‘Star Trek: Discovery’: Mary Wiseman on Tilly’s Big Career Decision & Future
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[Warning: The below contains MAJOR spoilers for Star Trek: Discovery Season 4, Episode 4 “All Is Possible.”]
The U.S.S. Discovery may have just said goodbye to one of its crew, but don’t worry: She’ll be back.
In the latest Star Trek: Discovery episode, Sylvia Tilly ( Mary Wiseman ) was tasked with teaching a training exercise for Starfleet Academy, and she brought Adira (Blu del Barrio) along. (They were surprised to learn they were being treated as a cadet during it.) But the exercise became very real when they crashed on the wrong moon and faced a deadly alien. After they were rescued (one cadet died), Tilly realized that she wanted to accept a job offer to teach at the academy.
“Getting my lieutenant post was the worst day of my life,” she admitted to Captain Michael Burnham ( Sonequa Martin-Green ) in a touching farewell scene. “When I got the pips, all of a sudden I realized my mom is 900 years in the past, she’s never going to see me wear them, and I started wondering if this is what I really wanted or if I just really wanted to be seen. That was humbling. I think it could be a useful perspective for a teacher.”
But don’t worry: Wiseman will be back this season. She takes us inside “All Is Possible” and teases what’s ahead.
Tilly decides to leave Discovery for that teaching position at the academy. How difficult of a decision was that? Leaving behind her friends was harder than making a career move like she did, right?
Mary Wiseman: Exactly. It was a really scary, hard thing to do, but because I think Tilly was already in the mindset of stepping out of her comfort zone, doing things that feel uncomfortable to challenge herself, that that’s part of what made her realize that the fact that it was hard is part of why she needed to do it.
She’s also had an incredible journey because she wanted to be captain and she became lieutenant, then realized she didn’t want that, then there was this training exercise.
Yeah, I think she kind of needs a moment to regroup, which is very healthy in my mind.
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Do you think teaching is an end goal or just another step for her?
I think teaching is something that feels really, really good to her right now, that feels meaningful and like she’s learning something and so it’s what she needs to follow at this moment in her life. I like to think in my mind — although I truly have no idea what’s going to happen to her — that she’s going to find through teaching what kind of leader she wants to be, that she’s gonna develop those leadership skills because she found this dynamic of her in a teaching position and with younger people in her care as something really empowering and something she has a natural skill for. What I would love to see is how her skills that she develops stepping away to become a teacher translate into maybe potentially in the future a captain’s seat.
Especially since she ended up teaching during the worst training exercise to be thrown into in this episode.
Oh my God. Also, if you’re not an experienced teacher, just even getting young people to pay attention to you, it’s hard, let alone saving their lives.
I’ve really enjoyed Tilly and Adira’s dynamic this season. What does she see in them, especially as she’s trusting them now to have her friends’ backs while she’s gone and they’re dealing with this anomaly?
I think Tilly sees a lot of herself in Adira. Just because they’re so enthusiastic, they’re green, they’re very, very smart, but don’t necessarily have the greatest people skills. When Tilly stepped into that role in Discovery , she was constantly being told she was talking too much, didn’t always have the most successful social interactions. And I think in Adira, though they’re a little maybe heartier or more authentic mentally or something, Tilly sees herself in them still. It’s that kind of thing when you see yourself in someone else, loving them teaches you how to love yourself or how to support yourself or how to talk to yourself. So as she steps in this mentorship role out of the mentee role that she used to hold with Michael and Saru [ Doug Jones ] and Stamets [ Anthony Rapp ], I think she’s getting a deeper understanding of herself and her skills and what she needs to work on.
I like that snow globe that Tilly left them.
Oh my God, I’m obsessed with it. I think it’s so sweet. I love that moment. There’s also this thing, which is as Tilly is becoming self-possessed and more of herself, as you heal as a person or grow or mature or whatever you want to call it, you have more of yourself to offer to other people. I think that’s what she’s discovering right now and that’s what she really wanted to leave Adira with was this sense of, I know you can’t see yourself but I see you so clearly and you are wonderful and contain multitudes and all the things you’re telling yourself you can’t do, you indeed can.
Now she’s also going to tell that to all these cadets she’ll be teaching.
Exactly. And it’s like that beautiful mirror facing another mirror thing, where as she nurtures those people, she’ll nurture herself and continue to grow and become the Star Trek version of a superhero, which is like a thoughtful, intellectual, empathic warrior.
Even though this isn’t your last episode, there was that goodbye scene between Michael and Tilly and it was so good, especially because it was in that previously shared room.
It was really emotional and really tender. When we read it the first time at our read through, it was really teary. I love Sonequa very, very much as a person. She’s a dear friend. And I also adore Tilly and Burnham’s friendship as it exists in the story and they have had all these nice, quiet, intimate moments with each other kind of sprinkled throughout the series. And so to return to that sort of home base felt organic and just really special. I hope it came out well because it felt very good as we were doing it, and I love to work with Sonequa. She’s such a good actor.
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But then we also got those sweet hugs for Tilly with Stamets, Culber [ Wilson Cruz ], and Saru, because those relationships have been so key for her too.
Absolutely. A lot of the people who end up on a starship drifting through space have family issues. [ Laughs ] I think that makes sense, like totally disconnected from the rest of life. And so you tend to create a found family and that’s very much the story of our show, both on and offscreen, that we are a found family. So it felt really important to honor those relationships as she goes off to college in a way. It kind of feels like that, like she’s going off to do this thing and all of these people show up for her to say, we’ll still be here for you when you come back and we love you and we’ll miss you. I just love that we take time to like honor those moments on our show.
And especially because they’re all they really have from the past because of that jump to the future.
Tilly brings up the fact that what she was doing was for her mom, but it doesn’t matter now.
She’s never going to see it. She’s never going to get witnessed in that way that she wants, so who is she doing it for anymore? It’s gotta be herself.
Also the fact that even though everyone’s alive right now, Tilly is leaving the crew as they deal with this anomaly, so she doesn’t know who might still be around next time she sees them.
That’s actually very, very true. That’s a whole other level of, we’re in crisis and we don’t have a lot of information, so we’re all sort of in a limbo.
What can you say about when we’ll see you again?
I can say that you’ll see me later on in the season.
Can you say anything about what might be different about Tilly?
I’ll say that her hair is slightly different and she’s wearing a different outfit. [ Laughs ]
What about Tilly do you think is going to stay the same no matter what she’s doing career-wise?
She’ll always have a little bit of a bubbly, inappropriate sense of humor and will always kind of step in it once in a while, put her foot in her mouth, so to speak, and I hope she never changes in that way.
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What advice would the Tilly of now give the Tilly at the beginning of the series?
All the advice that Tilly is giving Adira right now is advice that she would’ve given herself if she met a younger version of herself. That’s the impulse of kind of taking someone under your wing or becoming a teacher is I would love for you to not have to make the same mistakes I did.
What’s been your favorite scene to film this season?
That’s very, very hard to say. Probably the scene with Sonequa where we kind of say goodbye to each other. That’s the dearest, the closest to my heart.
What else can you say about what’s coming up?
It’s going to be amazing, a season full of mystery and heart and strength.
What can you say about how this season ends?
I would say it has a very satisfying conclusion.
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It’s hard to watch today’s episode of Star Trek: Discovery , titled “All Is Possible”, and not think that it’s Sylvia Tilly’s (Mary Wiseman) goodbye tour. But don’t worry, despite appearances, Tilly will still be around, and Wiseman is still a series regular.
Spoilers past this point , but in the episode Tilly is tagging along on what should be a routine mission for the newly reformed Starfleet Academy. At the same time, Tilly has been grappling with what her own place is on Discovery , particularly with everyone else in the crew seemingly finding a sense of peace in this bold, far-flung future. Burnham (Sonequa Martin-Green) is finally Captain. Saru (Doug Jones) has reunited with his people, the Kelpiens, Stamets (Anthony Rapp) and Culber (Wilson Cruz) have a family. Even the bridge crew seems more settled and happy in the year 3189 than they were 900 years earlier, during Seasons 1 and 2.
