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Published Dec 6, 2022

Star Trek: Discovery Season 4 Arrives on Blu-ray, DVD, Limited Edition Steelbook and Digital on December 6

Plus, an exclusive behind-the-scenes clip from Doug Jones about Saru!

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“Star Trek: Discovery has never been better.” – SCREEN RANT

“Their most thrilling adventure to date” (CinemaBlend), Star Trek: Discovery Season 4 arrives on Blu-ray, DVD, Limited Edition Blu-Ray Steelbook, and Digital on December 6 from CBS Home Entertainment and Paramount Home Entertainment. “Certified Fresh” on Rotten Tomatoes, fans can enjoy every thrilling episode from the Paramount+ original series with the four-disc collection, packed with over 90 minutes of special features, including exclusive cast and crew interviews, gag reel, deleted scenes and episode commentary. You can pre-order your copy here !

To celebrate the announcement of the release, CBS Home Entertainment and Paramount Home Entertainment provided StarTrek.com with an exclusive clip featuring series actor Doug Jones speaking on his character Saru 's development with the Kaminar High Council during Season 4.

EXCLUSIVE | Star Trek: Discovery Season 4 - Doug Jones on Saru and the Kaminar High Council

Season 4 of Star Trek: Discovery finds Captain Burnham and the crew of the U.S.S. Discovery facing a threat unlike any they’ve ever encountered. With Federation and non-Federation worlds alike feeling the impact, they must confront the unknown and work together to ensure a hopeful future for all. The fourth season stars Sonequa Martin-Green (“Commander Michael Burnham”), Doug Jones (“Commander Saru”), Anthony Rapp (“Lt. Commander Paul Stamets”), Mary Wiseman (“Ensign Sylvia Tilly”), Wilson Cruz (“Dr. Hugh Culber”), David Ajala (“Cleveland “Book” Booker”) and Blu del Barrio (“Adira”). Ian Alexander (“Gray”) also appears in season four.

The Star Trek: Discovery Season 4 Blu-ray, DVD, Limited Edition Blu-Ray Steelbook and Digital offers over 90 minutes of special features, including:

• STAR TREK: DISCOVERY : THE VOYAGE OF SEASON 4 - A continuation of the series, this behind-the-scenes featurette includes writers and producers as they discuss how their visions were realized by the cast, sets, costumes and props in Season 4.
• BEING MICHAEL BURNHAM: THE CAPTAIN’S LOG - From Sonequa Martin-Green, fans are taken through her personal journey as Captain Michael Burnham. Follow Martin-Green, as she sits in the Captain’s chair and shares intimate videos taken throughout the season, behind-the-scenes moments and interviews.
• CREATING SPACE - Fans can explore the VFX department to see their use of an AR wall for the immersive on-screen experience created for The Holodeck, which utilizes the largest AR wall to date.
• THE TOLL IT TOOK - From the writer’s room and prop building to costume fittings, the production stage and post, the cast and crew discuss the toll COVID took during the development of Season 4.
• COMMENTARY: EPISODE 413 - COMING HOME (Exclusive)
• DELETED SCENES (Exclusive)
• GAG REEL (Exclusive)

Star Trek: Discovery Season 4 Episodes:

• 401: “Kobayashi Maru”
• 402: “Anomaly”
• 403: “Choose to Live”
• 404: “All Is Possible”
• 405: “The Examples”
• 406: “Stormy Weather”
• 407: “…But to Connect”
• 408: “All In”
• 409: “Rubicon”
• 410: “The Galactic Barrier”
• 411: “Rosetta”
• 412: “Species Ten-C”
• 413: “Coming Home”

The collections will be released internationally on the following dates:

• United Kingdom – December 5, 2022
• France – December 7, 2022
• Japan – December 7, 2022
• Australia – December 7, 2022
• Germany – December 8, 2022
• Italy – December 15, 2022
• Spain – December 15, 2022
• Nordics – January 9, 2023

Star Trek: Discovery Season 4 was executive produced by Alex Kurtzman (Secret Hideout), Michelle Paradise, Heather Kadin (Secret Hideout), Aaron Baiers, Olatunde Osunsanmi, Frank Siracusa, John Weber, Rod Roddenberry (Roddenberry Entertainment), Trevor Roth (Roddenberry Entertainment) and Jenny Lumet.

Star Trek: Discovery Season 4 Blu-ray, DVD and Blu-ray Steelbook are presented in widescreen format and offer English SDH subtitles. The Blu-ray and Blu-ray Steelbook include English 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio and 5.1 Dolby Digital in English, French, German, Italian, Japanese and Spanish (Castilian) audio; as well as English, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian, Spanish (Castilian) and Swedish subtitles. The DVD features 5.1 Surround Dolby Digital audio, as well as English and French subtitles.

Star Trek: Discovery currently streams exclusively on Paramount+ in the U.S. Internationally, the series is available on Paramount+ in Australia, Latin America, the UK, and South Korea, as well as on Pluto TV in Austria, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, and Switzerland on the Pluto TV Sci-Fi channel. It will also stream exclusively on Paramount+ in Italy, France, Germany, Switzerland and Austria later this year. In Canada, it airs on Bell Media’s CTV Sci-Fi Channel and streams on Crave. Star Trek: Discovery is distributed by Paramount Global Content Distribution.

