Watch: TrekCore explores the Star Trek: Strange New Worlds prop and costumes exhibit

TrekCore took fans behind the scenes at Mission Chicago for the Star Trek: Strange New Worlds exhibit.

For a lot of fans, getting a lot of props, concept art, or other things from a Star Trek movie or show is a rare opportunity. Fans can find some areas to check them out, like the Star Trek Museum in Riverside, IA, just across from the James T. Kirk statue that was erected to commemorate the birth of the iconic Star Trek character.

Mission Chicago, the big yearly Star Trek convention show that is trying to be the ComicCon for Trek, decided to bring that experience to fans at the event this year. In the heart of the Mission Chicago convention was a small structure called the Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Prop & Costume Exhibit.

Inside of it was, as you would imagine from the name, props, and costumes from the upcoming show, led by Anson Mount. A lot of fans couldn’t make it to Mission Chicago this year, so the good folks at TrekCore did their own video tour of the exhibit, in order for fans who couldn’t make it, to be able to experience the exhibit.

Some cool details revealed in the Strange New Worlds exhibit

You learn new things every day, especially with a 60-year-old franchise like Star Trek. During TrekCore’s interview of the exhibit, we got to see my favorite part of any film or television show’s development, the storyboards. I’m a big fan of illustrations like that, mostly because I envy those with the ability to create such magnificent items.

Yet, the thing that stood out to me the most was the uniforms. While we all know about the uniforms representing different parts of Starfleet, command, science, and operations, what I didn’t know until now (and maybe it’s new for Strange New Worlds), is the insignias designating the divisions will be embroidered onto the sleeves of the uniforms.

So Pike’s uniform had the command gold delta symbol, while Spocks’ uniform had the blue science (research) division delta symbol, and Uhura’s uniform had the red operations (helm/engineering) division delta symbol.

The video is only 11 minutes long and I urge you to watch the entirety of it as TrekCore does great work.