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Season 3 (2020)

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Sonequa Martin-Green

Michael Burnham (13 Episodes)

Saru (13 Episodes)

Mary Wiseman

Sylvia Tilly (13 Episodes)

Anthony Rapp

Paul Stamets (13 Episodes)

Wilson Cruz

Dr. Hugh Culber (13 Episodes)

David Ajala

Cleveland 'Book' Booker (13 Episodes)

Ronnie Rowe

Lt./Lt. Cmdr. R.A. Bryce (12 Episodes)

Oyin Oladejo

Joann Owosekun (12 Episodes)

Patrick Kwok-Choon

Rhys (12 Episodes)

Sara Mitich

Lt. Nilsson (10 Episodes)

Fleet Admiral Charles Vance (9 Episodes)

Michelle Yeoh

Emperor Philippa Georgiou (8 Episodes)

Julianne Grossman

Discovery Computer (voice) (5 Episodes) , Sanctuary Voice (voice) (1 Episode)

Cmdr. Jett Reno (5 Episodes)

Avaah Blackwell

Osnullus Trader (uncredited) (1 Episode) , Lt. Ina (3 Episodes) , Captain Rahma (1 Episode)

Raven Dauda

Dr. Pollard (5 Episodes)

Fabio Tassone

Book's Ship Computer (voice) (5 Episodes)

Janet Kidder

Osyraa (4 Episodes)

Vanessa Jackson

Lt. Audrey Willa (4 Episodes)

Ian Alexander

Gray Tal (4 Episodes)

David Benjamin Tomlinson

Young Su'Kal (1 Episode) , Cosmo Traitt (1 Episode) , Kelpien Servant (1 Episode)

Noah Averbach-Katz

Ryn (3 Episodes)

Adil Hussain

Aditya Sahil (3 Episodes)

Zareh (3 Episodes)

David Cronenberg

Dr. Kovich (3 Episodes)

Annabelle Wallis

Zora (voice) (3 Episodes)

Riley Gilchrist

Andorian Regulator (2 Episodes)

Nicole Dickinson

Hadley (1 Episode) , Strong Regulator (1 Episode)

Tolor (2 Episodes)

Hannah Cheesman

Lt. Cmdr. Airiam (2 Episodes)

Paul Guilfoyle

Carl (2 Episodes)

Rekha Sharma

Commander Landry (2 Episodes)

Brendan Beiser

Eli the E.M.H. (2 Episodes)

Jinny Jacinto

The Monster (2 Episodes)

Lt. Teemo (2 Episodes)

Karen Robinson

Trill Leader Pav (2 Episodes)

Hannah Spear

Dr. Issa (2 Episodes)

Roy Samuelson

Emerald Chain Computer (voice) (2 Episodes)

Su'Kal (2 Episodes)

Brandon McGibbon

Ithyk the Andorian (1 Episode)

Jake Michaels

Ithor the Orion (1 Episode)

Wole Daramola

Red Eyes (Heavy) (1 Episode)

Lookout (1 Episode)

Jonathan Koensgen

Kal (1 Episode)

Lindsay Owen Pierre

Os'ir the Bartender (1 Episode)

Adrian Pavone

Ensign Hazmat (1 Episode)

Christopher Heyerdahl

Wen (1 Episode)

Fodé Bangoura

Alien Merchant (1 Episode)

Shawn Campbell

Supervising Inspector (1 Episode)

Xavier Lopez

Passing Crew Member (1 Episode)

Andrew Shaver

Commissioner Vos (1 Episode)

Elana Dunkelman

Disco Engineer #1 (1 Episode)

Jake Epstein

Dr. Attis (1 Episode)

Mom (1 Episode)

Ava MacKinnon

Daughter #1 (1 Episode)

Shazdeh Kapadia

Daughter #2 (1 Episode)

R.J. Parrish

Holo Security Officer #1 (1 Episode)

Vanessa Burns

Holo Security Officer #2 (1 Episode)

Chris Zamat

Holo Officer #1 (1 Episode)

Jajube Mandiela

Holo Officer #2 (1 Episode)

Daniel Woodrow

Holo Officer #3 (1 Episode)

Shannon Lahaie

Tactical Officer (1 Episode)

Rosie Simon

Starfleet Ensign (1 Episode)

Rachael Ancheril

Cmdr. Nhan (1 Episode)

Lai (1 Episode)

Danijel Mandic

Salvage Regulator (1 Episode)

Linford Mark Robinson

Captain L'Teis (1 Episode)

Katherine Trowell

Captain Bandra (1 Episode)

Oliver Becker

N'Raj (1 Episode)

Stephanie Belding

Shira (1 Episode)

Emmanuel Kabongo

V'Kir (1 Episode)

Ross Carter

Lt. Haj (1 Episode)

Jhaleil Swaby

San (1 Episode)

Smiling Starfleet Lieutenant Holo (1 Episode)

Andrew Hinkson

Regulator (1 Episode)

Robert Verlaque

Kelpien Elder Holo (1 Episode)

Danny Waugh

Vulcan Holo (1 Episode)

Alexander Mandra

Avryz (1 Episode)

Lamont James

Regulator Guard #1 (1 Episode)

Kanak (1 Episode)

Alain Chanoine

Regulator Escort #1 (1 Episode)

Farhang Ghajar

Bridge Regulator (1 Episode)

Dr. Gabrielle Burnham (1 Episode)

Ache Hernandez

Kyheem (1 Episode)

Luca Doulgeris

Leto (1 Episode)

Andreas Apergis

Guardian Xi (1 Episode)

Daniel Kash

Lt. Duggan (1 Episode)

Series Crew 59

Ralph McQuarrie

Conceptual Design (13 Episodes)

Rob McCallum

Storyboard Artist (1 Episode)

François Daignault

Camera Operator (1 Episode)

Crescenzo G.P. Notarile

Director of Photography (2 Episodes)

Glen Keenan

Andrew Stretch

First Assistant "A" Camera (1 Episode)

Robert DaPrato

First Company Grip (1 Episode)

Franco Tata

Director of Photography (1 Episode) , Second Unit Director of Photography (2 Episodes)

Chloe Domont

Director (1 Episode)

Douglas Aarniokoski

Hanelle M. Culpepper

Jon Dudkowski

Jonathan Frakes

Director (3 Episodes)

Maja Vrvilo

Norma Bailey

Olatunde Osunsanmi

Patrick Tidy

First Assistant Director (2 Episodes)

Woody Sidarous

First Assistant Director (1 Episode)

Lisa Burling

Script Supervisor (1 Episode)

Ben Marrello

Second Assistant Director (1 Episode)

Jeff Muhsoldt

Second Assistant Director (2 Episodes)

Kevin Hourigan

Second Assistant Director (3 Episodes)

James Dalton

Third Assistant Director (1 Episode)

Kieffer Moxness

Third Assistant Director (5 Episodes)

Ross Vivian

Editor (2 Episodes)

John Wesley Whitton

Editor (1 Episode)

Scott Gamzon

Heinz Gloss

Gaffer (3 Episodes)

Erin Palmer

Lighting Technician (13 Episodes)

Aaron Harberts

Executive Producer (13 Episodes)

Akiva Goldsman

Alex Kurtzman

Bryan Fuller

Gretchen J. Berg

Heather Kadin

Rod Roddenberry

Trevor Roth

Phillip Barker

Production Designer (1 Episode)

Production Manager (1 Episode)

Brandon Schultz

Staff Writer (5 Episodes) , Writer (1 Episode)

Chris Silvestri

Story (1 Episode)

Sean Cochran

Executive Story Editor (4 Episodes) , Story (1 Episode) , Teleplay (1 Episode)

Alan B. McElroy

Story (2 Episodes) , Teleplay (1 Episode) , Writer (1 Episode)

Kalinda Vazquez

Teleplay (1 Episode)

Writer (2 Episodes)

Anne Cofell Saunders

Anthony Maranville

Bo Yeon Kim

Story (2 Episodes) , Writer (1 Episode)

Erika Lippoldt

Jenny Lumet

Kenneth Lin

Kirsten Beyer

Writer (1 Episode)

Michelle Paradise

Writer (3 Episodes)

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Published Oct 23, 2020

RECAP: Star Trek: Discovery - Far From Home

The fate of the crew is finally revealed.

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Star Trek: Discovery ’s third season premiere introduced Michael Burnham to Cleveland “Book” Booker, a regal feline named Grudge, and a post-Burn 32nd century, but the fate of the U.S.S. Discovery and its crew remained elusive as Burnham acclimated to the year 3188. Fortunately, writers Michelle Paradise, Jenny Lumet, and Alex Kurtzman team up once again with director Olatunde Osunsanmi to bring us up-to-speed (or rather, “up-to-date”) with our intrepid band in “Far From Home.”

The season’s second installment picks up soon after Control’s defeat at the Battle of Xahea, as we find an incapacitated bridge crew awakening to the dreaded sounds of a red alert and the terrifying sight of an uncontrolled descent toward an unknown world. Commander Saru regains the center seat and rallies his forces moments before Discovery plummets through a floating, myth-like maze composed of segments from the planet’s surface.

Lieutenant Keyla Detmer expertly navigates the vessel through an icy crash landing, while the show’s breathtaking, cinema-quality visual effects continue to stun this writer’s optical inputs. With tactical systems, sensors, and communications offline, the bridge officers realize they are unaware of their location in time or space, leaving us wondering just how far they might have ended up from their intended rendezvous with Burnham on Terralysium.

Jett Reno helps Saru assess the damage and informs the acting captain that repairs will be needed before Discovery can fly once again. Saru sets the crew to their tasks before conferring with Ensign Tilly, who manages to confirm that the planet is not Terralysium… but there is life. The duo’s restrained elation over the news that their conflict against Control achieved the desired results beautifully juxtaposes Burnham’s fervent reaction from “That Hope Is You, Part 1.”