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Star Trek: Discovery – Season Four is a Blu-ray Disc release, featuring the complete fourth season of Star Trek: Discovery in 1080p high-definition. The set was released in North America on 6 December 2022 , along with near-concurrent international releases. The release came packaged as the standard four-disc holding plastic snap-case in a cardboard slip-over sleeve.

A limited SteelBook ® edition accompanied the standard release(s).

While in a very few cases still being marketed as region-restricted, the releases are in actuality region-free as this has by 2022 become standard practice for the Blu-ray format – explaining the unified contents for all regions.

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Background information [ ].

• As with the previous three releases, this release features the same amount of special features as its DVD counterpart , constituting something of a break in release policies as the Star Trek franchise had until 2017 favored the Blu-ray format with the inclusion of more special features. Quite conceivably this had been an intentional franchise attempt to avoid the 2014 " second VAM controversy " that had followed in the wake of the home video format releases of the first two alternate reality films.
• Unlike the previous previous season release, this release was again a near simultaneous release for all regions, as the franchise no longer had to take the interests of former first-time series streamer for the rest of the world outside North America, Netflix , into account because the franchise had already pulled the series from that streaming service on the home market earlier that year, with the rest of the world to follow in 2023 before the debut of season four.
• That being said however, by turning Discovery into an exclusive for the conglomerates own Paramount+ streaming service, meant that the fourth season had initially only been available for (legal) watching in those territories around the world where Paramount+ had been operational in the first place, which at that point in time were not that many in actuality. Fan outcry, backed by moral support from Discovery 's cast and crew, caused the franchise to make season four available for free on the conglomerate's online service Pluto TV in those foreign territories without Paramount+, but this was essentially an empty gesture as it too was only available in a very small number of countries. To make matters worse for fans, many Paramount+ subsidiaries which were launched on international markets afterwards, opted not to stream Discovery , which most conspicuously included SkyShowtime , launched during the late-2022/early-2023 period in continental Europe. Having been unavailable to the majority of the international fanbase, this home video format became the very first actual opportunity for them to watch the season legally, well over a year after the season had debuted in the home market.
• Even though Discovery 's fourth season had become the second television production, after Star Trek: Strange New Worlds ' s first season , to be wholly produced to 4K HD 2160p resolution standards by using the new 4K+ ultra high resolution ARRI Alexa cameras, [1] a 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray release was never contemplated by the franchise, contrary to the May 2023 one for Strange New Worlds . This may have been due to, besides the generic societal trend of dwindling physical home video sales, the continued skepticism of the series by the critical fanbase, which has remained unabated since its debut, again in stark contrast to the much better received Strange New Worlds – and the most likely reason why the latter-day foreign Paramount+ subsidiaries opted not to stream the series at all, yet again in stark contrast to Strange New Worlds which was part of their inaugural catalogs. The Blu-ray and its DVD counterpart releases are therefore in essence to their respective resolution downscaled release variants.
• This particular release is one of the few individual Star Trek releases followed by the professional industry site The Numbers and for which domestic US home video format sales are known; The Numbers has reported that by November 2023 domestic sales had been realized of a mere US$2.8 million for both this and its DVD counterpart releases, with sales virtually coming to a complete standstill thereafter. [2] The for a Star Trek production seemingly disappointing sales could be explained by the sharply divided fan reception the series had originally engendered and continued to do so as touched upon in the preceding point. However, there were by this time also generic societal trend issues at play, which had nothing to do with the fan's perception of Discovery , additionally explaining the continuing diminishing trend of physical home video format sales (see: main article ), which for this particular release was actually only less than half of what the previous series season home video format sales had achieved and about a sixth of the series season one debut release.

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Review: ‘Star Trek: Discovery’ Season 4 Leaves The Galaxy On Blu-ray

| December 7, 2022 | By: Matt Wright 12 comments so far

The fourth season of Star Trek: Discovery arrived on home video this week in the USA.

Star Trek: Discovery – Season 4

With season 3 being a “ great leap forward ” and a fairly successful soft reboot for the show, there was a lot of hope for season 4 of Discovery with a fresh start in the 32nd century and an intriguing new mystery that pointed to (finally!) doing some discovering (pun intended) of something we’d never seen, with some proper, strange, extragalactic aliens.

When a totally bizarre phenomenon suddenly appears and swallows up an entire solar system, it becomes clear there’s a grave threat to the galaxy and a mystery that confounds even 32nd-century scientists. Stamets gives this new highly destructive gravitational anomaly the name “Dark Matter Anomaly,” shortening it to “the DMA.”  The Discovery writing team did a nice job with a kind of homage to TOS’s “The Doomsday Machine,” which also featured a planet-killer, but Discovery ‘s DMA’s went far beyond one episode and became the center of an extended arc which allowed the series to lean into some science, a key them of the franchise. Instead of focusing solely on its destruction, our crew took time—a whole season—to figure out what the DMA was, where it came from, and maybe even how to stop it—or at least come up with a plan on how to go outside our galaxy to find the highly-advanced beings responsible for the DMA and ask them to stop it.

With all this going on, Discovery still had to service a number of characters and plot points set up previously (including Zora’s continued evolution, Gray needing a physical body, Tilly’s career path, and the mission to bring worlds back into the Federation while also dealing with the fallout of the Emerald Chain, phew!), which dragged the pace at times. But scientist Ruon Tarka (Shawn Doyle) added some needed off-kilter energy to the cast and his relationship with Book was a great story thread, one that helped to set up Book and Burnham being at odds with one another. Also joining the cast this season was UFP president Rillak (Chelah Horsdal), a new boss of sorts for Captain Burnham and Admiral Vance; as a civilian president, her character brought in a focus on the politics surrounding the galactic threat, making Burnham’s job even more difficult.

