Next week Star Trek: Discovery The Final Season arrives on Blu-ray and DVD. The sets include audio commentary, exclusive special features, a gag reel, and more. It also includes deleted scenes and we have an exclusive look at one of them.
Saru and Nhan share a moment
The season five finale (“Life, Itself”) saw Saru and Nhan take on a daring mission to waylay a Breen Primarch. In the deleted scene below, the pair share a moment as they head out to their mission talking about Saru’s upcoming wedding to T’Rina and the challenge of balancing duty with personal lives.
Disco S5 comes home on Tuesday
Star Trek: Discovery The Final Season arrives on for DVD and Blu-ray on Tuesday, August 27 . A digital release for season 5 arrives on August 26.
The home and digital releases include nearly 2 hours of special features. Here is a breakdown of what is included…
- Audio Commentary (Exclusive to Home Entertainment)
- Deleted Scene (Exclusive to Home Entertainment)
- Being Michael Burnham (Exclusive to Home Entertainment)
- Character Development (Exclusive to Home Entertainment)
- Gag Reel (Exclusive to Home Entertainment)
- Star Trek: Discovery™: The Voyage of Season 5
- A Team Effort
- Discovery’s Creative Force
You can pre-order Discovery Season 5 at Amazon on Blu-ray for $34.99 or DVD for $29.99.
Box art for DVD edition
There is also a limited edition Steelbook Blu-ray, which can be can be pre-ordered for $39.99.
Season 5 Steelbook Blu-Ray
Check out the announcement trailer…
New Series Box Set
Paramount is also releasing a new complete series box set on DVD and Blu-ray on August 27. The set features all 65 episodes and over 15 hours of special features including a bonus disc “that takes you on a never-before-seen journey through all five seasons with the cast and crew.” The complete series box set can be pre-ordered for $59.95 on Blu-ray and $49.95 on DVD.
Box art for Blu-ray edition
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I have to say, the more I realize Discovery is done for good, the more I miss it… Espically Saru who IMHO is among the echelon of best Trek characters along with the Kelpians is one of the best things added to Trek canon….. Would love Legacy to run into the still developing Kelpians..
I guess I’ll have to order the blu ray to see how it all ends.
I liked Discovery for its action, its production, and its serialized story-telling. The thing is, while I liked the ensemble of characters, I didn’t love any one of them. A couple of them I really disliked (and one really creeped me out). I think, for me, that’s one of the biggest things that draws me to the ST shows. As Harve Bennett and Nicholas Meyer both realized, both being newbies to ST when they were making TWOK, the original characters carried even the weak episodes (Bennett) and had “charm” (Meyer).
TNG had that. DS9 did too. Voyager had some characters I really loved, Janeway, the Doctor, Seven, and Tuvok, some I liked with B’lanna and Tom, some I didn’t care about at all, Chakotay, Harry, and Kes, and one I desliked with Neelix.
No comment on ENT, since I never got into it.
I just didn’t love any of the Discovery characters. The ones I liked the most were the Empress, who left the series, and Jett Reno, who wasn’t on all the episodes (I’m glad she’s in the Academy show, she’s hilarious). I actually really enjoyed the first 2 seasons of Picard and really liked the characters on that show. I don’t understand all the hate there regarding it. Haven’t seen SNW yet, but I thought Ethan Peck was great as Spock on DISCO and Anson Mount’s Pike was just great too.
My current ranking of ST shows:
I can’t disagree with you on how you assessed DIS. While Saru is my favorite character on the show, and he does rank up there as a great Trek character, I’m not sure I could name another character that I really enjoyed watching, other than maybe Dr. Culber, oh and Jett Reno for sure. Rayner had potential, especially since he showed the most character growth in his one season, but he was only there for one season, the final season.
Honestly, only TOS, TNG, and DS9 have an ensemble whose characters have stuck with me since their shows went off the air (and that includes recurring characters, especially on DS9). I think SNW could be there, we shall see, and LDS could be there too (but their live action appearance is what made that possible), but not DIS or even the first two seasons of PIC (PIC Season 3 is just TNG Season 8 and with an awesome frenemy: Liam Shaw, another great Trek character). PRO I’ve loved, but I doubt I’ll ever remember the character names.
I did not like VOY or any of its character (I did like the Doctor’s cameos in DS9 and in FC, however, even if it was more of him being the EMS rather than “The Doctor”), BUT Seven of Nine was one of my favorites on PIC. On PIC she became a full-fledged character. (Holo-Janeway on PRO was better than regular Janeway on VOY.) ENT on the other hand… I just spent the last minute or so thinking about it and, nope, I’ll pass on all of those characters. I’d like to recommend Shran, but that’s literally only because of Jeffrey Combs and for no other reason.
