Celebrate First Contact Day 2024 with STAR TREK: DISCOVERY’s season 5 premiere

In an announcement made on Wednesday, February 14th, 2024, Paramount+ shared the scheduled launch date for Star Trek: Discovery’s fifth and last season premiere. In addition, the studio unveiled a brand new poster for the present’s last outing, which you’ll be able to see under this text.

Star Trek: Discovery’s Final Voyage

Two episodes of Disco’s final season will start streaming on Paramount+ on Thursday, April 4th, 2024. This is simply at some point earlier than First Contact Day 2024, the Trekkie vacation that anticipates First Contact with the Vulcans on April fifth, 2063. Why the fourth as a substitute of the fifth? This clarification is straightforward: for a number of years, new Star Trek episodes have been launched for streaming on Paramount+ at midnight on Thursdays.

For Disco, it’s been a protracted street, getting from there to the fifth season. We obtained our first have a look at Discovery season 5 again in October 2022, throughout the “Star Trek Universe” panel at New York Comic Con 2022. This panel launched a number of new forged members for season 5, together with Captain Reynar (Callum Keith Rennie), plus aliens L’ak (Elias Toufexis) and Moll (Eve Harlow).

The fifth season will function returning forged members Adira Tal (Blu del Barrio), Sylvia Tilly (Mary Wiseman), Doctor Hugh Culber (Wilson Cruz), Captain Michael Burnham (Sonequa Martin-Green), Cleveland “Book” Booker (David Ajala), Saru (Doug Jones) and Paul Stamets (Anthony Rapp).

While Discovery could also be concluding, its legacy lives on. For one factor, direct spin-off Star Trek: Strange New Worlds continues to take pleasure in immense reputation. And it’s potential the beforehand introduced Star Trek: Starfleet Academy collection will immediately spin-out of Disco, as properly.

Arriving April 2024

If you’re not updated on Star Trek: Discovery seasons 1 by means of 4, they’re at present accessible for streaming on Paramount+.

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