The Blu-ray set

The 13 episodes and special features are spread out across four Blu-ray discs. As we’ve come to expect for a Paramount/CBS home video release, each disc has the names of the episodes it contains printed on them, as well as a full listing for the set on the inside back of the case. There’s a special Steelbook edition of the Blu-ray set too. For those who want it, the season is also available on plain old DVD as well.

Video Quality

Discovery season 4 follows the slick, modern style that it initially helped to define for the CBS/Paramount+ Trek universe. Season 4 follows season 3’s lead with dynamic (but thankfully less nauseating) camera moves. Having the higher bitrate available on disc means the image quality in the many atmospheric scenes is a bit better than streaming.

Audio Quality

The episodes have losslessly compressed DTS-HD MA 5.1 channel soundtracks. Discovery sounds great and has consistently sounded cinematic since season 2; as noted in my other reviews, the producers and Emmy-nominated sound mixers are at the top of their game with these latest seasons.

Special Features

Documentary features.

Star Trek: Discovery – The Voyage Of Season 4 (52 mins) – As they’ve done with the past seasons, this feature documents the making of the season. Writers, producers, directors, and cast are interviewed about the making of the 13 episodes.

Being Michael Burnham: The Captain’s Log (14 mins) – Another in the continued series of features season to season, in this log Sonequa Martin-Green takes fans through her personal journey as the newly promoted Captain Michael Burnham. She shares her thoughts through cell phone videos, on-set interviews, and clips. If people didn’t already know, Sonequa had her second child not long before season 4 started filming, and she was back up on wire work and running through hallways… that’s dedication!

Creating Space (20 mins) – Supervising Art Director Matt Middleton shows off the AR wall, which is made up of thousands of LEDs, used to create expansive virtual sets, a huge boon during COVID.

The Toll It Took (12 mins) – The cast and crew discuss the impact of COVID as they created and filmed season 4. We see people testing daily and they discuss how the “pod system” works to prevent a spread in case of a positive test. The actors from the USA had to come early, quarantine for 14 days, and then stay full-time in Toronto during the long shoot, instead of flying back and forth to Los Angeles and New York City in the downtimes.

Commentary: Episode 413 – Coming Home  – Episode writer and co-showrunner Michelle Paradise, producing director Olatunde Osunsanmi, and cast members Sonequa Martin-Green and David Ajala contribute to the single commentary on the set.

Deleted Scenes

For many people, these are likely behind the desire to get a TV show on disc. There are three episodes that have deleted or extended scenes, found on the disc with the corresponding episode.

“Choose to Live”

• A complete scene of Trill Guardian Xi initiating the transfer standing over Adira and Gray’s golem body, it’s very Star Trek III inspired.
• Culber walks in excited about Gray’s successful transfer to find Stamets distracted and distraught about his lack of progress figuring out the DMA.

“The Examples”

• Stamets in the lab with Saru, and he apologizes for not listening to Saru earlier when he told him to stop his experiments with Tarka and the scale reproduction of the DMA.

“Rosetta”

• As the landing party preps, we see Detmer getting her ocular implant calibrated by Dr. Pollard before going on the mission.

Gag Reel (3 mins) – Found on the fourth disc. These “blooper reels” tend to be a nice look into the reality of making a TV show. The feature opens with Doug Jones, always a delight, flubbing his lines, and it keeps going from there, including a little bit of Tig Notaro’s dry whit. We also get prop mishaps, and a few other fun unplanned moments.

Final thoughts

For fans who weren’t sure what to make of Discovery, especially as it’s morphed itself each season, I think season 4 is worth a second look. As with all seasons, the highly-serialized show benefits from binge-watching. Also, season 4 had some really spotty availability for international viewers, so getting it on physical media might be one of the first opportunities for some fans to see it. As usual, we also recommend it for completists or anyone who wants an offline copy of the show; this includes those who cannot or do not want to stream the show and folks who have concerns about the fleeting rights to streaming media.

Discovery season 4 is yet another recent Trek season produced in HDR, adding insult to injury, this latest season was also confirmed to be shot in 4K ( Strange New Worlds S1 and Discovery S4 were the first seasons produced using newer 4K+ resolution ARRI Alexa cameras) and it is available to stream in HDR and 4K on Paramount+, I would be remiss in not expressing a bit of disappointment with the lack of a UHD Blu-ray release to let the detailed sets, costumes, and cinematography really shine. This is primarily due to market factors—the UltraHD Blu-ray format is rather niche, in the already shrinking physical media home video market.

Available now in the USA

Trailer & special features video clips.

Coming soon to other countries

The home video release will be available soon in these countries:

• United Kingdom – December 5, 2022
• France – December 7, 2022
• Japan – December 7, 2022
• Australia – December 7, 2022
• Germany – December 8, 2022
• Italy – December 15, 2022
• Spain – December 15, 2022
• Nordics – January 9, 2023

Keep up with all the  home video and streaming news, reviews, and analysis at TrekMovie.com.

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Interesting. I keep comparing the season to “The Devil in the Dark,” due to a truly alien species that is killing people, but with whom we eventually compromise and find a mutually beneficial solution.

Also a good comparison!

Does anyone know if Discovery is shot natively in 4K? I’m also wondering about the other modern shows (Prodigy lower decks Picard Strange New Worlds )

The review mentions blu rays look a little bit “better” than streaming which leads me to believe it may be only shown in 1080p in streaming but I’m not sure.

