Just when you thought things couldn’t look better for Star Trek — with Paramount and CBS getting back together and three new series on the horizon — our friends who make Discovery so great are getting the recognition they deserve with an Emmy Award.
Yesterday, the show was awarded an Emmy during the Creative Arts Emmy Awards presentation, which is held to recognize creative and technical achievements in television. Discovery won an Emmy for their prosthetic makeup for Season 2’s “If Memory Serves” when they brought back the Talosians. It was their version on the very first Star Trek villain which brought the show its first Emmy Award.
The Talosians first appeared in the original Star Trek pilot, The Cage, which was later re-worked in The Menagerie, Part 1 and Part 2.
The Talosians, both new and old. Courtesy of CBS / Paramount
Congratulations the team who created the effects — makeup effects department heads Glenn Hetrick and James McKinnon, along with Nicola Bendrey, Chris Bridges, Rocky Faulkner, Mike O’Brien, Neville Page, and Hugo Villasenor.
The show’s iconic opening, which come have compared to a classic “James Bond” openings, while bringing a new “minimalist-trek” style to the franchise, was also nominated for Outstanding Main Title Design. The opening to Discovery was created by PROLOGUE, who also created the end credits for Star Trek Beyond.
Discovery was also nominated for Outstanding Special Visual Effects category and Oustanding Sound Editing for a Comedy or Drama Series (one-hour) category. The sound effects nomination was for the season finale — “Such Sweet Sorrow, Part 2.”
This was the first Emmy win for Discovery, and it comes on the heels of the three Saturns the show snagged at the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films presentation.
Star Trek: Discovery airs on CBS: All Access. Season 3 is expected to debut in Spring 2020.
