How will season 2 end?

[BillJ]

I honestly hope he's just being coy and just not wanting to really hint one way or the other, because with all my issues with ST: D - I would honestly hate a big "Temporal-based reset" here; but I guess we'll know in a month or so when everything WRT ST: D Season 2 has aired.

While I see it as an alternate-timeline, I also don't want them to hit the reset. I think they've made moderate strides from a storytelling perspective this season. It also really sets a bad precedent where certain segments of fandom are going to feel like they have a say in the shows going forward.

 

[Turtletrekker]

I recall an eventually aborted series pitch being floated at some point in the 2000s that was to take place in a future where the Alpha Quadrant was riddled with huge, impassable bubbles of subspace ruptures due to large amounts of Omega molecules being detonated in a war, and I just realized that Discovery with its spore drive could possibly be ideal in a setting like this. I could totally imagine a future where somebody would be desperate enough to effectively sterilize subspace as a last measure containment effort against a rampaging Control.

I remember this pitch. It was for an animated series wasn't it? I was very disappointed when it didn't happen.

https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Star_Trek:_Final_Frontier

I seem to recall one of the authors of the books (@Christopher ?) incorporating this setup as an alternate reality in a novel.

 

[Vger23]

I wish they'd just stay quiet and shut the hell up. The amount of fan speculation and expectations are now going to be insane, and there's no way that what happens at the end will make anyone happy.

Frustrating.

 

[Ralphis]

I've felt for awhile now that Discovery (with Georgiou on board) will end up somehow jumping into the future to about where the Picard show is going to be set, just so it's easier to maintain continuity between all the shows All Access is going to do. When the USS Bozeman was transported into 2368 there was no indication that Starfleet would help send them back. I assumed they were stuck in the future, as so would Discovery presumably be. DSC would no longer be confined to canon, and with Georgiou there as well you'd still be able to do the Section 31 show.

BUT... BUT... I also kind of feel like Kurtzman is going to take a play out of his own playbook and do kind of a Star Trek '09 quasi-reboot, splinter/alternate timeline thingy. It'll be revealed that there's been way more time binding going on than what's been revealed so far in season 2, so much that they'll retroactively declare that DSC is set in an alternative universe, and always had been, despite all the claims of it being "Prime". You can say that all of the advanced looking tech on DSC is a result of reverse engineering future technology, or something like that.

I'd be ok with either scenario. But I also don't 'need' any of them to happen, either.

**Takes off tinfoil hat** Man, that thing is getting tight!

 

[Tuskin38]

Here’s a quote from Anthony Rapp

https://www.trektoday.com/content/2019/03/rapp-spores-and-the-end-of-season-two/

“If we have done our job, based on what was on the page and based on the work we did on set, there should be hopefully a sense of powerful completion to all the stories and all the threads we have been carrying for these first two seasons. And then we are going to go – that will lead us into something really cool for season three.”

So it sounds like any lingering story threads will be wrapped up some how.

 

[zar]

It will end with a time jump about 250 years into the past. We're at the National Air and Space Museum, looking at Shuttles Enterprise and Discovery. Avery Brooks is sitting with a laptop, finishing the final draft of "Star Trek, by Ben Russell".

 

[Cyrus]

They sure are doing their best to hype the final episode of the season. I am sure it will be something interesting. Lets just hope they don't f**k it up, and it's not another valentine to the fans.

 

[Agony_Boothb]

It will end with a time jump about 250 years into the past. We're at the National Air and Space Museum, looking at Shuttles Enterprise and Discovery. Avery Brooks is sitting with a laptop, finishing the final draft of "Star Trek, by Ben Russell".

Or it ends with Benny in a mental institution yelling 'it's reeeeeeeaaaaal' whilst his real world inspiration for Senator Vreenak yells 'It's a faaaaaaaake' over and over again

 

[Lord Garth]

I can see Alex Kurtzman wanting to make DSC more accepted in order to drive up CBSAA Subscription Numbers so they keep making Star Trek series and he has job security, but Patrick Stewart will probably push those numbers up when the Picard Series starts anyway.

