How will season 2 end?

[pst]

I think what he was talking about is:

Spoiler

They will show how Pike gets wheelchaired. I know they filmed it and its very powerful.

to your point, kurtzman himself said:

If you know the story of Captain Pike, you know what his fate was. It won’t be exactly what you think this season, but we will be consistent with that story. There will be a dimension shed on that story that you will not have known or have thought of.

also anthony rapp had this to say about the finale:

As someone who cares about continuity, to some degree, I was like, ‘If this doesn’t make people happy, I don’t know what else we can do.

it's a little less clear what he's saying here. either it's a reference to pike's fate, or some even more radical way the show aligns itself to (or removes itself from) our prior understanding of continuity.

trekcore has a rundown of statements on the finale here, but those were the most interesting tidbits to me.

 

[Ar-Pharazon]

Going back to the 50s and 60s, some shows had as many as 35 (if not a few more) episodes in a season. As serialized shows were essentially non-existent in prime-time, they ran re-runs of the more popular episodes in the downtime. Gradual shrinking of season lengths, along with the emergence of "television event mini-series" in the late 70s, led to a few breaks here and there in the schedule. I suspect labour negotiations in the 80s (IIRC, it's been awhile since I looked into any of this) led to the longer breaks in-season, along with the desire to have fresh material in the spring viewing period. Now, it's become standard to have "fall season" and "winter/spring season", with "season finales" for each half--spacing the halves further apart to run other shows in-between.

The "Who shot J.R.?" cliffhanger certainly changed the game, and BOBW doubled down on it.

It almost seemed like the BIg-3 networks had a gentleman's agreement about starting their new seasons at the same time. Later, I think, with more "networks", or at least channels running original programming, there came more of a "who can beat the others to the punch" mindset. I'm certain there's a strategy of some kind involved.

 

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[KennyB]

Season 2 will end with rolling end credits and the standard closing music. I'm 100% certain of that.

Or is this some kind of trick question?

Kor

This is the only post I will get behind...........

 

[Lonemagpie]

I'd suspect the galaxy's level of tech will take a big hit, Nu BSG style, in an attempt to prevent more time travelling AI shenanigans...

 

[BillJ]

This last episode they are going on about, has "Valentine to the fans" written all over it.

Hopefully I'm wrong.

 

[Cyrus]

This last episode they are going on about, has "Valentine to the fans" written all over it.

Hopefully I'm wrong.

First 2 seasons were Holodec simulations by Riker? I definitely hope you are wrong. I prefer the Pulaski Picard ending to that.

 

[Michael]

They can show it in a RA vision, like the other premonitions.

Premonitions? You mean like the Red Angel warning Spock that Michael was in danger when they were kids on Vulcan? Were there other such premonitions in the show?

I am getting increasingly nervous at all these pronouncements regarding syncing with canon and the big revelation at the end. It’s sounding very much like some convoluted reworking of the timeline, which I’m not interested in at all. Just focus on telling good stories, not appeasing those who fuss about canon.

Exactly my thinking. All those statements have me extremely suspicious that they'll try to pull some weird stunt in order to appease the rather loud portion of fans who cry “not canon!” I would much rather see them (continue to) create their very own version of Trek instead of “aligning” it with fucking canon.

 

[zar]

These comments from Peck seem to indicate there will not be a time jump:

When asked if he saw this season as “an arc from The Cage and dealing with your sister to an endpoint with Spock in the first season of TOS,” Peck replied “Yeah sort of. I think that overshoots it by probably a decade right because currently in this…season of Discovery we are ten years before The Original Series, three years after The Cage. And so, ultimately, yes Leonard Nimoy‘s Spock is the light at the end of the tunnel, but in terms of this season, I think there is, you know this is just the beginning of his journey to becoming the Mr. Spock we know from TOS.”

It's possible that we will see the future through visions like we saw through Spock in the Talos episode, but Discovery itself stays where it is.

On the other hand, this older interview comes to mind:

Alex Kurtzman: ...I am very excited about Spock this season because this is literally the only season in which we can tell this story about Spock.

BTW, that interview with Kurtzman is also the one where you can read what he actually said about "aligning with canon" at the end of the season. It doesn't suggest anything as extreme as what some people seem to be worried about.

