Star Trek: Discovery Season 3 is almost here! We may be waiting a long time for some of our favorite TV shows to come back due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but, thankfully, Star Trek: Discovery is not one of them. The cast and crew finished production on the upcoming third season well before the coronavirus hit, which means we’ll be getting new episodes of the Trek show soon.
The cast was just on hand at NYCC to tease next week’s Season 3 debut with a sneak peek at the episode’s opening minutes. Check it out…
Here’s everything we know about the upcoming season so far…
Star Trek: Discovery Season 3 Release Date
We have an official release date for Season 3! The first episode will be coming on Thursday, October 15th to CBS All-Access in the United States. New episodes will drop every Thursday. There will be 13 episodes in Season 3.
Star Trek: Discovery Season 3 Cast
With the Discovery jumping 950 years into the future in the Season 2 finale with only some of its series regular cast, and several Star Trek spin-off shows in the works, you better believe its Season 3 cast might look a bit different.
Here’s who was on board when Discovery made that jump into the future: Cmdr. Michael Burnham (Sonequa Martin-Green), Cmdr. Saru (Doug Jones), Lt. Cmdr. Paul Stamets (Anthony Rapp), Ensign Sylvia Tilly (Mary Wiseman), Dr. Hugh Culber (Wilson Cruz), Cmdr. Nhan (Rachael Ancheril), Lt. Nilsson (Sara Mitich), Lt. Keyla Detmer (Emily Coutts), Lt. Gen Rhys (Patrick Kwok-Choon), Lt. Joann Owosekun (Oyin Oladejo), Lt. R.A. Bryce (Ronnie Rowe), Philippa Georgiou (Michelle Yeoh), and Jett Reno (Tig Notaro).
Casting news arrived during SDCC 2019: David Ajala (Nightflyers) is joining Star Trek: Discovery Season 3 as a new character named Cleveland Booker, according to Deadline, which describes him as having “a natural charisma and devil-may-care attitude that tends to get him into trouble as often as it gets him out.” See him in the sneak peek at the top of the page and check out his character photo below…
More recently, Star Trek: Discovery announced the show will be introducing two new cast members in Season 3: Blu del Barrio playing a non-binary human character named Adira and Ian Alexander as a transgender Trill character named Gray. You can read more about that announcement here.
Captain Pike will not be returning for Season 3 (nor will Ethan Peck and Rebecca Romijn), though you can catch them in some Short Treks and in their upcoming series Star Trek: Strange New Worlds.
Star Trek: Discovery Season 3 Trailer
Here is the full official trailer for Star Trek: Discovery Season 3…
And here is a teaser trailer…
Star Trek: Discovery Season 3 Story
The Star Trek: Discovery cast dropped some Season 3 hints during the recent SDCC at Home panel. Read more about that here.
Star Trek: Discovery Season 3 Showrunners
Interestingly, the third season of Star Trek: Discovery will manifest under the purview of an amended creative staff, with current showrunner Alex Kurtzman set to be joined in that capacity by Michelle Paradise. As Kurtzman explains in a statement of his new partner:
Michelle joined us midway through season two and energized the room with her ferocious knowledge of ‘Trek.’ Her grasp of character and story detail, her drive and her focus have already become essential in ensuring the ‘Trek’ legacy, and her fresh perspective always keeps us looking forward. I’m proud to say Michelle and I are officially running STAR TREK: DISCOVERY together.
Paradise’s arrival marks yet another major shakeup in the Star Trek: Discovery creative team, which notably experienced a tectonic shift after co-creator and showrunner, Bryan Fuller, departed the series after Season 1. After his replacements, Aaron Harberts and Gretchen Berg, exited, the series returned under Kurtzman for Season 2, restructured from much of Fuller’s previous grandiose (and seriously expensive,) concepts.