Star Trek : Discovery ( season 2 ) - wikipedia Star Trek : Discovery ( season 2 ) Star Trek : Discovery ( season 2 ) Starring Country of origin United States Release Original network CBS All Access Season chronology ← Previous Season 1 List of Star Trek : Discovery episodes The second season of the American television series Star Trek : Discovery is set roughly a decade before the events of the original Star Trek series, and follows the crew of the USS Discovery. The season will be produced by CBS Television Studios in association with Secret Hideout, Roddenberry Entertainment, and Living Dead Guy Productions, with Gretchen J. Berg and Aaron Harberts serving as showrunners, and Akiva Goldsman providing producing support. Original series showrunner Bryan Fuller had intended for Discovery to be an anthology series that told different stories each season. CBS did not agree with this, but the other executive producers later expressed interest in a hybrid approach in which the series followed the same characters but told different stories each season. The second season was officially ordered in October 2017, and does not continue the war storyline of the first season. Filming began in April 2018. The season is expected to debut in 2019, and will consist of 13 episodes. Contents 1 Episodes 2 Cast and characters 3 Production 3.1 Development 3.2 Writing 3.3 Casting 3.4 Design 3.5 Filming 4 References Episodes Co-creator Alex Kurtzman will direct the first episode of the season. Jonathan Frakes will direct the second and tenth episodes. Cast and characters Main article : List of Star Trek : Discovery characters Shazad Latif as Voq / Ash Tyler Wilson Cruz as Hugh Culber Alan van Sprang as Leland Anson Mount as Christopher Pike James Frain as Sarek Production Development On November 2, 2015, CBS announced a new Star Trek television series to premiere in January 2017, `` on the heels '' of the original series ' 50th anniversary in 2016. In February 2016, Bryan Fuller, who began his career writing for the series Star Trek : Deep Space Nine and Star Trek : Voyager, was announced as the new series ' showrunner. CBS did not have a plan for what the new show would be when Fuller joined, and he proposed an anthology series with each season being a standalone, serialized show set in a different era, beginning with a prequel to the original series. CBS told Fuller to just start with a single serialized show and see how that performs first, and he began further developing the prequel concept. By the end of 2016, Fuller had left the series due to further conflicts with CBS and other commitments, with Gretchen J. Berg and Aaron Harberts replacing him as showrunner. In June 2017, co-creator Alex Kurtzman said that he and Fuller had discussed plans for future seasons before the latter 's departure. Executive producer Akiva Goldsman stated in August 2017 that though the series is not an anthology as Fuller first proposed, `` it 's kind of a hybridized approach. I do n't think we 're looking for an endless, continuing nine or 10 year story. We 're looking at arcs which will have characters that we know and characters that we do n't know. That 's even true over the course of this ( first ) season. '' Kurtzman later added that the Federation - Klingon War story arc of the first season would not continue in a second season, saying `` each season needs to be about a different thing ''. However, he was not interested in a full anthology series because `` I would n't necessarily want to throw ( the characters ) away at the end of the season for a new show '', and instead felt that the aftereffects of the first season would be felt moving forward : `` The results of the war are going to allow for a lot of new storytelling that will be the result of everything that happens and the people that are left behind ; the casualties, the things that have grown in Starfleet as a result of the war. That 's what we 'll inherit in the second season. '' By the end of August, Berg and Harberts had developed a `` road map '' for a second season. After the premiere of the first season, Kurtzman explained that a `` big idea '' had been proposed mid-way through production on that season which became the `` spine '' of the second season, with the writers `` emotional compass '' having pointed them to using that idea. He added that the series ' producers wanted to avoid announcing release dates for the season, just to delay, them due to the external pressure that caused with the first season. However, he hoped the second season would be available in early 2019, as long as the quality and scope of the series was not compromised to achieve that. A month later, on October 23, 2017, the second season was officially ordered by All Access. CBS Interactive President Marc DeBevoise cited the increased subscriptions for All Access since the series ' debut, as well as critical acclaim and fan