> 00:00:41.082 And I love these new uniforms as well. 00:00:41.082 --> 00:00:43.209 I think that they call back 00:00:43.209 --> 00:00:46.504 to earlier iterations of Star Trek. 00:00:46.504 --> 00:00:49.007 I think they call back to TOS especially 00:00:49.007 --> 00:00:50.383 in a really beautiful way. 00:00:52.052 --> 00:00:53.636 [Tilly] Captain on the bridge. 00:00:53.636 --> 00:00:57.348 [Gersha] When we shot the last episode of Season 3, 00:00:57.348 --> 00:01:00.935 we realized that the uniforms matched the ship, 00:01:00.935 --> 00:01:02.812 the walls of the bridge. 00:01:02.812 --> 00:01:06.107 That was the impetus for creating these new colors, 00:01:06.107 --> 00:01:09.319 and so we spent a lot of the beginning of the season 00:01:09.319 --> 00:01:11.362 trying to come up with the best combinations of them, 00:01:11.362 --> 00:01:12.864 'cause we were trying to hold the gray, 00:01:12.864 --> 00:01:13.990 go with a darker gray. 00:01:13.990 --> 00:01:15.784 I'm actually really happy with them, 00:01:15.784 --> 00:01:17.952 and I kind of wish we had thought about that sooner. 00:01:17.952 --> 00:01:21.456 But it did take looking at that 00:01:21.456 --> 00:01:23.416 and seeing Sonequa's head almost looked 00:01:23.416 --> 00:01:25.335 like it was floating on the captain's chair 00:01:25.335 --> 00:01:27.212 to realize that for us. 00:01:27.212 --> 00:01:30.048 At first, I was like, "Oh no, I look horrible in yellow. 00:01:30.048 --> 00:01:31.758 This is gonna be a disaster." 00:01:31.758 --> 00:01:33.468 That's in the yellow zone, Captain. 00:01:33.468 --> 00:01:35.595 But it's actually, it ended up being okay. 00:01:35.595 --> 00:01:36.805 Looks pretty cool with the eye. 00:01:36.805 --> 00:01:39.557 It's a little punch of color on the bridge, which is fun. 00:01:39.557 --> 00:01:42.894 I love being in command red. I really do. 00:01:42.894 --> 00:01:44.145 I think that it's... 00:01:44.145 --> 00:01:45.188 I think it's bold. 00:01:45.188 --> 00:01:49.526 And I also really loved the slight shift in hair again 00:01:49.526 --> 00:01:52.278 because I now have these individual braids, 00:01:52.278 --> 00:01:57.117 which I thought really spoke to the sense of ease 00:01:57.117 --> 00:02:00.328 and security that has come from maturation 00:02:00.328 --> 00:02:03.206 and then also from finally sitting in that chair. 00:02:03.206 --> 00:02:04.499 I guess it's evolving it 00:02:04.499 --> 00:02:06.042 and making it look more interesting. 00:02:06.042 --> 00:02:07.919 Basically, the most important thing is we try 00:02:07.919 --> 00:02:11.923 to create a cleaner, sleeker silhouette for Starfleet. 00:02:11.923 --> 00:02:14.717 And then when we looked at doing Kelpiens, 00:02:14.717 --> 00:02:16.594 it was the same idea but slightly different 00:02:16.594 --> 00:02:18.596 because they're more organic. 00:02:18.596 --> 00:02:20.932 So we tried to keep an essence of the organic 00:02:20.932 --> 00:02:24.310 but then still push the look forward in some new way 00:02:24.310 --> 00:02:26.479 so it felt like it had evolved. 00:02:26.479 --> 00:02:27.856 It's really the trick of the eye 00:02:27.856 --> 00:02:31.234 in trying to convince ourselves and everybody else 00:02:31.234 --> 00:02:32.360 that we are actually doing that 00:02:32.360 --> 00:02:33.194 and that's what we're seeing. 00:02:33.194 --> 00:02:37.949 We're stuck with 21st-century materials and capability, 00:02:37.949 --> 00:02:40.285 so it's definitely a challenge. 00:02:40.285 --> 00:02:42.996 And then our other thing that we did 00:02:42.996 --> 00:02:45.248 that I think was the most challenging that we've done 00:02:45.248 --> 00:02:48.376 and probably maybe one of our greatest costumes to date 00:02:48.376 --> 00:02:49.460 is the EV suits. 00:02:49.460 --> 00:02:52.380 I think it's our sixth or seventh iteration of an EV suit. 00:02:52.380 --> 00:02:55.508 And we've been trying to, with each one, 00:02:55.508 --> 00:02:58.469 make them more comfortable for the actors. 00:02:58.469 --> 00:02:59.387 I'm very proud of them, 00:02:59.387 --> 00:03:01.014 and I think our team, I know our team is. 00:03:01.014 --> 00:03:02.265 They worked very hard on them, 00:03:02.265 --> 00:03:04.726 and they look amazing, in my particular opinion. 00:03:04.934 --> 00:03:06.686 You will take us to your ship. 00:03:06.686 --> 00:03:07.687 Oh. 00:03:07.687 --> 00:03:08.938 Yup, time to go. 00:03:08.938 --> 00:03:12.525 That slick leather jacket in the first episode. 00:03:12.525 --> 00:03:15.195 I love how all of that speaks to the boldness 00:03:15.195 --> 00:03:17.655 of Captain Michael Burnham, as well. 00:03:17.655 --> 00:03:19.908 It was actually kind of a mistake for me 00:03:19.908 --> 00:03:22.493 'cause I was doing her a jacket that was her... 00:03:22.493 --> 00:03:24.996 I thought she was in her courier mode for some reason 00:03:24.996 --> 00:03:26.497 because she was on this mission with Book, 00:03:26.497 --> 00:03:28.958 so that was me interpreting the writing wrong. 00:03:28.958 --> 00:03:30.960 And then both Tunde and Michelle said, 00:03:30.960 --> 00:03:32.921 "No, she's actually in Starfleet mode, 00:03:32.921 --> 00:03:34.297 and can you make that jacket cleaner 00:03:34.297 --> 00:03:35.215 and make it work for that?" 00:03:35.215 --> 00:03:37.884 So we just tweaked the design and turned it into that coat, 00:03:37.884 --> 00:03:39.928 which worked really well in the end for everything. 00:03:39.928 --> 00:03:40.845 So it was kind of neat. 00:03:40.845 --> 00:03:43.890 And now it does become a cool new uniform 00:03:43.890 --> 00:03:47.185 for the Starfleet world, which is kind of awesome. 00:03:47.894 --> 00:03:49.020 It's what we do.