I get all the new Trek shows in Canada on Crave and I’m still trying to figure out if I’m getting them delivered in 4K or just 1080p.

I want to say that Strange New Worlds was the only season that streamed in 4K, and Discovery and Picard both streamed in 1080p with HDR.

Edit: Re-read the article, it said Disco S4 did stream in 4K. I replaced my Roku stick last year with a newer model, so it could be I using a Roku model that Paramount+ didn’t support for 4k when watching that season.

I try really hard, but I just can’t get into this series. Last season I even forgot it was on for a few weeks.

First two seasons were great! Third season weak. Fourth season was unwatchable. Just bad.

This show is still so amazingly bad.

I continue to watch, and continue to be so disappointed by Discovery

Unfortunately same. There is always some really strong episodes every season IMO but overall I always feel let down by the end. And it’s the first Trek show I haven’t fell in love with by its fourth season. Most are usually by the third.

Ooby dooby, now this is what I call a magic carpet ride.

Note: Season 3 was not “fairly successful” because it was about SPOILER a child’s tantrum destroying all dilithium in the galaxy yet was not intended as a comedic farce.

I won’t buy any of the new Star Trek shows until they are released on 4k Blu-ray. Many other modern shows are released this way already (Halo, GoT, Westworld, etc)

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Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Joins Discovery: Season 4 In Streaming 4k/HDR

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds streams in 4k Ultra HD, Dolby Vision HDR, and Dolby 5.1 audio on Paramount+.  

Star Trek: Discovery was a bit of an oddity ever since premiering in 2017 in that the flagship Paramount+ series offered Dolby Vision but only in HD (1080p) resolution.

At first, we scratched our heads wondering how could the video offer HDR without 4k? But we soon learned HDR isn’t resolution-specific, and that many devices (such as tablets and phones) would display content in HDR if supported, even if not true 4k (2160 x 3840) lines of resolution.

The same goes for the Paramount+ series Star Trek: Picard and other series and movies found on streaming services such as Netflix and Prime. It’s certainly not a common occurrence though. Most streamed HDR content goes hand-in-hand with 4k resolution, and most 4k Blu-ray Discs include HDR. Blu-ray, on the other hand, does not support HDR.

Fast-forward to the fourth season of Star Trek: Discovery (which premiered in Dec. 2021 and was completed in mid-March) and last week’s premiere of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds . Both are now streaming in 4k Ultra HD with Dolby Vision HDR. The improvement is noticeable, although the color depth and video resolution were already excellent in the Paramount+ Star Trek-based series.

How do you get 4k and Dolby Vision on Paramount+? The service doesn’t charge more for Ultra HD, so you just need a subscription and device that supports either 4k, HDR, or both. The HDR type (the most popular are Dolby Vision, HDR10, and HLG) should convert to whatever your screen supports. Many TVs will let you know when an HDR signal is received and streaming. If your TV doesn’t show HDR, you might try the Display or Info buttons on your TV to get information on the video stream.

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Star Trek: Discovery Ending: Where Does Burnham Take the Ship at the End?

By Jason Faulkner

At the end of the final episode of Star Trek: Discovery , there’s a time jump, and we find that now-Admiral Burham is taking the USS Discovery on a final mission . Many viewers are likely wondering why the ship has been returned to its original configuration, who or what “Craft” is, and what the point of abandoning it could be. However, we already got the answer to this question all the way back in 2018.

Where does Burnham take the USS Discovery at the end of the series?

In the last episode of Star Trek: Discovery, Burnham takes the ship to an unknown location and leaves it there. The purpose behind this is so that one day a man named Craft will discover it and be saved by the supplies onboard.

We can see the story of what happens to the USS Discovery a thousand years later in the Short Trek episode “Calypso.” In it, Craft is adrift in an escape pod when he finds the Discovery. Zora, the ship’s AI, brings him aboard and tends to his needs before eventually falling in love with him. However, Craft desires to return to his family, and Zora outfits him with the ship’s remaining shuttlecraft. After he leaves, the Discovery remains in position, waiting for the Federation to eventually recover it.

Why does the Discovery get refit?

Before it leaves on its final voyage, the USS Discovery is refitted to its original configuration. We’re not given an in-universe explanation for why this happens. Quizzically, neither Burnham nor Zora comment on the process during their conversation at the end of the episode.

However, we know the out-of-universe explanation for Discovery reverting to its prior form. “Calypso” premiered shortly before the second season of the show. At this point, the jump to the future wasn’t planned. So, the ship remained in its 23rd-century form despite the episode taking place thousands of years in the future. So, to maintain continuity, the Discovery had to be returned to its original design in the final episode.

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Review: Star Trek: Discovery Season 5 Episode 10 “Life, Itself”

Star Trek: Discovery delivers an excellent series finale that surpassed our high expectations, as this show ends its five-season journey with one of the most Star Trek messages possible.

Captain Michael Burnham ( Sonequa Martin-Green ) is trapped in the Progenitors’ portal, and it’s a locale that makes thorough use of this show’s famous AR wall. It’s a beautiful location, one that inspires mystery and familiarity, as Burnham views relatable environs throughout the galaxy, presumably created by the Progenitors. After falling into and then struggling to find her way out of a cyclonic environment, she encounters Moll ( Eve Harlow ), who is still hell-bent on finding a way to resurrect her lover, L’ak ( Elias Toufexis ).

