WEBVTT 1 00:00:02.961 --> 00:00:04.087 What have you done? 2 00:00:04.087 --> 00:00:05.630 Show them a world of their own making 3 00:00:05.630 --> 00:00:08.008 and they ask you what you've done. 4 00:00:08.008 --> 00:00:09.509 So human of you. 5 00:00:09.509 --> 00:00:10.885 I think it's in the second episode, 6 00:00:10.885 --> 00:00:15.015 you find us transported to an alternate reality. 7 00:00:15.015 --> 00:00:16.808 It's a surprise for all of us. 8 00:00:16.808 --> 00:00:17.767 We didn't expect it. 9 00:00:17.767 --> 00:00:20.103 We don't really know where we are or what's happening. 10 00:00:20.979 --> 00:00:21.896 Sorry, babe. 11 00:00:21.896 --> 00:00:24.482 Just go with this until I figure out what this is. 12 00:00:24.482 --> 00:00:27.068 I want this one kept alive! For questioning. 13 00:00:31.656 --> 00:00:33.366 [Woman] Three, two, one. 14 00:00:37.037 --> 00:00:38.788 [Michelle] So in this alternate reality, we have 15 00:00:38.788 --> 00:00:41.791 completely different uniforms and wardrobe. 16 00:00:41.791 --> 00:00:46.129 The outfit that Raffi dons, it's structured 17 00:00:46.129 --> 00:00:49.174 and there's leather and there's asymmetrical things 18 00:00:49.174 --> 00:00:50.800 and hard lines. 19 00:00:50.800 --> 00:00:54.054 It makes you want to carry yourself differently. 20 00:00:54.054 --> 00:00:56.306 It almost makes you feel a bit more powerful, 21 00:00:56.306 --> 00:00:57.140 which I love. 22 00:00:57.140 --> 00:01:01.728 As an actor, it's a beautiful gift to have such a strong, 23 00:01:01.728 --> 00:01:06.357 clear point of view to guide us into new choices. 24 00:01:06.357 --> 00:01:09.152 I'll handle this terrorist myself. 25 00:01:09.152 --> 00:01:10.695 I've been granted authority. 26 00:01:10.695 --> 00:01:12.363 Authorized by whom? 27 00:01:12.363 --> 00:01:13.656 [Picard] By me, soldier. 28 00:01:14.616 --> 00:01:16.076 10 hut! 29 00:01:16.076 --> 00:01:17.744 For one of the biggest scenes 30 00:01:17.744 --> 00:01:20.538 in the first couple episodes, we have to bounce 31 00:01:20.538 --> 00:01:23.166 from one location and see it in two different worlds. 32 00:01:23.166 --> 00:01:25.919 And we start with the Starfleet Academy 33 00:01:25.919 --> 00:01:28.505 where it's bright and hopeful and beautiful white. 34 00:01:28.505 --> 00:01:32.050 And it was just so exciting to stand there knowing 35 00:01:32.050 --> 00:01:35.428 that within days, we're gonna flip this and become evil. 36 00:01:35.428 --> 00:01:40.433 And I wanted a canvas that would work well for both worlds. 37 00:01:40.809 --> 00:01:42.769 So we looked at the Disney Concert Hall, 38 00:01:42.769 --> 00:01:46.481 which is this amazing Frank Gehry architecture 39 00:01:46.481 --> 00:01:51.486 that is cool lines and steel, and it could be cold and evil 40 00:01:52.195 --> 00:01:54.489 or it could be bright and beautiful. 41 00:01:54.489 --> 00:01:56.616 One of the other fun things we did this season when we go 42 00:01:56.616 --> 00:01:58.076 to the alternate universe is to show 43 00:01:58.076 --> 00:01:59.369 the dark side of Picard. 44 00:01:59.369 --> 00:02:02.455 So we've really set it up with all these fun Easter eggs. 45 00:02:02.455 --> 00:02:03.540 And we're like, what if we go 46 00:02:03.540 --> 00:02:06.126 to the dark side of the Easter eggs? 47 00:02:06.126 --> 00:02:08.211 We have a scene where we have all these skulls 48 00:02:08.211 --> 00:02:11.631 of all the aliens that he has killed throughout the years. 49 00:02:11.631 --> 00:02:13.800 And initially, it was supposed to be suits of armor. 50 00:02:13.800 --> 00:02:17.095 So I said, "Well, if we're gonna go dark, let's go dark." 51 00:02:17.095 --> 00:02:19.055 It's like, bring me the head of my enemy. 52 00:02:19.055 --> 00:02:22.892 I went to Neville Page, our creature designer, 53 00:02:22.892 --> 00:02:27.814 and he was breaking it down, the biology of each species 54 00:02:27.814 --> 00:02:32.610 and do Ferengis have bones in their ears or is it cartilage? 55 00:02:32.610 --> 00:02:37.615 And should Vulcans have enlarged temples for mind melding? 56 00:02:37.824 --> 00:02:40.243 And then Vincent Van Dyke, who builds a lot 57 00:02:40.243 --> 00:02:42.829 of the makeup prosthetics for our show. 58 00:02:42.829 --> 00:02:44.831 Vincent is a huge skull freak. 