Next Chapter and Season 2 on Star Trek Discovery
Info, Rumors, and Fact-Checks on Discovery’s Next Chapter and Season 2
**Red Spoiler Alert**
New, old aliens. Yes, one of this season’s major complaints was the lack of familiar aliens. Sure, the Klingons were around but fans wanted more—as always.
It has now been confirmed that we will at least see Andorians and Tellarites. Here is the tweet exchange.
That is the one of the show-runners, Aaron Harberts, confirming Andorians and Tellarites. Needless to say, season two will be amazing.
Another complaint has been canon. According to Harberts, season 2 will start to connect the dots and bring Discovery more in line with the canon. As the time period gets closer to TOS things should smooth out.
There Won’t be a Post Voyager Appearance
One of the rumors flying around is that the last jump in the mid-season finale might throw Discovery past the Voyager time period. That idea might come from the fact that at the onset of the project it had been proposed to have each season of the show take place in a different time period. However, CBS decided, according to TrekMovie.com, that “ idea was… too costly, so the show was structured around a single era with a single crew, but with new story arcs for each season.”
That said, the next “chapter” in season one might be borrowing Voyager themes. Here is how CBS is describing it, “The second chapter of Star Trek: Discovery begins with Episode 10, ‘Despite Yourself’: While in unfamiliar territory, the U.S.S. Discovery crew is forced to get creative in their next efforts to survive opposing and unprecedented forces and return home.”
From that excerpt, we can gather that they will be somewhere far from home. Could that be lost in the multiverse, the Mirror Universe, or, maybe, the Delta quadrant? It is up for speculation until January. However, I’m pretty sure we are definitely not traveling in time.
Shifting Focus
While the Klingon War is not over, according to Gretchen Berg the other showrunner, the focus is shifting away from the war. This makes me happy.
Harberts said, “The war is always alive and always a motivator, but we also really wanted to try to tell some stories that stop down from the war. And I think that Chapter 2 will open in a place where as much as the war is weighing on our characters’ minds, they’ve got a bigger problem to solve.”
Clearly, the conflict has not been solved, however, personally, some of the best episodes, in the first half of the season, placed the war in the back-burner.
We Don’t Have a Date
Here’s what the people at Digital Spy are reporting:
“Now we know what we can do and where the sand traps are, so let’s give ourselves ample time to announce a date that makes sense to everybody — both the needs of production and CBS. Breaking story is, in some ways, the easier and faster thing; it’s the ability to execute on it that’s much harder. We want to take the right amount of time and don’t want to rush,” (Kurtzman).
The key words: “ample time.” The can be anywhere from September 2018 to September 2019. If the previous production and post-production time is any indication, it might be closer to January-September 2019. Remember, this season was announced on November 2, 2015 for a premiere in January 2017. Clearly January 2017 did not happen. I’m keeping my fingers crossed but my logic centers tell me it is going to be a while.
Meanwhile, anxiously waiting for Chapter 2 January 7, 2018.
