that"Star Trek: Lower Decks" is ending after its current season, that really only leaves"Strange New Worlds" as the last remaining Nu-Trek series currently airing on television. ," make sure you have your own physical media, 'cause no one likes being at the mercy of whatever an overpaid television executive thinks. You're welcome.
So when Alex Kurtzman or Michelle Paradise or whoever it is that actually has authority in the writer's room entered said room, put down their grande iced sugar-free vanilla half-double decaffeinated half-caff latte with soy milk and a twist of lemon in their Paramount-branded 40oz Stanley Clean Slate Quencher H2.0 Flowstate™ Tumbler and announced,"Wouldn't it be great tochapters from seasons one, two, three and four?" no doubt everyone cheered.
But this clever Time Bug, which can manipulate time in just about any way that's convenient for the writers to overcome any potential chronological complications — like life-changing paradoxes — came onboard the USS Discovery by way of that shifty Malinne"Moll" Ravel , who managed to infiltrate the Trill homeworld undetected,.
There's even a very entertaining scene, in which 23rd-century Burnham must fight her 32nd-century self. Of course, the illudium Q-36 explosive space modulator fitted to the space bug prevents any changes from affecting the timeline, so you know,Most of the original Discovery bridge reappear, as close to how they looked seven years ago as possible, and even makes a cameo, so that's nice.
The fifth and final season of"Star Trek: Discovery," and every other episode of every"Star Trek" show — with the exception of"Star Trek: Prodigy" — currently streams exclusively on Paramount Plus in the U.S., while"Prodigy" has found a new home in Australia, Latin America, the U.K. and South Korea, as well as on Pluto TV in Austria, France, Germany, Italy, Spain and Switzerland on the Pluto TV Sci-Fi channel.