Now, how would I rank the shows? Hmm… I know VOY and ENT still rank last for me, and DS9 is my favorite of the original spin-offs, and TOS will always always hold a special place in my heart (even though I’m 10 years younger than the franchise, TOS was in my life since, probably, 1980 or slightly earlier, but I wouldn’t remember), but how to rank all 15,000 Star Trek shows… Hmmm…
TOS
DS9
TNG/PIC S3/SNW/LDS/PRO
PIC S1-2
DIS
VOY/ENT
I don’t have TAS in there, because quite honestly, it’s been far too long since I’ve seen an episode to remember where to rank it. So, while, writing-wise I know it’s TOS seasons 4 and 5, production-wise, well, it’s a very 1970s cartoon. I’ll need to rewatch it to remember where to rank it.
Movies rankings…
TWOK/TVH/TUC/FC
TSFS/Beyond
TMP:DE/’09/ID*
TFF/Gen/Nem
TMP:TE
ID*
The abomination spewed out in 1998 is not listed because I reject that… thing… entirely. It is the worst thing that has ever been put out with the Star Trek logo slapped on it (and that includes the books by Sondra Marshak and Myrna Culbreath, whose books I have never been able to finish because they are so awful).
Into Darkness is listed both as good and bad because if one had never seen TWOK, ID is a pretty good sequel to ’09. If one had seen TWOK, especially 1000 times, then, dear Rao, I shouldn’t be able to quote a movie that I’m watching for the first time.
TMP is also listed twice because TMP: Director’s Edition is a good movie because it is actually a finished and complete movie, whereas, the Theatrical Edition of TMP was never completed (as is famously known) and is very problematic and not a very good movie. Although, in any version of TMP, I can watch Scotty and Kirk’s tour of the Enterprise on repeat. I love love love love love love that ship. Best Sci-Fi ship EVER. (Now, if only I could win the lottery to buy that Tomy model of her…)
Hey, great post, sisko!
Yeah, I feel the same way about the top 3. TOS, TNG, and DS9. They were near perfection because they had a great set of characters (in addition to great stories, with DS9 being the most consistent and ambitious obviously wrt writing).
For me, VOY is a mixed bag. It had some characters I really loved and some great stories. I liked the ship very much too. But it had so much wasted potential thanks to Paramount’s wish to keep it more like TNG and Berman and Braga in charge of the show. It didn’t fully exploit its premise. And, like I said, it had some characters that I felt were flat (Chakotay) to pathetic (Harry Kim), to cloying (Kes), to creepy and irritating (Neelix).
I really haven’t gotten into ENT or LD like I’ve said, so I can’t judge. I’m a bit bothered by LD making so many jokes at the other shows expense. It just seems like it’s an endless riff of citations and the like on the other straight shows. I’m just not sure I’d like it.
ENT, like I said, initially I just felt like I was watching TNG v3. I wanted something that would be, at least, more like TOS, if not something really different and ambitious like DS9. Instead, I got TNG v3. After VOY, I just couldn’t get through ENT.
I’ll say this for DISCO, though, like someone else said on TREKBBS, it aimed for the fences. It was different in tone, style, format, etc., than the Berman trio of TNG, VOY, and ENT. Like Bryan Fuller wanted, DISCO incorporated the energy and style of the Abrams films and it had flawed characters like TOS did. What’s more, by placing it right before TOS, it revisited and reimagined, with updated sfx and much higher budgets, the TOS era and allowed us to revisit Spock, Pike, Chapel, Uhura, and Kirk. I haven’t watched SNW yet (except for the very first episode which I really thought was brilliant), but I’m looking forward to it. Honestly, if it was done carefully, I’d be up for Pike moving on and Kirk and McCoy showing up. After all, aren’t we TOS fans owed 2 more seasons at least?
Here’s the real crazy thing with LDS and me: I don’t find the show funny. Like, not at all (I’ve snickered a few times and laughed once or twice). But, by Rao, is it great Star Trek and the characters are so good, and you care about them.
As a comedy, I guess I’m not the target audience. But as Star Trek… The (Bajoran) Prophets smile upon this show. It’s so fun, not dark, same morals and values that TOS, TNG, and DS9 preach. I look forward to each new episode and am not happy that Paramount canceled it after Season 5 (I really wanted to see their TUC homage poster and which version they were going to use: the Klingon head or the crew version (it was probably going to be the crew version)).
The creators of the show love Star Trek and it shows.
I have no problems with how different DIS was compared to 1990s Trek, it’s just that there wasn’t much joy in that series (though the 5th season had it, which is probably why I feel that Rayner had potential). Which is another reason why SNW is so good: the joy is back, and they’re clearly loving Star Trek.