So where does that leave Tilly? She’s been pursuing a command position for so long, she’s lost track of why she wanted that in the first place. And with a massive anomaly destroying whole tracts of space, not to mention new opportunities provided by a rejuvenated Federation, suddenly the future — literally — is wide open.
With all this in mind, she takes a few extremely cranky students on a trip which, in classic Universal Studios ride fashion, crashes into an alien planet at the first possible opportunity. Tilly manages to get the students not only talking, but working together in order to survive the ordeal, and they ultimately are rescued and taken back to Starfleet Academy. They’re all worse for the wear, but (mostly) still alive thanks to Tilly’s guidance.
That’s when she realizes she doesn’t want to be on Discovery anymore: she wants to teach. And so we’re treated to long, emotionally charged goodbyes with the whole crew, and one last, lingering shot as she leaves the ship to go to Starfleet Academy.
Frankly, it feels like a goodbye episode — both for Tilly, and Wiseman. But as a representative for Paramount+ confirmed to Decider, Wiseman will continue as a series regular in Season 4, so that long, lingering goodbye at the end of the episode is a little more of a “see you later.”
How Tilly will turn up again is TBA, but it does nicely tie into the overall theme of the season, which has been cleverly and metaphorically tackling the idea of the COVID pandemic through the lens of Star Trek . With Tilly, we get a riff on what’s been called The Great Resignation, where workers have used our current dire circumstances as the kick in the rear they’ve needed to change careers. That’s exactly what Tilly is doing, without explicitly stating the link. But it’s clear to see, and it’ll be exciting to see the fan favorite character explore bold, new jobs over the rest of the season — and perhaps beyond.
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Star Trek: Discovery boss explains surprise season 4 exit
"She is definitely still in the world."
Star Trek: Discovery spoilers follow.
Since season one, Tilly (Mary Wiseman) has wanted to become Captain so her sudden change in career is slightly unexpected. But this season led to her questioning a lot about her life and thus deciding to head to the academy instead of taking her promotion to Lieutenant.
Though some have speculated she'll be gone for good, and that Wiseman would not be returning for the next season, showrunner Michelle Paradise has said we will be seeing the actress and her character Tilly again.
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Speaking to TVLine , she said: "She is definitely still in the world. I expect that we will see her again, for sure. We didn't send her far, far away. We're keeping her close."
She added: "[This season] felt like a natural place to be able to explore some of these things with her. It's a place where she feels like she fits and can do good right now.
"It doesn't mean it has to be forever, but it did feel like... digging in a little more deeply to why was that path her dream and where did it come from?"
Paradise also revealed to ComicBook.com that they sought to push characters into "new directions" and "give the new actors new things to play".
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She explained: "Those smaller character moments that sometimes mean everything in a scene or in an episode, digging deeper in the relationships, all of those things that were strong areas of focus for us in season three, continue and will always be part of the show."
Paradise is intending to keep Discovery connected to the wider Star Trek universe even as she explores such varying plot lines for the characters.
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The fourth episode of Discovery Season 4 was big. Here’s what one cast member and the director of the episode say about the making of “All Is Possible.”
Discovery has lost a crew member. To be clear, a main character hasn’t gone to that great bridge in the sky, but in the game-changing episode “All Is Possible” the fate of a Star Trek fan-favorite is suddenly very different. In an hour that features both a huge change for Discovery and piles of references to The Original Series , this episode suddenly became more pivotal and poignant than anyone expected. Inverse caught up with series star Mary Wiseman and director John Ottman to discuss these course-altering emotional moments and what it all means for the big picture of Star Trek: Discovery. Spoilers ahead for Star Trek: Discovery Season 4, Episode 4, “All Is Possible.”
Perhaps the first twist “All Is Possible” hits you with is that the enigmatic and menacing Dr. Kovich (David Cronenberg), is suddenly quite warm and supportive of Lt. Tilly (Mary Wiseman). Wiseman herself says she loved this small surprise. “I think you want that character [Kovich] to subvert your expectations,” she says. “It gives him a surprising dimension. And I think it surprises Tilly too. And when you're surprised you kind of listen more.”
In terms of working with the legendary Cronenberg in real life, Wiseman says that although she was initially “too scared” to talk to him, once they started chatting she discovered the beloved director-turned-actor is a “totally normal guy,” albeit “intimidatingly thoughtful.”
Kovich’s recruitment of Tilly to lead a training mission for new Starfleet cadets accidentally sets Tilly on an unexpected path. When her shuttle crashes on an inhospitable snow planet, Tilly is once again saddled with a life-or-death situation. But unlike in Season 3 of Discovery , Tilly is now responsible for the lives of inexperienced students, as well as her protégé; Ensign Adira (Blu del Barrio). Director John Ottman says his hope is “All Is Possible” can function as a “standalone” adventure unconnected to the ongoing arc of the Dark Matter Anomaly plaguing the galaxy in Season 4.
For longtime Trekkies, “All Is Possible” is also a homage to a famous 1967 episode of The Original Series called “The Galileo Seven,” where Spock is stranded in a crashed shuttlecraft and, like Tilly, faces impossible decisions.
Spock has to make some hard decisions when a shuttle crashes in “The Galileo Seven.” Discovery’s “All Is Possible” drew direct inspiration from this episode.
“The running comment between me and the writers [Alan McElroy and Eric J. Robbins] was that episode,” says Ottman. “They were both diehard Star Trek fans as well, so when I said ‘Galileo Seven’ they said ‘EXACTLY!’” Ottman reveals that yes, anything that seems like it could be an Easter egg is intentional. “I wanted them to be able to work on the shuttle through the floorboards, like Scotty. I wanted them to hear the roar of the monsters outside the shuttle.”
Like many episodes of The Original Series , “All Is Possible” was shot on location, “in a rock quarry an hour outside of Toronto.” And even though Ottman had wanted a wind machine for several scenes, it proved impractical because of actual high winds during filming. He also revealed that the episode had to be shot entirely hand-held because of the danger of the wind knocking over camera cranes.
Tilly (Mary Wiseman) leads the stranded Starfleet cadets to safety.
For Wiseman’s Tilly, the danger and near-loss of all the cadets, including Adira (Blu del Barrio) forces her to do some soul-searching that’s been brewing since the season premiere. By the end of the episode, her experience leads her to make a decision that takes her away from boldly going on the USS Discovery , and instead sees her teaching at Starfleet Academy.
Wiseman calls this Tilly’s “ Frances Ha moment,” referring to the 2013 film where Greta Gerwig’s character comes to terms with who she really is instead of sticking to her previous goals. “As an artist, you have to always ask yourself those questions, ‘who actually am I?’”
In past seasons, Tilly’s been characterized as overly ambitious and “on a straight line to the captain’s chair.” But now she’s slowing things down. Why now? Wiseman’s response illuminates not just this realistic turn for her character, but also Discovery’s ongoing mission to provide healthy allegories about self-care.
“Our show is very mental health focused. And trauma compounds. You have to take time to release it and take care of yourself. I feel like this is a really good example of somebody kind of doing that. She describes a lot of whiplash, of not knowing if she's on the right path, not knowing what brought her to this moment. She questions if she had healthy reasons for those choices. So, she makes a choice about how to take some time for himself and try something new that feels good. It’s an organic outgrowth of her experiences. I think it’s very grown-up of her.
While Wiseman didn’t have direct input into this surprising direction for Tilly, she says “if I were to have requested something, it would be something like this... a story where she has to question herself in some way. And that leads to character growth.”
As an episode of contemporary Star Trek, “All Is Possible” checks all the boxes. It’s a daring adventure, it honors the roots of The Original Series , it tells a new story, and it shows Tilly passing the torch to Adira. But all of these things are bittersweet. By the end of the episode, Tilly is reminiscing with Burnham about their first meeting way back in Season 1. And when she leaves the ship, she promises Burnham “you’ll still see me at Fed HQ.” Unlike so many Star Trek characters, Tilly makes a decision that’s realistic, literally grounding herself to make a safer path for her health.