Philippa Georgiou catches up with Saru and Tilly, revealing that her Terran instincts implored her to take the necessary “steps” to ensure that Leland was truly dead. Sickbay ranks as our next stop, where Doctor Hugh Culber perfectly balances his roles as Paul Stamets’s physician and partner to guide the engineer out of his medically-induced coma. Considering all they have endured, the couple’s lovely reunion is one of the episode’s many highlights. Elsewhere, Doctor Pollard clears Detmer of any concussion symptoms, yet audiences recognize that the conn officer’s dazed demeanor is a cause for concern.

Saru, Tilly, and Georgiou chat with Commander Nhan, ultimately determining that an away team must visit the nearby settlement to obtain the rubindium that is required to repair Discovery ’s systems. The lack of dilithium readings despite the presence of warp-capable ships on the planet puzzles the group, as they have yet to learn about the Burn and its tragic repercussions.

Saru assigns Tilly to accompany him on the recon mission, privately disclosing to the ensign that he believes her to be an excellent ambassador to the future. Discovery ’s disheveled state compels the crew to operate in pairs, providing quality time between several officers. Stamets and Reno revive both their witty banter and Star Trek ’s tradition of Jefferies tube adventures, while Nhan and Georgiou discuss their motivations for leaping ahead in time. Nhan surprisingly cites Airiam’s sacrifice as her inspiration. Georgiou postulates that leading Section 31 would have been her 23rd-century fate and argues that “bureaucracy is where fun goes to die.” Oh, and there is also the unsettling revelation that the ice accumulating on the vessel’s hull is actually parasitic in nature. Exciting developments, indeed!

Saru and Tilly arrive at a mining settlement with an interior that gives off a rustic, Old West saloon vibe… as long as you ignore the trip through the transporter that sends you to the establishment’s entrance. After a brief stand-off, the local Coridan named Kal (as with the last installment’s reintroduction of Betelgeusians, yet another classic alien species returns) expresses an idealistic view of the Federation and offers to help.

Kal sets to work on repairs utilizing programmable matter, the same material that made up Aditya Sahil’s fancy space bed in the previous episode. Echoing Sahil’s admiration for Starfleet, the Coridan bonds with Tilly just before the villainous Zareh beams in with the aura of an ancient gunslinger. Keen to Discovery’ s temporally-displaced origin, the oppressive courier murders Kal and speaks in a dialect known as Pidgin.

Referring to the Federation as the V’Draysh (a term first coined in the Short Trek “Calypso”), Zareh plans to send Tilly into the perilous night to attain dilithium from Discovery . However, the courier is interrupted by Georgiou, who snuck off the starship to keep tabs on the recon mission. The Terran effortlessly tears into Zareh with verbal jabs before resorting to more violent measures to dispatch his accomplices. We even get to witness Saru subdue the lead antagonist with his threat ganglia-turned-badass projectile launchers!

Georgiou and Saru grapple over the notion of executing Zareh, but the Kelpien’s ethics overcome the Terran’s vengeful spirit and impress Kal’s comrade Os’Ir. After banishing Zareh from the settlement, Os’Ir presents Saru with a personal transporters (much like the ones that fascinated Burnham on Hima) so that the visitors from the past could safely return to the Discovery .

Meanwhile, Stamets courageously battles through his injuries to replace a damaged anodyne circuit. With Reno’s treasured reassurances (I’m sorry, Paul... but that bobcat nickname just has to stick), the astromycologist restores Discovery ’s main power. The away team returns to install their recently repaired equipment and activate the majority of the vessel’s primary systems.

As the parasitic ice closes in around them, the bridge crew struggles to break the ship free from the surface. Suddenly, sensors detect a potentially hostile starship approaching. The new arrival pulls Discovery out of its grave situation with a tractor beam and hails the Starfleet crew. Unsure of what to expect, Saru orders Lieutenant Bryce to open a channel. Tension ravages the bridge, until… Michael Burnham’s face appears on the viewscreen in a glorious fashion. The cathartic transmission brings a gleam to everyone’s eyes (yes, even Georgiou), and Burnham divulges that she had landed a year prior to her friends.

“That Hope Is You, Part 1” tackled the challenge of welcoming Star Trek fans into the 32nd century, and “Far From Home” proves to be a masterful follow-up that mystifies us with advanced tech (from The Colony’s enchanting atmospheric conditions to Zareh’s agonizing weapon) and chronicles the continuing journey of Discovery ’s main cast and recurring characters. The first two entries are also tied together by the fondness that “true believers” Sahil and Kal demonstrate for the Federation, although the Coridan’s story ended on a painful note. We are only two episodes in, and Discovery ’s third season has already surpassed my expectations. Stay tuned as we continue to boldly go...

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Jay Stobie (he/him) is a freelance writer who contributes articles to the official Star Trek website and Star Trek Magazine, as well as to Star Wars Insider and the official Star Wars website. Jay also serves as a part-time assistant and consultant advising many actors and creatives who work on his favorite sci-fi shows and films. He can be found on Twitter and Instagram at @StobiesGalaxy.

Star Trek: Discovery streams on Paramount+ in the United States, airs on Bell Media’s CTV Sci-Fi Channel and streams on Crave in Canada, and on Netflix in 190 countries.

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Full Cast of Star Trek: Discovery Season 5 - Every Main Character & Actor Who Appears (Photos)

As Star Trek: Discovery ’s final season commences, the principal actors from the hit series must say goodbye to characters they have played for several years.

When Star Trek: Discovery premiered in 2017, it was met with its fair share of backlash. Trek die-hards criticized the show’s design, cast, and even the time period in which it was set.

Still, Discovery won over a good portion of fans, many of whom were just glad to have a new Star Trek series again, after the franchise’s extended absence from television. Now, the show has launched Season 5, set to be the show’s final voyage.

The Characters & Actors of Star Trek: Discovery Season 5

Sonequa martin-green - michael burnham.

Sonequa Martin-Green plays Captain Michael Burnham, the adopted sister of Star Trek icon Mr. Spock. Burnham was given command of the series’ eponymous starship, the USS Discovery, at the end of the third season, after the cast wound up in the far-flung future of the 32nd Century.

Apart from her work on Discovery , which is undeniably her most well-known role, Martin-Green has also been a part of shows like The Walking Dead and The Good Wife .

Doug Jones - Saru

Veritable chameleon Doug Jones portrays Saru, Burnham’s first officer. Saru is a Kelpian, a species with a kind of biological early warning system that acts like a sixth sense. Saru has served as a fan-favorite since the series began, with many viewers calling for him to take on Discovery’s captain‘s chair.

Doug Jones has appeared in many major projects, but he is often completely unrecognizable, buried under prosthetics and makeup. He was Abe Sapien in the Hellboy movies and the Amphibian Man in 2017’s The Shape of Water .

Anthony Rapp - Paul Stamets

Anthony Rapp plays the groundbreaking role of Commander Paul Stamets, a science officer and one of the two first openly gay Star Trek characters (The other being Stamets’ husband Dr. Hugh Culber).

Rapp has long been a fixture of stage and screen, having performed as a part of several high-profile Broadway shows, such as Rent , in which he was an original cast member. 

Mary Wiseman - Sylvia Tilly

Sylvia Tilly, brought to life by Mary Wiseman, started the series as a quirky but very driven cadet on board Discovery. Later on in the series, after the crew’s one-way trip to the future, she took a teaching position at Starfleet Academy.

Mary Wiseman is most famous for her part as Tilly but she’s also appeared in Baskets and the Western show Longmire to name a few.

Wilson Cruz - Hugh Culber

Wilson Cruz plays Dr. Hugh Culber, one of the USS Discovery’s physicians. Earlier in the series, Culber was killed by another, out-of-control officer. But eventually, the good doctor was brought back to life through the use of the mycelial network.

Cruz cut his teeth on the classic 1990s teen drama My So-Called Life , playing Rickie. He’s additionally had roles on hits like Grey’s Anatomy , Monk , and The West Wing .

Blu del Barrio - Adira Tal

Adira Tal is portrayed by Blu del Barrio. The character’s backstory involved them becoming the host for a Trill symbiont called Tal, which they inherited from their romantic partner. Currently, Adira is a Starfleet ensign, having been granted commission in Season 3.

Blu del Barrio holds the significant distinction of being Star Trek ’s first openly non-binary actor. They are also a graduate of the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art.

Callum Keith Rennie - Rayner

Callum Keith Rennie’s Rayner is a new character for Season 5 of Star Trek: Discovery . Rayner is a Kellerun, which is a species first introduced in the 1994 episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine , “Armageddon Game”.

Rennie has a lengthy resume, starring in a vast array of Canadian shows and films. He has also acted in the Battlestar Galactica reboot as well as Showtime’s Californication .

David Ajala - Cleveland “Book” Booker

David Ajala plays Book, a man introduced to the crew upon their arrival in the year 3188. As a Kwejian, Book can empathically connect with plant and animal life, including his pet cat Grudge. He also has a close personal bond with Michael Burnham.

Alaja previously had roles in Nightflyers and CW’s Supergirl , where he played the villainous Manchester Black.

Eve Harlow - Moll

Moll, played by Eve Harlow, is a pirate who is seeking an ancient technology that has ties to the classic Star Trek: The Next Generation episode “The Chase”.

Eve Harlow has acted in favorites such as NCIS: Los Angeles and The Rookie . She also played the recurring character Tess on Agents of SHIELD .

Elias Toufexis - L’ak

L’ak, a green-skinned alien of unknown descent, is played by Elias Toufexis. He serves as Moll’s literal partner in crime.

Toufexis has appeared in another popular sci-fi series The Expanse , as well as several other television series, like Shadowhunters and Criminal Minds .

Oded Fehr - Charles Vance

Oded Fehr plays Admiral Charles Vance, who was introduced to Star Trek: Discovery in Season 3. As commander in chief of Starfleet, Vance wields a considerable amount of influence within the spacefaring organization.

Fehr would be best recognized for his character of Ardeth Bay in 1999’s The Mummy and its 2001 sequel. He’s also guested on shows such as The Blacklist and How to Get Away With Murder .