After reaffirming she won’t let the Breen or the rogue Moll have the tech before the Federation can safely study it, Burnham finds herself engaged with the desperate ex-courier. This extended imaginative, gravity-defying fight scene ends with the pair calling a truce to find the Progenitors’ tech together. Moreover, Burnham gives Moll her personal assurance that she is looking out for Moll’s interests.

On their path to the bright light they assume indicates the Progenitors’ tech, Burnham notes a major difference between the environment within the portal and the rules of physics enjoyed by those outside the portal. There are pockets of “negative space” in the portal, places that shouldn’t exist. Upon interacting with one of these spaces, Burnham opens the true path to the tech – a jaunt through a field of waist-high flowers amid a pastoral, sunset-kissed area.

The pair run across a rock monument that Burnham deduces was made by the tech’s 24 th -century scientists for their fallen comrade, as referenced in “ Jinaal .” Not surprisingly, as they are right on the cusp of interfacing with the tech, Moll cold-clocks Burnham and tries to take the tech for herself, which leads to her entrapment as the space outside the Progenitors’ portal starts to get all wonky, much to the detriment of Discovery and its crew.

What are Discovery ’s crew up to while Burnham is on the doorstep of the Progenitors’ tech? The Breen dreadnaught that got its shuttle bay absolutely wrecked in the previous episode is more or less out of action, but our protagonists still have issues. Tahal ( Patricia Summersett ) is on her way, and the temporarily disabled dreadnaught near Discovery is harassing our heroes with fighters.

This situation just adds pressure to Commander Rayner’s ( Callum Keith Rennie ) rescue of his captain and the Progenitor tech. To rid themselves of those pesky fighters, Rayner and his bridge crew resurrect the Riker Maneuver from Star Trek: Insurrection (whether they realize it or not) and destroy their pursuers by igniting a plasma field near the black holes. Meanwhile, Cleveland Booker ( David Ajala ) and Doctor Hugh Culber ( Wilson Cruz ) take a shuttle to keep the portal from falling into the black hole.

“Ever since Jinaal, I’ve been trying to figure out what it means, this change inside of me or whatever it is. I’m not sure if this will give me the answers, but it might. And at the very least, I can help him. I know I can.” – Culber to Paul Stamets ( Anthony Rapp ), as the doctor goes with Book into the dangerous space surrounding the Progenitors’ portal.

Why is the good doctor on such a dangerous away mission? Before Booker embarks to save Burnham, Culber insists on coming with him, as he instinctively feels he needs to do this. Surprisingly, Culber remembers the precise tractor beam frequency required to grab the Progenitors’ portal, something he has no reason to know; after all, he doesn’t keep any of Jinaal’s memories. Remember, the scientists who studied the Progenitors’ tech, including Jinaal, did indeed make it as far as Discovery ’s crew has, and would thus know how to access the Progenitors’ portal. Why did that particular memory unlock itself when Book needed it? Culber is puzzled by this fortuitous event.

The end of Culber’s metaphysical journey this season is in the shuttle’s cockpit with Book, as the pair hold onto the portal while Burnham is within. Culber never gets an answer to the spiritual journey he experienced this season, but you know what? He’s okay with that. Whereas he thought he might be on the path to answers of life and death, he is content with the mystery of not knowing the answers to such powerful questions. Not knowing, after all, is part of the human condition.

With the Breen dreadnaught coming back online and posing a serious threat to his rescue mission, Rayner needs to eliminate the ship from the playing field. Tasking Paul Stamets to work miracles, the engineer and Adira Tal ( Blu del Barrio ) devise a way to use Discovery ’s Spore Drive to jump the dreadnaught to a different part of the galaxy: the Galactic Barrier. After all, the decades-long trip home for the Breen is more time than the Breen ever gave Rayner’s family during their occupation of his homeworld.

Let’s talk about this plan for a second. Using Discovery ’s trademark Spore Drive technology – which the Pathway Drive recently made outdated, much to Paul’s chagrin – in a way we’ve never seen before is a smart and cool trick for the series finale, and we think Rayner found a clever, harmless way to avenge his family and world while still serving his mission. Seeing Discovery separate its saucer to encase the dreadnaught with a Spore Drive field is such a remarkable sight, and it comes as Burnham is coming face-to-face with a Progenitor.

What to do with Ultimate Power?

Remember when we said Moll and Burnham were on the cusp of discovery? We were referring to them being faced with a puzzle. A grouping of nine triangles sits on a table at the center of the Progenitors’ space, and it’s here Burnham figures the hint she received from the mindscape – “Build the shape of the one between the many” – comes into play. As we alluded to earlier, Moll gets a try at the puzzle first, but ends up injuring herself and almost wrecking the space in and around the portal. When its Burnham’s time to try the puzzle, she correctly uses the lessons she learned along the clue path and places the triangles in the proper order – in a way that forms a larger triangle using negative space between the other triangles – which thus unlocks the key to the whole shebang.

Burnham comes face to face with a Progenitor ( Somkele Iyamah ), or at least the semblance of one; after all, Progenitors died out billions of years ago. The Progenitor asserts she is now responsible for showing Burnham how to use the Progenitors’ technology, and that the rate of its life-creating nature can be adjusted for speed and scale. Moreover, the Progenitor surprises Burnham with a weighty reveal: The Progenitors aren’t actually the ones who created life in the galaxy; they found it there and augmented it after arriving. Who are the Progenitors’ predecessors, the ones who the Progenitors assume created them? Who created the creators, and exactly how far back such a creation cycle goes, is a question that may never be answered, but one that’s mighty fascinating to ponder.