 

[Cyrus]

I am getting increasingly nervous at all these pronouncements regarding syncing with canon and the big revelation at the end. It’s sounding very much like some convoluted reworking of the timeline, which I’m not interested in at all. Just focus on telling good stories, not appeasing those who fuss about canon.

Yeah me too. I wish they would just say the season ends in a great way instead of all this talk about aligning with Canon. The heck with all the canon nazis.

I certainly hope there is no kind of time travel reset button used.

 

[zar]

I actually do hope they do something nuts like jump 500 years in the future and there isn't a federation anymore. Then they can try being Voyager but good.

You mean try being Andromeda but good.

 

[drt]

As a few others mentioned above, my feeling is “align with canon” probably isn’t going to be particularly game changing, all that is really required is Pike and Spock back on Enterprise, the crew switching to yellow/blue/red uniforms and maybe no longer using the spore drive for some reason - which, now that I think about it, they’ve barely used it all this season (just to go to Terralysium and to rescue Tilly) so might not even be that big of a deal if the crew could no longer use it.

 

[Ovation]

Unless they are being drama queens but I doubt that.

Well...drama is kind of what they do, so...

 

[Cyrus]

Repeating of what I have said in another thread:
- Pike and Spock return to Enterprise.
- Spore drive is decommissioned (hardly being used anyway).
- Section 31 goes underground..
- Discovery crew get TOS style colored uniforms.
- Discovery crew abandon ship and somehow end up 1000 years in the future.
- Discovery is told to go somewhere and wait 1000 years for the crew.

 

[Paul755]

In my perfect world we would get a some kind of time re-adjustment that restores SOME but not all of the “classic” visuals. Like restoring the Enterprise to her former glory...at least on the outside and jettisoning the Discoprise.

But it wouldn’t surprise me if it’s just something like the ship having to go to the future to defeate the AI but in the process it wipes them from the timeline. Meaning while everything did happen...history never records it. Like Spock never had an adoptive sister, Pike never commanded a ship other than the Enterprise, Georgiou never dies in the prelude to a war, etc...

 

[T'Bonz]

But it wouldn’t surprise me if it’s just something like the ship having to go to the future to defeat the AI but in the process it wipes them from the timeline. Meaning while everything did happen...history never records Spock had an adoptive sister, Pike never commanded a ship other than the Enterprise, Georgiou never dies in the prelude to a war, etc...

I could believe this and indeed I am rather wondering if they will end up *permanently* in the future, but to do so, Spock and Pike can't be on that ship when it does that and that doesn't seem likely.

 

[Paul755]

I could believe this and indeed I am rather wondering if they will end up *permanently* in the future, but to do so, Spock and Pike can't be on that ship when it does that and that doesn't seem likely.

Maybe Pike and Spock leave before the final move because they have set destinys to fulfill. Georgiou knows all this, forces them off and takes Pikes place.

Discovery obviously stays in the future due to a permanently disabled spore drive and “Treks” from there.

 

[Paul755]

The last couple episodes gave enterprise heavily in it so I’m sure pike and Spock with be back on it before anything drastic happens.

But the reset would be cool as it would mean the Klingon war would have happened but not because of Michael. Plus a ton of other minor and major things.

Lorca never goes to the Mirror universe...

 

[Alan Roi]

In my perfect world we would get a some kind of time re-adjustment that restores SOME but not all of the “classic” visuals. Like restoring the Enterprise to her former glory...at least on the outside and jettisoning the Discoprise.

But it wouldn’t surprise me if it’s just something like the ship having to go to the future to defeate the AI but in the process it wipes them from the timeline. Meaning while everything did happen...history never records it. Like Spock never had an adoptive sister, Pike never commanded a ship other than the Enterprise, Georgiou never dies in the prelude to a war, etc...

 

[Jayson1]

My idea is they find themselves in the Kelvinverse replacing the versions of themselves in that universe who are all living very different lives, yet they still have their memories. That universe also has Georgiou so we get to see a third version of the character in season 3. Maybe it's also forward in the future as well and we get to see Captain Sulu played by John Choi. He is our new Captain for season 3. That or we see another version of Lorca or maybe Prime Lorca has also found himself their as well.

Jason