Star Trek: Discovery Renewed For Season 5 — Plus, Picard Season 2 Premiere Date Is Set
Burnham & Co. are coming back for even more space adventures.
Star Trek: Discovery has been renewed for Season 5, it was announced on Tuesday afternoon. Season 4, which is streaming on Paramount+, will resume with new episodes starting Thursday, Feb. 10.
The current season finds Burnham stepping into the captain’s chair, and the titular crew chasing a scientific anomaly that poses a major threat to the galaxy — a story partially inspired by the current global pandemic.
“We’re taking the spirit of what we were and are feeling as a global family, and then looking through the eyes of our characters and seeing how they would respond to something that is bigger than themselves,” showrunner Michelle Paradise previously told TVLine. “In [this] case, it’s a scientific anomaly. We don’t know at the start of the season what it is, where it came from, what is its nature. Our heroes are going to have to figure that one out.”
Paramount+ also announced that Star Trek: Picard Season 2 will premiere on Thursday, March 3, with new episodes dropping weekly.
The upcoming season of Picard will see The Vampire Diaries’ Annie Wersching recur as the Borg Queen, the infamous villain first introduced in the 1996 film Star Trek: First Contact (played then by Alice Krige). Plus, John de Lancie will reprise his role as Q, the omnipotent shapeshifter who delighted in testing Picard.
The Season 2 cast also includes Alison Pill (back as Dr. Agnes Jurati), Isa Briones (Dahj and Soji Asha), Evan Evagora (Elnor), Michelle Hurd (Rafaella “Raffi” Musiker), Santiago Cabrera (Cristobal “Chris” Rios), Jeri Ryan (Seven of Nine), Orla Brady (Laris) and Brent Spiner (Data).
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Woo hoo! Love this show. Also excited for More Picard.
It’s a good day to be a Star Trek fan.
How could you say that? You’re obviously NOT a Star Trek fan. This “show” is a disgrace to Star Trek legacy.
Will Whoopi Goldberg be in Picard season 2? She was asked on the View to be on it. I don’t see her name mentioned though.
They haven’t shown her in any material, but one of the actors mentioned being really happy that they got to act with Whoopi.
Yep. Michelle Hurd (who plays Raffi) confirmed Whoopi’s appearance in a Cameo video.
I defended Discovery seasons 1,2 and 3. But holy, is season 4 bad. Like, really bad.
I’ve lost hope that it will ever be consistently good.
Season one was decent, two was much better, but it’s been getting worse almost by every episode since then.
I gave Discovery every chance. Like the above poster I defended seasons 1-3; but 4 is just awful. Sonequa Martin-Green seems to always be smiling beatifically like some sort of Madonna figure and often times its not even content appropriate. It can, and often does, ruin a scene for me. Then there are the content and plot decisions that seem….poorly considered.
I love Picard, Lower Decks is good, and Prodigy is way better than I expected. I’m also looking forward to the new series with Pike and Spock. I just Discovery would be a bit more consistent in its quality.
Sonequa Martin-Green is cringe worthy in season 4. Her voice sounds very fake like she’s trying too hard to convey her emotions. Like a mother consoling her children in a quieter and over dramatic tone. I just want to strangler her when she speaks. I don’t know if it’s intentional but ever since she’s become captain, her voice and tone totally changed to trying to hard to be motherly/empathic. Maybe it’s just the direction she’s given or the writing. Man is the writing bad this season. They should just go back to episodic or short 2-3 episode arcs. The problem with entire season arcs is if the story is bad, then the whole season is bad and you lose viewers. However, if you have short arcs or episodic season, as long as you have most of them being good, then even a few bad episodes won’t doom the season, people will still tune in. This show with their constant need to up the stakes is really hurting the show. Instead of different compelling stories to entertain me over the season, I am just watching the first season of discovery and each episode is a season long of the big bad and how they defeat it. It’s no different from episodic tv, only it’s years between each episode and each episode is like 10 hours of either ok, maybe good, or like this season, totally trash, and you’re totally screwed when one episode season long is terrible.
Hm, really? Barring the first two-thirds or so of the second season, I’ve found the current batch to be the best that the show has ever been.
Maybe that’s not the HIGHEST bar in television history, but hey. Plenty watchable to me. I’m sorry the fourth season isn’t working for you.
Any word on Whoopi Goldberg’s Guinan in Season 2 of Picard??
Finally, some good news for ‘22!
Too much “Star Trek”!!! Some good, some not so good, but such an overwhelming amount of material that I’ve given up on it entirely, even though I used to enjoy it. (See also: “Star Wars.”)
I’m not watching Prodigy, but I’m not finding the rest to be “too much”—especially since they air at different times and have different tones.
There is no such thing as too much Star Trek. I am not into the animated series but I’ll take the others.
Lower Decks is actually absolutely hilarious—and chock full of Easter eggs. You should give it a try.
Glad to hear this…love Discovery and can’t wait to see where they’ll take Picard.
Brent Spiner is listed as playing Data rather than as Dr. Soong (or a certain evil character). Is this a spoiler, a typo, or are we in for a lot more dreams and flashbacks?
picard season 2 there going back in time and the borg queen is the faciltaor of the time travel
I can’t wait for Picard Season 2!!! 2 years is a long wait. I know the pandemic made it that way. I just can’t wait!
They said last year when they released a trailer for season 2 it would be back in February. So was really hoping for early February. Well I’ll just have to wait a little bit longer till March 3rd.
This is great news. Now, all we need is a new “Star Trek” movie.
despite all the fenaglling and actors leaving like the main one’s is urban an pike the next star trek movie is in development the last i knew and it would have all the current cast back despite them leaving although i wonder what they’ll do with checkov as that actor tragically passed a few years ago in anton yelchin and he did a great job as checkov
Awesome
Why does a streaming service actually have such long gaps in between episodes in one season? Just as bad a watching standard television, except we are paying extra to get hosed.
Kvetching about Paramount+, with very little to say about the quality of the season. Stop stretching a 10 episode show into 20 weeks of viewing.
Urrrgh
Discovery’s 5th season will be only 10 episodes long.
Annie Wersching was in far better shows than Vampire Diaries, so I was wondering how writers pick the “what they’re known for” tag…
Not one episode from DIS S4 made 6.0 or higher on imdb. Just sayin.
you sure it wasn’t more like 2.0
Why? Discovery is the worst rated series by a mile. It’s a disaster on CBS. I guess it’s only being renewed because Paramount needs shows for their service.