Chelah Horsdal - Laira Rillak

Laira Rillak, in addition to serving as Federation president, is of multi-species descent, a hybrid of human, Cardassian, and Bajoran genetics. Typically, Starfleet and Federation top brass are portrayed as having lesser quality moral fiber, but Rillak has stood out as an exception.

Chelah Horsdal has appeared in a wide variety of movies and series including Arrow , Hell on Wheels , and Rise of the Planet of the Apes .

Tara Rosling  - T’Rina

T’Rina is a Vulcan woman who first showed up in Discovery in the seventh episode of the third season. Since then, she has become romantically linked with Saru. T’Rina is also president of Ni’Var, the planet formerly known as Vulcan.

In addition to her Star Trek role, Rosling has also cropped up in The Expanse and The Handmaid’s Tale .

David Cronenberg - Kovich

David Cronenberg portrays Dr. Kovich, a Federation agent and galactic historian. Kovich first appeared in Discovery ’s third season and has gone on to become a well-liked recurring character.

As a veteran filmmaker, David Cronenberg is credited with bringing the genre of body horror into popular culture. His newest film, The Shroud , will hit theaters this year.

Tig Notaro - Jett Reno

Comedian Tig Notaro breathes life into Jett Reno, the fast-talking, wise-cracking Discovery engineer with a heart of gold. Reno has more than cemented herself as an audience favorite.

Alongside Notaro’s standup work, she’s had parts in Community , Bob’s Burgers , Suburgatory , and many more.

Star Trek: Discovery can be streamed exclusively on Paramount+ . The next new episode premieres on Thursday, April 11.

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Star Trek: Discovery season 3, episode 2 review: "Potentially the closest thing to a Trek/Wars crossover we’ll ever see"

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Despite some extremely contrived plot points, the 32nd century continues to be a future loaded with potential.

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Warning: This Star Trek: Discovery season 3, episode 2 review contains major spoilers – many of them set to stun. Boldly go further at your own risk…

There was a time when Star Wars and Star Trek occupied very different regions of the cosmos. Star Wars was all about adventure and excitement, the magic-tinged fantasy set against the backdrop of a gritty, dirty universe. Star Trek, meanwhile, was more concerned with the science part of the science fiction equation, preoccupied with showing us the heights the human race may one day aspire to reach.

When J.J. Abrams – always a bigger fan of galaxies far, far away than final frontiers – got his hands on Gene Roddenberry’s creation, one of his most notable contributions was to Star Wars-up the Federation. In his first, brilliant Star Trek movie, flawed heroes and magnificent spectacle were the order of the day – along with a healthy disregard for the laws of physics.

Now Star Trek: Discovery – under the command of Alex Kurtzman, co-writer of the two Abrams Treks – is pursuing a similar course. In fact, with a Federation starship crashlanding on a world that feels like an Outer Rim planet from Star Wars, "Far From Home" might be the closest thing to a Trek/Wars crossover we’re ever going to see.

After the season premiere focused entirely on Michael Burnham, the follow-up reveals what’s happened to the rest of the Discovery crew since they arrived in the 32nd century. It’s something of a bumpy landing, with a huge power-out causing the ship to join the pantheon of great Star Trek crash sequences. Their destination planet also proves an intriguing introduction to their new time period, a barren world peppered with habitable regions that couldn’t be anything but artificial – technologically advanced, yet light-years from the utopian ideals that are traditionally the hallmarks of the franchise.

For their first away mission in a new time, Acting Captain Saru and Ensign Tilly – “A wonderful first impression,” according to her commanding officer – find themselves in an echo of the Mos Eisley Cantina. The miners they encounter are living on the edges of the universe, struggling to scrape by, while one of their number dares to hope that the Federation – or what remains of it – might one day come to their aid.

The biggest problem in their lives is a character straight from The Walking Dead. Zareh is like a futuristic cross between Negan and an Old West gunslinger, the clinking spurs on his boots an unsubtle nod to the character’s inspirations. Like Book in the season premiere, he’s a Courier delivering the resources people can’t “make or grow”. Unlike Book, he’s out to extort anyone he perceives to be lower in the food chain. Inevitably, getting his hands on Discovery – whose healthy supplies of dilithium make it a very valuable antique in the post-Burn future – is right at the top of his agenda.

Zareh doesn’t count on meeting an adversary as ruthless as Philippa Georgiou, however. While he’s got the measure of Saru, Tilly and the miners – his penchant for phaser-based torture is straight out of the Negan playbook – he can’t deal with an opponent who doesn’t play by the rules. Indeed, this episode suggests that the Mirror Universe version of Burnham’s former captain could be season 3’s most valuable player. Unconstrained by the niceties of the Prime Directive, that mean streak may be just what the crew needs in the lawless, post-Federation landscape of the 32nd century. She also hogs the lion’s share of the best dialogue. “A fancy vocabulary doesn’t mean you’re scary,” she tells Zareh. “It means you have a thesaurus.”

If the previous episode suffered for keeping the Disco crew out of the way, "Far From Home" makes the most of the interplay between the characters. As with all iterations of Trek, Discovery works best as an ensemble piece, and it’s great to see the team back in action, whether it’s the withering sarcasm of Engineer Jett Reno, or some tender moments between Dr Culber and his critically injured partner, Lt Cmdr Stamets. The episode also sets up a tantalising mystery surrounding the ship’s helmsman, Lt Detmer. Why has she been acting so strangely since they arrived in the future? Could her cybernetic implants be a clue? Has she been possessed by the remains of Control, as the late Lt. Cmdr Airiam was in season 2 ?

There are also some major missteps. Stamets spending most of the running time stuffed inside a Jefferies tube – even though he was in a coma hours earlier – is utterly preposterous, and feels like an excuse to crowbar an important character into a B-plot. Many of the key plotlines are resolved way too easily, whether it’s Stamets completing a miracle repair, Saru and Tilly obtaining the key component they need, or Discovery escaping from the planet’s surface.

The parasitic ice that threatens to crush the ship’s hull once night falls is a brilliant Star Trek idea, and you expect the ship’s escape to require a suitably ingenious plan of action. Michael Burnham showing up in the nick of time to rescue her shipmates – one year after she landed in the future – is as implausibly convenient as it is emotionally satisfying. Turns out deus ex machina is alive and well in the distant future.

Richard is a freelancer journalist and editor, and was once a physicist. Rich is the former editor of SFX Magazine, but has since gone freelance, writing for websites and publications including GamesRadar+, SFX, Total Film, and more. He also co-hosts the podcast, Robby the Robot's Waiting, which is focused on sci-fi and fantasy. 

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Star Trek: Discovery Recap: A Wonderful First Impression

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The Federation and Starfleet are quite fond of bragging to strangers about how they’ve eliminated money and hunger. It’s meant to be aspirational, and to us in the 21st century, it certainly is. Yet it always seems like when someone like Jean-Luc Picard or Benjamin Sisko talks about it, he’s telling people from a culture where these struggles do persist, very acutely. You can imagine how a person who lives or dies by exactly one resource might resent this implied superiority.

Which is why it’s always refreshing to see a Trek crew getting a literal crash course in scarcity, as they do this week. It’s a reminder to Starfleet optimists that inequality does very much persist; that even advanced tech can break irreparably; that simply getting rid of capitalism won’t rid us of the crippling compulsion to define ourselves by our work output; and while the shared vision of the Federation is a goal to be strived for, many simply can’t survive on ideals alone. And that now includes the crew of the Discovery.

To his credit, Saru is doing astonishingly well as a new captain in crisis. He’s nailing Picard’s consistent, stubborn principles to a T, even as their ship crashes into an unknown future planet teeming with parasitic ice, and as space pirates attempt to extort them for dilithium. His restraint is positively saintly as he wrestles Georgiou’s insubordinate, racist ass into line. And best of all, unlike many of the captains we’ve seen before, he’s entirely of the crew, able to be decisive and leaderly while also getting his own hands dirty and reminding his team that they’re in this together.

However, you have to admit that Georgiou’s deranged megalomania has suddenly become awfully handy to have around the house, insubordination and all. I do still resent how little this show has reckoned with The Georgiou Problem; she remains completely incorrigible, clearly making multiple bids for power and disobeying orders by following Saru and Tilly when they go on an away mission to fix the ship’s comms systems. And while I am living for Saru’s we-go-high dismissal of her behavior — she “lacks the self-awareness to control her behavior in such an unsettled state” — I get the feeling this is supposed to suffice for a larger exploration of how he feels about a homicidal tyrant who not only thinks he’s a lower life form but also wants to eat him being allowed to remain a member of Starfleet. (He doesn’t even let Tilly react to her insults! Let Tilly say “what the fuck”!)

That said, the fact remains that they would likely all be dead had she not been there to disobey orders. Saru’s plan to bring only Tilly along for first contact worked well at first — she does make an excellent first impression with the locals by citing Starfleet regulations and asking them to either lower their weapons or introduce themselves. It endears her to Kal, the de facto leader of these humanoid aliens I don’t believe we’ve seen before. They’re the kind of people I mentioned earlier, having been stranded on this planet in the life-supporting atmosphere bubbles they apparently terraformed by Zareh, a “courier” who stole their ship’s supply of dilithium, decapitated the legit courier who formerly delivered necessary supplies, and now has them living on crumbs in fear. He’s already killed Kal’s family, which he shares while building the new rubidium-based part for the ship’s comms system out of programmable matter. He’s understandably confused when Tilly is transfixed by his tech and skills, but then quietly asks her if it makes him Starfleet material. You’d be forgiven for falling in love with him here, as well as instantly shipping these two dorks, but alas, we’re not allowed to have too many nice things here on Star Trek: Discovery . Zareh shows up and kills him, very painfully, with a weapon that’s more agonizer than phaser, for attempting to help these strangers escape in exchange for dilithium.