interest, when announcing the renewal. The season consists of 13 episodes. Writing The series ' writers began work on the second season in December 2017, and were considering `` science vs. faith '' as the main theme of the season. Harberts said that, unlike the first season, the second would not be a `` war season '' and would have more time `` to do things like more away missions, newer planets, stories that might fall a little bit more into a framework of allegory that people love to get from Trek '' while retaining the serialized structure introduced in the first season. He added that the season would be `` jam packed '' with things that they were not able to do in the first season. With the Federation - Klingon War storyline not carrying through to the second season, Kurtzman said that there would be much less of a focus on the Klingons in the second season and far fewer Klingon - only scenes, but that Klingon characters would still appear. Casting In February 2018, Kurtzman confirmed that Shazad Latif would be returning from the first season as Voq / Ash Tyler, after deciding to leave the Discovery at the end of the first season. He also indicated that it was possible for Jason Isaacs and Michelle Yeoh to return as Gabriel Lorca and Philippa Georgiou. At the end of the month, Wilson Cruz said that he would be returning as Hugh Culber during the season, despite his character 's death in the first. That April, James Frain confirmed that he would be reprising his role of Sarek for the second season. After the first season concluded with the Discovery receiving a distress call from the USS Enterprise, specifically from Captain Christopher Pike, Harberts expressed interest in exploring that character in the second season, feeling that he had not been seen much in Star Trek previously and so `` there 's an interesting opportunity that we might have to delve into and flesh out a character who I think is a pretty darn heroic and selfless captain. '' Spock -- the adoptive brother of protagonist Michael Burnham -- is also a crew member of the Enterprise, but Harberts felt that he was less of an interesting character for the series to explore given his many appearances throughout previous iterations of Star Trek, and was reluctant to have an actor other than Leonard Nimoy or Zachary Quinto portray the character. In April 2018, Anson Mount was cast as Pike, which was described as a `` key role '' for the season, and a young Spock was confirmed to be appearing in flashbacks. In March 2018, an alternate ending to the first season was revealed in which a Section 31 agent named Leland is introduced, portrayed by Alan van Sprang. The producers confirmed that Sprang would be portraying the character in the second season. Van Sprang had worked with Berg and Harberts on the series Reign, and they had been trying to find a character for him to play throughout production on the first season. The actor described his role in the second season as a `` massive part of it ''. Design John Eaves and Scott Schneider, designers of the starships for the series, were required to redesign the USS Enterprise for Star Trek : Discovery, making it 25 percent different from Matt Jeffries ' original design due to legal concerns regarding the ownership of different Star Trek elements. CBS ultimately confirmed that they were free to reuse Jeffreies ' design in Star Trek : Discovery, but stood by the changes made by Eaves and Schneider as creative improvements that took advantage of modern visual effects. These changes included adding elements that could realistically be removed or replaced in the time between this series and the beginning of the original series. The visual effects department made further adjustments to the design after Eaves and Schneider completed their work. The final version of the ship seen in the series also adopts some of the characteristics of the Enterprise from the films, such as being `` a little bit fatter, a little bit bigger '', to fit into the aesthetic of the series. Elaborating on this, Kurtzman explained that the original designs for the Enterprise would look out of place within the series due to the far more advanced modern technology being used to produce the show. He added that any sets designed for the Enterprise would bridge the look of the original series and Discovery while still trying to adhere to canon and remain consistent with the original designs where possible. Filming Filming for the season began at Pinewood Toronto Studios on April 16, 2018, under the working title Green Harvest. Production was set to take place on the series at the studio until November 8. References Jump up ^ Holloway, Daniel ( March 28, 2018 ). `` Alex Kurtzman to Direct ' Star Trek : Discovery ' Season 2 Premiere ( EXCLUSIVE ) ''. 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Question: when does star trek discovery season two start
Answer: 2019