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And we’ve worked with Alex and Michelle, and say ‘You do this and the scientists are saying we shouldn’t do that’ Then once we get past that stage, we take it to the crew and start figuring out how to produce it.

You start with safety first and the scientists, and then everything else kind of goes backwards from there. On the same podcast, Olatunde Osunsanmi outlined how production has changed under new COVID protocols: Production on the fourth season of Star Trek: Discovery began last November. Willa in “Scavengers” Season 4 production is taking longer, focusing decision-making Oded Fehr as Admiral Vance, Doug Jones as Saru and Vanessa Jackson as Lt. So that’s a really interesting problem for her that I think that she’s going to have to go through. But that’s challenging as a captain when sometimes you actually do have to make choices that don’t allow you to make choices from both of those sides of yourself. So I think Burnham at the end of season three learns to hold space for being two things, and that that’s okay. First to her human parents then her Vulcan parents then to Starfleet… And what she really realizes at the end of season three is that she is chosen to be captain by Vance and by everybody because she’s two things. She’s been told to be a certain person by so many different people. I think Burnham goes through this journey that’s very interesting over the course of three seasons. Because now they all have to challenge her as a captain. So the new variable for season four will be, ‘Okay, it’s a cool story, but how does it make her take a step as a captain?’ And that’s been a really interesting thing, because once we started filtering our stories through that question, it began to focus us on the kinds of stories that we wanted to tell. Burnham, without revealing too much, and one of the things that Michelle and I have talked a lot about is that every episode needs to reflect a different challenge of what it means to be a captain. That’s the hardest choice that a captain can make. The simplest and most obvious is, you as a first officer or as a science officer don’t have to choose whether or not to sacrifice someone on your crew to serve a greater good.

Just because she’s in the chair doesn’t mean that there isn’t a journey about what it actually means to now experience things as a captain, and to have to make choices as a captain that you don’t have to make when you’re not the captain. On the same podcast, Kurtzman talked about Michael’s character arc that led her to becoming captain: Season three ended with Michael Burnham promoted to the rank of captain and put in command of the USS Discovery, taking over from Saru (who is busy on Kaminar). Never.ĭoug Jones as Saru in “That Hope Is You, Part 2” Michael’s challenge as captain And that’s going to be part of what he gets to explore in season four. And he doesn’t know where he is on the line yet. And Saru, who I think made an extraordinary captain, also began to recognize by the end of the season that he doesn’t necessarily have probably the hardest thing that a captain has to have, which is the willingness to be able to potentially sacrifice something you care for, or somebody you care for, to serve a greater good. So, to get her from here to there, it’s going to be a journey. And when you have those kinds of polarities, you know, you’re going to have something interesting in the season, because they’re as far apart as you could get. But everybody is evolving in different ways, right? Like the journey for Burnham obviously was from the rejection of the captain’s chair to the sitting in the captain’s chair. Saru is definitely coming back, of course he’s coming back. Host Karama Horne was a bit concerned about Saru’s fate at the end of season three, but got some assurance from Alex Kurtzman: Saru’s choice in season fourĪlex Kurtzman and Olatunde Osunsanmi were guests on the BlerdGurl podcast talking about the season three finale, but also offering some hints about what’s to come in season four of Discovery. Now executive producer/co-showrunner Alex Kurtzman and executive producer/director Olatunde Osunsanmi are offering more insights into what’s next for the show and what it’s like shooting during the era of COVID. We have been tracking some post-season three finale interviews (see here, here, and here) with the Star Trek: Discovery cast and crew, who have hints about what to expect in season four.

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