By “Star Trek: Discovery” star/executive producer Sonequa Martin-Green and showrunner Michelle Paradise recently spoke with Collider about the fifth and final season of the series.
As previously reported, the cast and crew shot the fifth season without planning it as a finale. After the cancellation decision came down, they scored several days of extra filming to shoot scenes to add to the finale and serve as a wrap-up of the whole series.
Today, they confirm that partly because of this the finale episode will get an extended runtime and the result aims to “feel complete”.
Paradise says she was quite aware of Trek finales in times past from the great (TNG’s “All Good Things,” DS9’s “What We Leave Behind,” Picard’s “The Last Generation”), to the annoyingly abrupt (VOY’s “Endgame”), to the outright bad (ENT’s “These Are the Voyages”) and put a lot of thought into it:
“Alex [Kurtzman] and I talked about it a lot in terms of what those final moments would be, what it would look like, and what did we want to do there? You always want to wrap a season in a really wonderful way.
Wrapping a series, especially when we didn’t know going into the season that it would be the final season, we thought a lot about it, and we put a lot into it. I do think that people will really enjoy it and that it will feel ‘of a piece,’ and feel complete in a really good, even if it’s bittersweet, way.”
“Star Trek: Discovery” will air its fourth episode of the fifth season this Thursday with the series finale to air at the end of May.
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