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Star Trek: Discovery confirms final season

Fifth and final season to screen in early 2024.

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Star Trek: Discovery has confirmed it will end with its upcoming fifth season in early 2024.

“Star Trek: Discovery is a perennial favorite on the service, near and dear to the hearts of legions of Star Trek fans as well as all of us here at Paramount+,” said Tanya Giles, chief programming officer at Paramount Streaming.

“The series and its incredible cast and creatives ushered in a new era for Star Trek when it debuted over six years ago, embracing the future of streaming with serialized storytelling, bringing to life deep and complex characters that honor Gene Roddenberry’s legacy of representing diversity and inclusion, and pushing the envelope with award-winning world-building,” Giles added. “This final season will see our beloved crew take on a new adventure, and we can’t wait to celebrate the series’ impact on the franchise leading up to its final season early next year.”

“As lifelong fans of Star Trek, it has been an immense honor and privilege to help bring Star Trek: Discovery to the world,” said executive producers and co-showrunners Alex Kurtzman and Michelle Paradise. “The ‘Trek’ universe means so much to so many – including us – and we couldn’t be prouder of everything Discovery has contributed to its legacy, particularly with representation. If just one person sees themselves, or the possibilities for their future, in a new way because of Discovery, then we think we’d have made Gene Roddenberry very proud.

“Of course, there would be no Discovery without Sonequa Martin-Green and the extraordinary team of artists, both in front of and behind the camera, who have brought this show to life. Their passion and determination to make every episode special has been deeply inspiring; so too has their love and support for one another and their genuine love for Star Trek,” they said.

Martin-Green added, “I’m astoundingly blessed by God to have played Captain Michael Burnham and to have taken part in a legacy alongside an extraordinary cast, phenomenal crew and remarkable writing team,” said star and producer Martin-Green. “I will never forget how it felt to stand together as a show family, cradling the heirloom of ‘Trek’ with all those from the franchise at large and with the fans… 65 episodes later, here’s to the entire company of Star Trek: Discovery, to the show and its fifth and final season, to its beloved fans and to all those who envision a better future. Let’s fly… ”

The series debuted in Australia on Netflix but shifted to Paramount+ after the platform’s launch.

Ahead of the final season Paramount+ will honour the show with year long celebrations and appearances at key events in markets around the world.

Source: Deadline

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  1. There does appear to be a lot of backslapping by Paramount executives for a show that some more dedicated and knowledgeable Star Trek fans than myself thought was counterproductive to the original canon of the Star Trek universe and feared for Star Treks TV future, but the Star Trek:Discovery’ series did fit into Paramount+’s long term strategy to feature the Star Trek franchise as a major content attraction for their developing global streaming service, and as such ‘Discovery’ can’t be seen to be an expensive loss for the company. The Star Trek universe (fortunately for fans) still has some future prospects with various TV project ideas in script development like ‘Section 31’ and a Starfleet Academy series, but with Alex Kurtzman remaining in creative control these Star Trek spin-off / crossovers with Star Trek: Discovery characters included may be seen as a continuation of the Discovery screenplay under other working titles.

  2. Discovery has been a brilliantly executed. The only thing that is putting it in shark jumping territory is the fact that the technological advantages being employed are pretty much ‘magic’ where anything is ludicrously possible taking some edge out of the dangers encountered.

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