(courtesy IMDb (c) Paramount+)
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The final installment of [Star Trek: Discovery] sees “Captain Burnham and the crew of the U.S.S. Discovery uncovering a mystery that will send them on an epic adventure across the galaxy to find an ancient power whose very existence has been deliberately hidden for centuries. But there are others on the hunt as well…dangerous foes who are desperate to claim the prize for themselves and will stop at nothing to get it,” per the official synopsis.The cast includes Sonequa Martin-Green (Captain Michael Burnham), Doug Jones (Saru), Anthony Rapp (Paul Stamets), Mary Wiseman (Sylvia Tilly), Wilson Cruz (Dr. Hugh Culber), David Ajala (Cleveland “Book” Booker), Blu del Barrio (Adira) and Callum Keith Rennie (Rayner). Season five also features recurring guest stars Elias Toufexis (L’ak) and Eve Harlow (Moll). (courtesy Coming Soon)
I hate saying goodbye to TV/streaming shows I love.
Yes, I know we can always rewatch them and relive the good and bad times, and that, in this time of digital 24/7-ness, we never really lose or leave anything.
But, BUT, and here’s the thing, there’s a melancholy to rewatching old episodes of much-loved shows because we know we’ll never get to see anything new from them, and that, while, yes, yes, the characters aren’t real – but aren’t they though? In my heart and my imagination they fiercely and passionately live and breathe – you still wonder what they might be up to know, how their lives and relationships might have developed.
It’s a bittersweet time and I’m feeling it again as I have to say bid farewell – not until 30 May when the final episode, “Life, Itself” airs but that will come way too soon – to Star Trek: Discovery that for reasons I can’t fathom never really received the fulsome love it deserved from all fans of the franchise, but which is every bit the equal in terms of narrative drive, emotional heft and attachment to characters of all the shows that went before it, starting of course with The Original Series back in the 1960s.
This new and final adventure does look quite dramatically and emotionally wonderful and it we have to say goodbye, and we do, then I’m glad it’s with one last big epic romp through a future galaxy where a lot might have changed but where the things that matter – love, friendship, camaraderie and fighting the good fight – remain and we can rest assured that the people we love will keep on living and fighting even as they fly one last time off our screens.
Star Trek: Discovery premieres its fifth and final season on Paramount+ on 4 April with episodes one and two, “Red Directive” and “Under the Twin Moons” respectively.