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Star Trek : Discovery star Sonequa Martin - Green on showrunners Alex Kurtzman and Michelle Paradise ’s original plans for a two - hour finale .
WhenStar Trek : Discoverywrapped its journey after five season in May 2024 , a chapter was shut down on the enfranchisement ’s first rain cats and dogs series on Paramount+ that saw Capt . Michael Burnham ( Sonequa Martin - Green ) save the galaxy one concluding sentence in the 32nd century before they ’re capable to enfold up the story definitively with an epilogue that was cobble together as it was n’t the original be after end . Once season five was announced as the last , Martin and co - starDavid Ajalawere not only able to say good-by to the gang of the U.S.S. Discovery , but we travel further into their future and their boy , who ’s now becoming a captain , himself in the finale " Life , Itself . "
Appearing in Trek Talks 4 , a telethon to benefit the Hollywood Food Coalition , the two were joined byDoug Jones(Suru),Wilson Cruz(Culber),Jayne Brook(Cornwell),Mary Chieffo(L’Rell),Blu del Barrio(Adira),Ian Alexander(Gray),Emily Coutts(Detmer),Ronnie Rowe(Bryce ) , andSara Mitich(Airiam / Nilsson ) to talk about a much more ambitious finale fromAlex KurtzmanandMichelle Paradisethat would have land the finale to two hours or else of one that clocked in at just under an hour and a half .
Star Trek: Discovery Star Sonequa Martin-Green on Plans for the Original Finale
When it came to the original programme , theStar Trek : Discoveryfinale was localize to tie up all loose ends . " I remember from the second we obtain out that the show was give way to be ending , and we were in talks with Paramount Plus about how we were conk out to wrap the show up . What they wanted was an additional episode to really be able to touch everyone ’s stories , to really be able-bodied to close this thing out , " Martin - Green said ( viaTrekMovie.com ) . " We were not able to be afforded that . So they said , it ’s not run to be an additional episode . It ’s not go to be , I think what Alex and Michelle , originally , wanted was a full two - hour movie finale kind of thing , correct ? And it was like , no , we ’re not go to be capable to do that . And it ’s like , okay , well then what about an extra episode ? No , we ’re not go to be able-bodied to do that . Okay , what about like an extra half of an sequence or something like that ? "
Martin - Green reveal what ended up happening , " What they ended up having was about 12 pages .. close it up in 12 pages , right ? I feel like that ’s how long the coda was . It could n’t have been any longer than that , right , David ? I finger like it was really poor . … I think of being really sad when I found out about that because suddenly our option were very limited in what we were going to be capable to extend to in that inadequate period of time . " The actress had ideas about estimate to stretch along the budget that would include everyone . " I had all these dream and visions and ideas about how all of us are in a lily-white elbow room ? And we ’re talking . We ’re in a dreaming space . And it ’s all of us . And we have this amazing conversation in like all this stuff . We divulge things that have never been reveal before … "
The actress remain menial on Kurtzman and Paradise ’s imagination , " Alex and Michelle have sound out this , we ’ll keep saying this , that we ’re grateful that they gave us this because they did not have to . And this is not always the vitrine with show . So we did get to close up and I am so thankful for that . " The final time of year would see a few swaps of bridge deck crew as filming commitments elsewhere limitedOyin Oladejo(Owosekun ) and Coutts ' intimacy , appearing infewer episode , but they give back for the final bridge reunion scene .
For more , you could turn back out the entire segment in the television , which includes more thoughts from Ajala and Martin - Green on thefinale . All five season ofStar Trek : Discoveryare available on Paramount+ .
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