Extremely low.
Spoilers Season 3 Comic-Con reveals
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Trailers won't give you an intricate description of the events that will happen. Of course. But they will give you an overview over the themes & topics of the work.
This trailer - even if on only one sentence - implied for example Burnham might be the reason for the Federations downfall (or just her missing in the timeline).
That doesn't mean that has to turn out to be true - that could be a misdirection, and Burnham not actually be the answer to that question.
But this question will appear, and it shows that once again a lot of screen-time will be devoted to the significance of Burnham for the fate of the entire universe, and weather or not it ends without her. It could be this time the answer is no, that she's not that important. But question will absolutely be featured prominently in one or two cliffhangers.
And I honestly would rather not them raising this question again at all, and focus on Burnham more as a character with personal needs, than debating about her as a historical figure.
The Federation, throughout it's entire existence has had barbarians at it's gate and it stands to reason that eventually one of them would get through. Also 29th century Starfleet seemed kinda fascist, arresting people for crimes they had not committed yet and the like. Perhaps a combination of the two has lead the Federation to it's current predicament. I can't wait to find out.
Also he might not have meant Burnham personally but the Discovery crew in general.
Picking up plot threads from the pilot and flashing back to it doesn't equal 178 episodes of buildup.
"Build-up" doesn't have to refer to specific plot threads. It could be 178 episodes of build-up in tension and scale - TNG started very low-scale, often not even the ship itself in danger, had a few peaks (the season 3/4 cliffhanger attack on Earth is one of the biggest things in the entire series), only to have the biggest stakes - the development of humanity itself - in the very final episode.
DIS started with the potential annihilation of the entire multiverse, then all life in the galaxy in season 2. Whatever happens in season 3 - the stakes will be constantly getting smaller and smaller. A mistake already the Kelvin-timeline movies did.
Season 3 has a lot going for it that the earlier seasons didn't, like one showrunner all the way through (**knock on wood**) and the lack of "canon constraints" meaning they can do whatever the eff they want. Let's hope they can pull off what they didn't in the first two seasons - a coherent story arc that doesn't disappoint in the back half.
That said, I am predicting that - at minimum - Discovery is going to go on hiatus after the third season for a bit. We know they plan to start filming Section 31 immediately after Season 3 finishes. Picard might be a smash hit, and it's already been all but said it's been renewed for a second season - which will premier before the fourth season of Discovery. And Lower Decks is going to have to fit in there somewhere. Pretty soon finding somewhere for a fourth season of Discovery to fit into a 12-month schedule may be pretty damn difficult. It might make sense for them to wait another 1.5 to 2 years to put it out.
I don't see how this would be an issue, CBSAA will end up with 5 nights of trek and they are screening on different platforms internationally. We don't know the extent of S31 it could just be a 8 episodes and the entire season might be released in one go. Lower decks is the animated one, right? That's not going to have an impact at all on live action trek.
Um..they are nowhere near being able to have a new episode of something airing 52 weeks a year. They'd have ZERO issues finding a 'spot' to air new Trek episodes...the only question is - How much can they produce concurrently and still maintain the level of cinematic quality they want for the sets, acting, and visuals?
That was my own thought. They don't need new Trek content every week, just every month. And really they can get away with 2-3 months of downtime for now. At the same time, I don't think they really want to have more than one Trek show going live at any given time on CBS All Access - at least not until it's a proven moneymaker for the network.
I mean, look at it this way. Season 1 premiered in September of 2017. Season 2 didn't premier until January of 2019 - so around 15 months later. We of course don't know when season 3 will premier yet, but it's no earlier than April, because they're not going to premier it until after Picard is done for the season. And it could be considerably later than that - filming for the season hasn't yet wrapped up, and post-production takes time. So an 18 month gap (a premier somewhere in the range of July) or later wouldn't be unusual. It's probably going to be out before Lower Decks Season 1 (which is also supposed to have a 2020 release date, but we have seen no content for yet) but it's possible if Lower Decks is done first they start releasing that instead. The point is, the gap between Seasons 2 and 3 is already longer than Seasons 1 and 2.
Anyway, then we're on to 2021. Current plans suggest there will be another season of Picard, and the first season of the Section 31 show in production well before Discovery even has a chance to ramp up for a fourth season. Between these two shows, CBS should have enough Trekkie programming for six months. Pad that out with some Short Treks, and you easily have nine months of content. Yeah, they could premier Season 3 in late 2021 - if it's actually finished - but it might make sense for marketing purposes to hold it back until 2022, where they might have less content besides perhaps the second season of Lower Decks ready to roll.
We don't know who they are.
I think they are the V'draysh
here's hoping. the 29th century timecops were lame
They have said they don't want overlaps, so they won't have more than one series going live.
I think they eventually want 4 Trek series (one could be animated) to cover the entire year. If each series has 13 episodes then it covers the entire 52 weeks without any gaps. But that is going to be expensive, and as you say people won't cancel unless there is no Trek for an entire month. So more likely each series will be 10 episodes and 3 week gaps between each. And that gap can even be filled by the much less expensive Short Trek mini-episodes, though Short Treks hasn't been used like that so far. While CBS AA is not a broadcast network it likes to behave like one, so they want to start their season in September/October. And Short Treks so far has been used to kick off their Star Trek season in October as Discovery and Picard were not ready to go until January.