Sure DS9 was dark, but there was still that joy and fun in it. PIC Season 3 also was dark (though in their case, I think it’s because they spent the budget on the special effects and the sets that they couldn’t afford lights), but man oh man was it good to see the Enterprise-D crew in action one more time.
Oh, and yeah, ENT was a TNG prequel not a TOS prequel.
Don’t really understand the hate for INS. Sure, it isn’t a great movie, but it is better than TFF or NEM in my opinion.
INS feels more episodic than theatrical, but I’m not mad about it because it has a good story. And yeah,I also think it’s superior to TFF and NEM.
MUCH better than NEM, BY
A LOT!
Oh you really want me to talk about that abomination, so be it.
Never once prior to that abomination and never since have I ever been bored watching anything that had the name Star Trek on it. Never have I ever wanted a commercial break so badly so I could go and raid the fridge.
There was no insurrection in that thing at all. It was a rogue Badmiral that they were fighting against. There was no violation of the Prime Directive, like they were making a big fuss about. What was up with that Microsoft joystick never seen prior or since to fly the Enterprise? The attempts at humor were forced and not natural (like the singing in the shuttlecraft or Worf’s zit).
It was a boring two part TNG episode that was pretending to be a theatrical production. (I saw The Cage in the theaters for some special showing and that was amazing theatrically. The Cage. Made in 1964 for television.)
The stakes were low. The Star Trek-ness was low. I cannot even think of one good thing to say about it whereas I can even with something like Spock’s Brain or Threshold. Yeah, you read that correctly. Even Jerry Goldsmith’s normally flawless score was dull. You also read that correctly.
I still want my money back, almost 30 years later. The only reason I have a copy of it on any form of home media was because it unfortunately came with the 10 movie box set on Blu-Ray. Prior to that I had never bought a copy of that waste of celluloid and I own a copy of basically every version of every Star Trek movie ever made (six or seven versions of TMP alone as well as TFF and NEM). Almost 30 years later I still get pissed talking about it.
I would rather be forced to watch all seven seasons of that fan fiction known as Star Trek: Voyager than Rejection ever again.
I recently rewatched INS. You’re right, it’s not bad at all. And sisko’s right too, it’s not really an Insurrection and it wasn’t a matter of the prime directive. Anyway, other than more money for production, it does come across as just another TNG two-parter, and, honestly, a lot of TNG’s two-parters, maybe all of them, were better.
I just think that, for ST films, the stakes should be higher. I like NEM more than INS for that reason. Yeah, it’s a colder movie and should have been better but it has a kick ass space battle, creepy Remans, and Data dies (I don’t think they should have done it, but it was done well).
TFF is kind of like INS, with worse sfx an obviously bungled ending and a flimsy story. It comes across as one of the weaker TOS episodes. The thing that carries that film, again, are the characters. There are some good character beats. That’s about it. That film was a big let down.
Won’t miss this show but did mostly like the last season.
I’m still trying to figure out the purpose of Nhan as a character.
Poor Nhan! Good actress but she never got the development she deserved. Then again that was sadly an all too common problem for Discovery. On a positive note though, the final season was the best one yet for the show! Glad it got to go out on a high note!
Don’t need this.
Needed to comment, though.
Nice, now we remove the comments that doesn’t praise the worst Star Trek series ever without insulting anyone or any profane words, good job!
I miss this messy show so much. Sonequa is such a joy and I know she’s unpopular in these parts, but Michael is one of all time favourite characters in Trek.
Glad you loved her, M1701. I really like Sonequa Martin-Green too. I new she could be a good central character for the new show after seeing her on The Walking Dead, where she similarly played a strong character.
I’m kind of lukewarm on her Discovery character though. For every one thing I like about her, there’s something else that I just can’t connect with. I just find her just…too emotional I guess and I didn’t like how she went against both Captain Georgiou and Saru and then, at the end, after everything works out for her, gets rewarded with command of a ship. There were times when she did legitimately put the ship at risk too due to wanting to save one person. I just don’t understand, I guess, why the writers would undercut the character like that if they knew they were going to make her the captain of the ship.
Since I like consistency, I had to order the final season Steelbook … but I also had to order the full series set to get the extra disc. Grrr take my money lol.
Nobody was talking about Discovery when it ended. The truth is, no one cared. Why are we not honest about Discovery? I believe that when Bryan Fuller was let go and they brought in Michelle Paradise, the show allowed the actors to be themselves as opposed to the characters they were paid to play. Season 3 onward was a mess but why do we act like it was must see tv. It was not. I actually had no real issue with Season 1. Thought 2 was alright. Anson Mount made it interesting. He was fantastic.
It was obvious that the Red Angel plot was designed to softly reboot the Prime Timeline. Tell me you want to reboot Trek without telling me you are actually rebooting it, at least the portion that takes place in the 23rd century.
