Star Trek: Discovery will end with the fifth season in 2024, Paramount+ announced.
It has been reported that some additional filming will be required for Season 5. However, filming has mostly been completed for Season 5. Additionally, Paramount plans to send the show off in style with events in specific key markets leading up to the final season. More details will be released at a later date.
In 2017, Discovery debuted with a crew led by actor Sonequa Martin-Green as Captain Michael Burnham. The featured cast included Doug Jones (Saru), Anthony Rapp (Paul Stamets), Mary Wiseman (Sylvia Tilly), and Wilson Cruz (Dr Hugh Culber).
In 2017, when Paramount+ was still known as CBS All Access, Discovery launched as the flagship modern Star Trek series. The series launched the rebooted Star Trek TV universe, leading to its successful spinoff, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds. The series also boasted a Black female protagonist in Michael Burnham, marking a first for the franchise. The show also prominently featured LGBTQIA+ characters in a way previously not seen in Star Trek.
“Star Trek: Discovery is a perennial favourite on the service, near and dear to the hearts of legions of Star Trek fans as well as all of us here at Paramount+,” Tanya Giles, chief programming officer at Paramount Streaming, said.
“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 honour Gene Roddenberry’s legacy of representing diversity and inclusion, and pushing the envelope with award-winning world-building.
Sonequa Martin-Green, who is also a producer, shared this statement, “I can hardly believe that this mind-blowing journey with ‘Star Trek: Discovery’ is ending. 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. I’m deeply grateful to our most supportive partners at CBS Studios and Paramount+, who insisted on making television history.”
“I’m also deeply grateful for the creative collaboration with our showrunners Michelle Paradise and Alex Kurtzman, Olatunde Osunsanmi and the incomparable team of executive producers. 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. The fans welcomed us into their hearts as we launched a new iteration of ‘Trek’ and an entire entertainment platform, and we’ll never forget it. 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 ending of Discovery comes as Paramount looks to continue building on the Star Trek franchise’s success while facing the financial realities of the streaming era, with most major media companies slashing content spending in the years ahead.
Currently, Paramount+ is airing Star Trek: Picard’s third and final season, which features Patrick Stewart as the series lead and alums from Next Generation. Spinoffs based on Picard characters have also been rumoured.
Star Trek: Lower Decks, an adult animated series, is preparing for its fourth season, and Star Trek: Prodigy, a Nickelodeon series, is preparing for its second season.
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