{"id":48956,"date":"2024-04-03T20:00:31","date_gmt":"2024-04-03T18:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/?p=2019316"},"modified":"2024-04-03T23:10:54","modified_gmt":"2024-04-03T21:10:54","slug":"star-trek-discovery-star-is-at-peace-with-series-ending-with-season-5","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/rss_feed\/star-trek-discovery-star-is-at-peace-with-series-ending-with-season-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Star Trek: Discovery star is \u201cat peace\u201d with series ending with season 5"},"content":{"rendered":"

“We’ve had a good run.” <\/p>

By Alex Moreland\n \t\t<\/p>

Published: Wednesday, 03 April 2024 at 18:00 PM<\/p>

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\u201cWe\u2019ve had a lot of time to process it,\u201d says Sonequa Martin-Green, discussing the end of Star Trek: Discovery<\/a> ahead of the debut of its fifth and final season.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe found that after the fact, right \u2013 we had shot all of season 5, and thought it was just another season, and then found out a few months later, after we had wrapped [that it would be the final season].\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThen we went back to do a shoot, and really wrap up the series,\u201d continues Martin-Green, who has played Michael Burnham<\/a> since Discovery began in 2018.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd yes, it was bittersweet, but I always felt a great sense of peace about it. TV has changed, and we\u2019re in the streaming era, and so I feel that five seasons is solid. I think we had a good run, you know? So I always felt peace.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a sentiment shared by the rest of the cast, according to Martin-Green: \u201cI\u2019ve been saying three words, especially, that I feel have really settled in me is a sense of achievement, ownership and gratitude. I think all of us feel that way.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Star Trek: Discovery.<\/span><\/figcaption> Marni Grossman \/Paramount+<\/i><\/span><\/div>\n

Of course, Star Trek: Discovery is ending in a very different place to where it began.<\/p>\n

When we were first introduced to Michael Burnham in 2018, Discovery was the first new Star Trek series<\/a> to debut in nearly 15 years \u2013 now, it\u2019s one of several series running concurrently, having ushered in a whole new Star Trek universe.<\/p>\n

How did that change their experience of making the series, going from the<\/em> Star Trek show to a <\/em>Star Trek show?<\/p>\n

\u201cI think the first time we heard about the very first \u2013 I won\u2019t say spin-off but, well, I guess technically speaking [laughs<\/em>] \u2013 but when we heard about it, we went, \u2018Oh my goodness, this is so great, we\u2019re sort of leading the way now at this point.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t think we ever felt comfortable enough, at that time, to feel like leaders, right? We had been given the baton, and we would look at the older iterations as our leaders \u2013 and of course they are and they were \u2013 but then to be in that position in our own way, in this new day and time, it was encouraging.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was encouraging to us, especially because things were so challenging for us there in the beginning.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Sonequa Martin-Green as Burnham and Doug Jones as Saru in Star Trek: Discovery.<\/span><\/figcaption> Marni Grossman \/Paramount+<\/i><\/span><\/div>\n

It\u2019s not just the wider Star Trek universe that has changed around Discovery, though, with the show itself having reinvented itself a number of times across its run \u2013 more so, arguably, than any other Star Trek series before it.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s it like for Martin-Green to look back on the series now in hindsight, taking in the show as a whole?<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is something that we\u2019ve been discussing quite a bit, being able to define what the legacy of Star Trek: Discovery specifically is \u2013 which, of course, you can\u2019t do necessarily in the present moment.<\/p>\n

\u201cOr maybe I should say [you can\u2019t do it] authentically in the present moment \u2013 legacy, I feel like, is something that you have to look back on and decide, because it can\u2019t be predicted or forced.\u201d<\/p>

\u201cBut I think one of our central themes that makes us who we are is change \u2013 that sense of upward mobility and character evolution,\u201d says Martin-Green, venturing some thoughts on a throughline that\u2019s remained consistent through the show even as it\u2019s reinvented itself.<\/p>\n

\u201cStar Trek: Discovery is a show that transformed, season to season \u2013 but each and every character did as well.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat was one of our main selling points in the very beginning: you\u2019re gonna have people who are not fully baked, and you\u2019re gonna get to watch them become who they\u2019re destined to be. You\u2019re gonna get to watch them make mistakes, and confront them, and grow because of them.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWilson Cruz [who plays Discovery\u2019s chief medical officer Dr Hugh Culber] \u2013 I love this \u2013 he said to me recently that it\u2019s a story of second chances. Each and every person gets a second chance.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think that evolution, being able to see the fight that it takes to become who you\u2019re supposed to be, it\u2019s been a gift to us to be able to bring that theme to life.\u201d<\/p>\n