What does this mean for the future of the show? Rumors have been swirling for years about the possibility of a Starfleet Academy TV series , and now it appears that show could maybe be spun-off from this episode. That’s pure speculation at this point, and Wiseman is keeping her cards close to her Starfleet vest. She won’t say how Tilly will return but wants fans to be put at ease. This isn’t the end of Sylvia Tilly.
“You will see Tilly again before the end of the season,” Wiseman says. “Don’t worry.”
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Star Trek: Discovery’s Mary Wiseman talks the future of Tilly
By chad porto | dec 10, 2021.
Mary Wiseman was a key member of Star Trek: Discovery for the first four seasons.
Mary Wiseman played Lt. Sylvia Tilly for the first four seasons of Star Trek: Discovery. Tilly, known for her big, curly red hair, was given an important arc recently that led up to and concluded in the fourth episode of season four.
For those who have not watched Discovery, there are minor spoilers ahead.
In the fourth episode of the season , Tilly makes the decision to leave the Discovery and take up a posting at the recently re-opened Starfleet Academy. Wiseman told Forbes that the decision was one that she felt the character needed.
"That’s kind of what this character needed, some time to grow, on her own, as an adult"
As for if fans can expect to see Tilly again at some point in the future; that’s the plan. Just don’t expect too much more of her. Telling Inverse ;
"You will see Tilly again before the end of the season. Don’t worry."
…as well as Slashfilm ;
"What I’ve been told I can say is that you will see Tilly later in the season."
What this means for Star Trek: Discovery going forward
This could mean one of two things but certainly seems to confirm a third. The first thing that this could indicate is that Tig Notaro’s character will get a lot more screen time going forward. The character hasn’t been seen yet in season four but co-showrunner Michelle Paradise told Forbes that she’s coming.
"You’ll see her very soon. …But you know, she’s so busy and doing awesome other things. And so we grab her when we can. So we don’t have her as much as some of our other characters. But she’ll be coming up soon within the first half of the season, for sure."
The other thing that this could indicate is that the series is wrapping up key character plots ahead of the season four finale with the idea that the series is in limbo for a fifth season . If they get a fifth season, they can certainly bring characters back into the fold, if they don’t then they’ve set up a make-shift story arc to send characters off on a high note.
Regardless, the fact that Wiseman is being written off for the most part, just ahead of Notaro’s return as Jett Reno, seems to indicate that this may be a budget issue. There were rumors that the series had episodes cut from season four due to budget issues, with the series going far over what was allocated to them.
If that’s the case, it makes sense that the show tried to reduce costs by writing off-key characters; that’s generally Cost Cutting 101 in television series.
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Getting promoted at work is usually cause for celebration. However, Tilly’s rise to Lieutenant in Thursday’s episode of Star Trek: Discovery did not invoke feelings of joy. It inspired her to switch careers.
The episode, titled “All Is Possible,” found Tilly questioning her next steps before discovering a new purpose while leading a group of young cadets on a mission gone wrong. Realizing that she’d rather be teaching, Tilly bid farewell to her friends and boarded a shuttle to the Academy, embarking on a new journey mentoring the next generation of Starfleet crew.
Tilly’s heartfelt goodbyes sure seemed to signal a send-off for original cast member Mary Wiseman , but showrunner Michelle Paradise tells TVLine that this isn’t the last we’ve seen of the character. “She is definitely still in the world,” Paradise assures. “I expect that we will see her again, for sure. We didn’t send her far, far away. We’re keeping her close.”
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Given where Tilly began the series, her career change is unexpected. Since Season 1, the Starfleet officer has focused her efforts towards reaching the captain’s chair. But in a season full of uncertainty and questions about life, it “felt like a natural place to be able to explore some of these things with her.”
Those feelings will continue to be explored while Tilly teaches at the Academy — and according to the Discovery boss, she may not stay there for good. “It’s a place where she feels like she fits and can do good right now,” says the EP. “It doesn’t mean it has to be forever, but it did feel like… digging in a little more deeply to why was that path her dream and where did it come from? Having her ask some of those questions feels like a way of showing her growth as a character.”
With Discovery now firmly planted in the distant future, Paradise notes the importance of ensuring that that show remains connected to the larger Star Trek universe through well-placed references. For example, in this season’s second episode Dr. Culber recalled Picard being revived in an android body (which happened in Star Trek: Picard ’s Season 1 finale) while brainstorming ways to bring back Gray in corporal form.
“There’s so much fresh snow ahead of us that we are always looking for ways that we can firmly plant ourselves in the larger Star Trek universe,” Paradise explains. “That’s just one example of the kind of thing that helps all of this feel like a large universe of shows and stories and characters.”
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Nothing against Ms Wiseman, but I’m not going to miss Tilly.
I used to enjoy Tilly, but she’s been so not engaging this season until the current episode where she stopped being so neurotic.
I can just imagine the casting for this show, “OK, we need a strong black woman character maybe even gender bending so write her as a man and we’ll even give her a guy’s name, uhm we need a fat white one that is going to be our healthy at any weight girl but give her really cheesy lines so she doesn’t outshine our black star, throw in two gay guys, some brown guy from the middle east maybe, and uhmmm cmon guys inclusivity is key here!” Especially with Tilly, they forgot to worry about talent, as long as she is sufficiently plump so the burger king eating American women can identify with her.
Tilly is the show’s heart.
Lose Tilly, you lose the heart of the show. So glad they are not getting rid of her.
They seem to have a plan to make Burnham the main character by removing any character more popular than her.
“while brainstorming ways to bring back Blu in corporal form.” Ummm, Blu is the actor who plays Adira. Gray is the character transferred into a synthetic body.
Are making mistake to write Tilly off show.
Please bid Tilly ado. I just don’t like unattractive characters in major roles. I nearly stopped watching because of this wildly miscast character. Sorry for being blunt.
Keep Tilly in the forefront!
What are you talking about she is the most attractive person of all Star Trek shows together! Just because you seem to have some narrow view of body image, what is really sad. Not spreak for the rest of us, please!
Exactly, John. Who made PBD the lord of who is considered attractive. I find Tilly absolutely gorgeous
Really enjoy this Trek, and Tilly is my favorite character, one of the most relatable and inspiring, and often keeps the tone from being completely dreary. If she doesn’t stay on as a “regular,” I fear this will far from benefit the show, and my interest in it…
I expect at least two corrections on ‘adieu’. I hate French spelling. Spell check is no help.
Star Trek is the future. Everything is based on future possibilities but those possibilities are based on real facts when dealing with human characters. Fact is Tilly would never have made it through the academies Core Training. Specifically the TAC101: Combat, Unarmed Methods of hand-to-hand combat. I am glad they put her in a more realistic role as a teacher and hopefully we won’t have to switch between scifi and fantasy again as Tilly is the one designated to outrun the big quick alien lifeforms who could close the distance from the valley up the rock wall to the cadets in 60 seconds but we are to believe Tilly could outrun them for longer to give them more time. Her weight becomes and issue when the writers make it one by including unrealistic storylines like that
I’m not sure what you talking about her weight got nothing to do with her fitness factor. It’s one common misunderstanding with people obsessed with weight and body fat!
I think the point there was not that she was the fastest and the best for the job, I think she felt responsible for her students and didn’t want to lose another one.
Yes, exactly. She didn’t do it because she felt like she was the best suited and most likely to succeed, she did it because she felt it was her responsibility.
I agree about Tilly. She looked out-of-place in a military setting where everyone is wearing body tight clothes and thin. You can be strong and healthy – but even in our military if you gain that much weight, they put you a program to lose it. I always think of Starfleet of an equivalent to Navy Seals or elite military force. Imagine Tilly’s character as a green beret!
Tilly is the only reason why I was watching this show if she will not be in all the episodes I’m done with it… really as a Star Trek fan, this show is not good, really bad at places with drag out season-long storylines that the old shows would finish in two episodes. Characters that seem to like conflict, a captain that not deserved that title or rank and only seems to think about herself at points…
Everything about this show is pure cringe.
