The Sound of Thunder

This Story: Season 2 Episode 6 (production code 206)
DSC Overall: Episode 21
Trek Overall: Story 704, Episode 747
Airdate: 21 Feb 2019
Written by Bo Yeon Kim & Erika Lippoldt
Directed by Douglas Aarniokoski

Notes

• Both this episode and the Short Treks episode “The Brightest Star” were made at the same time, because they use the same location for the Kelpian Village.  It’s a park in Toronto called “Scarborough Bluffs“.
• The Kelpian language was created by Trek veteran Mark Okrand, who created the Klingon language too.
• The voice of the Ba’ul voice over was from Mark Pellington.  He also directed two episodes of Star Trek: Short Treks – “Q&A” & “Children of Mars“.
• Saru’s sister Siranna was played by Hannah Spear.  She also portrayed this role in “Such Sweet Sorrow Pt II” as well as the Short Treks episode “The Brightest Star“.  She also played a different Kelpian female named Issa in “Terra Firma Pt I” & “That Hope is You Pt II“.  She was also a Klingon named Jen in the Strange New Worlds episode “The Broken Circle“.
• This episode had one of the rare scenes where a character (Saru) walks into a turbo lift (bridge), is in the lift, and then walks out elsewhere on another deck.  I always loved when they do that.
• The Ba’ul interrogation room looks an awful lot like the Discovery transporter room, just redressed.

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