Star Trek: Discovery almost made a notable mistake during the second season – but they used CGI to fix it in time.

Season 2 introduced Captain Pike and the USS Enterprise from The Original Series, but the crew's costumes were missing the insignia on the sleeves at first during filming, costume designer Gersha Phillips told ComicBook.com.

"The only thing that we didn't actually think about was rank at the time, because in Discovery, the rank was done with pips on the badges," she explained.

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"So when we first shot the first few days of Enterprise uniforms, we forgot to put rank on.

"I forgot who told us – I think it was marketing, actually. John Van Citters saw that we hadn't any indication of rank on our uniform. And so me and my team, we spent like a night of trying to figure out how we were going to add rank bars on their uniforms.

"That was an interesting journey, and it all happened during one night, so we had to figure that out.

"Then they had to go back and CGI all the stripes on the days that we didn't do it."

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Meanwhile, spin-offs are being planned for Patrick Stewart's Jean-Luc Picard and Michelle Yeoh's Philippa Georgiou.



Star Trek: Discovery airs on CBS All Access in the US and Netflix internationally, including the UK.

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