This article didn’t really tell us what we want to know (or I do anyway). Did the actress choose to leave the show or was she pushed? It seems a shame to lose one of the better characters. Her coming back as a guest star in future isn’t the same obviously. And that’s presuming the show makes it to season 5+
I wish I could say I was shocked, but little by little, her story seemed to be building to this moment. While it’s bittersweet, I wasn’t sad. It felt like a natural moment, and knowing Wiseman will still be a part of the show, it didn’t hurt so bad. I will say I didn’t like that she didn’t have a real goodbye with Stamets, I feel like they were such a duo in the show, second to she and Burnham.
i wish they would dump Adira and maybe and maybe Gray, the acting of both is horrible and hard to watch almost like watching a high school student trying to get a grade but the Adira’s actor is by far the worst almost painful to watch at the very least recast the parts. I would like to see more of the Bridge crew and 90% more Tig Notaro.
I love Tig, but she has said that she is not a good actor and they work around that, so complaining about the other actors and throwing her up as an example of someone who you want to see more of doesn’t make any sense. It seems more like you just don’t like the characters and their plotlines as opposed to the actual technique in comparison.
well i did say “recast the parts” so unless you’re trying to find something to get offend about or are trying to allude to i don’t see your point. I enjoy Tig so much more than the other two i mentioned. Tig and Anthony Rapp’s scenes were some of the most enjoyable for me. but you are right i don’t enjoy the characters or the plotlines because i can’t get past the horrible acting. Tig might just be playing herself (like Bruce Willis does in every movie) which gives her character more authenticity
Adria and Gray are pointless. I ff thru them when they are onscreen together.
Couldn’t see Tilly in the command chair. Too flighty. Too unsure of herself.
If you don’t believe in your abilities to lead then your crew will not believe in you. She does not inspire any confidence to command a star ship in battle.
Mirror Tilly was badass. No reason this one can’t be
I like how the producers of Discovery are not afraid to show a characters growth through the episodes. I am glad that Tilly is still with us just exploring other options. I am sure that she will still be part of the Discovery family.
Tilly is my favorite character… Why does she have to get thrown to the side? Instead use her more and give her more interesting parts in the story.
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And most overweight people too….
I’ll say what I think they are and we’re trying to cover for in camera angles. I think Mary is pregnant and this will explain her needing off the show for some time. She has clearly gained weight in the face and neck, they try to avoid shots of her mid section and the ones they did clearly are heavier and indicative of pregnancy… just my observation though..
My wife said that in the very first episode of S4. There were even scenes with and without pregnancy (obviously shot not on the “right” order)
I just wish I couls watch it in the Isle of Man! That bl###y Pluto is not available here.. I always watch stuff on Netflix or Prime
I love Trek but I don’t get what they are doing with all these characters. What direction are they taking them? What purpose do the Non binary character and robot guy serve? Tully’s sub plot was terribly written.
Lets weigh in on a hundred reasons to rid ourselves of phony PC bs. A future where whites still rule while pushing a Hclintonesque Cardassian femprez agenda, but hate-asian hollywood caste system? Bye to overacting indulgence & finally some needed trimming of overly whiteness!
I love Tilly! You can’t get rid of someone who is not poised or unsure of herself but highly intelligent. Expand Tilly’s role to show growth that the most imperfect of us can change. Keep Tilly!
She’s going to start her journey toward the Presidency of the UFP.
Yay!!!! I can’t stand her character!! I honestly wanted to stop watching because I really do not like her character.
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The fourth season of the American sci-fi television series "Star Trek: Discovery" has commenced, and already things are shaking up. Taking place nearly a millennium after the events of "Star Trek: The Original Series," CBS' "Discovery" follows the crew of the U.S.S. Discovery as they come up against an invisible anomaly under the command of Michael Burnham (Sonequa Martin-Green). The fourth season sees the return of several familiar faces, including Lt. Tilly, the optimistic personification of the very curiosity and faith in others that encompasses the spirit of the "Star Trek" franchise entire. Her difficult adjustment to the 32nd century alongside the pressure that comes with advancement (Tilly began the series as an ensign) has taken its toll on the overachiever, and so in the latest episode, " All Is Possible ," the character has decided to pursue teaching with the Federation.
The beloved character that "Discovery" co-showrunner Aaron Harberts called "the soul of our show" has departed, but it's not the last time Trekkers will see the friendly face. In an interview with /Film , Mary Wiseman assures fans that, as her character says, her going away is "not forever."
"What I've been told I can say is that you will see Tilly later in the season," grins Wiseman before joking, "They have a sniper on me right now."
Not that that's anything Tilly couldn't handle.
Boldly Going...
Throughout the series, Tilly and Burnham share intermittent, intimate talks in their former shared bedroom (Burnham's promotion to Captain changed the living arrangements). In the latest episode, Burnham visits Tilly in said bedroom and checks up on her. Confessions are exchanged: Tilly was, at first, intimidated to be rooming with a mutineer and lowkey feared for her safety, while it took Burnham a few days to get used to Tilly's snoring. But then, Tilly describes getting her Lieutenant pips as "The worst day of my life." Tilly concluded that her perspective and skill are best employed in a teaching position — but she promises to record herself snoring for Burnham as needed. It's a heavy moment but filled with love for her friend and her on-brand optimism for what's to come.
Wiseman describes shooting the scene to /Film:
"We've had these little touchstone moments throughout the series, other little conversations that we've had sitting on those beds, hard conversations we've had and those are huge touchstones for me in terms of charting Tilly's arc. I do think Michael is a person Tilly feels most safe with, most intimate with. And everyone has become something like family to each other. So it was great to honor that — what she's leaving behind is the last bit of family she has left in order to try this new thing. It's so very lovely. And I also, on a personal level, Sonequa is a very dear friend and I cherish getting to have really sweet moments with her because they're reflective of how I feel about her in life."
We'll see you around Fed HQ, Tilly.
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Inside Discovery: Mary Wiseman
Mary Wiseman is discovering something unique about Star Trek: Discovery . The young actress, who plays Cadet Tilly on the upcoming show and grew up watching Star Trek: The Next Generation , lauds the freedom offered by the fact that Discovery is being made by CBS All Access and Netflix.
“I think that the mindset and the focus is curious,” she told StarTrek.com at San Diego Comic-Con. “So, we're finding out what we can do. There are adult themes and there's freedom in that, and in knowing that we can do anything and figure out, discover what works.”
Wiseman, like her Discovery co-stars, will soon follow in the footsteps of many actors from the earlier iterations of Star Trek and have her face plastered all over the place, including posters, lunch boxes and more. So, what’s she most jazzed to see herself on?
“I think I'm really excited if I got an action figure,” she replied, smiling broadly. “That would be really exciting. My boyfriend's parents are super-big Trekkies. So, for me, (it’ll be exciting) seeing their faces when they see me on their favorite show.”
Visit StarTrek.com tomorrow for our conversation with executive producer Akiva Goldsman.
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Star Trek: Discovery Seasons 1 through 4 are currently streaming exclusively on Paramount+ in the U.S., the UK, Switzerland, South Korea, Latin America, Germany, France, Italy, Australia and Austria. Seasons 2 and 3 also are available on the Pluto TV “Star Trek” channel in Switzerland, Germany and Austria. In Canada, the series airs on Bell Media’s CTV Sci-Fi Channel. Seasons 1 to 4 of Star Trek: Discovery is also available to stream on SkyShowtime. Star Trek: Discovery is distributed by Paramount Global Content Distribution.
Will ‘Star Trek: Discovery’ Continue After Series Finale? EP Teases Possibility
T he longest-running Star Trek series on Paramount+ is coming to an end with the upcoming fifth season (premiering with the first two episodes on Thursday, April 4). But of course as tends to be the case when any show ends (especially now), we have to wonder what the chances are of Discovery continuing in any way, whether it’s a revival, a movie, a spinoff, or characters appearing on another Trek show. TV Insider asked just that question when speaking with executive producer Alex Kurtzman ahead of Discovery ‘s final episodes.