“I’m far from perfect. I’m afraid, lost sometimes.” “Every sentient being, myself included, is all of those things. Yet some strive to be the best of themselves. I see that in you.” – Burnham and the Progenitor.

The Progenitor recalls how the only other visitor to the Progenitors’ space, the Betazoid Dr. Derex, asserted the next visitor needed to be better prepared to handle the tech’s enormous responsibility. Having passed all those trials laid by the tech’s scientists, the Progenitor gives Burnham the powerful choice of choosing what should be done with such power.

The climax of Burnham and the Progenitor’s conversation is framed against the actions being taken by Burnham’s friends in pursuit of their shared goal. It’s a powerful, inspiring scene that is interposed with the actions others are taking – including Discovery spore-jumping the Breen ship – in pursuit of the ultimate treasure and Burnham’s rescue. Major kudos to director and Discovery production veteran Olatunde Osunsanmi for crafting such powerful storytelling.

To help Burnham decide what to do with the tech, the Progenitor also asks Burnham what’s most important to her. As the one who proved herself time and again as someone responsible and altruistic, the choice is hers. The Progenitor offers what was important to her and her people. In their time, they were the only sentients in the galaxy, and they wanted to populate the Milky Way with an endless array of diverse beings. Burnham can’t answer the question of what is most meaningful to her immediately – who could, really, without weighing a ton of factors and deep introspection? – so the Progenitor leaves Burnham with the tech and one final gift.

Burnham’s mind conjures a montage of all the things that had to happen to get her to this point in time. The propagation of life on Earth, evolution, discovery, humans reaching for the stars – it’s all there. Returned to the injured Moll with the bad news that she can’t revive L’ak with the Progenitors’ tech, Burnham and Moll are rescued from the Progenitors’ portal by Book and Culber. Thanks to Discovery’s ability to spore-jump the Breen dreadnaught away from the battle zone, and with Saru’s ( Doug Jones ) ability to force Tahal’s fleet to turn around, the day is saved.

Action Saru

Yep, Saru ended up playing a pivotal role in helping his former shipmates. Remember how in the last episode he was tasked with taking a shuttle to intercept Tahal’s fleet and get them to stand down? He embarks on that mission with Nhan ( Rachael Ancheril ), who we’re thankful makes one final appearance in this show besides her wasted role in “ In the Shadow of War .” Nhan volunteers to assist Saru on this possible suicide mission, and they both agree the effort is worth it to save their found family on Discovery .

“Ambassador Saru, are you insane?” “Not to the best of my knowledge.” – Tahal and Saru, as Saru attempts to stop Tahal’s fleet in an unarmed shuttle.

Catching up to Tahal’s fleet as they barrel toward the black holes, Saru gets one of his best moments in recent seasons. First, the Kelpien hails Tahal to try a typical diplomatic overture, including offering her some trade concessions if she were to stand down. But when that approach predictably doesn’t work, Action Saru comes out in full force – but not by him shooting his ganglia. No, he’s more calculating than that.

Saru confidently asserts himself and confronts Tahal, without any hint of deceit in his expression. The Kelpien uses his diplomatic connections made during his absence from the show, and keen observation of Tahal’s behavior and motivations to all but force her to turn her fleet around, lest she encounters trouble from Starfleet’s allies and other Breen. This scene is a masterclass from Doug Jones, who constantly nails how to act while wearing a mountain of prosthetics and makeup. Expect this scene to show up in any future compilation video for Top Badass Star Trek Character Moments.

We Are Enough

“I saw the last four billion years… I realized we already have infinite diversity in infinite combinations. There’s no need for this technology anymore.” – Burnham.

With the day saved, it’s time for Burnham to decide what to do with the Progenitors’ tech. Her answer offers the perfect Star Trek- ian message. She orders Discovery to shoot the tech into the event horizon of the nearby black hole, free from discovery of any Milky Way species. Her rationale is beautiful: the people of the 32 nd century already have such a diverse and wonderful array of relationships – “infinite diversity in infinite combinations,” as she says, borrowing a phrase from her Vulcan upbringing – that this renders the Progenitors’ tech unneeded in such an idyllic galaxy. Think about this: Burnham asserts the ultimate power in the galaxy already exists in our shared diversity. How much more Star Trek can you get? We loved this resolution to the season-long question of what Discovery should do with the Progenitors’ technology. It really is quite inspiring.

Stamets, who has been viewing the potential study and utilization of the Progenitors’ technology as a lasting part of his legacy in the wake of his spore drive being rendered obsolete, isn’t so thrilled by this plan. However, he ultimately accepts Burnham’s well-intentioned logic and concedes casting the technology into the black hole is the right thing to do. Offering some words of support to her faux-foster father, Adira reassures Stamets that the crew learned a lot in their pursuit of the Progenitors’ tech, and that gaining knowledge is a good enough outcome. We agree with Stamets when he calls the young Adira “wise” for such a mature observation. What are humans if not their quest for lifelong learning?

“I’ve lived many years, captain, and many lives. I’ve met few who have impressed me but also aggravated me as much as you.” – Kovich to Burnham.

