Star Trek: Discovery
WARNING : Contains SPOILERS for Star Trek : Discovery ’s Series Finale , " Life , Itself "
Summary
The series finale ofStar Trek : Discovery , " Life , Itself " , eventually makesStar Trek : Short Treksseason 1 , episode 2 , " Calypso " , matter 6 year after its initial release . drop a line by Kyle Jarrow and Michelle Paradise , and directed by Olatunde Osunsanmi , Star Trek : Discovery ’s series finale , admit an epilog set decades after the primary events ofStar Trek : Discoveryseason 5 . Admiral Michael Burnham ( Sonequa Martin - Green ) require the last deputation of the USS Discovery ’s sentient estimator , Zora ( Annabelle Wallis ) . Zora ’s mission is classify , butBurnham ’s instructions to wait and the code word"Craft"directly reference the enigmaticShort Treksepisode " Calypso " , which raised several questions about Discovery ’s ultimate fate .
Streaming just prior to the release ofStar Trek : Discoveryseason 2,Short Treksseason 1 , episode 2 , " Calypso " , features disillusioned soldier Craft ( Aldis Hodge ) and Zora , who would n’t be untilDiscoveryseason 3 , falling in love 1000 years in the future . " Calypso " suggest atDiscoveryseason 2 ’s time traveling and A.I. theme , but was otherwise disconnect fromStar Trekcanon . Discoveryseason 3 ’s forward clock time jump seemed to indicate that " Calypso " would continue a standalone storythat glimpse aStar Trektimelinethat could have been , but would never bechance , due toDiscovery ’s writers changing track . amazingly , Star Trek : Discovery ’s series close made it work .
Star Trek : Discovery ’s series finale epilogue puts the pieces in place for Star Trek : Short Treks " Calypso " to pass off in the future .
“Calypso” Short Trek Finally Makes Sense In Star Trek: Discovery’s Finale
Zora’s Future After Star Trek: Discovery Was Inevitable
Star Trek : Discoveryfinally score " Calypso " make sense , after theStar Trek : Short Treksepisode seemed to be draw a blank , by tyingDiscovery ’s series close epilogue directly to Zora ’s future . Zora ’s existence inStar Trek : Discoveryseason 3 indicates that " fairy-slipper " is genuinely inDiscovery ’s hereafter , especially with storyline confirming Zora ’s personhood that repeat Craft ’s eventual opinion , but afterDiscoveryseason 3 , the free thread dangles overStar Trek : Discovery , begging to be picked up . talk onThe Ready Room , Star Trek : Discoveryshowrunner Michelle Paradise explains working with executive producer Alex Kurtzmann to include the " fairy-slipper " connection inDiscovery ’s finis :
" That was something that Alex and I had talked about for quite some meter . I was n’t actually on the show when they did the " Calypso " short . He always felt – and I did too , once I come on board – that you have to make that connection . You ca n’t leave the hang train of thought on a show like this . And so when we were able to fall back and do the finale , it was 100 % we have to find a way to tie it in . "
The USS Discovery ’s sentence of active service is at an end , but Zora is both sentient and inextricable from Discovery ’s computer , so she ca n’t be decommissioned in a established way . Instead , Zora is ascribe the unique mission of see to it that the upshot of " Calypso " total to pass in a thousand age ' sentence , in a Red Directive mission fromtime broker Dr. Kovich(David Cronenberg ) , who make out what must go on in the future . Because Zora was part of the Sphere information for 100,000 year before being integrate with the USS Discovery , 1000 years is only a fraction of Zora ’s potentially immortal existence , making Zora the arrant factor for this mission .
In theStar Trek : Discoveryseries finale epilog , the USS Discovery is retrofitted back into its original twenty-third century plan , with reattached warp nacelles and the " A " scrubbed from the register turn on Discovery ’s Isaac Hull , to match Discovery ’s appearance in " Calypso " .
Why Zora’s Final Star Trek: Discovery Mission Is So Important
Zora Continues Captain Burnham’s Legacy In Discovery’s Future
Instead of leaving theStar Trek : Short Treksepisode " Calypso bulbosa " behind as an artefact of a forgotten timeline , Star Trek : Discoveryensures that " Calypso bulbosa " remains part ofStar Trek ’s future tense , so there must be an important reason for Zora ’s finalStar Trek : Discoverymission . Captain Burnham was capable to reconstruct a broken 32nd C Federation with 23rd century ideals that examine to the post - Burn extragalactic nebula that connecter was possible . Zora ’s deputation in the 42nd century is like Burnham ’s in the 32nd , because Craft ’s enemies in the warfare are the V’draysh , formerly known as the Federation , and Zora , like Burnham , is a Federation citizen from another clock time capable of showing Craft forgivingness .
InStar Trek : Discoveryseason 5 , episode 4 , " Face the Strange " , Captain Burnham and Commander Rayner ( Callum Keith Rennie ) happen Zora play file away twentieth century music after the USS Discovery has been desolate in an alternate next timeline , just as Zora does inStar Trek : Short Treks"Calypso " .
The brush between Zora and Craft may be a necessary flap of butterfly stroke wings that lead to enduring peace or a rebuild Federation in the 42nd century . Zora ’s high documentary inStar Trek : Discoveryis protect theUSS Discovery crew . Craft becomes Discovery ’s sole crew member , soZora protect Craft , reminding Craft of what beloved is . With a healed centre , Craft depart to return to the wife and shaver that Craft has been away from for ten age , and play the piano light of Zora ’s Federation - inspired connexion back to his hoi polloi . With that inevitable ripple event , Star Trek : Discoveryfinally makesStar Trek : Short Treks"Calypso " matter .
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