Chroma key

Chroma key, also known as blue screen or green screen, was a colored backdrop used for shooting scenes whose backgrounds would later be filled in with CGI scenery.
One typical application of the technique was using it to film footage that would be inserted into the main viewscreen in the Ops set. "Although we do call it a blue screen, it's actually green because we're using blue neon surrounding the screen," explained Production Designer Herman Zimmerman. "We use a green saturated color, but you can key off of any saturated color." (Captains' Logs Supplemental - The Unauthorized Guide to the New Trek Voyages, p. 16)
Green screens were used in several episodes of , such as the first season episodes , , and . They were also used for the scenes involving the dimensional shifts of the Meridian inhabitants and Jadzia Dax in the third season episode as listed on the call sheet.
For , a green screen was used for the scene in which Captain Archer and Nadet watch through the window of the cockpit, as noted on the call sheet.
The call sheet for the episode listed a green screen in the mess hall scenes, replaced later in post-production by a moving starfield. Another green screen was used during filming of this episode and raised on a platform for a view through a metallic door in a Vulcan reliquary, depicting later a CGI-created matte painting of a Vulcan listening post. ("The Andorian Incident" call sheet)
A green screen was also used and placed on the monitor in Archer's quarters at the beginning of the first season episode . Later, the monitor was "filled" with a recorded message from Admiral Maxwell Forrest. ("Fortunate Son" call sheet)
 used green screens to film Michael Burnham's spacewalk scenes in , as well as scenes aboard the 's damaged brig. 
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