There’s one more surprise in store before the episode proper ends with Saru and T’Rina’s scenic marriage and Book and Burnham heartfully reigniting their relationship before venturing off on another mission. ­ Discovery returns to Federation HQ after the ordeal at the black holes, and Burnham pays one last visit to Doctor Kovich ( David Cronenberg ), who recently requested Moll be transferred to his care for unknown reasons. Burnham’s Red Directive mission is over, and all records about the Progenitors’ tech will be erased.

It’s a sensible outcome for Burnham, who, let’s remember, had her 23 rd -century activities erased from official records, but it’s clear she harbors questions about who or what Kovich really is. Every time Kovich was on screen since his introduction in season three, there’s been more to him than meets the eye. Luckily, Discovery wouldn’t let the show end without revealing a big surprise to Enterprise fans.

You might see where this is going if you watched Scott Bakula’s four-season early-2000s Star Trek show. Burnham gets Kovich to finally formally introduce himself to her: Agent Daniels of the USS Enterprise and “other places.” Kovich is a codename for the time-traveling agent seen in a handful of Enterprise episodes, and his extra-temporal nature explains why he not only has access to legitimate pen and paper, as seen earlier in the season, but a collection of memorabilia from across the timeline. On his office shelves, we see artifacts such as what’s presumably Geordi LaForge’s VISOR, Ben Sisko’s baseball, and a bottle of Chateau Picard. It’s Easter egg city for Star Trek fans in this scene, and it’s a relief knowing this show had a cool plan for Kovich all along.

Such would be a great place to leave this season if we were expecting its return next year, but of course, this show’s cast and crew had to return for additional shooting after news of Discovery ’s cancellation broke more than a year ago. For the last 15 minutes of “Life, Itself” director Jonathan Frakes closes out the story of our inspirational protagonist. In a sequence set decades after the events of the Progenitor search, Burnham, who seems to have retired on Sanctuary Four with Book, has one final mission: escorting her son, played by Sawandi Wilson , to Federation HQ for him to assume his own captaincy.

“A long time ago, someone asked me what was most meaningful to me… At the end of the day, every member of your crew has to find their own sense of meaning.” “So, do you know how you answer that question now?” “Yeah… just being here. You know. Sometimes life itself is meaning enough.” – Admiral Burnham to her son.

Burnham and her son share a heartfelt conversation about the importance of captaincy and the even greater importance of finding meaning in one’s life. It’s a tender discussion, and neatly puts a bow on one of this series’ most prominent themes: finding family. Burnham asserts her time aboard Discovery and making the close connections she did was one of the most impactful aspects of her life.

Besides the prideful mission of bringing her son to his first command, Starfleet has one more mission for Admiral Burnham. She is to lead Discovery and its resident artificial intelligence, Zora ( Annabelle Wallis ), to coordinates quite a ways from home. Zora’s Red Directive mission? Await a “craft” – but Burnham doesn’t know if that refers to a ship or a person. We know, however, that Craft is a person, someone who is destined to visit Discovery in the far future as Zora lives a solidary existence as the sole resident of the ancient Starfleet ship. Finally, we get a direct link to the 2018 (yes, six years ago!) Short Trek episode “ Calypso .”

Before sending Zora on her way, Burnham lives in the past a bit as she sits in her captain’s chair one last time. The aged Burnham disappears briefly, replaced by her younger 32 nd -century self, as the admiral remembers her found family from Discovery . Thanks to Burnham’s vivid imagination, we see the entire cast on the bridge one last time. Luckily, both Keyla Detmer ( Emily Coutts ) and Joann Owosekun ( Oyin Oladejo ) make one final appearance, after basically being absent this season.

As far as nostalgic family gatherings go, this one, scored by a heartbreaking soundtrack that really pulls at your heartstrings, is a great one. The scene is imminently appropriate considering Burnham just told her son the most important thing to her was family, and we’re saying goodbye to this cast we’ve grown to love over the last seven years.

Discovery , getting its “last dance,” as Burnham wistfully says to herself,gets the Babylon 5 -esque farewell treatment as the ship, newly de-graded to appear as it did before its jump to the future, is saluted by rows and rows of Starfleet vessels as Burnham and Zora lead the ship into its lonely future. Fin .

Of course, we think this show deserves more than just the relatively quick, albeit well-executed epilogue delivered due to the show’s surprise cancellation. Extended farewells to certain cast members would have been welcomed, but perhaps we haven’t seen the end of this crew’s adventures in the 32 nd century. Who knows if books, comics, or other media can pick up stories left untold. The possibilities for continued storytelling using Discovery ’s powerful ethos and 32 nd century worldbuilding are endless, and it’d be a shame if the final minutes of “Life, Itself,” as good as they are, were indeed the end of the line for these characters.

Sticking the Landing

“Life, Itself” serves as a fantastic finale for the season-long Progenitor mystery, tying together the scientists’ clue trail and associated tests of character with masterful storytelling and emotional depth. Burnham’s decision to cast the Progenitors’ tech into the black hole is a remarkable reflection of how strongly and powerfully Discovery upholds Star Trek ‘s timeless ideals of galactic cooperation and the power of diversity. By choosing to trust in the strength of “infinite diversity in infinite combinations,” Burnham embodies the essence of Roddenberry’s vision, reminding us that true power lies in the unity and diversity of life across the galaxy. If only this lesson was followed in the present day.

Burnham’s resolution, combined with stunning visual spectacles throughout the episode, Culber’s acceptance of the mystery of life, the reveal of Kovich as Daniels, the touching glimpses of Burnham’s future, and a heartfelt sendoff for her crew, solidifies “Life, Itself” as one of Discovery ’s best entries. This show has delivered a series finale that not only meets but exceeds expectations.

