Spoilers John de Lancie confirms that shooting for seasons two *and* three is underway

I feel you, totally do. I love continuity between seasons and the feeling that it is one show versus three smaller shows...but then I wasn't a huge fan of season 1 and the war in general and season 2's premiere soft reboot was pretty damn great for me. Then by the time season 3 came around and showed us all these new shiny things...this is where I'm finally like okay at least stay in the general vicinity here for now. I'm hoping that the end of season 3 wasn't as tidy as we would like to think, and there is more to season 4 than just the big bad anomaly for a whole season. I'd like to think that themes and stories started in season 3 will show up again in season 4, so its fine if the 'big bad' is not something that is spread out across multiple seasons. There's the mystery music that no one talked about after the first couple episodes, we still have Adira and Grey to expand on, and I'd really like to see Adira and Vance interacting finally. Each season might be a drastically different surface story, but we still have all the character stuff to link together these seasons, and DSC has delivered some good character drama.

 

Agreed, but you don't need a cliffhanger/ a half-season at the end of the season to make that work when the writing is good. And seeing that they didn't exactly stick the landing in s1, and left a lot of ideas/ plotlines hanging, I'd rather they concentrate on telling one arc per season, if that makes sense.

 

Looks like she's gotten a Discovery-style reimagining. Still 4 nacelles, but now a Miranda-style hull rear, Discovery-style nacelles more widely spaced out and a flatter saucer.

That's if she is the Stargazer, it could always be an even younger Picard on the USS Reliant.

 

And Michael Dorn

 

I agree. To my mind, writing in an "episodic season" format would be the easiest. You don't need to strain over 12 distinct stand-alone episodes, but you needn't expend creative energy in mapping out an overarching creative vision for the series.

Come up with a mystery box tease and a vague idea how it concludes (one would hope), then unpack across the season. Work some character beats in amongst it and hey presto - a new season of Trek off the production line.

 

If it is the stargazer, I don’t think it’s a full retcon, as we see the stargazer model unaltered in season 1 and in a season 2 teaser. It’s probably from an alternate reality is my guess.

Or what Kenny said

 

The Stargazer always made me hungry for Chicago deep dish pizza...

 

With the imagery of Picard in that portrait, its possibly the Stargazer we see is the alternate history, which could explain some of the changes to it's design?

 

To fit a more aggressive starfleet, yeah

 

I'd like it to not be the Mirror Universe, or the Kelvin Timeline.

 

It probably won't be, since it has to be "fixed" if Q is accurate.

 

It's neither. It's an altered prime timeline.

 

Don't forget Q Who.

But I mostly agree. It got to the point that I would eye roll whenever Q or Lwaxana would pop in, particularly on the non TNG shows.