The sci-fi drama will conclude its run in 2024.
March 2, 2023
Paramount+ announced today that Star Trek: Discovery will be coming to an end after its upcoming fifth season. It has been nearly a year since the sci-fi drama last aired a new episode, and fans will have to wait about another year until it returns for its final season, which won't air until early 2024.
"Star Trek: Discovery is a perennial favorite on the service, near and dear to the hearts of legions of 'Star Trek' fans as well as all of us here at Paramount+," said Tanya Giles, chief programming officer at Paramount Streaming. "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 honor Gene Roddenberry's legacy of representing diversity and inclusion, and pushing the envelope with award-winning world-building. This final season will see our beloved crew take on a new adventure and we can't wait to celebrate the series' impact on the franchise leading up to its final season early next year."
Taking place 10 years before the events of the original 'Star Trek' series, Star Trek: Discovery follows a brand new crew on a new ship as they take on missions to find undiscovered worlds and lifeforms during the Federation-Klingon war.
Season 5 will find Captain Burnham and the crew of the U.S.S. Discovery uncovering a mystery that will send them on an epic adventure across the galaxy to find an ancient power whose very existence has been deliberately hidden for centuries. But there are dangerous foes also on the hunt, desperate to claim the prize for themselves.
Shamalamadingdong
03/04/23 at 06:27am
As a long time trek fan I feel I have to watch it but it needed to go, it's a hot mess of woke that won't age well in history. At least Picard sells itself as what it is, a blatant old boys romp and is far more enjoyable than this.
JJ
03/03/23 at 10:47pm
I gave up halfway through season 1. Just not Roddenberry Trek.
T.I.
03/03/23 at 08:24pm
Well I always hate losing a Star Trek series, but I'm not really sure this was actually ST. .It was so woke and pushed the agenda so much I'd have to fast forward through sections of it, it was just awful garbage.
I'd have not watched it at all, except I have a roommate that played it in the same room I have my computer in...so, not so sad to see it go.
Not Elbae
03/03/23 at 04:26pm
I agree with Elbae , it was too woke. lost me after season 2. Tell me a story, don't push an agenda on me.
You're ridiculous
03/03/23 at 01:07pm
Anyone complaining about the humanist, almost too liberal for the 60s and 80s show "Star Trek," too woke, is ridiculous and I can't take you seriously lol
That said, Discovery definitely needs to end. I'm enjoying Strange New Worlds so much more, and it doesn't have the mystery box storytelling that is dragging Trek down.
Pat
03/03/23 at 08:12am
Too woke . First second season were great. The rest ok at best. Not garbage. But no one is going to be called they in three hundred years. They need to focus on stories not identity politics
The Rodentman
03/03/23 at 07:31am
Saru is the only decent character. It was ok at first but really started to drag,
Just Keith
03/03/23 at 07:07am
I'm a fan of Star Trek.
Not sure what this woke trash is though.
Glad to see it go.
elbae
03/03/23 at 06:35am
Well, while a lot of babies here are crying in their mama's lap that they had to see "woke garbage" for 4 seasons ( no one forced you to), that's not the reason I am glad its being cancelled.
The storylines were a bit too out there, and I could not buy it for one second, the premise that it ran on some universe-wide mycelium network, or that after it traveled into the future, all records of it were scrubbed from everywhere. It was forced continuity. Did not help that story-lines included a planet that had archival memories, whose entire data fit into the memory banks of one star-ship. Spock was handled terribly.
Strange New Worlds is a little more reigned in than Discovery, while Picard Season 2 descended into nonsense. They are doing the whole "NG" arc in Season 3, but Season 2 killed the vibe for me.
So far, Paramount is doing a terrible job with the franchise.
Stefan
03/03/23 at 04:28am
So let me see if I get this. They finish filming the season, then make the announcement it's going to end while at the same time saying there are additional shootings for the season.
That smells more like cancelling then ending. And Giles is just sugar coating that with her speech.
In any case, I know many Star Trek fans personally who couldn't care less. Me included. So much for "...near and dear to the hearts of legions of 'Star Trek' fans...".
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