Stray Thoughts:

• Here’s a neat statistic from the fine folks over at TrekRanks : “Life, Itself” makes Discovery the longest-running Star Trek series ever. This show, from premiere date to today, is 11 days longer than the time between TNG ‘s airdates for “Encounter at Farpoint” and “All Good Things.”
• Why was Moll fighting Breen while in the portal? The Breen who were sucked in before her should have been deferential to their new commander, no?
• Burnham really should have warned Moll she was going to programmable-matter a dermal regenerator into her hand, as Moll could and should have easily taken the surprise tool in Burnham’s hand as a weapon.
• We see almost 20 Breen fighters pursuing Discovery . Why can’t such a large taskforce disable one ship?
• Culber gets to utter a version of the increasingly rare classic Trek line by saying, “I know I’m a doctor, not a physicist, but…,” and we’ll be damned if that didn’t put a smile on our face.
• Pay attention to Jörg Hillebrand on X , who will undoubtedly turn his eagle-eye toward identifying all the mementos in Kovich’s office.
• After voicing her opinion earlier in the season that Starfleet Academy was missing a key element, Tilly realizes in this episode that a one-on-one mentorship program is what the Academy needs. So, expect to see such a program play a role in the upcoming Starfleet Academy show.
• Book notes to Burnham that he planted the World Root, which was given to him by the Eternal Gallery and Archive in “ Labyrinths ,” on Sanctuary Four, the planet seen in “ That Hope is You, Part 1 .” In the epilogue for “Life, Itself,” we see a strong, mighty tree near Burnham and Book’s house that is likely the spawn of the World Root.
• Burnham seems to have named the pretty sci-fi deer on Sanctuary Four “Alice,” perhaps a reflection of how Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland played a role in Burnham’s upbringing.
• Did you notice how there’s a Starfleet insignia in Burnham’s backyard, which serves as an indicator of sorts of where the shuttle should pick up the admiral? Remember in the series pilot how Burnham and Georgiou traced a Starfleet insignia in the sand to indicate to Shenzhou where to pick them up. The symmetry is just *chef’s kiss*.

The complete Star Trek: Discovery series is now available to stream on Paramount+ . Season 5 stars Sonequa Martin-Green (Captain Michael Burnham), Doug Jones (Saru), Anthony Rapp (Paul Stamets), Mary Wiseman (Sylvia Tilly), Wilson Cruz (Dr. Hugh Culber), David Ajala (Cleveland “Book” Booker), Blu del Barrio (Adira) and Callum Keith Rennie (Rayner). Season five also features recurring guest stars Elias Toufexis (L’ak) and Eve Harlow (Moll).

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Kyle Hadyniak has been a lifelong Star Trek fan, and isn't ashamed to admit that Star Trek V: The Final Frontier and Star Trek: Nemesis are his favorite Star Trek movies. You can follow Kyle on Twitter @khady93 .

May 31, 2024 at 1:58 pm

Great ending of Discovery!!! Hopefully a movie will come soon!

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Season 1: Welcome to Star Trek: Discovery Season One, an odyssey that unfolds a decade before the era of Star Trek: The Original Series . Sonequa Martin-Green stars as Michael Burnham formerly one of Starfleet’s most respected first officers – and now its first mutineer. A human raised as a Vulcan, Burnham learned early that all life is born from chaos. Her defiance of a direct order resulted in an all-out war with the Klingon Empire and she was sentenced to life in prison – until Captain Gabriel Lorca (Jason Isaacs) recruits her aboard the U.S.S. Discovery . Joining her on this dramatic, epic journey are First Officer Saru (Doug Jones), Chief of Security Ash Tyler (Shazad Latif), Chief Engineer Paul Stamets (Anthony Rapp) and Cadet Sylvia Tilly (Mary Wiseman). Together, their powers of logic, science and compassion will meld on their quest for victory, survival and ultimately, peace in the universe. Season 2: After answering a distress signal from the U.S.S. Enterprise, the U.S.S. Discovery welcomes aboard Captain Christopher Pike (Anson Mount) and begins a new mission to investigate the meaning behind seven mysterious red signals. Michael Burnham (Sonequa Martin-Green) grapples with her past growing up on Vulcan with her foster parents and brother Spock (Ethan Peck). Season 3: After following Commander Michael Burnham into a wormhole, the U.S.S. Discovery lands in an unrecognizable world 1,000 years in the future. With Starfleet and the Federation on the brink of collapse due to a catastrophic event known as The Burn, the Discovery crew, with the help of new and mysterious allies Book (David Ajala) and Adira (Blu del Barrio), must uncover what caused The Burn and restore hope to the galaxy. Extras: OVER 8 HOURS OF SPECIAL FEATURES Season 1: 10 BEHIND THE SCENES FEATURETTES DELETED AND EXTENDED SCENES PROMOS Season 2: 9 BEHIND-THE-SCENES FEATURETTES 2 STAR TREK: SHORT TREKS - THE BRIGHTEST STAR and RUNAWAY AUDIO COMMENTARY ON SELECT EPISODES DELETED/EXTENDED SCENES GAG REEL Season 3: Deleted Scenes Writer’s Log: Michelle Paradise Star Trek: Discovery: The Voyage of Season 3 Stunted Being Michael Burnham Kenneth Mitchell: To Boldly Go Bridge Building Gag Reel

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