“I think the chances are good,” the EP tells us, but when pressed if there have been any talks about anything, only says, “I’m not going to spoil anything for you.”
Of course we immediately think of Mary Wiseman ‘s Sylvie Tilly, who left the U.S.S. Discovery and has been teaching at Starfleet Academy but does rejoin her former crew during the final season, given Paramount+’s upcoming Star Trek show. The streaming service ordered Star Trek: Starfleet Academy to series in March 2023. Kurtzman serves as executive producer and co-showrunner, alongside Noga Landau, on it.
Star Trek: Starfleet Academy will follow 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 will 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.
Whether or not Tilly could be part of that, Discovery Season 5 is about her figuring out what the future holds. Joining the crew on this mission then (presumably) returning to teaching “actually provides a very cool opportunity for her both to come back to Discovery where she started this journey and to be there as a person who stepped away and has her own thing going on right now,” says Wiseman. “I think that’s really empowering.”
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It also gives her character the chance to evaluate some things going on in her current situation. “I also think that she’s facing some problems at Starfleet Academy that she needs a little distance and perspective from,” Wiseman continues. “So I think it serves her really well and she’s happy to be there to show up for Michael [Sonequa Martin-Green] and also to use the opportunity to get some thinking done.”
Do you want to see Star Trek: Discovery live on after the series finale? If so, how? Let us know your thoughts in the comments section, below.
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Star trek: discovery's wilson cruz, mary wiseman & blu del barrio on their season 5 journeys.
Screen Rant interviews Star Trek: Discovery's Wilson Cruz, Mary Wiseman, and Blu del Barrio about their final season aboard the USS Discovery.
- Season 5 of Star Trek: Discovery marks the final voyage for key characters like Culber, Tilly, and Adira aboard the USS Discovery.
- Culber, Stamets, Tilly, and Adira continue their journeys, facing personal challenges as they embark on the final mission of Captain Burnham.
- The final season promises an epic adventure across the galaxy to uncover an ancient power, with dangerous foes in pursuit.
Star Trek: Discovery season 5 marks the final flight for Wilson Cruz, Mary Wiseman, and Blu del Barrio aboard the USS Discovery. All three play central characters, and they're all needed for the final mission of Captain Michael Burnham (Sonequa Martin-Green) to find an ancient power that could upend the galaxy.
In Star Trek: Discovery season 5, Dr. Hugh Culber (Wilson Cruz) is married to Commander Paul Stamets (Anthony Rapp) and continues as Chief Medical Officer and Counselor aboard the USS Discovery. Ensign Adira Tal (Blu del Barrio) plies their genius in Engineering as they cope with their long-distance relationship with Gray Tal (Ian Alexander). Meanwhile, Lt. Sylvia Tilly (Mary Wiseman) is now an instructor at Starfleet Academy, but her brilliance is needed aboard Discovery as well.
Star Trek: Discovery Season 5 - Everything We Know
Screen Rant interviewed Wilson Cruz, Blu del Barrio, and Mary Wiseman prior to Star Trek: Discovery season 5's world premiere at SXSW about their characters' journeys in the final season, and what they're proudest of about their time on the show.
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Screen Rant: Wilson, Culber is incredible. He's not just a doctor of the body, but he's a doctor of everybody's hearts and minds on the ship. Tell me a little bit about his journey in season 5.
Wilson Cruz: Well, first of all, thank you for that. That was very generous and very sweet of you. Thank you. You know, I think Hugh is still asking big questions, right? Big existential questions. He's in awe of his life in general. And he's given these opportunities to take these risks, and that forced him to confront some pretty big questions about our existence. And so we see more of that. I think for a scientist like Culber, it's comforting for every question to have an answer, and I think we see him on this journey of accepting that maybe not every question gets an answer and that that's okay.
Mary, Tilly is one of my favorite characters. She's such a positive light in the show. Tell me a little bit about her story in season 5. She's a teacher now, but she finds herself back on the ship?
Mary Wiseman: Yeah, she does. She gets back on the ship. I'll let the show tell you about that. And, yeah, she's like, kind of struggling with trying to get through to this new generation of kids that are pretty messed up from going through this… burn experience and being so isolated. And so, I think she kind of goes on a journey of trying to figure out how to pierce through that.
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Blu, Wilson plays your space dad. Adoptive space dad. Culber and Stamets have such a positive marriage and relationship. What does Adira learn from watching them in terms of their relationship with Gray?
Blu del Barrio: I think that they probably really hone in on and appreciate their communication and their willingness to be there for each other at a moment's notice. To take care of each other in just a really gentle way. I don't know, I think it's just such a beautiful relationship that you two have. That there's... I don't know. I think it's just it's a perfect example for them. And that can sometimes be a hard truth to look at, to see something that works so well. But I think it's such a beautiful example for them to see and grow up with.
Looking back now. Five seasons for two of you, and three for you, Blu. What are you proudest of about the show with your characters or with the story?
Wilson Cruz: I think I'm proudest of the fact that I got to model for people that at any given moment you can reinvent your life, and take ownership of it, and create the kind of life that you feel like you deserve. You know, in your relationships, at work, in your career. That at any given moment, you can make a change and decide to live your best life and fulfill your potential. Blu del Barrio: I think I'm proudest to have shown somebody young choosing to enter a space and taking their space within that. Making a home where they want home and kind of pushing themselves, even if that's a scary experience, yeah. Mary Wiseman: And I am very proud of the community that we created among ourselves and I'm proud to have played somebody who changed her mind and followed who she really was inside.
About Star Trek: Discovery Season 5
The fifth and final season of Star Trek: Discovery finds Captain Burnham and the crew of the USS 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.
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They also talk about how much of the ship has been built practically, so it feels like you're on a starship when filming.
With Star Trek: Discovery Season 4 starting this Thursday night on Paramount+, I recently got to speak with David Ajala and Mary Wiseman about the upcoming season. During the interview, they revealed why Grudge the Cat won’t be making many convention appearances, what fans would be surprised to learn about the making of Discovery , what Season 4 is about, their favorite part about the series taking place so far in the future, and more.
In Season 4, we find Michael Burnham (Martin-Green) in the Captain’s chair after Saru ( Doug Jones ) decided to help Su'Kal start a new life on Kaminar. Discovery is still located more than nine-hundred years in the future where they are trying to help rebuild the Federation, which includes getting dilithium to the planets that were cut off by the burn. Star Trek: Discovery also stars Wilson Cruz as Dr. Hugh Culber, Anthony Rapp as Lt. Cmdr. Paul Stamets, Tig Notaro as Jett Reno, Blu Del Barrio as Adira, and is produced by CBS Studios in association with Secret Hideout and Roddenberry Entertainment. Alex Kurtzman , Michelle Paradise, Heather Kadin , Aaron Baiers , Olatunde Osunsanmi , Frank Siracusa , John Weber , Rod Roddenberry , and Trevor Roth serve as executive producers.
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Watch what David Ajala and Mary Wiseman had to say in the player above and below is exactly what we talked about.
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See ‘Star Trek: Discovery’ Season 5 Set Tour Video, Confirming Return Of Mary Wiseman’s Tilly
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Star Trek Day continued with the first details on season five of Star Trek: Discovery , which is currently being shot in Toronto. We have a behind-the-scenes video and a new image, along with a synopsis for the season.
BTS on Disco S5
With the cast busy shooting season 5, there was no panel on Star Trek Day for Discovery . However, Paramount+ showed off a behind-the-scenes set tour, guided by Wilson Cruz (Dr. Culber). The video offered the first impressions of season 5, including a visit with Mary Wiseman, who is returning as Tilly. In addition to some casual chatting with Wiseman outside the set, she can be seen back in uniform on the bridge of the USS Discovery.
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Season 5 details
According to the official announcement from Paramount+ the season five cast members include: Sonequa Martin-Green (Captain Michael Burnham), Doug Jones (Saru), Anthony Rapp (Paul Stamets), Mary Wiseman (Sylvia Tilly), Wilson Cruz (Dr. Hugh Culber), David Ajala (Cleveland “Book” Booker) and Blu del Barrio (Adira).
