Star Trek: Discovery Season 6 Or Movie - Everything We Know

Star Trek: Discovery has ended, but will the flagship Star Trek series on Paramount+ return for season 6 or a streaming movie? Star Trek: Discovery began in 2017 and helped launch the CBS All-Access streaming service, which later rebranded as Paramount+. Discovery was the first new Star Trek series in 12 years and brought the franchise into the streaming era with cinematic visuals and serialized storytelling. Discovery's success led to multiple Star Trek spinoffs, including Star Trek: Picard, Star Trek: Lower Decks, Star Trek: Prodigy, and Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, as well as the upcoming series Star Trek: Starfleet Academy and the made-for-streaming Star Trek: Section 31 movie.

Although Star Trek: Discovery season 5 wasn't produced as the final season, after the cast and crew learned the series was ending, Paramount+ allowed them to film new scenes to wrap up Star Trek: Discovery with an epilogue to the series finale, "Life, Itself". Star Trek: Discovery season 5 turned out to be one of the show's strongest seasons, with an adventurous tone that delivered thrills and poignant moments. Discovery season 5 also contained multiple callbacks to past Star Trek series to better tie the 32nd century-set saga with the franchise's legacy. But now that Star Trek: Discovery is officially over, will Captain Michael Burnham (Sonequa Martin-Green) and the USS Discovery return for season 6 or a movie on Paramount+?

Will Star Trek: Discovery Season 6 Happen?

Discovery has taken its last ride.

There are no known plans for Star Trek: Discovery season 6. Star Trek: Discovery season 5 contained multiple endings that concluded the story of Captain Burnham and the USS Discovery. The original ending of Star Trek: Discovery season 5 consisted of the wedding of Ambassador Saru (Doug Jones) and President T'Rina (Tara Rosling) while Captain Burnham and Cleveland Booker (David Ajala) resumed their love story just in time for their next adventure. Star Trek: Discovery's series finale epilogue flashed forward decades to send off the USS Discovery to its ultimate destiny.

However, Star Trek: Discovery season 5's ending doesn't preclude season 6 were it to be greenlit by Paramount+. Discovery's finale epilogue scenes simply mean audiences learn what happens to Michael Burnham and the USS Discovery in the far future, but there is plenty of time before that to tell more stories about the USS Discovery and its crew. Star Trek: Discovery has wrapped, but it's possible the cast and crew could reunite for season 6 after some time has passed.

What Star Trek: Discovery Season 6 Would Have Been About

Discovery's epilogue was an abbreviated version of season 6's story

If Star Trek: Discovery season 6 happened, showrunner Michelle Paradise indicated that its focus would have been tying the series into Star Trek: Short Treks' "Calypso". Star Trek executive producer Alex Kurtzman wanted to make sure the lingering question about whether "Calypso" is Star Trek: Discovery canon is definitively answered. Instead, Star Trek: Discovery's finale coda delivered the link that leads directly into "Calypso".

Michelle Paradise also told Screen Rant in our exclusive interview that "we hadn't gotten far enough down the road to know what would happen" to Commander Rayner (Callum Keith Rennie) and Moll (Eve Harlow), two of Star Trek: Discovery season 5's new additions who proved popular with audiences. Both Moll and Rayner ended Discovery season 5 with hints that they would stay on into season 6, had it happened. Perhaps what's next for Rayner and Moll will be revealed in the next Star Trek series, Star Trek: Starfleet Academy.

Will Star Trek: Discovery Get A Paramount Plus Streaming Movie?

Five seasons... and a movie?

A streaming movie on Paramount+ is a potential option for a continuation of Star Trek: Discovery. A plan to feature a new Star Trek movie on Paramount+ every 2 years kicks off when Star Trek: Section 31 starring Academy Award-winner Michelle Yeoh premieres on the streamer. Reuniting the cast of Star Trek: Discovery for a Paramount+ movie is a definite possibility. However, there are no known plans for a Star Trek: Discovery movie and the future of Star Trek streaming movies depends on how Section 31 performs on Paramount+.

What Star Trek TV Series & Movies Are Coming After Discovery Ends?

Star Trek will still be going strong.

Star Trek will continue to go boldly after Star Trek: Discovery ends, with multiple announced Star Trek projects in various stages of production and development. (Executive producer Alex Kurtzman, who oversees all of Star Trek on Paramount+, says there are more unannounced Star Trek projects in the works.) Star Trek: Lower Decks will stream season 5, which is also its final season, on Paramount+ in fall 2024. Netflix is also going to premiere Star Trek: Prodigy season 2 sometime in 2024. Star Trek: Section 31 is awaiting a Paramount+ premiere date, and Star Trek: Strange New Worlds wrapped filming season 3 with season 4 greenlit. Star Trek: Starfleet Academy will also start production in late summer 2024.

Paramount Pictures' Star Trek movie franchise is also ramping up after nearly a decade of development hell. Paramount announced an Untitled Star Trek Origin movie directed by Toby Haynes will begin production later in 2024 for a 2025 or 2026 theatrical release. X-Men producer Simon Kinberg is reportedly signing on to oversee the Star Trek theatrical movies similar to how Alex Kurtzman runs Star Trek streaming on Paramount+. Producer J.J. Abrams is also reportedly trying to launch Star Trek 4 and reunite the USS Enterprise cast led by Chris Pine. As Star Trek: Discovery heads off to its final frontier, it leaves Star Trek stronger than how it found it.