New Characters, New Planets, and new adventures for the crew of the USS Discovery!
Not only is there a BRAND NEW Captain, but we’ve also got two other new cast members joining the series.
Star Trek: Discovery Season 5 looks to take a different direction to the previous seasons, as Doctor Kovich seems to send Captain Michael Burnham on a treasure hunt across the galaxy!
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A brand new trailer from New York Comic con dropped for Star Trek: Discovery Season 5, and we are here to break it down!
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So, first off the bat, let's get this out of the way. It doesn’t seem like the universe is at risk in this season, and our crew can just have a relaxing time.
Finally!
Though personally I very much enjoyed the DMA and the Burn storylines, and I guess even Season 2 was the fate of the universe.
We finally get to see our crew in their downtime for a season. And what better thing to do in your downtime than go on a treasure hunt?
And that seems to be the premise of this season! The season's official description is this:
“In Season 5, Captain Burnham and the crew of the U.S.S. Discovery uncover a mystery that sends 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. “
So definitely sounds like an interesting premise for a series, ancient civilisations and adventures around the galaxy. But let's break down the teaser and see what we can find!
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So first up we get some initial planet side shots of this lush forest. Throughout this trailer, we see more of presumably this same planet, which has some overgrown ancient stone statue heads strewn about its ground.
We do get some other planet side shots, but we’ll talk about them later.
What is interesting about these stone statue heads is that they have 4 eyes, which is quite unlike most star trek species we have seen, though mostly because they all are very humanoid with just bumpy foreheads.
But at first this makes me think of the Batarians from Mass Effect.
We do even see Burnham climbing this statue while holding what looks to be two 32nd century Type II phasers in one hand.
So staying in this forest environment, later in this trailer we see that Burnham and Saru are in away mission gear and are then running from something.
With this season being a treasure hunt, and on this planet with ancient statues, I could see some homages to Indiana Jones, perhaps they’ve set off a trap of a giant rolling boulder?
? Or might that be too much on the nose?
We even see Saru do a little roll!
Anyway, we have the return of Tilly!
She was last seen last season leaving the U.S.S. Discovery to accept a teacher position at the newly opened Starfleet Academy can be seen raising a toast with Captain Burnham, Stamets, Culber and Adira.
However, she did return in the Season 4 Finale and aided Admiral Vance in evacuating
This could be some form of diplomatic event, or a celebration of sorts. Perhaps we will have a little time jump and this could be a year since last season, and a year since the reuniting of Earth or the Opening of Starfleet Academy.
Kovich “the greatest treasure in the known galaxy is out there, what are you waiting for?” seems to say to Burnham, in some sort of probably holodeck simulation, as they are surrounded by destroyed trees with what looks like a planet behind them.
But then we also see Kovich talking to a quite beat up Burnham when he ends that sentence, and it seems to be a new room, perhaps Kovich’s office? I do wonder what new sets we might get this season.
Burnham says her new catchphrase of “Lets Fly” and we immediately cut to a scene which we saw a glimpse of at Star Trek Day, of Burnham riding a vehicle on a sandy planet.
hich we saw a glimpse of at Star Trek Day, of Burnham riding a vehicle on a sandy planet. Now we see a structure towering out of the sand above burnham, and this looks to be jagged rocks coming out of the desert.
Though in later footage we see another character on this bike vehicle in the desert. This character on the bike is Captain Rayner, played by Callum Keith Rennie. This character is described as so.
“Rayner is a gruff, smart Starfleet captain who holds a clear line between commander and crew – he leads, they follow. Rayner’s all about the mission, whatever it may be, and he doesn’t do niceties along the way;"
" his feeling is, you get the job done and apologise later. He has a storied track record of wartime success, but in times of peace, he struggles. Collaboration is not his strong suit. That said, if it serves the greater good he’s willing to learn... but it won’t be easy.”
Now this character has probably been fighting the Emerald Chain all his life before the events of Season 3 of Discovery, and is a wartime captain who doesn’t know how to acclimatise to peacetime.
This sounds very familiar to our Discovery crew, who probably are struggling to adjust to not having to deal with so many crises.
He still sounds like a Starfleet Officer though, knowing what is right and doing it for the greater good. Callum Keith Rennie is well known for his role of playing Cylon Leoben Conry in the Battlestar Galactica Reboot series.
We get a picture of him and he has pointed ears, though they look slightly different than what we would expect from a Vulcan or Romulan, and with the normal hairstyle, he could simply be part Vulcan/Romulan and part human.
Considering this is the 32nd century, I would be weirded out if we didn’t get more alien hybrids, with the Federation President being a prime example.
He does look like a cool character, and may be slightly an antagonist to our characters, but we know his motivations and heart are in the right place.
You’ve got to wonder what starship he is commanding. Perhaps the new USS Voyager-J?
We see our bridge crew on the Bridge of the USS Discovery with Kovich there, and with Kovich being a favourite character of ours I do hope we get more of him.
Though I do like the mystery of just who the hell is he, it might be nice to finally learn who he is and what he does.
But not only does Kovich return but we see the return of Book. Last we saw him, he was off to help aid Federation relief efforts for people displaced by the DMA.
So perhaps he is assigned to another Federation ship.
The quarters he does find himself in are the Discovery Quarters set, but this could be another Federation ship like the USS Credence, which did use the Discoveries Interior sets.
The Credence was assigned to distribute dilithium to other systems, so perhaps it has been tasked with distributing aid to DMA victims. That would be nice, and they do still have the model for the USS Credence.
