The third season of the American television series Star Trek: Discovery follows the crew of the USS Discovery as they travel to the future. Sonequa Martin-Green stars as Michael Burnham, along with the returning Doug Jones, Anthony Rapp, Mary Wiseman, and Wilson Cruz. Filming took place from July 2019 to February 2020, in Toronto, Canada, and on location in Iceland. The 13-episode season premiered on the streaming service CBS All Access on October 15, 2020, to positive reviews. A fourth season was officially announced in October 2020.
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The third season of the American television series Star Trek: Discovery follows the crew of the USS Discovery as they travel to the future, over 900 years after the events of the original Star Trek series. Sonequa Martin-Green stars as Michael Burnham, along with the returning Doug Jones, Anthony Rapp, Mary Wiseman, and Wilson Cruz. The season is being produced by CBS Television Studios in association with Secret Hideout and Roddenberry Entertainment, with Alex Kurtzman and Michelle Paradise serving as showrunners. Filming took place from July 2019 to February 2020, in Toronto, Canada, and on location in Iceland. Post-production took place remotely due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The 13-episode season premiered on the streaming service CBS All Access on October 15, 2020, to positive reviews. It concluded on January 7, 2021. A fourth season was officially announced in October 2020. The writers for the season included Jenny Lumet, Anne Cofell, Ken McElroy, Kirsten Beyer, Brandon E. Schultz, Kim Lippt, Bo Yeon Schultz, and David Ajala. After joining the Star Trek franchise as science advisors, astrophysicist Erin Macdonald and biologist Mohamed Noor primarily consulted on this season. Frequent Star Trek linguist Marc Okrand also consulted on the season, helping to develop the alien languages heard in the season such as Kelpien. In July, Paradise said the crew was working nonstop to complete post-production, but it was taking longer than previous seasonsdue to the pandemic, and the series’ editors, mixers, color graders and actors were working from their houses via Skype.
In the season’s debut, Lower Decks was delayed until after Lower Deck had been released. In October, Kurtzman said the season would have 13 episodes, and this was unlikely to be extended as happened in previous seasons. In January 2020, executive producer Heather Kadin said in January 2020 that theSeason would be ready by May 2020, but would be scheduled for release around the other All Access Star Trekseries. The series’ writers began work on the fourth season at the end of February 2019, at Kurtzman’s SecretHideout offices in Santa Monica, California. It was announced in July that the season was set to premiere after the season finale of StarTrek:Lower Decks: Decks, which was released after the second season premiere. The third season was ordered in February 2019 with Paradise promoted to co-showrunner alongside series co-creator Kurtzman. They ended the secondSeason with the Discovery travelling to thefuture, beyond existing Star Trek continuity. This allowed them to explore a new time period for the franchise. They also used the SB-19 data to trace the source of the Burn to the Verubin Nebula, and discover a distress signal from a KelPien starship. On the other side, she finds herself back in the Mirror Universe during the time she was Emperor of the Terran Empire. Georgiou finds that her time with Discovery has changed her, and she uses her knowledge of the past to alter certain events, including rescuing the slave Saru.
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