Zareh is like if Sherlock Holmes was a sadistic pirate: he’s incredibly good at deducing information and using it for his own benefit. (The Ferengi would absolutely love this dude, but I digress.) He immediately clocks the Discovery crew as time travelers from the space stuff they left in their wake, and quickly concludes from the fact that Saru doesn’t understand their pidgin English that he’s a new captain and thus less dangerous. He’s not wrong, but Saru is ready to die before serving his crew to these wolves—and then they find Georgiou lurking nearby. She does that terrifying thing where she speaks conversationally to the henchman holding her at gunpoint about how his boss is going to get him killed since they’re essentially bottom-feeders and plenty of far more powerful competitors likely picked up Discovery entering the atmosphere. Like any self-respecting intelligent psychopath, Zareh responds with a Kal special, the extended edition.

Unfortunately for Zareh, no one told him Georgiou is a straight-up freak who probably used agonizers in the bedroom at some point. “What you call pain, I call foreplay,” Michelle Yeoh says, just to drive home the point as she fully bodies every single one of them in a matter of seconds. Saru actually helps here, too, thanks to his immense post-vahar’ai strength and delightfully alarming new murder quills. (“Enemy of my enemy” is beginning to be a theme here .) Ultimately Saru stops Georgiou from ripping out Zareh’s throat, citing Starfleet principles as they stand over the corpses of like five other people who at some point were probably just as desperate as these other guys. They consign his fate to Os’ir the bartender, who had been the Scully to Kal’s Mulder before finally seeing the Federation in action. Now a True Believer™, he decides Zareh should meet the fate he tried to assign Tilly: to walk out into the parasitic-ice-infested night with nothing but a small pack, a certainty that he’s going to die with ice in his lungs, and Georgiou’s promise that she really will rip out his esophagus with her bare hands if he attempts revenge.

Back at the ship, everything and everyone is falling apart. This is a thing that happens when you hurtle through a 900-plus year wormhole, then attempt to skid a Crossfield-class starship to a stop on an alien planet surface like this is Tokyo Drift . The poor Osnullus bridge officer who never got a name marks at least one who died in the crash; we know 16 more are critically wounded because Zareh pointedly doesn’t count them among the ship’s crew when he threatens them all. And there’s definitely something wrong with Detmer’s head, even though the doctor tells her she’s fine neurologically. (Would the doctor be able to tell if her implant was malfunctioning? Unclear.) You can see why Saru made it expressly clear that they needed to fix the ship before they could go out and play.

Beyond that, the rest of the crew seems pretty traumatized, struggling to focus as they fix the ship. Culber brings Stamets — who as we know was impaled by a seven-inch shard of duranium alloy in the season two finale — out of his coma to triage the other injured crew. This was probably a mistake, as Stamets immediately blows off his orders to stay in the cellular regeneration chamber and heads to engineering, where he pretends he’s not in excruciating agony and actually crawls into a jefferies tube to fix a circuit to spite Reno, whose back has been thrown out in the crash and who once again is the most actualized person onboard. (I do adore the Reno/Stamets dynamic. It’s very Bones v. Spock.) Of course, he gets reinjured in the process, forcing Culber away from sickbay to help Reno guide him through finishing the repair and back to safety. These three get not only the best dialogue this week—“Tell you what, I’ll let you go back to work if you can spell ‘my partner brought me out of a coma and all I got was this lousy T-shirt’”—but also the most meaningful theme: in Reno’s words, “Helpless is a shitty feeling, but it’s not forever, and it doesn’t make you any less capable.” What a time to be hearing that message, amirite?

Anyway, Os’ir and the away team complete their deal, offering him a king’s share of dilithium in exchange for Kal’s repair job. The rest of the crew, led by Nhan (who deserves more of a personality than she’s getting right now), have fixed everything else, so with Detmer and Owosekun at the helm, they proceed to try to impulse power themselves off the ground and out of the monster ice. It’s not going well, until another ship appears, grabbing hold of them with a tractor beam and hailing them. This could really have gone either way, as far as stranger danger goes! But lo and behold, it’s not an even bigger pirate—well, I guess technically it is, because it’s Michael in Book’s ship! She’s got box braids now! Because she’s been here for a year already . I can already smell the psychic trauma that awaits us.

Personal Log, Supplemental

• In retrospect, it was extremely smart to break up the introduction to the future and devote one episode to the star and one to the ensemble. We got the best of both stories without sacrificing anything.

• Tig Notaro is the secret weapon of this show and I really need her as a series regular already. Reno is extremely good at grounding the Trek universe’s technology in reality—like, I can almost understand the fake engineering concepts she’s explaining, instead of momentarily turning off my brain and letting the sci-fi technobabble wash over me, as a layman absolutely must do with the likes of Geordi LaForge or Miles O’Brien. (See also: “Back at ya, bobcat.” “Bobcat?” “I don’t know, I’m on drugs.” Extremely authentic representation of chronic pain!)

• Can’t tell you how much I wanted “Zareh” to be spelled “Zara.” Alas, the morally bankrupt retailer is not also a morally bankrupt space pirate.

• Forget the personal transporter hype—programmable matter is the coolest tech this franchise has seen in decades, and it is a theoretically very real thing . I love science.

• If they’re gearing up to Airiam Detmer, best believe I will be asking to speak with the manager. Can we please learn everything about these total badasses without worrying whether it will cost them their lives?

• Remember the old adage about a character not being dead unless you see the body? It’s a theory, but I think we’re being led to believe that Georgiou having “some Leland on her shoes” is the same thing as seeing Control’s body. Control is software that infested an organic host; just because it was neutralized doesn’t mean it’s dead. Personally, I can’t believe they risked taking his body along in the first place, when they were leaving specifically to get away from him. Does anyone really know what happens to nanites in a mycelial chamber?

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Jonathan Frakes

Douglas Aarniokoski

Christopher J. Byrne

Hanelle M. Culpepper

Jen McGowan

David Barrett

Akiva Goldsman

Maja Vrvilo

Andi Armaganian

David Semel

David Solomon

Marta Cunningham

Alex Kurtzman

Norma Bailey

Chloe Domont

Jon Dudkowski

John Ottman

Jeffrey W. Byrd

Deborah Kampmeier

Emmanuel Osei-Kuffour

Sonequa Martin-Green

Shazad Latif

Anthony Rapp

Mary Wiseman

Jason Isaacs

Wilson Cruz

Anson Mount

David Ajala

Rachael Ancheril

Blu del Barrio

Emily Coutts

Oyin Oladejo

Patrick Kwok-Choon

Ronnie Rowe

Sara Mitich

Julianne Grossman

Avaah Blackwell

David Benjamin Tomlinson

Michelle Yeoh

Raven Dauda

Nicole Dickinson

Mary Chieffo

Annabelle Wallis

Jayne Brook

Hannah Cheesman

Tara Rosling

Ian Alexander

Chelah Horsdal

Kenneth Mitchell

James Frain

Fabio Tassone

Robinne Fanfair

Callum Keith Rennie

Shawn Doyle

Mia Kirshner

Alan Van Sprang

Elias Toufexis

David Cronenberg

Arista Arhin

Orville Cummings

Phumzile Sitole

Riley Gilchrist

Tasia Valenza

Rekha Sharma

Vanessa Jackson

Bahia Watson

Janet Kidder

Conrad Coates

Hiro Kanagawa

Michael Ayres

Chris Violette

Luca Doulgeris

Romaine waite.

Damon Runyan

Hannah Spear

Ache Hernandez

Harry Judge

Adil Hussain

Noah Averbach-Katz

Sam Vartholomeos

Rebecca Romijn

Andreas Apergis

Christopher Russell

Clare McConnell

Piotr Michael

Liam Hughes

Adrian Walters

Rainn Wilson

Jeremy Crittenden

Daniel Kash

Yadira Guevara-Prip

Paul Guilfoyle

Devon MacDonald

Terry Serpico

Kenneth Welsh

Dwain Murphy

Anthony Grant

Alisen Down

Brendan Beiser

Seamus Patterson

Michael Chan

Tyler Evan Webb

Giovanni Spina

Karen Robinson

Alex McCooeye

Emmanuel John

Linford Mark Robinson

Tara nicodemo.

Katherine Trowell

Jinny Jacinto

Samora Smallwood

Hanneke Talbot

Chai Valladares

Roy Samuelson

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Kyana teresa.

Sheila McCarthy

Andrew Moodie

Katherine Barrell

Javier Botet

Christopher Heyerdahl

Peter MacNeill

Melissa George

Rothaford Gray

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Brandon McGibbon

Michael Greyeyes

Stacey Abrams

Maulik Pancholy

Milton Barnes

Michael Boisvert

Jake Michaels

Ayesha Mansur Gonsalves

Clint Howard

Kenric Green

Andrew Shaver

Amanda Arcuri

Sarah Booth

Dennis Andres

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Billy MacLellan

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Hamza Fouad

Matthew Binkley

Rob Brownstein

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Jordana Blake

Luke Humphrey

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Brandi Ward

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Jason Anthony

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'Star Trek: Discovery' season 3, episode 2 recap: Burnham finally makes contact

A fistful of quatloos. Tilly and Saru find themselves at phaser-point in an alien saloon.

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After last week's enthralling season three premiere of "Star Trek: Discovery ," the show's second episode had a high standard to follow. 

Interestingly, episode two — which debuted on the streaming service CBS All Access today — is entitled "Far From Home" and not "That Hope is You, Part 2, " which is a little unusual (the premiere was "Part 1"). Most multi-part episodes, even within a seasonal story arc, tend to follow in succession, so evidently showrunner Alex Kurtzman has something up his sleeve. 

Since last week's episode was refreshingly focused on just Burnham (Sonequa Martin-Green) and Book (David Ajala), you would be correct to assume that this episode will show us what happened to the crew of the USS Discovery following the events of the season two finale . 

And, indeed, we see the Discovery's bridge in a state of some disrepair and the crew slowly regaining consciousness after having emerged from the finale's time travel wormhole. Badly damaged and plummeting out of control, Discovery hurtles toward a planet below. A crash is inevitable, and so is a fair amount of technobabble as they invert the Crossfield class starship through atmospheric reentry to give the top of the shields "most of the brunt." 

What we were hoping for here was a set piece comparable to what we saw in " Star Trek: Generations ," when the saucer section of the USS Enterprise-D crashed on Veridian III. Not only was that quite spectacular, but it felt realistic, especially the devastating, numerous impacts and the resulting turmoil for everyone inside. 

