Star Trek: 10 Secrets Of Strange New Worlds' Enterprise You Need To Know

2. Reduced, Reused, And Recycled Starships

Star Trek Strange New Worlds Enterprise
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It wouldn't be an entry in the "10 Secrets of" series if we didn't address Star Trek's timeless and beloved legacy of reusing sets, but there's a caveat in this one: We're pretty sure this won't be a thing when Star Trek: Strange New Worlds gets underway.

For now, however, aside from the bridge and turbolift, all the interiors of the redesigned USS Enterprise (seen so far) are standing sets from Star Trek: Discovery, repainted and reconfigured to represent the Constitution-class starship.

These Discovery sets include the briefing room (first seen in "Choose Your Pain" as the meeting room of Admiral Cornwell's starbase, then as Disco's briefing room in "Will You Take My Hand?"), the transporter room (heavily modified for its appearance in "Q&A", "The Trouble with Edward", and "Ask Not"), the brig (repurposed in "Brother" and "Such Sweet Sorrow, Part 2" as Spock's quarters), and, of course, the corridors.

Another recycled bit of the USS Discovery was the partial set for the ship's shuttlebay, repurposed for the Short Trek "Ask Not" as the entrance to the Enterprise's engine room. Interestingly, this represents the first *full* appearance of a starship's main engineering section, Discovery's "Engineering Test Bay Alpha" being the closest thing we've gotten to a Crossfield-class engine room in the Discovery-era thus far.

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I played Shipyard Bar Patron (Uncredited) in Star Trek (2009).