Celebrate the first day of contact with this Star Trek: Discovery S4 trailer

Sonequa Martin-Green has released the first trailer for the fourth season of Star Trek: Discovery, as part of the first contact day.

Actress Sonequa Martin-Green, who plays a key role in the series, has the first trailer for the fourth season of Star Trek: Discovery, during the first contact day 2021, a virtual event hosted by Paramount + with panels, live streams and news from various Star Trek properties.

(Spoiled for previous seasons below.)

Martin-Green plays Michael Burnham, an orphan raised on none other than Sarek (James Frain) and his wife, Amanda Grayson (Mia Kirshner), on the planet Vulcan — aka, parents of Spock (Ethan Peck). So she’s Spock’s adoptive sister. As I wrote before, the S2 season long arc involved the mysterious appearance of a ‘Red Angel’ and a rogue Starfleet AI called Control, who wanted to wipe out all life in the universe.

The big revelation was that the Red Angel was actually a travel suit worn by Michael’s biological mother. She accidentally jumped 950 years into a bleak future in which Control reached its evil goal and traveled through time to leave signals (the visions of the Red Angel), hoping to change the future. In the S2 final, Michael donned a copy of her mother’s suit to lead Discovery more than 900 years in the future. The crew of the Undertaking told Starfleet Discovery was destroyed in battle and was ordered never to speak of the ship or its crew again.

In S3, Michael, Discovery and her crew arrived in the future and found that Control’s plan had been thwarted: life still existed. But the galaxy was very different thanks to something called The Burn, a catastrophic event that caused all the dilithium in the Milky Way to explode, destroying much of Starfleet in the process. In the aftermath, without creating a warp, all the planets disconnected and were no longer controlled by the Federation. However, Michael managed to locate a single Federation link on a remote space station using a new ally, Book (David Ajala).

It was another strong season for the series. As Kate Cox of Ars noted in her review last year, “S3 is absolute Star Trek in the classical form, where problems can be solved, where diplomacy can prevail, where clever Starfleet officers can think their way out of any trap, and where the Federation and its ideals are actually good for this fallen world. ‘

The Discovery crew reunited with the remnants of Starfleet, determined what caused The Burn, and succeeded in defeating a rival syndicate known as the Emerald Chain, which inspired the planets to rejoin the Federation. Burnham eventually become captain of Discovery after Saru decided to return to his home planet Kaminar for a game. And we sadly say goodbye to Philippa Georgiou (Michelle Yeoh); a spin-off series is reportedly in the works.

According to the official summary, Captain Burnham and the crew of the USS Discovery facing a threat unlike any they have ever encountered. As the world of Federation and non-Federation experiences the impact, they must confront the unknown and work together to ensure a hopeful future for all. ‘

In addition to Martin-Green, a large portion of the cast is also back for S4: Doug Jones as Saru, Anthony Rapp as Stamets, Mary Wiseman as Tilly, Emily Coutts as Keyla Detmer, and Wilson Cruz as Dr. Culber. S3 additions Book (David Ajala), Adira (Blu del Barrio), Gray (Ian Alexander) and Starfleet Commander Vance (Oded Fehr) will also return.

The trailer calls a five-kilometer-diameter “gravitational anomaly” moving through the galaxy – this is clearly the malleable threat indicated in the synopsis. This season looks like another action-packed bonanza (with new Starfleet uniforms) that reinforces the themes of community and family so prominently in S3. We get a look at Vulcans and Book’s cat, Grudge. A big question for Burnham is how she will continue to grow and move forward now that she is leading a spaceship and that Adira (technically deceased) transgender boyfriend, Gray, will eventually be visible to everyone, not just Adira. Other than that, we’ll just have to wait and see.

The fourth season of Star Trek: Discovery debuted on Paramount plus later this year.

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