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sounds, and we actually went through and found in the libraries, the original sounds they used to make the comp bridge sounds most people are familiar with. So we actually found the astrogator, all the buttons, the clicks, beeps, and all the adding machine sounds! Having all the original material was essential to then being able to build up our own version of the updated Enterprise bridge, which of course, resembles the original, but is also completely modernized and different. There are now a bunch of touch screens instead of all the large chunky buttons, so we couldn't really go full bore with the original sounds because they didn't match the visuals. We were able to use a lot of the beeps, but the chunky button sounds only worked when a character actually pressed a button, which was pretty seldom since almost the entire bridge crew was now on touch screens. I have to give a huge thank you to Mike Schapiro for spearheading all that research and design of the Enterprise bridge. I put him in charge of figuring it all out and he just did an amazing job. He really knocked it out of the park. MT: Yeah, the "J.J. verse" introduced the hollow touch screen thing, which steered away from the mechanical aspects of the original TOS. But like Tim was saying, the sonar thing, the Sputnik thing—that's the thing that everyone recognizes. TF: We call it the "sputnik," but in TOS, it's officially the sound of the "warp light." NM: When the Enterprise takes oˆ at the end of the episode, it almost sounded like The Next Generation sounds or something from the films. What was that sound? TF: It's a modified version of the Discovery warp out with the original TOS warp whoosh added as a topper. Alex [Kurtzman] really likes big whine-up and then a hard, staccato hit for the warp out. He liked the way it sounded The bridge of the Discovery Picard takes command of his new crew. The Romulans and Coppelius synthetics test one another in Picard.