I get the sense that when they started up Discovery, they were only thinking about Discovery. Now that they're making more series, they have to think of a Connected Universe. They'll never make DSC look like TOS but they will have to explain why there's no Spore Drive in the Picard Series if DSC takes place in its past (which I think they've already done by making Stamets -- and thus Discovery -- a special case, but apparently it needs to be drilled in sledge-hammer style). Pragmatically, that makes sense. Explaining why Spock never mentions Michael Burnham is just an "added bonus". The only problem is, said "added bonus" is only being done to pacify people who still won't accept the series because they don't like Michael Burnham, period. Something we all know.

 

[StarMan]

I'm not certain about a time jump if Georgiou is going to be leading the Section 31 series. I would've imagined they'd want to keep those two series aligned timewise.

 

[Paul755]

I wish they'd just stay quiet and shut the hell up. The amount of fan speculation and expectations are now going to be insane, and there's no way that what happens at the end will make anyone happy.

Frustrating.

The thing to remember is (especially when it comes to Discovery) no matter what they do, people are going to be disappointed. And it would have been that way if the cast and crew had said something or not.

 

[Paul755]

I'm not certain about a time jump if Georgiou is going to be leading the Section 31 series. I would've imagined they'd want to keep those two series aligned timewise.

Just thinking about this and it’s a wacky theory. But what if there really is no Section 31 show. It’s just been a fake out and the reality is it’s Georgiou returning to co-lead Discovery in the 33rd Century or whatever. With the money that was being allocated to the Section 31 show really going to a Pike/Spock/Number One series set before TOS.

 

[drt]

After the article about the interview with Rapp, I'm starting to lean towards the third season taking place aboard Enterprise.

 

[Jayson1]

I still think we might have a chance of seeing what i suggested awhile back. Spock dies or the Enterprise gets destroyed in the final episode and we find out we were never in the real prime universe the entire time. Or you can blame it on the Red Angel stuff and saying that the timeline was first changed all those years when the Red Angel showed up during World War III.

Jason

 

[Eric Bean]

I liked the idea of Season 3 being on the Enterprise. Thought for a moment that the Discovery crew would send the ship to the future to deal with the control issue and end up on the E while the try to retrieve their ship / defeat control. Here’s the issue, Anson Mount and Ethan Peck are out after this season.

I’m fairly certain the Discovery is headed to the 33rd Century with the crew on board. The Federation has morphed into a totalitarian regime run by AI. Hence V’Draysh from Calypso. It’ll be a “better version if Andromeda with our new “family” trying to restore the Federation.

I think we will see a lot of the E in the last two episodes and we will see Pike prompted. May even meet a young Lt. Kirk. They are pulling out all the stops to get more people hooked.

I do believe a E / Pike Series is coming.

 

[Eric Bean]

Keep in mind the show is called Star Trek DISCOVERY and they didn't create the whole concept just to end up back on the enterprise.

Totally agree! Edited my post to clarify what I was thinking. Like I said, through it for a moment. I think the reason Spock never mentions Michael in the future is because she is “gone.” I’m also betting the spore drive is blamed for / used for the jump. Because it is the cause of Discovery’s disappearance the spore drive project is canned. I’m also betting that the spore drive is irreparably destroyed in the jump forward.

 

[Paul755]

Im leaning more towards that they stop the AI that's been seeding the past with technology to advance itself, certain fancy technologies such as the spore drive were never invented. In addition Michael parents would never have been killed and she wouldn't have become spocks sister to begin with. With that said though they have to find a way to continue the show which would be the big challenge.

I kinda think this is the way they go too.

 

[Cyrus]

Here’s the issue, Anson Mount and Ethan Peck are out after this season.

Mount, yes. But there has been no mention of Peck being out. When he was asked about it he refused to answer.

 

[drt]

Keep in mind the show is called Star Trek DISCOVERY and they didn't create the whole concept just to end up back on the enterprise.

Before the show started i recall the powers that be stating "discovery" also referred to the characters journey of personal discovery, so the ship may not be entirely necessary.

Mount, yes. But there has been no mention of Peck being out. When he was asked about it he refused to answer.

I'd say there has been more interest in Pike than a Georgiou's S31 show, I don't think it would be that hard to being Mount back if necessary.

 

[Unimatrix Q]

Before the show started i recall the powers that be stating "discovery" also referred to the characters journey of personal discovery, so the ship may not be entirely necessary.

That's true. The show started on the Shenzhou, with the Discovery first appearing after the pilot.