We see Burnham on an away mission with Rhys and Owo in tactical gear, in what I think is some kind of underground system, or maybe even sewer system. There are grates above them and the floor is reflective, though it could just be the corridor of a ship.
But the walls of this section do look quite rock-like, which makes me think this is on a planet somewhere.
There is an explosion, which must be in this same area due to the similar architecture on the walls and it looks to be a vault of some kind, with these pieces of technology held on display.
The ones who set the charges, a duo, are wearing really cool helmets, and I believe these will be our antagonists of this season, and trying to find the same treasure that the Discovery is searching for as well.
Think of the villains in games like Uncharted, or movies like Indiana Jones.
Now our duo, seen in the marketplace holding a gun to someone and shooting them, is Moll and L’ak.
Moll, the human woman played by Eve Harlow is a former courier turned outlaw, who is highly intelligent and dangerous with an impressive strategic mind and sharp wit.
So I bet that she will be coming up with a plan to stay one step ahead of the discovery crew in finding this treasure they are looking for.
But her partner instantly became a favourite when I realised who played him.
L’ak, is played by Elias Toufexis, whose name doesn’t sound familiar to you, he played Adam Jensen in the Deus Ex series of games, has been in the expanse, but this isn’t his first time on Star Trek Discovery.
Elias Toufexis previously played the character called “Cold” , someone who I didn’t know had a name, and was one of the prisoners on the prison transport shuttle that Burnham was on in the very first season of the show.
But now he is playing a character who almost looks like a Reman, and I so hope he is Reman, because I was worried that the Remans may have gone extinct after the Romulan Supernova, since the Romulans wouldn’t help them to escape. So if he is, I am glad.
L’ak is also a former courier turned outlaw, who is tough, impulsive and fiercely protective of his beloved partner, Moll.
As long as Moll is safe, he doesn’t care about collateral damage or its consequences. So he definitely sounds like an interesting character, and I can't wait to see more of him.
With both of these characters being ex-couriers, it will be interesting to see how the courier system has degraded with the resurgence of the Federation and Starfleet.
Now that trade routes are safe, planets probably don't need to rely on individual couriers who may exploit them, so what do these couriers do now
And it seems like this duo decided to go the way of crime.
So a location we saw earlier, but see a bit more now is this very interesting looking marketplace, and we see that our outlaw duo are there, but Burnham is as well incognito.
So perhaps the two groups are looking for a clue here, one is deciding to go incognito and the other is going guns blazing.
Market scene fights are one of my favourites so we could have a nice set piece here between the two forces.
We do actually see a fight breaking out here later in the trailer, with L’ak smashing some dude with a vase and throwing a weapon to Moll.
There are some familiar weapons in this room though, including a Klingon Ceremonial Bat’Leth from Season 1 of Discovery!
So at least Klingons are kinda indirectly mentioned in the 32nd century!
Common Discovery, have the balls to do it, seeing one would be great... we'd support you!
Later on we do see what looks to be our new Captain Rayner also in disguise at the market, so this could be a joint mission between our two captains, now that Book is basically on house arrest and can't go on these fun missions with Burnham.
Moll and L’ak are described as a bonnie and clyde sort of outlaw duo, and we get to see some of that in this trailer, with Elias Toufexis working really well under his prosthetics.
In the same underground place, we see our first look of the 32nd Century Type 3 phaser, the rifle version of the Starfleet Phaser.
So far we had only seen the type 2 phaser pistol version, but this rifle version definitely has similar elements, though we’ll have to wait to see more of it as the stock of the rifle looks a little weird.
And it seems like Burnham comes head to head with our enemy duo.
Saru and President T’Rina are seen together at Federation Headquarters, and now that they have made strides in their relationship last season, it will be very interesting to see their continuing relationship this season.
Again, we see Tilly on the Discovery this time though, so what her purpose here might be who knows.
The Latter half of this trailer features numerous shots of this puzzle box, with numerous interlocking and moving pieces.
This is probably part of the puzzle to find this ancient civilization and their power/treasure, so it will be interesting to see how this fits together, rather than just being a random macguffin for our crew to find and solve.
A nice scene is we now have a number of Starfleet Admirals chairing some sort of meeting across the room from what looks to be Burnham, or at least some starfleet Captain.
Perhaps this is some sort of panel to ask why they did something in a certain scenario. Federation President Rillak is also there as well as the Dadmiral Charles Vance. Always great to see those two!
In the clip you've just seen there, that was Commander Tucker leaving the Enterprise, or rather Columbia at Warrp.
And finally, in a scene which I am sure is going to break some people, we see Burnham on top of a ship that is going at warp.
Now obviously this isn’t the first time we see a character exit the ship while the ship is at warp, with it being seen in the Star Trek Enterprise Episode Divergence.
Now this ship that Burnham is on the top of is not the Discovery, so perhaps it is the ship of our duo? With Burnham hitching a ride as they go to the next piece of the treasure hunt? That could be cool. It’ll be nice to get a good look of that ship, but so far it is looking pretty good.
This was essentially our first full look at Star Trek: Discovery Season 5 and I have to say that I am glad.
It doesn’t look to have the high stakes of previous Discovery, and is giving us an opportunity to really flesh out the 32nd century, and the impacts that Discovery has had on the 32nd century.
From new admirals and Captains in Starfleet, to our ex courier rouge duo.
We have no idea when Discovery Season 5 is expected as they are actually still filming it! With Sonnequa still filming on the day of this exact panel they showed us this new trailer.
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