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The graviton beam is readied and shields are switched to inverse to cushion the landing and down she goes. The crash scene in "Generations" lasts nearly two and half minutes. It continuously builds tension throughout as the helpless, frightened crew await their fate until friction overcomes momentum, the saucer section comes to an abrupt halt and they are all forcibly catapulted forward. 

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Sadly though, this opportunity to see Discovery carve a miles-long trench in the ice and rock on the planet and expand the scene into a thrilling set piece is missed. The actual crash only lasts a few seconds.

Instead, perhaps we could've had brief shots showing the chaos in other areas of the ship. Something like the crew flying from walkways in engineering; injured patients thrown from their beds in sickbay; Dr. Culber (Wilson Cruz) gritting his teeth as he holds the still-comatose Lt. Stamets (Anthony Rapp) to his bed; and Commander Saru (Doug Jones) on the floor cradling terrified Ensign Tilly (Mary Wiseman) in a vain attempt to protect her. Cut to the exterior and we see the damage being inflicted on the primary hull and the long trail of debris being left behind. Over the deafening cacophony of screams and screeching metal, Saru desperately shouts, "Keep the nose up for as long as possible!" 

We'd be reminded of what the bridge crew can actually see on the viewscreen as those fortunate enough to still be seated either reach down to their sides or above their heads to pull seat belts across their torsos or over their shoulders, frantically trying to insert them into buckles. We could get close ups on the transfixed faces of each of the bridge crew ending with Tilly, who slowly closes her eyes as an exterior shot shows the saucer section finally dipping and making contact with the surface. For a brief moment it violently scrapes along the rock and ice before embedding itself and everyone and everything not strapped in on the bridge is flung forward and those who are strapped in, cry out as those same restraints cut into them. Finally, there is silence as lights flicker, smoke slowly rises and sparks shower from control consoles. Fade out.

But no. We get none of that. Roll opening credits. 

The crew pick themselves up and are pretty pleased about still being alive. Commander Jett Reno (Tig Notaro) reels off a barrage of technobabble about what might be damaged, including communications, sensors and propulsion. Consequently, they have no way of determining where, or when, they are. Saru gives a solid speech about priorities and the repair work begins. Philippa Georgiou (Michelle Yeoh) pops up and does little except add antagonization to the proceedings. 

Next up, we're in sickbay and Culber brings Stamets out of his induced coma in a nice, heartwarming scene. "Can you hear me?" Culber asks, gently stroking the face of his partner who's lying there, barely conscious. "Good, good. We made it through. It was a pretty rough landing and I wouldn't have brought you out so soon, but there's some people in bad shape …" he says, quipping, "We need your bio-bed."

Fingers crossed the relationship between these two can be kept fresh this season as it is mostly a joy to watch. The whole Culber dies-and-gets-respawned plot was not the writers' strongest moment in season two. 

We mentioned briefly last week that rebirth is a reoccurring theme in "Star Trek," from instances in "The Original Series" — like Lt. Scott in "The Changeling" (S02, E08) or Commander Tucker's clone in the "Enterprise" episode" Similitude" (S03, E10) all the way to Spock in "The Wrath of Khan" and Dr. Culber in "Discovery." Even, unfortunately, in " Picard ." However, some story arcs are better written than others. It could even be argued that "Discovery" itself is perhaps undertaking a rebirth, hopefully moving away from convoluted time travel storylines and attempting something new by taking the show into uncharted territory, far away from the restraints of existing canon.

We get a glimpse of the carnage and cost to the crew in sickbay and Lt. Keyla Detmer (Emily Coutts), who appears to be suffering from a little PTSD, before we cut to the wrecked captain's ready room. There, a plan is hatched to dispatch a scout party to a settlement that's been detected to obtain more rubindium (needed to fix the transtator, you know, which itself is critical to restoring the systems onboard Discovery). 

Tilly bumbles through her explanation, Saru reinforces the need to maintain minimal interaction with any locals and Georgiou just rolls her eyes at every opportunity. Sadly, at this point, her character is in danger of becoming a cliché, a little like how Tilly already has. However, the aim at this stage is to show how Saru must deal with all types in order to prove his worthiness to command and the clash of vastly different personalities must be handled appropriately. This could be effective providing the character cliché minefield is avoided, we shall see. 

Meanwhile, in Engineering Stamets must tolerate working with Reno while someone named Gene scoops up what's left of Leland (Alan Van Sprang) after Georgiou killed him with the power of magnetism last season. 

Saru and Tilly prepare to venture outside and the planet looks very similar to Hima, the world that Cmdr. Michael Burnham (Sonequa Martin-Green) landed on last week. It's obviously also been filmed in Iceland. Also, when Burnham emerged from the wormhole, she hit a debris field and crashed. When the Discovery emerged from the wormhole, it hit an asteroid field and crashed. What are the odds?

Saru and Tilly have a chance to chat intimately as she looks to the Kelpien for guidance and leadership on this alien planet. It's not a particularly long scene, but it's touching and the dialogue is well written. They spy a humanoid figure on the horizon and make their way toward it.

The problems facing the USS Discovery continue to pile up. Georgiou and Commander. Nhan (Rachael Ancheril) ponder the "parasitic ice" that seems to be slowly engulfing the ship. The two have an interesting conversation centered around Nhan's decision to leave the USS Enterprise and join the Discovery crew. They're joined by Lt. Linus (David Benjamin Tomlinson) and Georgiou takes a curious interest in his "enormous visible spectrum." 

Tilly and Saru continue to follow the humanoid stranger. They come across an abandoned mining settlement, the production design of which is gorgeous. They walk up to and through a concealed transporter and find themselves in a rundown, backwater saloon, complete with swinging, metal batwing doors. Perhaps some things are never destined to change, even over 930 years.

Inside are three Coridanites , one sitting hunched over a drink at the bar, another behind the bar, slowly polishing a glass and one sat at a table in the distance. In a fun — albeit a little hackneyed — set piece, everyone exchanges eye contact and hands tentatively move to concealed, holstered weapons. The wind flute in the incidental music adds the finishing touch. 

Saru and Tilly convince them that they are in fact from the Federation and offer precious dilithium in exchange for abundant rubindium. The dialogue is well written and feels natural as everyone gets to know each other a little bit better.

One of the Coridanites, Kal (Jonathan Koensgen), bonds with Tilly as he uses "programmable matter" to build more rubindium and he wonders longingly if perhaps "he is Starfleet material." We also learn that this planet has no official name, but is referred to simply as "the colony" by the people who live on it.

A secondary storyline running alongside this is set in Engineering and involves Stamets getting stuck in a Jeffries tube , bleeding while trying to repair a broken something-or-other, with Reno offering both support and sarcasm. It's not exactly the most riveting sub-plot we've ever seen and we're pretty sure that writers Alan McElroy, Chris Silvestri and Anthony Maranville could've come up with something a bit better. And it's a shame because the primary plot is developing rather well. Last week's episode didn't really feature a secondary plot and it was still effective.

Saru learns of the "burn" for the first time and we hear about a nasty character called Zareh (Jake Weber); a courier who decapitated the previous one and took the route for himself, simultaneously taking advantage of these locals who depend on any dilithium they can find to trade. Both Kal and his colleague Os’Ir (Lindsay Owen Pierre) warn Saru that Zareh will also have detected the Discovery and he will almost certainly be on his way.

On cue, there's the sound of a ship landing outside and Zareh beams into the saloon, flanked by four goons. You'll more than likely recognize the actor; Jake Weber has appeared in a lot of television shows and movies including "Pushing Tin," "U-571" and "Midway." This is his first foray into the "Trek" universe …and his character is pretty damn cool. 

His boots thud against the wooden floor as he steps forward and despite not appearing to be wearing any, something is making the same jingling sound as spurs as he walks, which completes the Western motif. 

Zareh demands to be taken to the Discovery before he notices Tilly is hiding the now-repaired transtator behind her back. He cleverly deduces that along — with the high energy gamma and gravitational waves that were detected as Discovery appeared on their sensors — the fact that they couldn't repair that technology on their own means they are time travellers.

Without hesitation, Zareh blasts poor Kal who endures an excruciating death. While it might have been obvious he was going to be the sacrificial lamb in this plot, since the other two hardly said a word between them, the manner in which he dies is still quite shocking — maybe even excessive. Blue blood pouring from his eyes and nose, a huge hole in his chest slowly burning, he falls to the floor, still alive before dying in absolute agony. Yuck.

For the first time, we hear the V'draysh mentioned. V'draysh, you may recall, was the name of the organization that Craft (Aldis Hodge) came from in the brilliant "Short Trek" episode " Calypso ." Back then, "Picard" showrunner Michael Chabon, confirmed that "V'draysh" was a syncope of "Federation." 

Zareh breaks down the situation for Saru: Basically it's all about the dilithium, so he proposes a trade. He also explains to them that the ship is being attacked by the nocturnal parasitic ice, so time is a factor before the Discovery is destroyed. 

On board the Discovery, Reno is still trying to give Stamets directions as he crawls about, John McClane-style. We also learn that Georgiou is missing and thankfully the wait for her now predictable appearance at the saloon isn't too long. She's discovered outside walking the perimeter by two of Zareh's goons and brought to the bar.

Georgiou is in her element, dealing with a crook in a criminal underworld and we hope her role this season is more than just being a counter-badass, because that would get repetitive quite quickly. Zareh's feelings clearly mirror our own so he shoots her. Hooray. And now we see why it was necessary for Kal to die in such a protracted manner as Zareh really draws this out. We know Georgiou isn't going to die …she's just going to be hurt a bit . You know, like the shot-in-the-shoulder thing we saw last week. Still, we're pretty sure that energy blast would do some permanent damage. 

Saru knows what's coming, as do we. He tells Tilly to prepare to take shelter behind the bar as an impressive fight kicks off as Georgiou — who, aside from a bit of blood, seems unaffected by the same weapon that killed poor Kal — more or less single-handedly takes out Zareh's goons with a combination of blaster fire and the breaking of necks. It's well choreographed and nicely filmed, clearly Michelle Yeoh has been working on her martial arts skills, or the CGI budget has increased, or both. 

