Unfortunately, they did a cliffhanger.

Now you have to wonder if they can untangle it into one coherent finale episode, and if Paramount will even give them the approval to untangle it in the first place.

Here's another one to ponder.

I commented on social media that even though the press reports say the question is open, his "farewell" letter in the reports read to me like someone on the way out talking to his successor. And Brian Tatosky (one of the VFX team) replied:

Yes, SFA being cancelled is part of ending his tenure of Trek once we finish the work we have.

So it sure seems like the end of the road.

Well, he's certainly in a better position to know than any of us in the peanut gallery.

Let's hope they get it over with and make an announcement sooner, rather than later.

Yes, let's finish celebrating this 60th anniversary in style! 😂

they did allow disco to shoot additional scenes to make the season finale a series finale. I hope they allow SFA to do the same

Maybe it is because I already know TNG to be great, but I don't think encounter at farpoint was really bad. (Was not the best either.)

I don't just want to watch Star Trek because of that name slapped onto it.

Your loss. What's your favorite?

My favourite Star Trek? TNG followed by Lower Decks followed by TOS and Enterprise (first two seasons).

Since a bunch of people said that the Pilot isn't really representative, I'll give SFA another shot.

I have watched all of trek except TOS (just a few famous episodes only).

I just couldn't get into this show and that's okay, I don't need to love every show. Sad to see less Trek as there should be Trek for every type of audience but if they are cancelling then I'm guessing the show didn't find its mark with people.

I don't know how to appeal to younger audiences, there are people smarter than me to figure that out but I hope to have a trek for me again someday.

If you like LD I think you'll find stuff to like in Academy as well. Tawney was in the writers room. I'm glad to hear you'll give it another shot.

I'd rather have a cliffhanger and a glimmer of hope it could be resolved in a future movie.

I am genuinely happy to hear that Alex Kurtzman is leaving the Star Trek franchise, fuck that guy.

If someone had told teenage me that there would be star trek and star wars that not only would I never see but never care to see. heck sci fi in general. its wild.

That’s not in the announcements

Variety confirmed that CBS Studios and Kurtzman are continuing to be in negotiations for a renewed partnership.

I’m always concerned that having an unresolved cliffhanger has the opposite impact.

It discourages new viewers from trying a show and undermines the case for a movie.

A Firefly to Serendipity outcome is vanishingly rare.

And unlike Farscape, the production company partner can’t get the IP back and make a limited series or streaming movie to resolve it.

That's good point. I enjoyed the Discovery finale well enough but I also can't deny it definitely felt rushed.

I can't say for sure if I'd prefer a rushed conclusion over a well-considered writing that gets cut short!

The first episode was just set up. The entire rest of the season is the actual show.

Quoting the article:
"According to an individual with knowledge of the situation, Kurtzman and CBS Studios are currently in talks for a new deal that will keep him in the CBS fold"

I personally take that as he is staying at CBS but leaving Star Trek, especially since the new Star Trek movie has no connections to him.

It depends on whether the intent is to integrate the movies and television.

No one involved with the new movies has proven their ability to deliver on Star Trek, whatever their other credentials.

It would be a major risk to give any untested production company and EP the kind of multiyear contract needed to run the franchise.

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Personally I have a much higher chance of going to see the new movie if it has NO ties to Kurtzman, and I am not alone in my friends-group for that opinion.
I only went to see Star Trek Beyond because it was a fresh take mostly written by Simon Pegg (A known ST fan), and I think it's the best of the three new movies.

That's a shame. There were certainly parts about the show I could nitpick, it is far from perfect. But I enjoyed it. Glad to at least get a season 2.

I can honestly take this, though I do want more Star Trek content. I will continue to watch the show, but it's really asking for a lot of suspended belief in each episode. A random sampling of my problems with the show:

1. You take fresh, untrained to partially trained students, put them in a mobile school, and then intentionally fly that ship full of children into known dangerous areas of space?

2. We've had decades of the best in Starfleet fully commissioned officers solving complex problems, and the academy is full of professors and other well educated professionals, yet with every weird anomaly, the approach is, "fuck it let's let the kids handle this one"

3. Terse negotiations with a previous and potential new member of the federation are done as a spectacle at the academy in front of the students and almost no other high level members of Starfleet, instead of literally anywhere else?

There are many more, but at some point I had to just turn my brain off to continue watching. I'm not used to having to do that so much with Star Trek.

Definitely a YMMV situation. I have seen all three Kelvin movies and liked the first best of the lot

Beyond didn’t redeem itself for me. The motorcycle ridiculousness put it in the Nemesis category for me. There’s also the fact that none of the rest of the family would watch with me after the first one.

That said, the movies are being led by completely different people at this point.

Kurtzman is only negotiating television production not movies. My point was that the movie people have yet to prove themselves in even being able to deliver a cinematic feature in the franchise. So, would be an extreme risk to lock a 5-7 year deal that includes television production.

…and nothing of value was lost.