Buried in an Entertainment Weekly story on the upcoming series Star Trek: Discovery is an anecdote that sheds light on whether religion exists in the Star Trek universe.

During filming, British actor Jason Isaacs, who portrays the ship Discovery's captain Gabriel Lorca, ad-libbed the line "for God's sakes", only for the episode's writer to stop filming and correct him.

"Wait, I can't say 'God'?" Isaacs is reported to have asked. "I thought I could say 'God' or 'damn' but not 'goddamn.'"