59 00:02:44.831 --> 00:02:48.001 He's got a shelf of skulls behind his desk, 60 00:02:48.001 --> 00:02:52.005 so I knew he was gonna give it 150%, and he did. 61 00:02:52.005 --> 00:02:56.009 And they fabricated these unbelievable props for me. 62 00:03:04.475 --> 00:03:08.438 The Borg Slayer, John-Luc Picard's alternate ego 63 00:03:08.438 --> 00:03:10.940 in this world where he's a bad guy. 64 00:03:10.940 --> 00:03:13.484 Things have happened in our world that have changed him. 65 00:03:13.484 --> 00:03:17.155 So this portrait really sets the tone in the show. 66 00:03:17.155 --> 00:03:21.075 The face alone takes three days--minimum. 67 00:03:21.075 --> 00:03:23.786 So this painting took about nine days 68 00:03:23.786 --> 00:03:25.079 in total to complete. 69 00:03:26.372 --> 00:03:29.125 Above his mantle in the library in the chateau, 70 00:03:29.125 --> 00:03:30.877 we have the Ready Room painting. 71 00:03:30.877 --> 00:03:33.087 In the alternate universe, we wanted to showcase the fact 72 00:03:33.087 --> 00:03:34.881 that the Enterprise-D 73 00:03:34.881 --> 00:03:40.094 would have really been an aggressive, mean fighting machine 74 00:03:40.094 --> 00:03:43.640 as opposed to the exploratory vessel that you would've seen 75 00:03:43.640 --> 00:03:44.933 in The Next Generation. 76 00:03:44.933 --> 00:03:48.770 And Dave Blass, the production designer, had an amazing idea 77 00:03:48.770 --> 00:03:51.731 of having the ship blasting through a Borg cube 78 00:03:51.731 --> 00:03:53.608 as if the thing is split in half. 79 00:03:57.695 --> 00:04:00.698 In order to showcase Starfleet or Starcore 80 00:04:00.698 --> 00:04:02.867 in the Confederation of the alternate universe, 81 00:04:02.867 --> 00:04:05.245 we really wanted to upgrade what we've seen in the past. 82 00:04:05.245 --> 00:04:09.040 And this was a unique opportunity for me to really show 83 00:04:09.040 --> 00:04:12.752 a more aggressive and defensive version of Starfleet. 84 00:04:12.752 --> 00:04:16.589 So Starcore is wearing all tactical gear now 85 00:04:16.589 --> 00:04:21.344 and they are essentially policing the universe in a way 86 00:04:21.344 --> 00:04:23.638 that we've never seen them before in the past. 87 00:04:24.847 --> 00:04:28.101 So the new Confederation rifle, 88 00:04:28.101 --> 00:04:30.770 its side displays are all red now to match 89 00:04:30.770 --> 00:04:33.022 with the heads-up display for the tactical guys. 90 00:04:33.022 --> 00:04:36.234 We've got a new scope, new flashlights integrated in here, 91 00:04:36.234 --> 00:04:40.530 and a meaner barrel with this housing on the side 92 00:04:40.530 --> 00:04:42.282 for flashing and venting. 93 00:04:42.282 --> 00:04:45.201 And then there's also the addition of a bayonet 94 00:04:45.201 --> 00:04:47.412 for close combat. 95 00:04:47.412 --> 00:04:49.414 Another great privilege of mine was to design 96 00:04:49.414 --> 00:04:51.541 a new phaser pistol for the Confederation. 97 00:04:52.542 --> 00:04:54.419 This phaser pistol, we wanted to be meaner 98 00:04:54.419 --> 00:04:55.795 and far more aggressive 99 00:04:55.795 --> 00:04:57.880 than any phasers we've seen in the past. 100 00:05:00.049 --> 00:05:02.176 But this phaser actually was modeled 101 00:05:02.176 --> 00:05:05.763 after the Final Frontier fan favorite phaser 102 00:05:05.763 --> 00:05:08.766 from Star Trek V. 103 00:05:10.101 --> 00:05:10.935 [Soldier] Colonel. 104 00:05:10.935 --> 00:05:12.312 Colonel, are you all right? 105 00:05:12.312 --> 00:05:15.523 We have a different ranking system for the Confederation. 106 00:05:15.523 --> 00:05:18.609 We have one through four pips of officers, 107 00:05:18.609 --> 00:05:22.113 and one through four bars in gold for admirals. 108 00:05:24.032 --> 00:05:27.160 I started thinking that we've never seen a combadge 109 00:05:27.160 --> 00:05:30.580 as a weapon, and wouldn't it be kind of a unique opportunity 110 00:05:30.580 --> 00:05:32.832 to make a combadge a knife? 111 00:05:32.832 --> 00:05:35.084 Thankfully, the creatives liked it and they wrote it 112 00:05:35.084 --> 00:05:38.546 into this stunning fight sequence with Elnor. 113 00:05:38.546 --> 00:05:39.380 Show off.