She wants to kill Zareh too, but Saru — determined to maintain a code of conduct worthy of the Federation — insists that she doesn't and then Tilly notes that the sun has disappeared, which could spell disaster for the Discovery. Fortunately, Stamets manages to repair the broken thingamajig thus restoring power to the ship.

Saru hands over Zareh to Os'Ir who lets him go, which means he'll have to take his chances outside, so it's entirely possible we might see him again. Fingers crossed. Os'Ir gives Saru a personal transporter so he, Tilly and Georgiou can safely return to Discovery without having to take their chances outside at night. 

With the transtator repaired and installed, communications, propulsion and sensors are back online. Now more or less completely encased in parasitic ice, the Discovery struggles desperately to break free. Systems begin to overload and suddenly sensors detect an alien ship approaching them. They suspect it's Zareh's friends who will have also detected the crash…and the Discovery is hailed. A channel is opened … and it's Burnham! Yay. It's a touching moment as everyone is understandably relieved. She says she landed a year ago … and during that time she's had hair extensions, but they look nice, that's the most important thing.

The second installment of this third season is not as good as last week's premiere episode, however it's got some great set piece action and it's still considerably better than most of what we got in season two.

Execute trans-warp drive  ✓ 

•  Please let Zareh be a reoccurring character, he's badass. 
•  The abandoned mining settlement was beautifully designed. 
•  The Western trope was nicely handled and the saloon set piece was fun. 
•  Tilly was significantly less annoying, which comes from better dialogue. 
•  Saru's proof of leadership quality is a well-written journey. 

Thrusters at station keeping  ✗  

•  A longer, more thrilling crash set piece would've been nice to see. 
•  Yeah, Georgiou's little smug sniggers are now getting really annoying. 
•  As beautiful as the "colony" was, it could've looked less like Hima. 
•  The secondary storyline was a little bit lame. 
•  Were Romulan quantum singularity drives also affected by the "burn"? 

Rating: 7/10

In other "Discovery" news, the episode titles for the third season have been officially confirmed and there are two interesting things to note. 

"That Hope Is You, Part 1" "Far From Home" "People of Earth" "Forget Me Not" "Die Trying" "Scavengers" "Unification III" "The Sanctuary" "Terra Firma, Part I" "Terra Firma, Part II" "The Citadel" "The Good of the People" "Outside"

The first is that the episode "That Hope Is You, Part 2" doesn't even feature in the third season and the second is the title of the seventh episode, "Unification III," which sounds like it might be somehow linked to the "Next Generation" two-part story, " Unification I " (S05, E07) and " Unification II " (S05, E08) where Ambassador Spock attempts to reunite the Romulans and Vulcans, since they were originally the same race.

CBS has also confirmed that principal photography for "Discovery" season four will start on Nov. 2. What that means for "Picard" or even " Strange New Worlds " is unclear since the handling of the Coronavirus has been significantly better in Toronto, Canada where "Discovery" is filmed, rather than Los Angeles, USA where "Picard" is recorded. And filming on both of those has not started yet.

In a recent interview for SFX , "Discovery" showrunner Alex Kurtzman said, "Things are just starting to shoot again. We would have been in production already on Picard, but we couldn’t be because of COVID. It’s pushed our Discovery and Strange New Worlds dates just a little bit, but I think we’re actually planning on staying on track for those. By the time they shoot, we will have innovated with a couple [non-Star Trek] shows, and we will know where we are. And we will be a little bit more down with a process."

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Far From Home (episode)

• 1.2 Act One
• 1.3 Act Two
• 1.4 Act Three
• 1.5 Act Four
• 2 Memorable quotes
• 3.1 Cast and characters
• 3.2 Continuity
• 3.3 Reception
• 3.4 Production history
• 3.5 Apocrypha
• 4.1 Starring
• 4.2 Special guest star
• 4.3 Guest starring
• 4.4 Co-starring
• 4.5 Uncredited co-stars
• 4.6 Stunt doubles
• 4.7 Stand-in
• 4.8.1 Meta references
• 4.9 External links

Summary [ ]

The icy planet known as "the Colony"

Having followed Michael Burnham through a wormhole into the future, USS Discovery emerges at high speed above a planet surrounded by many large asteroids . The crew is unconscious, with Saru awakening first and rousing the bridge crew back to stations. Jett Reno explains that tidal forces in the wormhole similar to g forces knocked everyone unconscious. The ship is in an uncontrolled free fall as the crew races to regain maneuverability.

Discovery plows straight through an asteroid covered in trees and falls toward the planet. Approaching a glacier on the planet's surface, Gen Rhys fires a graviton beam to soften the ice and cushion the impact. After hitting the ice, the ship's deflector shields fail and the ship slams to a halt, jolting many crew members and throwing Lieutenant Keyla Detmer over a console. The ship rests atop the glacier, groaning from damage, with large chunks of ice resting atop the hull .

Act One [ ]

The bridge crew recovers from the crash landing and applauds Detmer's piloting skills. However, Detmer has a bloody head wound and is sluggish, so Saru orders her to report to sickbay . Tactical and both internal and long-range communications are down. Ensign Tilly reports that sensors are also down, leaving her no way to determine where or when they are. Reno points out that Terralysium , their supposed destination, was not particularly icy, indicating at the very least they are on the wrong planet. She also speculates that systems are down because of a ruptured plasma manifold from the crash; repairing it will require finding and fixing many damaged EPS relays and conduits . Saru notes that Discovery is unable to contact Burnham for the moment but that the crew remains together and alive and will search for her when possible.

As Saru surveys damage, Tilly tells him that the planet has pockets of atmosphere with higher levels of oxygen than elsewhere. The pockets are decagons, a ten-sided polygon, indicating they were constructed. Tilly has also found signs of a populated settlement inside one of the pockets, reassuring Saru that their mission to stop Control from destroying all sentient life in the galaxy was successful. They encounter R.A. Bryce , who reports that a critical transtator in the communications system needs a complete rebuild, which he estimates will take at least six hours if the ship has enough rubindium .

Philippa Georgiou approaches them, and Tilly notes she has some of Leland 's remains on her shoes. Georgiou states that " somebody had to make sure he was dead " and informs Saru someone needs to clean the spore cube because there are "gooey bits" of Leland everywhere. She insists that repairing the communications system should be a top priority in order to find Burnham, but Saru directs repairs on the EPS system to continue so the ship can regain flight capability and have defensive weapons.

Lieutenant Paul Stamets awakens in a chaotic sickbay, where he was taken after being impaled by a seven-inch shard of duranium alloy shortly before Discovery entered the wormhole. Hugh Culber says he would not have awoken Stamets from his medically-induced coma so soon, but that casualties worse off than him require the use of his biobed . Culber places him in a cellular regeneration chamber across the hall, where he orders him to remain for at least one full cycle, though healing the scar on his chest will require five cycles. The two kiss . Stamets says he is glad to have Culber back; Culber replies that it is good that Stamets is alive.

Meanwhile, Dr. Tracy Pollard sends away an alien crewman who has died. She then informs Detmer that her neurological tests are clear and she has no concussion , meaning she can return to duty. Detmer, however, is still feeling sluggish. She leaves sickbay, but does not acknowledge Culber as she walks out, leaving him confused.

In the ready room with Saru, Nhan, and Georgiou, Tilly reveals Discovery does not have enough rubindium to reconstruct the transtator needed to restore communications, frustrating Georgiou. However, the settlement Tilly detected has rubindium, along with other elements Tilly cannot identify. She adds that the fifty settlers have ships that appear designed for warp travel but do not have any dilithium . Saru and Tilly prepare to depart to barter for the materials they need, which includes getting a treatment in order to be able to breath the planet's atmosphere. He leaves Nhan in charge of repairs and directs Georgiou to assist in fixing the EPS system.

In engineering , a groaning Stamets verbally spars with Reno, whose own back hurts following the crash-landing, regarding tracking down the ruptured relay, and the two reluctantly pair up. Inside the spore cube, Gene cleans up the remains of Leland.

Saru and Tilly, dressed in civilian clothes, depart the ship through an airlock onto the glacier. Tilly marvels at the strange locale, including the "giant hunk of planet hanging there in the sky," and laments she does not have time to study the phenomenon. Saru calms Tilly, who is hurt that Georgiou thinks she is worthless, but Saru replies they are introducing themselves to the future and that Tilly "makes a wonderful first impression." The pair spot a dark figure in the distance who watches them before turning away.

Act Two [ ]

Kal, a Coridanite miner

On board Discovery , Nhan tells Georgiou that the ice visibly growing around the ship is somehow parasitic and that Nilsson and a team are studying it, but that its growth accelerates in the shade, meaning the ship will be "screwed" once the sun sets. Georgiou asks why Nhan remained aboard Discovery rather than remain in the past; Nhan replies that she felt a need to remain in order to honor Airiam , who "was a science officer but paid the price of a soldier." Georgiou replies that she stayed aboard Discovery to avoid being placed in charge of Section 31 as she knew that in her words " bureaucracy is where fun goes to die." The pair encounter Linus , who reports that the EPS grid on Deck Six has been repaired. Georgiou asks about Linus's visual spectrum, and he states it is 74,000 nanometers. Nhan orders Linus to Deck Eight for further repairs, and Georgiou, with a mischievous look, volunteers to join him.

On the surface, Saru and Tilly follow the stranger and note that the floating rigs have visible blast marks, indicating someone wanted to shut them down. The stranger walks into a ravine, where he is transported away. Saru and Tilly follow and find themselves transported to a bar embedded high atop the cliff. The three Coridan men inside draw weapons on them. They reveal they saw the Starfleet ship crash but question whether Saru and Tilly are Starfleet officers; Tilly's recitation of Starfleet code about officers' conduct convinces them to lower their weapons. One man identifies himself as Kal and says he believes the officers will help them with an unknown problem. He says the planet has no official name but that they are miners and call it The Colony . Os'ir the bartender warns that Zareh will have tracked Saru and Tilly to the bar. Tilly offers to trade some of Discovery 's dilithium in exchange for the materials needed for a new transtator. Kal says they will require enough dilithium to power their vessels, fix other equipment and to barter at the Tellarite Exchange .