Here is the latest official synopsis for season three:
In season five, Captain Burnham and the crew of the U.S.S. Discovery uncover a mystery that sends 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.
First image
Paramount+ also revealed a first-look image from the new season, featuring Martin-Green, during the celebration.
Sonequa Martin-Green in first look from Discovery season 5
There was no announced date for the release of Discovery season 5. The BTS video was shot while they were shooting the fourth episode of the 10-episode season. A good guess would be for season 5 to arrive in late 2023.
Discovery currently streams exclusively on Paramount+ in the U.S. Internationally, the series is available on Paramount+ in Australia, Latin America, the UK, and South Korea, as well as on Pluto TV in Austria, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, and Switzerland on the Pluto TV Sci-Fi channel. It will also stream exclusively on Paramount+ in Italy, France, Germany, Switzerland and Austria later this year. In Canada, it airs on Bell Media’s CTV Sci-Fi Channel and streams on Crave.
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Did no one in the writers room take note of the send up with the Captain racing a jet ski on LDS?
Why oh why does anyone think this is an obligatory thing?
The fans aren’t finding this stuff cool no matter if the principal actors or EPs want it.
And note that both movies (Nemesis and Beyond) died after this kind of silliness. It’s jumping the shark Trek style.
At least there will be other episodes of Discovery in the season.
Loved the bts set video and the picture from S5 also the synopsis of the season sounds great i hope S5 is as amazing as seasons 1-4 have been. I love Discovery so much it’s my favorite of all the current shows and as Tawny Newsome said ‘If you love one thing about this modern Star Trek era we have Star Trek Discovery to thank for it’. She is right if Discovery wasn’t the massive success worldwide that it is we wouldn’t have all these new great shows.
The synopsis seems pretty vague, but a scavenger hunt across the galaxy against another group of new big bad sounds good to me.
At least it sounds that they could finally use the potential of the spore drive and get anywhere in the galaxy. Maybe they could revisit the delta and gamma quadrant. (Ok, they did that with the hunt for the red angel in season 2 but didn’t really explore unknown areas…
I bet that scene has some Beastie Boys music incorporated. 😉
Urrrghhh… oh great!.. science!.
Nice of them to bring back the worst character in the franchise as well.
Actually Wesley Crusher is a great charcter but i don’t understand why your bringing him up in a Discovery article for.
She’s not to everyone’s tastes, I admit I was very annoyed that the only humor on both Discovery and Picard at first came via awkward, rambling, quirky female characters with nervous energy. I also dont like how Adira is starting to turn into Tilly 2.0. But she’s got quite a few fans and Wiseman seems like a lovely person.
You mean Blu? Because you can’t possibly mean Tilly!
If Mary is back, Tilly can have her lines back. ;)
Life has no meaning without Tilly
late 2023????? do you mean late 2022?
Picard is winter 2023 and Discovery is still filming. The rest of 2022 will be filled by the animated series.
The second season of Strange New Worlds wrapped some time ago and is in post. It will be the next live action series to run after Picard.
According to the video they are currently shooting episode 4 which means they still have a looooong way to go. It probably wouldn’t be ready until next summer the earliest.
The show will come out mid January 2023. Not all episodes have to be done for them to start airing.
You keep saying that. Not gonna happen. Post production is way more elaborate than the days when shows were only a few weeks ahead of their airfares.
When these shows get rushed, the quality suffers. We’ve seen that.
This is the first time I said this. You must have me confused with someone else. Just my opinion anyway. It can be done if they take midseason break. It’s been done before.
He has no idea what he’s talking about as usual. It’s definitely not going to happen if they are only shooting episode 4 now.
Yeah, that makes zero sense! It’s no way Discovery will be back in mid-January.
A. Why would a show that is still filming come out before Picard and SNW seasons which both were already done months ago?
B. They wouldn’t put the show so close to Picard season 3 because the shows would overlap too much.
C. With the exception of the first season of Discovery which was filming its season finale when it the first episode aired, every show and season since had their seasons completely wrapped up before they showed them. Discovery might be done by then in terms of filming but will probably still be in post-production for a few more months.
D. If it was coming out that soon, then I think they would’ve just said that then like Picard and Prodigy. ;)
So no but thanks for playing.
Picard season 3 comes out February 2023 so my guess is snw season 2 will be in January to feb 2023 with 10 episode with picard season 3 in February-march 2023 with 10 episodes and discovery season 5 march-may 2023 with 10 episodes
The season synopsis sounds intriguing but I wish they would stop with the mystery box arcs.
A Space Indiana Jones isn’t necessarily a mystery box, and I think it’s a pretty good idea for a season.
Seeing Wilson Cruz and Anthony Rapp again got me excited! I’m ready for S5
Let’s Fly!
It wouldn’t be Discovery without some huge mystery box and a galaxy expanding threat. Yep.
Hopefully this one won’t bore me to death like season 4 ended up doing. Really like the image of Burnham on that bike though and happy to see more of the 32nd century.
Maybe that bike is the unknown ancient mystery power! They forgot the existance of bikes and cars and how to ride them, like we often saw in time-travelling-stories…
I finally enjoyed a season of this show with #4, so I’m looking forward to #5.
“Drat, what are we gonna do for season 5?” Kurtzman: “I dunno, how ’bout Indiana Jones but space.” “Sure.”
They already did that with Star Trek Kelvin timeline movies. With Pine basically playing Harrison as Kirk. And they even opened Into Darkness with an Indiana Jones style sequence based on Raiders.
Sounds like an awesome adventure. Glad they stepped away from the universe-in-peril storylines.
Do y’all think Mary is back fulltime or was she there as a guest star?
Unless the writers found a way to incorporate Tilly – in her new position at Starfleet Academy – as central to this season’s mystery, my guess is Wiseman is a “recurring regular.” Maybe she’ll appear with the crew in a couple of episodes, but could also have her own mission on the side. I’d love to see Tilly off on some big away mission with Saru. Since the starship Discovery doesn’t need two captains, hopefully the DSC writers have figured something out for Saru that moves him forward as well. David Ajala was also listed among the cast, but unless we’ve jumped ahead a year or so I don’t see how Book can be heavily featured.
I wonder if it’s intentional that this grown-up captain Burnham looks and behaves strangely similar to her mentor Captain Georgiou in some ways. I like that.
The mystery that was deliberately hidden for *centuries* (not millennia) might be Carl.
With that said, I probably don’t want to speculate way too much this time around, since our Omega Molecule dreams did not come through the last two seasons…
In season five, Captain Burnham and the crew of the U.S.S. Discovery uncover a mystery…
I hope that doesn’t take them again 9 episodes to uncover the mystery at the very end of the season…
that sends them on an epic adventure across the galaxy to find an ancient power
which hopefully won’t be filled with another mysteries and fillers…
whose very existence has been deliberately hidden for centuries
The klingons? The Borg? We still haven’t heard about them in the 31rd century… Ancient power in the 31rd century = possible present power in TOS and TNG/VOY/DS9 era.
By the way: They obviously found a way to move faster on land instead of walking for hours… In all live action series in the future the landings parties used to walk and walk and walk… instead of simply use a vehicle…how strange in so many years of Star Trek.
An ancient power hiding for centuries – I would like to finally see the Iconians in live-action Trek. If done correctly they could punctuate this season arc with some one-off stories dealing with other galactic powers on the hunt for the same power. That would give them an opportunity to show us the current state of the Klingon Empire (assuming it still exists in the 31st century in the same way it presumably does in the PIC era). I don’t really care to see the Borg on DSC. Perhaps one of the other powers could be a rebuilt Cardassian empire/union? What about the Sphere Builders from ENT? That threat had a lot of potential that was never fully explored.
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It’s a truth universally acknowledged that even among the greatest television shows in Star Trek history, most of them take two seasons to stop being kind of bad. Never has that been more true or more excruciating than in the case of Star Trek: Discovery .
