The USS Discovery takes off for real in Manhattan the night before the show’s premiere. Well, sort of.
The USS Discovery, in the form of a light effect, flies over New York.
To mark the show’s Sunday premiere, CBS launched a re-creation of the show’s spaceship into the skies over New York Saturday night. (Disclosure: CBS is CNET’s parent company.)
The ship was actually a light illusion put together via LED lights attached to a truss. It flew from City Vineyard at Pier 46 out to the George Washington Bridge with the help of a Black Hawk helicopter.
The effect was put together by Remarkable Media, a company that did a similar type of aerial stunt for the MTV Video Music Awards last year. Remarkable CEO Simon Powell said his company worked with CBS’ assets of the ship to put together the visual effect.
While CBS has kept to a minimum details of the ship, registration number NCC-1031, we do know it has an iconic saucer section and dual nacelles, but with a much flatter overall design than the first USS Enterprise.
The new show takes place 10 years before the five-year mission of the original 1960s «Star Trek,» and stars Sonequa Martin-Green as First Officer Michael Burnham.
Internationally the show will stream on Netflix.
