WARNING: SPOILERS for Star Trek: Discovery season 2 ahead
The finale of Star Trek: Discovery season 2 saw Michael Burnham (Sonequa Martin-Green) use the Red Angel suit to create a wormhole to the future and jump through, closely followed by the U.S.S. Discovery and her crew. It was the only way to completely annihilate the evil and sentient A.I., Control. Wanting to keep what happened a secret, Starfleet Command concocted a story that the ship and all souls aboard were destroyed, a story that Captain Pike and Lieutenant Commander Spock of the U.S.S. Enterprise had to go along with.
Season 3 will pick up nearly a thousand years in the future. Now, CBS has released new photos showing us what that future will look like.
Here’s Burnham arriving on an unnamed planet:
The third season will introduce a new character named Cleveland “Book” Booker (David Ajala):
“mart and capable, Book has the kind of natural charm and reckless attitude that gets him into trouble almost as often as it get him out of it,” reads CBS’ description. It will be interesting to see how he plays off Burnham, who’s a big rule-follower.
With the Discovery lost in the future and the Enterprise moving on to new missions, some fans are wondering if the latter will be included in season 3 at all. Speaking to fans at the Star Trek: Discovery panel during last week’s San Diego Comic-Con, co-creator Alex Kurtzman laid it out: “All things being equal we would have brought them with us but that would have broken canon.”
That makes sense, but will Anson Mount (Pike) and Ethan Peck (Spock) get a chance to shine in their own Star Trek show? Yes…sort of. Kurtzman announced that both actors, as well as Rebecca Romijn (Number One), will appear in six mini-episodes called Star Trek: Short Treks.
Why yes, that is H. Jon Benjamin (the voice of Archer on Archer and Bob on Bob’s Burgers) losing his mind with tribbles, and I am so here for it.
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Short Treks won’t be the only new Trek content coming to CBS All Access in the near future. There will be a new show following the adventures of Jean-Luc Picard, as well as an animated series called Star Trek: Below Decks.
They go where the action is... the Lower Decks. Here's your first look at the voice cast and animated characters for #StarTrekLowerDecks. Learn more about the new animated comedy coming to @CBSAllAccess: https://t.co/lo10OvlK1E pic.twitter.com/wENG6iUJiO
— Star Trek on Paramount+ (@StarTrekOnPPlus) July 20, 2019
The 10-episode first season of Below Decks will follow a “Starfleet crew who will reside in the “lower decks” of the U.S.S. Cerritos.” The series focuses on the crew members who make sure everything runs smoothly while the main characters make the breakthroughs and get up to the heroics.
It looks like CBS is going hard on its Star Trek properties, and if any of the new shows have the success Discovery has enjoyed, then we’ll probably get even more!
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