Star Trek: Discovery
word of advice : SPOILERS for Star Trek : Discovery Season 5 , Episode 9 - " Lagrange Point "
Summary
Star Trek : Discoveryseason 5 broughtIron Man - style applied science into the 32nd century . Directed by Jonathan Frakes and written by Sean Cochran and Ari Friedman , Star Trek : Discoveryseason 5 , sequence 9 , " Lagrange Point " , was an action and mood - compact heist adventure . Captain Michael Burnham ( Sonequa Martin - Green ) , Cleveland Booker ( David Ajala ) , Ensign Adira Tal ( Blu del Barrio ) , and Lt . Commander Gen Rhys ( Patrick Kwok - Choon ) go incognito as Breen to slip the portal to the progenitor ' gem from the Breen Dreadnought . It turns outwearing a Breen helmet is just like when Tony Stark ( Robert Downey Jr. ) is Iron Man .
As Burnham search the universe ’s greatest gem in Star Trek : Discovery season 5 , she ’ll take help from a host of new and returning characters .
Directed by Jon Favreau , 2008’sIron Manlaunched the Marvel Cinematic Universe , revolve around it around the temperamental but smart as a whip billionaire weapons maker Tony Stark . Whenever Stark donned Iron Man ’s helmet , Favreau ingeniously introduce close - ups so that hearing could see Robert Downey Jr. ’s expression and reaction via a typical head - up display . Anyone who wore anIron Man suitin Marvel Studios’Iron ManandAvengersmovies also had their faces memorably appear this way .
Star Trek: Discovery’s Breen Helmet Is Just Like Iron Man
Director Jonathan Frakes explains how they filmed it
When Captain Burnham and her away team weary Breen helmets inStar Trek : Discoveryseason 5 , instalment 9 , " Lagrange Point " , their faces appeared incloseups exactly like Tony Stark inIron Man . DirectorJonathan Frakes toldScreen Rantthis was by designing , andDiscovery ’s director of picture taking Maya Bankovic innovated a way to replicateIron Man ’s heads - up display :
Jonathan Frakes : precisely . That ’s where it was stolen from . But we did n’t have the money for those shaft , the Iron Man shots . So we encounter a lens , and then , we discover a lighting frame-up that we could utilise so that not all of those would be ocular effects shot . So then , the side of the shape , the anamorphic , Maya created a digital lighting gag that would suggest that we were , in fact , inside the helmet . Because as coolheaded it is to go in there incognito , as you say , it ’s very perplexing to keep cartroad of where where our characters are in the show , unless we go in [ the helmet ] .
Just as it work out inIron Man , Star Trek : Discovery ’s heads - up displays allow hearing to see Captain Burnham , Book , Adira , and Rhys ' reaction as their infiltration missionary station went sidewise . Among the fun moments wasMichael ’s surprisal when Book endeavor to flirt with a Breenas a distraction tactics . Being capable to cut toDiscovery ’s submarine ' close - ups also helped differentiate each persona from the faceless uniformity of the Breen . It also does n’t pain to waver some ofIron Man ’s great screen coolheaded factor intoStar Trek : Discovery .
Star Trek Just Got Another Big Link To Marvel
Picard’s showrunner says, “Make Mine Marvel”
Over 20 year beforeStar Trek : Discovery ’s homage toIron Man , Star Trekbecame always linked to Marvelthanks to Patrick Stewart . Star Trek : The Next Generation ’s Captain Jean - Luc Picard became known to a new hearing when Stewart play Professor X AKA Professor Charles Xavier in 2000’sX - Men , a persona he would repeat multiple times throughout theX - Menmovies , most recently in 2022’sDoctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness . Also inX - Menwas Rebecca Romijn as Mystique before she became Number One inStar Trek : Strange New Worlds . Also inX - Menwas Famke Janssen , who guest - star paired Stewart inStar Trek : TNG .
Other crossoverMarvelandStar Trekactors include Zoe Saldana , Karl Urban , Benedict Cumberbatch , and Alice Eve .
Star Trek ’s newest Marvel crossover is Terry Matalas , the herald showrunner ofStar Trek : Picardseason 3 . Matalas was tapped as the newshowrunner of Marvel ’s untitledVisionDisney+ serial , aim for a 2026 passing . Visionbrings back Paul Bettany as the heroic synthezoid , who debuted in 2015’sAvengers : Age of Ultron after Bettany voiced JARVIS , Tony Stark ’s A.I. , in the three Iron Manmovies . Star Trek : Discoveryweaving inIron Isle of Man - expressive style tech furtherstrengthens the bond betweenStar Trekand Marvel .
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