Star Trek: Discovery
Summary
Sonequa Martin - Green was toldStar Trek : Discoverywould operate for 7 season , and she explains howDiscovery ’s series stopping point epilogue happened after Paramount+ announced season 5 would end the series . Star Trek : Discoveryseason 5 wrapped filming at the end of 2022 , and the mould and bunch expected to return for time of year 6.After Paramount+ pulled the male plug onDiscovery , the output was provide to bring back to Toronto to shoot a finale to roll up the series .
Star Trek : Discoveryseries lead and producer Sonequa Martin - Green joined Dominic Keating and Connor Trinneer onThe ergocalciferol - Con Chamberpodcast for an in - depth chat about her calling . RegardingStar Trek : Discovery ’s ending , Martin - Green said function 7 seasons was"an afterthought"until the surprisal that Paramount+ ended the serial publication . Sonequa then describes how CBS Studios and Paramount+ greenlitStar Trek : Discovery ’s filming of the serial publication finale coda . Read Martin - Green ’s quote and watchThe D - Con Chambervideo , with the discussion happening around the 1:08:00 German mark , below :
Dominic Keating : Did you think you might do seven [ season ] ?
Sonequa Martin - Green : Of course . And we had been told as much . So it was an rethink . So time of year 5 was just the next season , and we went bigger than we had ever gone before . It was like , ‘ See you in 8 month , and it ’ll be dandy . ’ And then we get hold out [ Discovery was finish ] .
I mean , Alex [ Kurtzman ] and Michelle [ Paradise ] fought for us to be able-bodied to go back . And CBS Studios and Paramount+ , they love the show . They were very thankful for us , which was lovely . Because we did do a lot , we did a lot for the weapons platform . We helped establish the platform . We develop the platform . People were coming to see Discovery , and then they were coming to see Trek at large . We had a expectant part of that . And they know that .
So they were like , ‘ Listen , we love you guys , so yeah , you could have it . It ’s gon na have to be small . You know , we ’ll give you twenty dollars to do it . ’ ( laughs ) So we shot for three days … But we ’re so grateful to them for pass on us that . And the writer , Michelle and Kyle Jarrow , who co - wrote that finale , .. Man , they knocked it out of the park ! Because they had , oh , I do n’t know , twelve pages , nine Thomas Nelson Page , something like that , to tie up this integral show . And I think that they just … And I never would have imagined that we ’d jump in advance like that . I never imagined that we would … showcase legacy like that .
Star Trek : Discovery comes to an conclusion with time of year 5 ’s finale wrapping up the primogenitor hoarded wealth hunt and an epilog concluding the intact series .
A New Star Trek Series Will Continue Discovery’s Timeline
Will Star Trek: Discovery ever return?
Star Trek : Discoveryended shy of its expected 7 season running , but the nextStar Trekseries will pick up from whereDiscoveryleft off inStar Trek ’s thirty-second century timeline . Star Trek : Starfleet Academywas rig up byStar Trek : Discoveryseasons 4 and 5 , and will chronicle a new multiplication of Starfleet cadets . Starfleet Academyis toplined by Academy Award - caliber actor Holly Hunter as the Chancellor of the Academy , and Paul Giamatti , who plays the show ’s resort main villain . Kerrice Brooks , Bella Shepard , and George Hawkins have also been regorge as plebe .
Star Trek : Starfleet Academy ’s executive producer and co - showrunners are Alex Kurtzman and Noga Landau , andStar Trek : Lower Decks ' Tawny Newsome is part of the writers ' room .
Star Trek : Starfleet Academyis taking over theStar Trek Stage at Pinewood Studiosin Toronto , whereStar Trek : Discoveryused to film . This hammers home the finality ofStar Trek : Discovery ’s ending . But who knows what the succeeding holds?It ’s possibleStar Trek : Discovery ’s cast could reunite one day , perhaps for aStar Trekstreaming movie on Paramount+.But even ifStar Trek : Discoveryseason 5 is the last ride for Captain Michael Burnham and her crew , Discoverythankfully buzz off to bow down out with an emotional and gratify close .
Source : The D - Con Chamber
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