A brand new clip and recent forged poster for the fifth and final season of “Star Trek: Discovery” was just released on the 2023 São Paulo Comic Con in Brazil.
Inside the 60-second clip, we see “Star Trek” Captain Burnham (Sonequa Martin-Green) and Book (David Ajala) battling with giant insects that may seemingly make themselves transparent. And while we now have no idea where this clip sits within the season, there is not any denying it has a somewhat familiar set-piece vibe to the one we saw within the Season 4 opening episode. There’s even a bit of dialogue inspired by “Lethal Weapon 2,” but then the writers on “Discovery” have liberally borrowed from other mental properties a lot of times prior to now.
The last time we saw the crew of the usDiscovery in motion was March 17, 2022, which suggests it’ll be over two years by the point Season 5 rolls around. In March of this yr, we reported that Paramount was going to wrap “Discovery” up at the tip of this season and despite principal photography having finished, some additional shooting was still in progress.
During the last seven and a half years, it has been a mixed bag; there have been inspired episodes, missed opportunities, truly bizarre stories, some blatant plagiarism and even a nod to Scooby-Doo. Despite some good standalone episodes, the show has nevertheless, steadily declined in story writing quality from the outset.
That is to not say the performances have been bad in any respect; in reality, “Discovery” has among the finest forged in “Star Trek.” What has allow them to all down is the choices made by the showrunner — or whoever it’s that oversees the writing.
Will an odd anomaly threaten your complete galaxy? Will billions of lives be threatened? Will Starfleet and the crew of the usDiscovery must unite and dig deep, facing their very own mortality and risking their lives for the greater good . . . again? Because that old chestnut is wearing a bit thin now.
The official story summary for the fifth and final season is “Burnham and the crew of the Discovery uncover a mystery that sends them on an epic adventure across the galaxy to seek out an ancient power whose very existence has been deliberately hidden for hundreds of years. But there are others on the hunt as well; dangerous foes who’re desperate to assert the prize for themselves and can stop at nothing to get it.”
Things have been shaken up over at Paramount recently. There was the unceremonious ditching of “Star Trek: Prodigy”, and now reports that Skydance Media CEO David Ellison and RedBird Capital’s Gerry Cardinale are “kicking the tires” on acquiring the media conglomerate’s assets, via its parent company National Amusements’ majority stake. Let’s hope whoever owns the studio sees the wisdom of not wasting thousands and thousands of dollars on more nostalgia-driven “Star Trek”, and that “Legacy” is given the go-ahead.
“Discovery” was the primary of the brand new “Star Trek”, and it paved the best way for a renaissance in television science fiction. For that, we’re thankful. Nevertheless it’s time for more original writing on this sci-fi franchise, together with the creation of completely recent characters and recent situations without riding on the coattails of what is come before. If that is possible.
From the looks of the brand new forged photograph, everyone has returned, even Lt. Sylvia Tilly (Mary Wiseman). And have a look at how Callum Keith Rennie and Book are looking at one another over the remaining of the forged. That might either be the product of some hasty Photoshop work, or possibly a clue of what is to return.
“Star Trek: Discovery” and each episode of each “Star Trek” show — except for “Star Trek: Prodigy” — currently streams exclusively on Paramount Plus within the U.S. “Prodigy” has found a brand new home on Netflix, and that starts at the tip of the month.
Internationally, the shows can be found on Paramount Plus in Australia, Latin America, the UK and South Korea, in addition to on Pluto TV in Austria, France, Germany, Italy, Spain and Switzerland on the Pluto TV Sci-Fi channel. In addition they stream on Paramount Plus in Italy, France, Germany, Switzerland and Austria. In Canada, they air on Bell Media’s CTV Sci-Fi Channel and stream on Crave.