News Star Trek: Discovery Season Two Will Be Longer

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A new news article has been published at TrekToday:

Star Trek: Discovery fans should happy with the news that the season will now contain fourteen episodes instead of the original thirteen....

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[DaveyNY]

EVEN number of Shows ...
So just like the movies, this season will be spectacular!

 

[Cyrus]

This will be the 30th season of Star Trek (3 seasons of TOS, 25 seasons of Berman Trek, now 2 with Discovey/Kurtzman Trek). I expect it to be very good.

 

[Tuskin38]

Well 30th live action

 

[Cyrus]

OK, 30 live action, 2 animated, 1 mini/shorts

 

[DaveyNY]

Do the four shorts count as a separate season or just part of DISCOVERY?

 

[Lord Garth]

Do the four shorts count as a separate season or just part of DISCOVERY?

I'm counting it as part of Season 2 of DSC, personally.

 

[Ovation]

I'm counting it as part of Season 2 of DSC, personally.

There’s the extra hour.

 

[Delta Vega]

Looking forward to new Discovery episodes
After a pedestrian start in Season One I thought it got to be very good, until (from memory) a kind of rushed finale
I`m not really familiar with the characters and their foibles yet so I've refrained from getting involved in Discovery chat so far.
I liked how the show looked, I liked Tilly, but another Klingon reboot didn`t do it for me I`m afraid.

 

[Hey Missy]

Is it another 30-minute episode made of leftover footage from the previous one that'll leave you thinking "What?" like one of the Mirror ones, I can't remember which.

 

[Tuskin38]

Is it another 30-minute episode made of leftover footage from the previous one that'll leave you thinking "What?" like one of the Mirror ones, I can't remember which.

I don’t think that’s what they used their extra time for.

I have a feeling it was the second Mudd episode since it was standalone

 

[Vger23]

This news definitely means there are production problems and CBS is panicing / losing confidence in the direction of S2.

There's no other possible explanation. NONE.

I'm sure Midnights Edge will have a convincing video soon confirming my worst suspicions.

 

[CorporalClegg]

"The extra cost of one more episode will put the show over budget thus proving to investors that it's too expensive to keep on air."

 

[Cyrus]

Do the four shorts count as a separate season or just part of DISCOVERY?

I think it should count as a separate season/series. Future seasons may be based on the Picard series or a mix of Discovery/Picard episodes. Picard series being produced in Hollywood instead of Toronto may throw a monkey wrench into that idea but reusing sets will still make it cheaper.

 

[Lord Garth]

This news definitely means there are production problems and CBS is panicing / losing confidence in the direction of S2.

There's no other possible explanation. NONE.

I'm sure Midnights Edge will have a convincing video soon confirming my worst suspicions.

Nostradamus, Area 51, and JFK will figure into the story too.

 

[Rahul]

This news definitely means there are production problems and CBS is panicing / losing confidence in the direction of S2.

There's no other possible explanation. NONE.

I'm sure Midnights Edge will have a convincing video soon confirming my worst suspicions.

Well, it does mean their forward planning was off. Again.

I think season 1 would have been much more liked if the grand finale and solution to the main arc would have been compelling, and not this burning dumpsterfire of a final episode where they dropped the ball on all major storylines just to make them end on time...

I just hope that in this case the extension came at the wish of the writers, to make the solution to their arc better, and not just them struggling to come up with a last minute idea how to finish the storyline of the now-fired heads of season 2. Again.

 

[F. King Daniel]

Do the four shorts count as a separate season or just part of DISCOVERY?

I thought they were their own thing? I suspect as more new Trek shows are added to CBS-AA, the scope of Short Treks will widen and widen. While season 1 (or whatever you call a batch of 4 short films) are all set around the Discovery ship or characters, the second batch may include episodes based on characters and settings from The Picard Show, the third an animated Lower Decks mini and the forth a flashback of Disco's Tilly on the Starfleet Academy sets.

But I could be entirely wrong.

 

[DaveyNY]

YA know what...
Seeing Cadet Killy at the MU-Star Fleet Academy, is something I would definitely watch!

 

[eschaton]

Given this is just announced now - and they're finishing up production in the next ten days - my guess is they decided that whatever the season-ending episode was needed to be stretched out over a two-parter.

Judging by how the season one finale ended, this is a damn good idea.

 

[Tuskin38]

Given this is just announced now - and they're finishing up production in the last two days - my guess is they decided that whatever the season-ending episode was needed to be stretched out over a two-parter.

Judging by how the season one finale ended, this is a damn good idea.

Filming wraps on the 21st according to Anton Mount.