The Star Trek: Discovery crew’s mission isn’t ending anytime soon: CBS All Access has renewed the Trek series for a fourth season, TVLine has learned.
Production on Season 4 will begin on Monday, Nov. 2, per the streamer. Discovery‘s third season just debuted this week, with new episodes airing each Thursday for the next 12 weeks.
Discovery stars Sonequa Martin-Green as Commander Michael Burnham, a human raised by Vulcans who serves aboard the U.S.S. Discovery. The supporting cast includes Michelle Yeoh as Philippa Georgiou, Doug Jones as Saru, Anthony Rapp as Stamets, Mary Wiseman as Tilly and Wilson Cruz as Dr. Hugh Culber.
The first two seasons of Discovery leaned heavily on Trek lore, set ten years before the original Star Trek series and featuring familiar characters like Spock, Captain Christopher Pike and Spock’s father Sarek. But Season 3 ventures more than 900 years into the future, going far beyond where any previous Trek series is set; David Ajala (Supergirl) joins the cast as enigmatic smuggler Cleveland “Book” Booker.
Debuting in 2017, Star Trek: Discovery has also inspired a number of spinoffs on CBS All Access, including short film collection Star Trek: Short Treks and the upcoming Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, starring Discovery alums Anson Mount (Pike), Ethan Peck (Spock) and Rebecca Romijn (Number One). CBS also began airing Season 1 episodes of Discovery this fall to bolster its primetime lineup in light of production delays caused by the global coronavirus pandemic.
Martin-Green and Jones, along with executive producers Alex Kurtzman and Michelle Paradise, announced the start of production on Season 4 in a new video; watch it here:
TVLine’s Streaming Scorecard has been updated to reflect the news. Happy to see Burnham and the Discovery crew’s mission continue, Trekkies? Beam down to the comments to share your thoughts.
Fork Yeah!!! Awesome news. Episode 1 of season 3 was awesome! More StarTrek!
Great. I really enjoyed the start of the new season.
Yes!! And I need more renewals like this- “show is renewed and production starts tomorrow”! Lol
Very happy for this early renewal!
Are they making more Short Treks?
Excellent news. It feels like Discovery is just starting to hit its stride, the same way Next Generation deepened into the great show we know and love in S3. Glad to know that CBS is giving it time to continue building its unique mythology.
Indeed!
Best news of the day! I haven’t even started watching the new season yet.
This show is garbage, Klutzman SUCKS, the writing sucks, and the acting is terrible. The third season is a hot steamy mess of a rip off of Roddenberrys Andromeda. Klutzman is a complete HACK!
You know you could, like, not watch things you don’t enjoy, right? There’s lots of stuff to watch these days. I’m sure you’ll like something :-)
Disagree.
There’s always at least one.
So, you’ve never watched the show. Why post?
*happy dance*
YEESSS! I LOVE THIS SHOW!
awesome
We here at .the Collective are pleased with this news.
Why ?
It is very well shot. Looks very expensive. But script was always the problem. And main character. Sonequa Martin-Green can not act. At all. She was horrible on Walking Dead. And she is as horrible here. I dont know why she was cast.
There is a dude who is always in rubber costume. Covering his whole face. And that dude acts circles around Sonequa ))) Because he can act. Sonequa Martin-Green cant. She has exact one face expression. She always looks like her stomach hurts.
There is a reason why she was upstaged by male characters, her captains in all 2 seasons. Despite her being main character. Because they were good actors and she is not. Even that red head woman acts better then Sonequa. And no wig for season 3 will change that and will teach Sonequa how to act.
this series would have been fine starting in the distant future instead of the awkward tango with canon being 10 years before TOS
But without that we wouldn’t be getting Strange New Worlds.
Sonequa Martin-Green cannot act to save her life. Season 3 has been drudgery as it slogs through her overacting, constant fake crying and raspy whispering meant to imply urgency or an in depth understanding no one else can grasp. The only redeeming aspects to the show are when she is off scene. Perhaps part of this is due to the writing. I liked the fact that they plunked Discovery 900 years into the future to free the series from the restraints of the classic Star Trek series, but little has been done to leverage the new environment. It is still a constant rip off of existing sci-fi plots. I wonder how big this series could have been had someone like Michelle Hurd been cast as Micahel Burnham. She as is good in Picard as Martin-Green is awful in Discovery. The good news for Martin-Green was the removal of Michael Yeoh who through her solid acting repeatedly exposes Martin-Green’s substandard acting.