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The retro-future props of Strange New Worlds: The phaser

“It was a fine line between the tradition of what Star Trek: Discovery did, and the tradition of Star Trek: The Original Series, but to find our own path. We have this canon that’s been set up, and people love that. There’s nostalgia that everyone has for those props, and I think if we were to drastically change them, that would be changing the whole canon, and I don’t think that would have been right for the show. So, we took the original designs, looked at those, and just try to stay in that ballpark but just make it a little more sleek.”
- Jim Murray, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds prop master

Source: The Ready Room interview, June 9 2022