Aboard Discovery , Stamets and Reno have tracked down the final blown relay in a Jefferies tube , but Reno says her injured spine prevents her from accessing it. Reno offers to summon Nilsson to make the repair, but the ailing Stamets volunteers to crawl into the space.

Zareh, the Colony's courier

In the bar, Kal says the transtator appears old. He uses programmable matter to construct a new device, which amazes Tilly. Kal tells her he always believed Starfleet would come to help and says once the colony is self-sufficient again, the miners can defend themselves. Os'ir tells Saru that Zareh is their courier , who delivers anything they cannot make or grow, "which is pretty much everything." Suddenly, Zareh and his henchmen arrive before Saru or Tilly can leave. Zareh says they must be from Discovery , though he could find no trace of the ship in his database. Kal, bluffing, tells Zareh they have been in contact with other Federation ships. Zareh says he detected high-energy gamma rays and gravitational waves upon their arrival and, after seeing their outdated technology, correctly deduces they are time travelers, surprising Kal. Zareh kills Kal painfully in retribution for having helped Saru and Tilly.

Act Three [ ]

Zareh says he can do better at the Tellerite Exchange by breaking down the Starfleet officers' equipment for parts. Saru demands to negotiate a reasonable settlement with Zareh, but Zareh insists they have no authority and that the most important thing was obtaining dilithium. He reveals that the parasitic ice is leaving Discovery with little time to get off the ground before it surrounds the ship and crushes its hull and crew.

Stamets approaches the damaged relay in the Jefferies tube. Nhan discovers that Georgiou did not join them on Deck Eight for repairs and is missing. A sudden jolt of the ship leaves Stamets bleeding in the Jefferies tube.

Saru and Zareh negotiate a deal and Zareh prepares to send Tilly back to the ship to retrieve the dilithium. He warns her that at night, the ice infests everything, and can even go down a person's throat. Before she can leave, Zareh's men capture Georgiou along the perimeter. He orders her shot, but Georgiou deduces that Zareh's competitors likely also observed Discovery 's arrival and are on their way and that Zareh is not strong enough to fend them off. Zareh shoots her on a low power setting several times before Georgiou and Saru team up to fight back. The pair kill Zareh's henchmen, but Saru stops Georgiou from killing the disarmed Zareh. Tilly notes the sun has set, accelerating the ice's growth on Discovery.

Act Four [ ]

Via remote tricorder , Reno watches Stamets repair the relay. Culber arrives and chastises Stamets, but Reno tells him to set aside his anger so he can repair the relay. He does so, restoring power to Discovery .

Saru orders Georgiou to hand over her weapon and promises to send the miners dilithium to power their vessels and to hand over Zareh's vessel. He leaves Zareh's fate to Os'ir, who gives him Tilly's pack and sends him out to the planet's surface. Georgiou also promises to kill Zareh if he returns to seek vengeance on the settlement. After Zareh leaves, Os'ir gives Saru a personal transporter and welcomes him to the future.

Back aboard Discovery , Bryce is able to repair the communications system with the new transtator. Defense systems are still down and sensors are only partially functional, but shields and other systems are coming back online. Detmer reports that impulse and maneuvering thrusters are ready, but notes that Discovery was not designed to take off from a planet like this. The ship struggles to break free of the parasitic ice. An unidentified vessel approaches, prompting fear that it is one of Zareh's competitors preparing to attack. Suddenly, Discovery is caught in a tractor beam that pulls it free of the ice. The ship hails them, and the crew is surprised but relieved to see Burnham, with long braided hair, on the other end. She reveals it has been a year since she arrived in the future.

Memorable quotes [ ]

" I am aware that you all may feel an expedited need to see and understand what is out there. But our first priority is in here. The integrity of this ship, and this crew. "

" Um, you have some, uh, Leland on your shoes. "

" I'll tell you what. I'll let you go to work if you can spell 'My partner brought me out of a coma and all I got was this lousy T-shirt.' "

" So, unless Hazmat over here is gonna be helping after he cleans up aisle five… " " M-my name's Gene, actually. " " I've already forgotten that. "

" Sorry, sir. I'm- I'm talking because I'm scared. " " I know. Keep talking, ensign. "

" We are introducing ourselves to the future. You, Ensign Tilly, are a wonderful first impression. "

" First contact… "

" Helpless is a shitty feeling, but it is not forever, and it doesn’t make you any less capable. "

" A one-woman tactical response? V'Draysh has officially reached its nadir. " " A fancy vocabulary doesn't mean you're scary. It means you have a thesaurus. "

" I'm gonna enjoy this new world. If this idiot can run a settlement, then imagine what I can do in my sleep. "

" Hugh, thanks. Jett, thanks for nothing. " " Back at you, bobcat. " " Bobcat? " " I don't know, I'm on drugs. "

Background information [ ]

Poster for this episode

Cast and characters [ ]

• This is the first episode where Rachael Ancheril 's name appears in the opening title sequence after being added to the regular cast .
• David Ajala is not credited as a main cast member and does not appear in this episode.

Continuity [ ]

• The USS Discovery 's crew complement was established as 136 in " Choose Your Pain ". With 88 crew remaining and at least one dead following the transit through the wormhole, approximately 47 must have decided to remain aboard the USS Enterprise in " Such Sweet Sorrow ".
• Discovery is the second Starfleet vessel shown on screen to be sent permanently into the future. The USS Bozeman was transported forward in time 90 years, from 2278 to 2368 , in TNG : " Cause And Effect ".
• The Coridanites were previously seen in " Shadows of P'Jem " and " Demons ". These two episodes presented two radically different appearances for the species; "Far From Home" uses the appearance from "Shadows of P'Jem".
• Zareh uses the term V'draysh , first used in the Star Trek: Short Treks episode " Calypso ". According to "Calypso" writer Michael Chabon , "V'draysh" is a syncope , a type of linguistic distortion, of " Federation ". [1]
• Burnham establishes that a year has passed since the events of the " That Hope Is You, Part 1 ", which begin in 3188 according to the Daedalus Project suit, placing this episode in 3189 .

Reception [ ]

• TRR : " Far From Home " discusses the making of, and events in, this episode.

Production history [ ]

• 6 August 2019 : Bar fight scene filmed ( TRR : " Far From Home ")
• 15 October 2020 : Title publicly revealed on TRR : " That Hope Is You, Part 1 "
• 22 October 2020 : Premiere airdate on CBS All Access
• 23 October 2020 : International release date (outside Canada and the USA)

Apocrypha [ ]

• The events experienced by Michael Burnham in the year between the events of this episode and when she first arrived in the 32nd century are covered in the novel Wonderlands by Una McCormack .

Links and references [ ]

Starring [ ].

• Sonequa Martin-Green as Michael Burnham
• Doug Jones as Saru
• Anthony Rapp as Paul Stamets
• Mary Wiseman as Sylvia Tilly
• Wilson Cruz as Hugh Culber
• Rachael Ancheril as Nhan

Special guest star [ ]

• Michelle Yeoh as Philippa Georgiou

Guest starring [ ]

• Tig Notaro as Jett Reno
• Jake Weber as Zareh

Co-starring [ ]

• Emily Coutts as Lt. Keyla Detmer
• Patrick Kwok-Choon as Lt. Gen Rhys
• Oyin Oladejo as Lt. Joann Owosekun
• Ronnie Rowe Jr. as Lt. R.A. Bryce
• Sara Mitich as Lt. Nilsson
• Wole Daramola as Red Eyes (Heavy)
• Raven Dauda as Dr. Tracy Pollard
• Kevan Kase as Lookout
• Jonathan Koensgen as Kal
• Lindsay Owen Pierre as Os'ir the Bartender
• Adrian Pavone as Ensign Hazmat ( Credited under an incorrect name )
• David Benjamin Tomlinson as Linus the Saurian

Uncredited co-stars [ ]

• Nick Alachiotis as Henchman
• Avaah Blackwell as Osnullus bridge officer
• Michelle Browne as Discovery bridge crewman
• Alex Chung as Henchman
• Jayne Dineo as Discovery sciences crewman
• J. Adam Huggins as Discovery engineer
• Dillon Jagersky as Henchman
• Pamela Mars as Discovery bridge crewman
• John Mucciacito as Discovery engineer

Stunt doubles [ ]

• Bauston Camilleri as stunt double for Doug Jones
• Shara Kim as stunt double for Michelle Yeoh
• Dan MacDonald as stunt double for Jake Weber

Stand-in [ ]

• Stacy-Ann Buchanan as stand-in for Sonequa Martin-Green

References [ ]

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Meta references [ ]

External links [ ].

• " Far From Home " at the Internet Movie Database
• " Far From Home " at Memory Beta , the wiki for licensed Star Trek works
• " Discovering Season 3 "Far From Home" " at MissionLogPodcast.com
• 1 Bell Riots
• 2 Unnamed Romulan military personnel (23rd century)

‘Star Trek: Discovery’ Gets the Last Laugh in This Season 5 Gag Reel Sneak Peek [Exclusive]

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The Big Picture

• Get ready to laugh with the exclusive gag reel on the Season 5 DVD and Blu-ray collections of Star Trek: Discovery .
• Discover behind-the-scenes fun with Sonequa Martin-Green's jokes, Mary Wiseman's giggles, and David Ajala's line slips.
• Stay tuned for the Starfleet Academy spin-off featuring returning faces from Discovery .

Let’s fly, one last time! Earlier this year, Star Trek: Discovery went out in a blaze of glory, as Captain Michael Burnham brought her crew on a full-circle journey that saw them discover the very building blocks of our universe. The final season also saw Michael and Saru married off to their respective partners, Book and T’Rina, leaving most of our major players in a state of happily ever after. To make audiences almost as happy, we have teamed up with CBS Studios and Paramount Home Entertainment to offer you an exclusive sneak peek at the gag reel featured on the DVD and Blu-ray collections of Season 5 hitting shelves tomorrow .

