Discovery final scene speculation
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Just how much stuff did they film?
They finished filming last November.
They planned on filming an altered ending after the cancellation was announced in March, no idea if they got to film it before the writers strike started.
Warning: Contains spoilers. The ending is as follows...
They find the tardigrade in space, floating, dehydrated, in deep suspended animation. They collect it and transport it to the bridge. The warmth and humidity of the air activate it back to life, and it devours the entire crew (Michael Burnham is the first one it eats). The tardigrade becomes possessed by the Control entity, taking over the Discovery, the sphere, its data, and the entire Starfleet, creating a new Terran Empire outside the 32nd-century Mirror Universe. A holographic Riker launches and inaugurates the Enterprise e^(1701), and at the helm of the Discovery-D are the Sphere, Lorca, Georgiou, and Madonna.
They find the tardigrade in space, floating, dehydrated, in deep suspended animation. They collect it and transport it to the bridge. The warmth and humidity of the air activate it back to life, and it devours the entire crew (Michael Burnham is the first one it eats). The tardigrade becomes possessed by the Control entity, taking over the Discovery, the sphere, its data, and the entire Starfleet, creating a new Terran Empire outside the 32nd-century Mirror Universe. A holographic Riker launches and inaugurates the Enterprise e^(1701), and at the helm of the Discovery-D are the Sphere, Lorca, Georgiou, and Madonna.
Is it wrong I really like this?
But where did the control entity come from, that's been dealt with?
Well, it be unexpected in that they kill a main character.
I thought Trek fans hated that...?
Well, it be unexpected in that they kill a main character.
I thought Trek fans hated that...?
Shock value I guess, seeing the entire bridge crew slaughtered by Tardigrade would be unique if nothing else.
Well it definitely will be in line with what critics of Discovery say it's all about, if nothing else.
Who cares what the critics say. I don't want the show to end in that fashion. I liked it.
No one dies, because no one knew S5 would be the end until after the fact. It actually makes me glad that they didn't have a chance to do anything final. It leaves the window open for a TV Movie. I see this as a blessing in disguise.
And, historically, they've written every season of DSC as if it could've ended there.
Season 1: Burnham's reinstated into Starfleet, the Klingon War is over, Tyler stays with L'Rell, Discovery's off to rendezvous with its new Captain. If you replace the cliffhanger scene of the Discovery encountering the Enterprise with Georgiou being recruited into Section 31, all the characters are accounted for, and all the loose ends are tied.
Season 2: Discovery goes into The Future. Pike, Una, Spock, and Tyler tie up loose ends. You can go straight from the second season of Discovery to Strange New Worlds.
Season 3: Burnham finally becomes Captain.
Season 4: Discovery saves the Galaxy, and this time it's not classified, unlike in Season 2. Earth and Ni'Var rejoin the Federation.
All good stopping points for the series. So Season 5 probably already had a stopping point built into it as well, before they pulled the plug. The reshooting was probably just to make sure all loose ends were tied up, in case there were any subplots left hanging for a would-be Season 6. Maybe they shot something to set up Starfleet Academy.
And, historically, they've written every season of DSC as if it could've ended there.
Season 1: Burnham's reinstated into Starfleet, the Klingon War is over, Tyler stays with L'Rell, Discovery's off to rendezvous with its new Captain. If you replace the cliffhanger scene of the Discovery encountering the Enterprise with Georgiou being recruited into Section 31, all the characters are accounted for, and all the loose ends are tied.
Season 2: Discovery goes into The Future. Pike, Una, Spock, and Tyler tie up loose ends. You can go straight from the second season of Discovery to Strange New Worlds.
Season 3: Burnham finally becomes Captain.
Season 4: Discovery saves the Galaxy, and this time it's not classified, unlike in Season 2. Earth and Ni'Var rejoin the Federation.
All good stopping points for the series. So Season 5 probably already had a stopping point built into it as well, before they pulled the plug. The reshooting was probably just to make sure all loose ends were tied up, in case there were any subplots left hanging for a would-be Season 6. Maybe they shot something to set up Starfleet Academy.
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Interesting, but I have other shocking option for the final episode:
Q appears on the bridge, where everybody is crying (again) after super Burnham has made something that only herself would do. Q widens his eyes and says "Ok, it´s enough of this experience. Even for a holodeck it would be to much". Disco crew begins to cry and hug (again, and again, and again...). "Shut up! All of you crying babies!" Q then snaps his fingers...
Scene is cutted back to that moment in which Sarek would adopt Burnham in the past. Q smiles and says "Ok, it´s big a mistake... somebody was crazy or drunk when made this to happen. Let´s put the canon back on track!"
He snaps his fingers one more time, Burnham and Co vanishes forever.
Scene cut to Spock's room aboard Pike's Enterprise. He wakes up sweaty, agitated and says "what a nightmare.... I dreamed I had a crazy, crybaby super sister that fucked all the universe... Fascinating! Fortunately, it was just a bad dream and I never had a sister".
Fade to black...credits roll...
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Really?
They finished filming in November 2022, the decision to end the series was made in March 2023. Do the math.