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Often it felt like what Discovery was really doing in its early seasons was discovering what didn’t work. Strong performances from a great cast? That works. A Klingon design that absolutely nobody liked ? Definitely not. But despite the stumbles, Discovery season 1 had still averaged C’s and B’s with reviewers, and had built an audience and a subscriber base for Paramount Plus. On the strength of Disco ’s first season, Paramount greenlit Star Treks Picard , Lower Decks , and Prodigy , three new shows covering a huge range of ages and nostalgic tastes. And spinning out of Disco ’s second season, which introduced familiar , nostalgic characters and a brighter, more Star Trek-y tone, Paramount produced Star Trek: Strange New Worlds , inarguably the best new addition to the franchise since 1996.
Star Trek: Discovery crawled so that the rest of modern Trek could run... and then it started to walk. The show’s third season saw the USS Discovery and crew in the place that should have been their starting blocks: the bleeding future edge of Star Trek’s timeline. Thanks to season 3’s groundwork, season 4 became the first time that Discovery had a status quo worth returning to. In its fifth and final season, Star Trek: Discovery is finally free — free in a way that a Star Trek TV series hasn’t been in 23 years.
Star Trek: The Next Generation is such an elder statesman of the television elite that it’s easy to forget that it was daring. The show’s triumph wasn’t just that it featured a new cast of characters, but also its audaciousness in imagining the future of the future — and making that future unmistakably different . The Original Series showed a racial and national cooperation that seemed fantastical in its time, with an alien crewmember to denote the next frontier of embracing the other . Next Generation saw that bet and raised it, installing a member of the Klingon species, the Federation’s once-feared imperialist rival state, as a respected officer on the bridge of Starfleet’s flagship.
Next Generation ’s time period — one century after Kirk’s Enterprise — wasn’t a nominal choice, but a commitment to moving the story of Star Trek forward. From the show’s foundations, Gene Roddenberry and his collaborators, new and old, set a precedent that the Federation would evolve. Therefore, in accordance with the utopian themes of the franchise, old enemies would in time become friends. Next Generation embraced The Original Series ’ nemeses and the rest of ’90s Trek saw that bet and raised it again, pulling many of Next Gen ’s villains into the heroic fold. Voyager welcomed a Borg crewmember and disincorporated the Borg empire; Deep Space Nine gave the franchise the first Ferengi Starfleet cadet, and brokered a Federation-Klingon-Romulan alliance in the face of an existential threat.
But Discovery — at least until it made its Olympic long-jump leap 900 years into the future — couldn’t move Star Trek forward. So long as it was set “immediately before Kirk’s Enterprise,” hemmed in by the constraints of a previously established era of Star Trek history, it could graft on new elements (like Spock’s secret human foster sister) but it couldn’t create from whole cloth (like a galaxy-wide shortage of starship fuel that nearly destroyed the Federation). Like its predecessor, the ill-fated Star Trek: Enterprise of the ’00s, it was doomed to hang like a remora on the side of the events of The Original Series , or, if you’ll pardon another fish metaphor, doomed like a goldfish that can only grow as large as its half-gallon fishbowl will allow.
Discovery ’s later, free seasons in the 32nd century have shown the Federation at its most vulnerable, a subtler echo of Picard ’s own season 1 swing at fallen institutions . (Fans of Voyager and Deep Space Nine know that this is an extremely rich vein of Trek storytelling.) In its third season, Discovery solved a galaxy-wide fuel crisis that had shattered the community of the Federation. In its fourth it fought for a fragile new Federation alliance and its millennia-old ideals.
And those seasons have also boldly committed to the idea of imagining the future’s future — 900 years of it. The centuries-old rift between Vulcans and Romulans is long healed, Ferengi serve as captains in Starfleet, the work of Doctor Noonien Soong has brought new medical technologies to the fore.
Even still, Discovery hasn’t been truly free in its third and fourth seasons. Star Trek: Picard was out there, forming new past elements of a post- Next Gen / Voy / DS9 era that Discovery had to abide by. And, after all, the show still had to make sure there was something for its own next season to come back to.
But now — with Prodigy and Picard finished, and Strange New Worlds and Lower Decks locked into their settings of Star Trek’s established past, and Starfleet Academy and Section 31 not yet in production at the time that its final season would have been written — Discovery has reached the final final frontier for a Star Trek show. If you’re a Star Trek fan, that should excite you.
Not since Deep Space Nine in 1999 and Voyager in 2001 has a Star Trek series had the freedom to wrap up its run with the Federation in any state it wants to. With franchise flagship Next Generation at an end, and Voyager restricted to the Delta Quadrant only, Deep Space Nine used its last seasons to throw the Federation into all-out war, making sweeping changes to the established ficto-political norms of ’90s Trek. Voyager used its finale to do what Captain Picard never could: defang the Borg (mostly).
We don’t know exactly what Discovery will do with that freedom. Season 4 directors have talked about reaching “ into the past to get further into the future ,” and likened it to Indiana Jones. Official news releases have said the crew will “uncover a mystery that sends them on an epic adventure across the galaxy to find an ancient power whose very existence has been deliberately hidden for centuries.” But speculating on what that means would be beside the point.
Discovery , the show about an intergalactically teleporting starship, can finally, actually, go anywhere. It’s been almost a quarter of a century since a beloved Star Trek series was so free to boldly go. Let’s hope they’re very bold indeed.
Star Trek: Discovery season 5 premieres with two episodes on April 4 on Paramount Plus.
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Star Trek: Discovery Wasn't Originally Going to End With Season 5, Reveals EP
Star Trek: Discovery executive producer Alex Kurtzman reveals that, while the show has a satisfying conclusion, Season 5 wasn't meant to be its last.
Star Trek: Discovery executive producer Alex Kurtzman recently shared that the fifth season of the Paramount+ series wasn't originally planned to be its last.
During an interview with Screen Rant , Kurtzman discussed how he felt when he learned that Discovery would not return for a sixth season. "At first, I think we felt a lot of things, one of which was ‘Wow, we really picked the right topic to hit our last season with.’ It doesn't feel like, ‘Oh wait, we were on a different train. And now you're ending on a cliffhanger, you'll never find out the answer,'" he shared. "[Season 5] actually is a very complete story that has the benefit of also feeling like it's about endings. And that wasn't really intentional, at least not consciously intentional, but the studio did allow us to come in [and] do a coda. And I think what that really let us do is end the series in a way that feels satisfying, so that nothing's really left dangling."
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Kurtzman also reflected on the show's "unbelievable run," saying that it has been "very emotional for everybody." He added, "Five years of any show these days seems like a miracle. And it feels like most people, based on the watch patterns that I understand, seem to check out after two seasons of anything. And so, I think we just felt like the fact that our fans have stayed with us and have continued to grow with each iteration of Star Trek is really is beautiful."
Paramount+'s First Star Trek Series Comes to a Close
Created by Kurtzman and Bryan Fuller, Star Trek: Discovery premiered on CBS All Access (now Paramount+) in September 2017 with an ensemble cast led by Sonequa Martin-Green. While fan reception was initially mixed during Discovery 's earlier seasons, the show has now been welcomed with open arms by most of the fandom.
The 10-episode final season , per the official synopsis, "will find Captain Michael Burnham (Martin-Green) 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."
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Starfleet academy is the next star trek series.
With Discovery ending, Kurtzman revealed to Screen Rant that many of the show's behind-the-scenes crew have moved on to work on the next Star Trek series, Starfleet Academy , which is slated to begin filming later this year . The upcoming series, first announced in March 2023, will feature a new class of Starfleet cadets as they come of age in one of the most legendary places in the galaxy. Kurtzman serves as co-showrunner on Starfleet Academy alongside Noga Landau. Both will also executive produce the series. The first season will consist of 10 episodes.
The fifth and final season of Star Trek: Discovery premieres on Paramount+ on April 4.
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Sonequa Martin-Green Calls Final Ride of Star Trek: Discovery 'Our Indiana Jones Season'
Sonequa Martin-Green (Captain Burnham) dives deep into Discovery's action-packed yet 'bittersweet' endgame.
