Star Trek: Team Discovery faces the biggest threat yet in season 4

‘Uncertainty is like a pressure cooker,’ says star Sonequa Martin-Green

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When Star Trek: Discovery Returning for its fourth season this week, the legendary sci-fi franchise will boldly go in a new direction.

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After being thrown hundreds of years into the future to save lives across the universe, the Discovery team, led by the series’ first black woman (Sonequa Martin-Green’s Michael Burnham), faces their greatest challenge until the moment.

“Today we seek to understand a threat like none that our galaxy has faced before,” says Burnham in the trailer. After solving the mystery behind The Burn, Season 4 finds Team Discovery facing a gravitational anomaly that could take down federated and non-federated worlds. With billions of lives at stake, different factions must unite to prevent intergalactic annihilation.

“We don’t know anything about it at first. We don’t know what their impact will be, just that it will be significant, ”said showrunner and co-executive producer Michelle Paradise ( The originals ) mocks on a video call from New York Comic Con.

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While the new season is not about a pandemic, it is inspired by the challenges humanity has faced over the past 20 months.

“Something of that size and level of threat creates a lot of uncertainty,” adds Paradise. “That is one of the big themes that we are exploring this season. What does it mean to live in a world of uncertainty? What does that mean for our characters as a family? I think it will test them all and help them grow in new ways. “

Debuting in 2017, the Toronto-shot Discovery it was the first new Star trek show from Company went off air in 2005. Originally set 10 years before the adventures of Kirk by William Shatner and half human / half Vulcan by Leonard Nimoy in TOS (the original series) , Discovery added new characters to the franchise. But with Burnham as the stepsister of fan favorite Spock (Ethan Peck) and Anson Mount as Captain Pike, the show maintained ties to the original canon before jumping into the future last season.

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“As a fan of Star trek I love that we had some fresh snow to play with, ”says Paradise.

“I love having the connective tissue of the franchise,” adds 36-year-old Martin-Green. “Everything we’ve seen so far is there. It is part of our history and part of our history. We still have what came before (us) and we are honoring it. “

Sonequa Martin-Green as Michael Burnham in Star Trek: Discovery season 4.
Sonequa Martin-Green as Michael Burnham in Star Trek: Discovery season 4. Photo by Michael Gibson /Paramount +

Discovery success has led to others Star trek TV shows, including Star Trek: Picard , a spin-off that revived Jean-Luc Picard from Patrick Stewart (returning for a second season in February), the animated children’s show Star Trek: Prodigy , Star Trek: Strange New Worlds , a new series that focuses on Captain Pike of Mount, and Star Trek: Section 31 , which will focus on Michelle Yeoh’s Philippa Georgiou.

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Looking beyond a room Emigrate The film is due out in 2023 with WandaVision director Matt shakman at the helm.

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“I love where they have placed me in this ongoing story,” says Martin-Green.

This season, Burnham slides into the captain’s chair for the first time. It is a role that you will find that the character will have to lead the Discovery team in new and decidedly bold ways.

“The threat (it faces) is unfathomably dangerous and entirely new,” says Martin-Green. “Uncertainty is like a pressure cooker. Everyone is going to be going through that and there is no stone left unturned. “

But Paradise promises Trekkies a journey that contains a variety of emotions. “There is also action, adventure, love, humor, care, hope, optimism,” he says. “There are many things in the course of the season.”

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Having watched her character grow, change, and expand in a way that she can now fit into the chair, Martin-Green says there are still some new things to learn about heroin.

But the challenges he faces this season will continue to highlight Burnham’s evolution away from someone who was driven by momentum.

“I think Burnham needed to learn that his decisions cannot be made in a vacuum,” says Martin-Green.

“Even if you have the right intentions and come from a pure place, you still have to understand that you are only one of a whole. I love that Burnham’s impulses have gone from being a place of self-fulfillment to a place of collective fulfillment. To a place that serves the whole. “

Season 4 of Star Trek: Discovery debuts in Science fiction CTV on November 18.

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