‘Star Trek: Discovery’ Was Denied 2-Hour Finale Movie, Says Sonequa Martin-Green
‘Star Trek: Discovery’ Was Denied 2-Hour Finale Movie, Says Sonequa Martin-Green
At Trek Talks 4, the 'Discovery' cast talked about the show's finale and David Ajala confessed he still can't watch it.
Good. It was already three seasons too long.
That's a shame. Not that I'm into Discovery at all, but the best series finales are always double-episodes. I quite literally just watched DS9's finale earlier today, and it would've felt way too rushed if it had just been a regular episode.
the best series finales are always double-episodes
I think you’re right:
TNG: 2-parter, check
DS9: 2-parter, check
VOY: 2-parter, check
ENT: 1-shot, check
DISCO: 1-shot, check
I count Enterprise as 1/2 since TNG was the other half.
For me it's hard to consider discovery as even star trek. It was like a weird cartoon where half of the time was spent on plot holes and half of the time on people asking other people how they feel. It was like most modern shows that are made for people watching it while doomscroling on their phones. Except for discoverys aspect for care for mental health, I really don't understand what it was about. The characters were always acting so illogical and weird. Maybe it's again time to make a Star Trek show that is about modern problems that are solved with wit and diplomacy, a show thats not going to always try to 1-up itself and become a bizzare comedy because of it.
Like Strange New Worlds?
I adore SNW, but honestly, "always trying to 1-up itself and becoming a bizarre comedy because of it" seems like a better description of it than it is of Disco.
I think the word "movie" is a little misleading, but it makes sense that they would have wanted to do a full 2-hour "event" episode.
Yeah. There were some things that were really sweet about that coda but it sure didn't make for a coherent and satisfying end to the series that kick-started the modern era of Star Trek television.
It ended nicely but too quickly. I wouldn’t mind a special.
Everything deserves a finale, rather than to be cancelled. Discovery was not worth it though.
I think they were well into shooting the season when the cancellation came down no? They didn't have much time to turn the season finale into a series finale.
They had no time at all - filming was already complete.
They were given a short amount of time (3 days IIRC) to film the epilogue, and by then most of the sets had been dismantled.
I hope we can yeat Saru in somewhere else - at least the occasional appearance on STA. Let's hope that Robert Picardo claiming "he'll be deeper" means he'll be 99% comic relief like when he said he'd be "more than comic relief" in Prodigy, meaning the show will be a banger rather than a melodramatic despair-fest with the occasional redeeming quality.
Either that or throw him through a portal to another era and call it temporal causality, although I guess the only currently running show they could throw him in is SNW, which wouldn't make sense for obvious reasons. Now if Prodigy got its (unfortunately improbable) season 3 and he somehow managed to appear and they made a good plot out of it, I might not mind.
Saru and the backstory about his planet was the best part of Discovery.
