Star Trek: Discovery releases sneak peek for final season

Star Trek: Discovery has revealed a sneak peek towards the final season.

Star Trek: Discovery is getting ready to say goodbye with its fifth and final season. Despite having a five-season run, the legacy of Discovery will be one that’s muddled and often debated. Many didn’t like the show, forcing it to undergo huge changes nearly every season. This varied from the addition of Spock to the addition of Christopher Pike, to a change in timelines and so many other things.

The show was canceled by Paramount ahead of the recent writer and actor strikers, but that doesn’t mean that it wasn’t canceled for a reason. Discovery, along with most of the Star Trek shows that Paramount+ carries, is an expensive show that isn’t exactly cheap to make. So due to the fact, they’re hemorrhaging money, shows had to be cut.

So they made the decision to cancel Discovery, end Picard (despite desires for a fourth season), and reverse their renewal order on Prodigy.

Hence, Discovery’s fifth and final season. To hype up that final season, and due to the fact that the actors weren’t at San Diego Comic-Con due to the strike, Paramount rolled out a five-plus minute clip from the final season.

In it, we see Michael Burnham materialize a spacesuit out of thin air, fly over to an alien ship, attach herself to the haul, and survive being on a ship as it slips into warp drive.

Here’s the fifth season synopsis, courtesy of TrekMovie.com;

"The fifth and final season will find Captain Burnham and the crew of the U.S.S. Discovery uncovering a mystery that will send them on an epic adventure across the galaxy to find an ancient power whose very existence has been deliberately hidden for centuries. But there are others on the hunt as well … dangerous foes who are desperate to claim the prize for themselves and will stop at nothing to get it."

Surfing on a ship at warp is still one of the silliest things in Star Trek history

There will be plenty of people defending the silliness of this show, but it can’t really be defended. This is the television embodiment of that kid, who always came up with new superpowers when you were playing. He’s about to fall? Oh, he can fly now. That’s Discovery in a nutshell.

It’s almost absurd if not Superman-levels of unfairness. We’re getting into Star Wars VIII: The Last Jedi levels of absurd with the technology this show has created. You almost think that there’s nothing that technology can’t resolve in this show, and if that’s the point, why bother making a show in the first place?