Set all systems to fun with this hilarious glimpse behind the scenes as Sonequa Martin-Green keeps things light on set with quick jokes and even some sweet dance moves on set. Our sneak peek also features Mary Wiseman stumbling through one of her lines with a giggle-worthy expression and David Ajala forgetting his lines. The gag reel isn’t the only bonus content fans can get when they bring Discovery Season 5 home on Blu-ray or DVD. The final season includes over two hours of bonus content including audio commentary on select episodes, deleted scenes, and featurettes on character development and all of the behind-the-scenes work that went into landing the fifth and final season.

In anticipation of the release, I spoke with Doug Jones , and while he isn’t heavily featured in our brief sneak peek, of the gag reel he said:

"My favorite part of the bonus features that will only be on the DVD and Blu-ray is the gag reel. I love me some gag reel every year, and I make my way into it every time. [Laughs] I've already seen the gag reel for Season 5 and I'm in there, and I did hit the approval button on that one, like, 'Yes, love it!'"

Will We Ever See the Characters From Star Trek: Discovery Again?

Though Discovery has come to an end, the series is getting a spin-off of sorts as Starfleet Academy is set in the same future timeline and will feature a few returning faces from the series. Confirmed to be returning are Wiseman’s Tilly, Tig Notaro ’s Jett Reno, and Oded Fehr as Admiral Vance. We’ll also be seeing Voyager alum Robert Picardo once again as The Doctor . The series is said to have more of a comedic tone and will be the first Star Trek series to be aimed at a YA audience, though it will no doubt have something for everyone. Lower Decks star Tawny Newsome is part of the writers room under showrunner Alex Kurtzman , and the first season will also feature some heavy hitters with Holly Hunte r and Paul Giamatti playing key roles.

The series is set to begin filming soon and does not yet have a release date. Star Trek: Discovery will be available on Blu-ray and DVD on August 27 — order yours now and watch our exclusive sneak peek above. Stay tuned for more from our conversations with the cast.

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‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’ Starts Filming as Full Cast Revealed

“Star Trek: Starfleet Academy” production is officially underway as the full cast is revealed.

The latest series in the “Star Trek” universe announced Monday that the cast and crew had gathered for the start of production on “Starfleet Academy.” The release also showed the full cast for the series.

The cadets attending the prestigious and titular Starfleet Academy are played by Sandro Rosta, Kerrice Brooks, Bella Shepard, George Hawkins, Karim Diané and Zoë Steiner. Holly Hunter has also been cast as the captain and chancellor of the Academy.

A few familiar faces are set to return to the “Star Trek” universe as past characters. Tig Notaro returns as Jett Reno and Robert Picardo as The Doctor. Oded Fehr and Mary Wiseman are also reprising their roles as Admiral Vance and Sylvia Tilly.

Lastly, both Paul Giamatti and Gina Yashere are set to appear as recurring guests throughout Season 1.

The series will follow a new class of cadets as they come of age at Starfleet Academy – where many of the most iconic characters in “Star Trek” lore studied before heading out into the final frontier.

The show’s official logline reads:

“‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’ introduces viewers to a young group of cadets who come together to pursue a common dream of hope and optimism. Under the watchful and demanding eyes of their instructors, they discover what it takes to become Starfleet officers as they navigate blossoming friendships, explosive rivalries, first loves and a new enemy that threatens both the Academy and the Federation itself.”

“Starfleet Academy” is just one of the many “Star Trek” shows coming from CBS and Paramount+ right now. “Star Trek: Discovery” just recently wrapped it’s series run, and “Star Trek: Lower Decks” airs it’s final season in Oct. 2024. “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds” has been renewed for both a third and fourth season, and the new series “Star Trek: Section 31” is expected to drop in 2025.

The post ‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’ Starts Filming as Full Cast Revealed appeared first on TheWrap .

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‘General Hospital' Casts ‘Star Trek: Discovery' Actor

General Hospital has a new cast member. The popular daytime soap opera has signed Sawandi Wilson from Star Trek: Discovery . Here is what we know about Wilson’s new role on the soap, who he is playing, and when he will make his debut.

General Hospital Signs  Star Trek: Discovery Star

General Hospital has signed Sawandi Wilson to join the cast. According to reports, he will play a character named Isaiah. According to the casting news, he has a “connection” to Lucky (Jonathan Jackson) . As for his first appearance, it appears his first episode will air on August 26.

This is big news as Jonathan Jackson is returning as Lucky after an eight-year absence. It also appears that this is not a quick appearance, and he will remain on the show for an extended period. That makes it sound like Wilson will also be around for a while.

Jackson first started playing Lucky in 1993.  He is the son of Luke and Laura Spencer (Anthony Geary and Genie Francis), the couple whose fictional wedding broke television records at the time. Jackson was on and off the show until 2011 when he joined the cast of Nashville for six seasons.

"[Lucky has] been away for almost a decade, so I would say that the reasons for him being away and what he's been up to are revealed," Jackson said (via TV Insider ). "He hasn't just been sitting in an apartment writing his novel. He's been up to stuff."

Jackson also said that Lucky is more like Luke than he has ever been. The last time he was on the show, he was working as a police officer and was trying to find his own identity. His last appearance on  General Hospital was in 2015.

Who Is Sawandi Wilson?

Sawandi Wilson was most recently known for his  Star Trek: Discovery role . He played Captain Leto, a Kwejian-Human hybrid who served as a Captain in Starfleet during the 33rd century. He appeared in season 5 of the show and his character was named after Booker’s deceased nephew.

Wilson  started his career as a breakdancer before he started acting. He studied at Hofstra University and began studying acting with Marishka Phillips, Susan Batson, and Bob Krakower. 

His first role came in a dance movie with 2010’s Step Up 3D . Netflix subscribers might also recognize him. He appeared in the Netflix series  The House of Flowers as Dominique and  starred in Prime Video’s  Harlem as Marcus. Wilson also starred in all six episodes of the comedy series  Date.Love.Repeat.

What are your thoughts on the new  General Hospital signing? What do you think Isaiah has to do with Lucky ? Let us know your thoughts in the comments below.

The post ‘General Hospital’ Casts ‘Star Trek: Discovery’ Actor appeared first on TV Shows Ace .

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Star Trek’s Next Show Will Finally Explain Discovery’s Controversial Detached Nacelles 

Doctor who spin-off adds two returning whoniverse stars, the mandalorian's romance finally explained by bryce dallas howard: "what happens when you fall in love".

• Star Trek: Starfleet Academy features a mix of new and familiar faces, including stars from previous series.
• Production has officially begun on the upcoming Paramount+ series, as revealed by new set photos.
• A new generation of cadets will navigate life and professional challenges, offering a more optimistic journey compared to other Star Trek shows.

Newcomers and familiar faces come together in a new photo to kick off the production of the next Star Trek series, Starfleet Academy . While Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 3 is on the way and Discovery came to a close after five seasons last May, the upcoming series will see a new generation of cadets navigate the challenges that come with life and a career in Starfleet . Despite a new young cast being the focus, stars from both Star Trek: Discovery and Star Trek: Voyager will join forces on-screen.

Star Trek on Paramount+ on Twitter celebrated the official start of production on Starfleet Academy with two images of the entire cast. Check them out below:

The entire cast of the new series came together for photos set outside the Star Trek Stage and at the first table read. The photos also saw the returns of Oded Fehr and Robert Picardo, who played Charles Vance on Discovery and The Doctor on Voyager , respectively.

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The next series features many star trek alumni.

While Starfleet Academy is a new story with an all-new leading cast, many familiar faces will help these new cadets on their journeys. Kerrice Brooks, Karim Diane, George Hawkins, Bella Shephard, Zoe Steiner, and Gina Yashere are among the newcomers to the franchise. Meanwhile, Fehr and Picardo will be joined by fellow Star Trek veterans Tig Notaro and Mary Wiseman, reprising their roles of Jett Reno and Sylvia Tilly. Meanwhile, acclaimed actors Holly Hunter and Paul Giamatti have also been cast, with the latter playing an antagonist.

As such, the series has a good blend of established Star Trek talent and new additions.

Behind the camera, Starfleet Academy will be helmed by Alex Kurtzman, continuing his fifteen-year career with the franchise that began with writing the first two installments of the Kelvin Timeline movie trilogy . He helped create Paramount+'s three live-action Star Trek shows and is also a producer on Lower Decks and Prodigy . Lower Decks star Tawny Newsome has been confirmed as a writer alongside Kiley Rossetter ( Picard ) and Gaia Violo. As such, the series has a good blend of established Star Trek talent and new additions.

While 2024 has seen two shows end, there is still much to look forward to in Star Trek's future . Though Star Trek: Section 31 will dive deep into the secretive assignments the Federation would rather keep hidden, Starfleet Academy can be a much more optimistic journey about young cadets making their names as Starfleet's finest up-and-coming faces. As such, the upcoming Paramount+ series could help usher in a new generation of the series.

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After being closed for over a hundred years, Starfleet Academy is reopening its doors to those who wish to pursue a career as Starfleet Officers. Star Trek: Starfleet Academy will follow a new group of cadets as they come of age, and build friendships, rivalries, and romantic relationships while being threatened by a new adversary that could destroy the Academy and the Federation itself.

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Star trek: discovery.

S3.E1 ∙ That Hope Is You, Part 1

S3.E2 ∙ Far from Home

S3.E3 ∙ People of Earth

S3.E4 ∙ Forget Me Not

S3.E5 ∙ Die Trying

S3.E6 ∙ Scavengers

S3.E7 ∙ Unification III

S3.E8 ∙ The Sanctuary

S3.E9 ∙ Terra Firma, Part 1

S3.E10 ∙ Terra Firma, Part 2

S3.E11 ∙ Su'Kal

S3.E12 ∙ There Is a Tide...

S3.E13 ∙ That Hope Is You, Part 2

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