DESIGNING STARTREK: PICARD
SIRENA ARMOURY
wo weeks before we started shooting the second block of episodes, after the Sirena set had more or less finally been built, we realised that the transporter room needed an armoury or kit-up room for away missions. Not only that, but it should be a collection of weapons from alien cultures and times throughout the galaxy, not just our new guns. Oh well, jeez, no big deal! Well, it a big deal because all these past props don’t exist any more, and on a CBS show I can’t use props from the Paramount movies, so I would have to build everything from scratch – which I don’t have time to do. I called up my friend Mario Moreira, prop master from , and he thankfully had some guns he could let us borrow, which made all the difference in the world. That kind of collaboration is what’s really nice about walking into a created universe like this, and something there will only be more of as they keep developing more overlapping shows. The rest of the alien guns I scoured from prop rental houses
