Star Trek: Discovery returns for its fifth and ultimate season after a two-year hiatus.
It has been two years since we had new episodes of Star Trek: Discovery, which debuted in 2017. Now Paramount+ has dropped the official trailer for the fifth and ultimate season of the spinoff sequence.
(Spoilers for prior seasons beneath.)
As beforehand reported, Sonequa Martin-Inexperienced performs Michael Burnham, an orphaned human raised on the planet Vulcan by none aside from Sarek (James Frain) and his human spouse, Amanda Grayson (Mia Kirshner)—aka, Spock’s (Ethan Peck) dad and mom. So, she is Spock’s adoptive sister. As I’ve written beforehand, the S2 season-long arc concerned the mysterious appearances of a “Purple Angel” and a rogue Starfleet AI known as Management that sought to wipe out all sentient life within the universe.
The massive reveal was that the Purple Angel was truly a time-travel go well with worn by Michael’s organic mom. She had by accident jumped 950 years right into a bleak future wherein Management had achieved its nefarious purpose and had been touring by way of time, leaving alerts (within the type of the visions), hoping to change that future. Within the S2 finale, Michael donned a replica of her mom’s go well with to guide Discovery over 900 years into the longer term. The crew of the Enterprise advised Starfleet that Discovery was destroyed within the battle and was ordered by no means to talk of the ship or her crew once more.
In S3, Michael, Discovery, and her crew arrived sooner or later and located that Management’s plan had been thwarted: Life nonetheless exists. However the galaxy was very totally different due to one thing known as The Burn, a catastrophic occasion that induced all of the dilithium within the Milky Approach to explode and destroy a lot of Starfleet within the course of. Within the aftermath, with no warp drive doable, all of the planets had turn into disconnected and had been not ruled by the Federation. Michael did, nonetheless, handle to find one sole Federation liaison on a distant area station with the assistance of a brand new ally, Guide (David Ajala).
The Discovery crew reunited with what was left of Starfleet, discovered what induced The Burn, and managed to defeat a rival syndicate referred to as the Emerald Chain, inspiring planets to begin rejoining the Federation. Burnham lastly turned captain of Discovery after Saru (Doug Jones) opted to return to his house planet of Kaminar for a spell. And we bid a sorrowful farewell to Philippa Georgiou (Michelle Yeoh).
S4 opened with the plucky crew—together with Saru as first officer—serving to rebuild the Federation and celebrating the reopening of Starfleet Academy. They quickly encountered a “gravitational anomaly” 5 light-years in diameter that destroyed Guide’s house planet of Kwejian because it moved by way of the galaxy. It turned out to be a strong expertise belonging to an alien species with interconnected minds known as 10-C, whose language employed mathematical equations. Within the S4 finale, the aliens in the end agreed to show off their expertise, thereby sparing Earth and different Federation planets.
The fifth season was already in improvement by March 2020, and the plan was to movie these episodes back-to-back with S4. Then, the COVID-19 pandemic hit and put these plans on maintain. Filming did not occur till 2022. Whereas S5 was initially meant to air final 12 months, as soon as Paramount determined to drag the plug and make it the ultimate season, they wanted to shoot extra footage as a way to wrap up the sequence correctly. Per the official premise:
The fifth and ultimate season will discover Captain Michael Burnham (Sonequa Martin-Inexperienced) and the crew of the united statesS. Discovery uncovering a thriller that may ship them on an epic journey throughout the galaxy to seek out an historical energy whose very existence has been intentionally hidden for hundreds of years. However there are others on the hunt as properly… harmful foes who’re determined to assert the prize for themselves and can cease at nothing to get it.
Along with Martin-Inexperienced, Jones, and Ajala, a lot of the principle forged is returning for S5: Anthony Rapp as Stamets; Mary Wiseman as Tilly; Wilson Cruz as Dr. Culber; Blu del Barrio as Adira Tal; and Callum Keith Rennie as Rayner. Eve Harlow and Elias Toufexis will reprise their recurring roles as Moll and L’ak, respectively. Returning as notable visitor stars in S5: Oded Fehr as Starfleet Commander-in-Chief Charles Vance; Chelah Horsdal as Lair Rillak; Tara Rowling as T’Rina; David Cronenberg as Kovich; and Tig Notaro as Jett Reno.
The primary two episodes of the fifth and ultimate season of Star Trek: Discovery will premiere on Paramount+ on April 4, 2024; the remaining eight episodes will air weekly after that by way of Might 30.
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