Star Trek Discovery to end with the upcoming season.

[Kevin M.]

So the Star and Showrunner say on the official social media. 

Looking back, my main criticism of this series is that it wasn’t Trek. It was probably decent scifi and might’ve been decent stories, but it was not decent Trek. It took too many liberties and was way too self indulgent in simply ignoring canonical details.  

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Kevin M. (RPCV)

[M-D November]

The addition of Pike (Anton Mount) in season 2 and their eventual jump to the far future turned the show around and made it feel more Trek-like, but it took too long to shake off a first season which, yes, felt decidedly un-Trekie. Personally, I'm OK with Disco closing up shop as long as they leave things open to a future series set in that timeframe (where, admittedly, there's a lot to explore).  As long as we get more SNW and Lower Decks, I'm OK with it.

[David Bruggeman]

Five seasons, and, if the fifth season is 13 episodes (like seasons 3 and 4), Discovery will end with fewer episodes than the first show (68 episodes for Discovery to 79 for Kirk and company).

My initial sense of what happens next with Star Trek is that with two of the 3 live action programs going away over the next two years (Picard's final season is airing now), there will be some interest in developing another series.  I have to believe that folks at Paramount are looking at what the Star Wars people are doing in episodic streaming and thinking (correctly or not) that they can keep churning out shows. Whether that goes anywhere I have no idea.

If they do pursue this, I'd like to see a project that is not as closely linked to previous programs as the current crop has been (both Lower Decks and Prodigy have connections to the earlier generation of spinoffs).  I enjoy Strange New Worlds, I'm just not interested in having every Star Trek program so tightly woven into what has gone before.  There's some happy medium between an MCU-style arrangement and no overlap between the programs.  It might not be exactly the same as was done for the first generation of Trek spinoffs, but I think something like that would be agreeable.

David

[Stan S]

Discovery seasons 3 and 4 started to move away from established limits once they got to the 32nd century. I would have liked to have seen more in-universe stories than we got. All those ships that were introduced a few episodes into season 3. We hardly saw anything. Tilly says, “10 generations of Voyager, I’d like to hear some of those stories.”  And we got nothing. The season long arcs could have been covered in half as many episodes, with maybe a few episodes that stopped to take a look around instead of a single goal for the whole season. 

I’d like to see another 32nd century show spin off from Discovery. Maybe Tilly can be the central character of a Star Fleet Academy show. 

I don’t think that they’re going to be able to pin down Michelle Yeoh for the Section 31 show, now that she’s in Oscar territory. 

If Picard season 3 has a good reception, then we’ll probably see a spin-off show with Seven, Raffi, and a few of the TNG cast. I don’t know the fate of any of the regulars this season. Maybe some Janeway thrown in there if Sir Patrick doesn’t want to return. 

Meanwhile, Strange New Worlds is the gold standard of Star Trek spinoff shows. Maybe they could get a 20 episode Season 3. 

-Stan

[M-D November]

Yeoh may be out as primary cast, but I could see a Section 31 series moving forward.  The question would be 'in what time period', since...

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...Empress Georgiou got sent to an undetermined year - likely 23rd Century - by the Guardian of Forever. I think the real key to a Section 31 show would be finding a team of writers who could channel more of the DS9-style of writing and less NuTrek.

I'd seen buzzing about a Starfleet Academy series, but I think that was going to be set either concurrent with SNW or sometime in the years spanning LD/Picard. Frankly, I'd be up for a series following the crew of the Titan-A once S3 of Picard is done - I'm quickly gaining appreciation for the bridge crew (although keeping Jeri Ryan as Commander Hansen/Seven of Nine would be a must).

But then again, I'd also watch a show about O'Brien fixing leaking conduits all day, so who am I to say?