![]() ![]() “This final season will see our beloved crew take on a new adventure, and we can’t wait to celebrate the series’ impact on the franchise leading up to its final season early next year.” “The series and its incredible cast and creatives ushered in a new era for Star Trek when it debuted over six years ago, embracing the future of streaming with serialized storytelling, bringing to life deep and complex characters that honor Gene Roddenberry’s legacy of representing diversity and inclusion, and pushing the envelope with award-winning world-building,” Giles added. Discovery then made a return to CBS in the fall of 2020, when Season 1 was used as contingency programming because of the pandemic’s impact on production. ![]() Star Trek: Discovery did get a broadcast premiere on CBS before becoming a CBS All Access exclusive. With Picard currently airing its final season, Star Trek: Discovery will be the final CBS all Access series to end its run on Paramount+.ĬBS made waves in 2017 when Discovery, part of a storied franchise and one of its most valuable IPs, was sent to the company’s then in-the-works streaming service instead of the flagship broadcast network. It also launched the Star Trek franchise on the streamer, which has grown to five current series. It helped announce then-upstart streamer CBS All Access as its first commissioned original series. The fight was a bit handbags, if I’m being honest, but it had a great exchange: “I don’t know who I am anymore!” from Culber, and a stern, knowing, “Who do you think you’re talking to?” in response.Star Trek: Discovery, which launched in 2017, is a legacy show for Paramount+. ![]() All told, Tyler had an especially terrible day at work, since he was also publicly attacked by a thoroughly annoyed Hugh Culber (Wilson Cruz), who is still struggling to adapt to his death, his new, reconstituted body, and the well-intentioned but profoundly naive romantic efforts of Stamets (Anthony Rapp). But Section 31 is on the case, especially since a whole bunch of sensitive tell-tale data is being beamed around by what appears to be Tyler (Shazad Latif) but is quite clearly Airiam (Sara Mitich), who you’ll recall is now technologically compromised. Once the Talosians have unknotted Spock’s mind, he and Michael need to be picked up by Discovery. It’s almost enough to distract you from the fact that very little forward progression is actually made on the nebulous Red Angel plot here, despite confirmation of what we already suspected: The cosmic meddler is a human from the future whose grand design must be followed in order to avert the global extinction of sentient life. Luckily, “If Memory Serves” is exceedingly well written and acted, particularly by Martin-Green and Peck but also by Mount, who gets to add some emotional contours to the upright captain that we haven’t had a chance to see yet. It’s all a bit difficult to make sense of and in part seems present only to force Spock and Michael into a couple of emotionally-charged sibling rivalry moments in which they relive traumatic memories from their shared past. It’s a risky move, especially since it requires a lot of time-and-space-bending physic illusions for it all to fit together, as the big-headed residents of Talos IV, where Michael (Sonequa Martin-Green) and Spock fled last week, project conversations and memories back and forth with the aid of a human woman, Vina (Melissa George), who has previous with both Pike and Star Trek in general. For the first time, the show has ventured into explicitly canonical territory, casting a slightly different light on a notorious early-days adventure of Pike and Spock (now played, very well in this episode, by Anson Mount and Ethan Peck, respectively). ![]() “If Memory Serves” could go either way, to be honest. I’ve said before that one of the things I greatly respect about Star Trek: Discovery, especially as someone who isn’t a long-standing fan of the franchise, is its willingness to do things that are almost guaranteed to rile up the dedicated fanbase, many of whom already consider the show’s action-packed, highly serialized contemporary leanings to be heretical in the first place. ![]()
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