I also had an issue with the way they disrespected Avery Brooks. They touted Ms. Green as the first Black Lead in a Trek Show. They aslo acted like Black actors were never in Star Trek. They forgot about Madge Sinclair from Trek IV and her role as Captain La Forge on TNG.
It is amazing how we forgot all the Black actors who contributed to Star Trek over the many decades. Nichelle Nichols, Madge Sinclair, William Marshall. Brock Peters, Cirroc Lofton, Penny Johnson, Levar Burton, Paul Winfield, Booker Bradshaw(OG Mbenga) Tim Russ, Bernie Casey, Sallie Richardson, and of course Michael Dorn. There were others but you get my point.
Discovery was just annoying at times. It was like Greys Anatomy in Space. It was a bad show. I am sorry if anyone is offended. It was bad.
I hope that Skydance cleans up Trek and replaces the current team with people who respect and honor the franchise. If Paramount wants to make money off Trek, they need to get rid of the remnants of Bad Robot. Kurtzman needs to go. Did you see that foolishness at SDCC? A comedy show? What? There was a time in hollywood when folks actually had to know how to write to get jobs.
This is just my opinion. I hope it does not get deleted. I Love Star Trek and I hate where it is. It is the hands of people who don’t care. The writers room is not about fans its about the egos of these writers who arrogantly think they know what I want or the fanbase. The Acolyte was cancelled because of the arrogrance of the people who made it.
Kevin Feige grabbed Terry Matalas because of his work on Picard Season 3. Kurtzman let the man walk. I hope they make Terry Matals the new head of Trek one day. I need a fan who genuinely loves the lore. I don’t need someone who ignores fans and butchers the lore.
Again, would appreciate if my post is not deleted. This is my opinion. I love Trek. This is my passion for it.
Hey, THESISKO (OG), I totally respect your opinion. For me, I really enjoyed Discovery seasons 1 and 2, because they were something new compared to the Berman-Braga repeated TNG formula, because of the action and production, and because of the serialized story telling. Like I said above, I liked the characters, but not as much as the ensembles in TOS, TNG, and DS9 by a long shot. I had some quibbles with some of the continuity problems in it too. But, anyway, I’m saying, I get what you’re saying. DISC is low on my list of ST shows. Maybe it’s on par with VOY, but it is not comparable imo to TOS, TNG, and DS9 at all.
And I actually liked Picard seasons 1 and 2 more than Discovery as well.
To me Discovery kicked off the “Dork Age” for Trek – what TV Tropes used to call it, since renamed “Audience-Alienating Era.” I don’t like the latter term, because what has alienated one part of the fan base has certainly drawn in others and new fans. But Dork Age fits because it truly is the dumbing-down of Star Trek. Nothing in Discovery or anything that has come since has approached the brilliance of the Golden Age of Trek, namely 20th century Trek. After DS9 ended, the quality dipped dramatically. But by the time we got to Disco, after those first 2 seasons, Trek was no longer being taken seriously in the same way anymore. Disco ushered in this pervasive pattern of lazy storytelling that many older fans simply wouldn’t call “very Star Trek” compared to what came before. The longer time goes on, the more it feels like the content being produced today is “less Star Trek” than ever, particularly with regard to the upcoming Section 31.
So regardless of whether you personally find Disco and its sister streaming shows any good, the overwhelming consensus is that Star Trek has become a lot dumber, a lot more formulaic, a lot less spectacular than the heights that drew us to the franchise in the first place. All major franchises of the last 100 years go through these phases, with fans coming and going and having their own special era close to their hearts. Star Trek is now 60 years old – of course it will have ups and downs. To me, everything produced since 2017 has been a down. Star Trek used to be one of the most respected and popular franchises. Now, the latest shows – not so much. I’m glad Disco is over, and I really hope SNW gets better…but that season 3 sneak peek doesn’t look promising at all, and the less said about Section 31 the better.
Trek isn’t alone in this phenomenon. I personally think it has to do with the economics of streaming. Star Wars and Marvel over at Disney have similarly hit the doldrums. Because when you throw 200 million dollars at a half-baked poorly written show that no one tunes in to watch – your franchise will run out of steam. I’m worried that with SNW going increasingly into jump the shark territory, S31 looking very anti-Star Trek, and Academy delivering on a premise no one asked for, Trek will start running out of antimatter, too.
Yes to all of this! I’ve not seen anyone say this before so thanks for putting this into words and posting here.
I’m hoping that this phase of Star Trek will disappear one day soon and we will get a more mature Star Trek show. I don’t want a full on return to the 90s but an evolved version of that mindset for a modern audience would be incredible.
For now, I’ll continue to follow what happens in the Star Trek universe but not super interested in watching it.
Any chance we could get Ronald Moore back into Star Trek?
(yeah, I didn’t think so either)
>:>{