Sonequa Martin-Green is all kinds of emotional. The Star Trek: Discovery star is jazzed about discussing the action-packed fifth and final season of the hit Paramount+ sci-fi series. But she’s also sentimental about this Trek's end game. “It was certainly sad on the [last] day and bittersweet,” the actor shared about the final shoot in a recent round table interview with journalists. ‘We laughed and we cried, and we sang songs and danced and recited poetry, and everything. We were really there with each other, but thankfully, it's never over, and we don't really have to say goodbye.”
True. Especially in the Trek- verse. Anything can happen. To be sure, it has been a wildly entertaining, if not surprising, run for Discovery or, to use Trek vernacular, Disco. The series was thoroughly embraced when it debuted back in 2017, 12 years after Star Trek: Enterprise bowed. It was also a curious beast, landing on CBS All Access before helping launch Paramount+, becoming its greatest hope for the streamer's future.
It succeeded on that front, paving the way for Star Trek: Picard, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, Star Trek: Lower Decks, and Star Trek: Prodigy . Disco also gave us Michelle Yeoh in its first few seasons. We’re eagerly awaiting Yeoh's stand-alone film on Paramount+, Star Trek: Section 31, which the Oscar winner calls " Mission: Impossible in space." Yet another new series, Star Trek: Starfleet Academy , is expected to blast off in 2026.
In this wildly inventive final season, Captain Burnham (Martin-Green) and the crew of the U.S.S. Discovery race to uncover a mystery about an ancient power whose very existence has been deliberately hidden for centuries. Others are on the hunt for it, too, and that’s not good. In the wrong hands, the power can be destructive. Sonequa Martin-Green reveals more about the season ahead, how playing Burnham changed her, and so much more in this exclusive interview. Dive in.
'This Is Our Indiana Jones Season'
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In addition to Sonequa Martin-Green, the final season of Disco includes Doug Jones (Saru), Anthony Rapp (Paul Stamets), Mary Wiseman (Sylvia Tilly), Wilson Cruz (Dr. Hugh Culber), David Ajala (Cleveland “Book” Booker), Blu del Barrio (Adira) and Callum Keith Rennie (Rayner). Recurring guest stars Elias Toufexis (L’ak) and Eve Harlow (Moll) are a hoot, recalling some of Trek’s most memorable villains , such as Q, Khan, and Klingon sisters Lursa and B'Etor from TNG . Journalists have vowed to remain tight-lipped about Season 5 until certain episodes air. However, we can say that something from the Star Trek canon takes center stage.
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Beyond that, going into Season 5, none of the cast members knew it would be their last season together. When official word dropped, most of the cast returned to shoot extra scenes. However, Season 5 was intended to stand out from any other season of Disco. Sonequa Martin-Green explained:
“We spoke a lot before we started shooting because, of course, we didn't know that it was our last season, but we knew that we wanted to make a tonal shift. [Executive producer/writer] Michelle Paradise was really vocal about that. She let us in on that process, and she said, ‘We really want this to be an adventure. We want this to be our Indiana Jones season. We want everybody to have fun. We're going to be dealing with some huge subject matter.’ Now, we went even bigger with our subject matter than ever before, which is crazy when you consider the storylines of Seasons 3 and 4.”
The showrunners and actors went “bigger,” but they also brought some levity. “We wanted there to be a sense of thrill, a sense of fun, a sense of joy and adventure,” Martin-Green added. “So, we had to approach it that way. And it's funny…It became a mantra for us . ‘Remember, it's an adventure.’”
How Disco Changed Sonequa Martin-Green
Sonequa Martin-Green became the first African American female captain in Star Trek history. Michael Burnham started as a mutineer, and after Season 3’s 900-year time leap, the character eventually found her way to becoming captain . In between, Martin-Green exhibited remarkable emotional range—from sparring with Michelle Yeoh’s Emperor Philippa Georgiou and those scenes as Spock’s (Ethan Peck) half-sister to morphing into the kick-ass captain fans have come to love. When MovieWeb asked how this role stretched her as a performer or as a person, Martin-Green said:
Oh, my goodness, I mean, stretching is what happened… if I started out as a tiny rubber band, I'm a rubber band the size of a room at this point now. It stretched me in every single possible way that you can be stretched
“I had not experienced being the lead of a show before, I did not know what it was like to lead a sci-fi show. I certainly didn't know what it was like to lead a Trek show. I didn't know what being in the Star Trek franchise was like. I didn't know what it would be like to create such an intense character, a character that evolves in such a deep way," she added, saying:
"I didn't know what it would be like to have such a physical component to my performance because it was even more physical than the work that I had done on The Walking Dead , and the stage combat I had done before that… from the very beginning, I knew that I wanted to sort of model, as crazy as this might sound, or as funny, or sort of esoteric as it might sound, I wanted to model my leadership after Christ, because it was like, nobody's better here than Jesus. And the greatest leader is the greatest servant.”
Captain Burnham surely will go down as one of the most compelling, if not gutsy, Star Trek captains in history. Expect more surprises from the character this season. “We all just went in there together and gave our all because we knew that it was important," Martin-Green added. “I grew in every way. I feel that I can handle so much more now as an actor, as an artist, as a Black woman, as a woman, as a wife, as a mother, as a friend, as a professional, as a producer, as an executive producer, I feel like it [ Star Trek: Discovery ] was my doctorate degree in this artistry and in this business.”
A Deeper Message Within Star Trek: Discovery
Star Trek: The Original Series and Star Trek: The Next Generation did a stellar job of setting a certain Trek tone. Sci-fi and action , yes, but it also made a point to include messages about hope, teamwork, and diplomacy. So, what was it like for Sonequa Martin-Green and the cast to produce Disco, especially at a time when the country is so divided?
“I feel that I can speak for all of us [the cast] confidently when I say this… that if you are going to be an artist, then there's an element of activism with it. And I think that that's how it should be. Art in its purest form is there to serve. And it's there to affect positive change. It's there to sort of help people heal… grow… see themselves, see each other, and help people reach higher, right? And if that is what we can achieve as artists, then that is a dream come true. That's the opportunity that we've been given here. That's what Trek has done already."
"Oh, my goodness, we were in desperate need to do it, too," added Martin-Green. "We were in desperate need to contribute to the franchise in that same way and push that needle forward, right? And we all took it seriously. We took it equally seriously. There was no ego. We were like, ‘This is really important. Okay, let's go.’ We hope we do it justice, you know? And I can confidently say, without boasting, I'm so proud of everyone. I think that we did. I hope that people think that we did."
On Co-star Callum Keith-Rennie and Biggest Hopes
Sonequa Martin-Green also shared how excited she was to work alongside Californication alum/ Umbrella Academy star Callum Keith-Rennie, who comes aboard this season as the steely Captain Rayner. Expect some sparring with these two, as well.
“I just love Callum. I love him so much,” Sonequa Martin-Green. “He's such a brilliant actor , and we've been blessed with such brilliant actors coming in and giving their all and making our story what it is, helping us be bigger and better and brighter and deeper. And I also have to give a lot of respect to Eve Harlow and Elias Toufexis, who were such a major part of our final season as well… We were all having dinner at the very top of the season… and Callum was looking around, and he was like, ‘So this is for real? So, you guys just like, really love each other? Huh? I don't know about this.’ He was laughing; he was joking. I bust out laughing… by the end of it, we were all hugging and crying together, you know?”
As for what she hopes audiences will get out of Disco's final season, Martin-Green shared:
“So many things. I want them to get everything that we try to give them, you know, because it's such a multi-layered, complex, grand, epic season and we pose some of the biggest questions known to life and to existence. And I hope that people… walk away with a renewed sense of self, with a renewed sense of purpose, with a renewed sense of hope, and with a renewed or an even greater desire to look up. Not just look out but look up as well. That's my hope.” The final season (10 episodes) of Star Trek: Discovery premieres on Apr. 4 on Paramount+.
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Previously, she founded The Mary Sue. ... In its fifth and final season, Star Trek: Discovery is finally free — free in a way that a Star Trek TV series hasn't been in 23 years.
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