Summary
- Star Trek: Discovery season 5 will have an "incredibly satisfying ending" according to executive producer Alex Kurtzman.
- The fifth season of Star Trek: Discovery is also the show's final season, as Paramount+ announced the series' cancellation in March 2023.
- Despite no trailer or release date announced at NYCC, the season is set to premiere in 2024 and is highly anticipated by fans.
Star Trek: Discovery season 5 will have an "incredibly satisfying ending," Star Trek executive producer promised at New York Comic Con 2023, Star Trek: Discovery season 5 nearly completed production when Paramount+ announced the series was canceled in March 2023, meaning the fifth season is also the show's final season. In spring 2023, reshoots were completed on the final episode of Star Trek: Discovery season 5 to turn the season finale into a proper series finale. Star Trek: Discovery season 5 is scheduled to premiere on Paramount+ in 2024, and Alex Kurtzman confirmed this is still the plan.
As transcribed by TrekMovie, Star Trek executive producer Alex Kurtzman addressed the state of the franchise at NYCC's Star Trek Universe panel. Kurtzman gave the following update to Star Trek: Discovery season 5 and its series finale, and he praised star and producer Sonequa Martin-Green, who plays Captain Michael Burnham. Read his quote below:
“We have finished it. It will be airing early next year. It’s an incredibly satisfying ending to a show that is so near and dear to my heart. Sonequa Martin-Green gave the performance of her life. I think you guys are going to love it.”
No Star Trek: Discovery Season 5 Trailer At NYCC Was Disappointing
It's encouraging to hear that Star Trek: Discovery season 5 will stream on Paramount+ in 2024, that the ending will be a fitting conclusion to Discovery as the show that saved Star Trek, and that Sonqua Martin-Green delivers the "performance of her life" as Captain Michael Burnham. Still, it's surprising that no Star Trek: Discovery season 5 trailer was revealed at NYCC. One year prior, at NYCC 2022, was when Paramount+ dropped the first teaser trailer for Discovery season 5. 9 months later, five minutes of Discovery season 5 footage was unveiled at San Diego Comic-Con. Yet there were no key art images or a Discovery season 5 poster revealed at NYCC, and it's further disappointing that there is still no actual release date announced in 2024 for Star Trek: Discovery season 5.
Accompanying the March announcement that Star Trek: Discovery season 5 was the final season, Paramount+ initially intended to host media events to honor Star Trek: Discovery's status as the flagship Star Trek on Paramount+ series to build to the season 5 premiere, which was pushed back from fall 2023 to "early 2024." The combined WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes curtained the streamer's ambition to give Discovery a months-long sendoff, and it seems Paramount+ is waiting for the actors' strike to be resolved before it can give Star Trek: Discovery season 5 full-court promotion. As 2024 approaches, there remains very little new information about Star Trek: Discovery season 5 to satiate fans who are hotly anticipating the USS Discovery's final voyages.
Source: TrekMovie.com