DIS Season 4

This page contains information specifically pertaining to the fourth season of , whose episode premieres were consecutively streamed on Paramount+ in the USA and broadcast on CTV Sci-Fi Channel/ in Canada from through , becoming permanently streamed in Canada on CraveTV the next day. 
Earlier advertising indicated that this season would be made available worldwide via Netflix. Less than a week prior to the original release date, it was announced that this would not be the case and that the three previous seasons would be removed from the platform. This was due to the planned extended global rollout of Paramount+ sometime during 2022. As a consequence, season four was initially planned as a North American exclusive to begin.
On 24 November 2021, in response to widespread fan outrage, it was announced the series (including the fourth season) would be made available on Paramount+ in all foreign markets in which the service was already available on , which at that particular point in time were not that many (yet) outside the Americas. For the handful of other markets which did not have Paramount+ but did have the Paramount-owned online service Pluto TV, the episodes were made available on the same timetable. Despite this, Discoverys fourth season remained unavailable for the vast majority of international markets, and essentially became a direct-to-DVD/Blu-ray release for those territories when the Blu-ray and DVD home video formats of season four were eventually released in December 2022.
==Episodes==
== Background information ==
* On , Production Weekly included a fourth season in its listing of upcoming productions, although no official announcement had been made. One of the unofficial early reports had it that production was to start in early July 2020. 
*On another early unofficial report had it that not only a fourth season was in the making, but also that it was to be produced back-to-back with a yet to be confirmed fifth season. This turned out not to be the case, but the second season of franchise sibling became produced back-to-back with its third season a year later.
*Discoverys fourth season became the second television production, alongside 's first season, to be wholly produced to standards by using the new 4K+ ultra high resolution ARRI Alexa cameras. However, when the home video formats of the season were up for release, a 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray one had, unlike Strange New Worlds, never been under consideration, presumably for reasons that had either to do with the generic trend of fast dwindling physical home video format sales, the continued skepticism with which the series was viewed by classic fandom, or both. 
* On showrunner Alex Kurtzman had to concede that the crisis wrought havoc on the franchise production schedules, and that production for all shows were delayed, including that of Discoverys fourth season. 
* It was only on that the fourth season was officially announced; production began on November 2 in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic crisis. 
* In a January 2021 interview with Michelle Paradise, she stated that Gray's storyline will be followed up in season 4 and "That storyline is incredibly important to us." She expanded on that in a separate interview stating "Representation matters. It matters to see a version of yourself on screen. It matters there are non-binary and transgender characters. It matters that there is a Black woman in the captain's chair. It matters that there is a gay couple on our show. We will continue to do that for the show, and the world we live in, but also, to honor the Star Trek legacy. And to be super clear, we will pay that moment off in Season 4. Gray will be seen. That promise will be paid off." 
* The entire production crew numbered nearly 80 crew and cast. 
* In the penultimate week of April 2021, production was suspended for two weeks due to suspected on-set COVID-19 exposure. The projected June production wrap was not expected to suffer adversely from the temporary shutdown. 
* Filming wrapped on . 
* The premiere date was announced as .
* The escalating move in the ongoing "streaming war" by globally sidelining Netflix as the international disseminator of the series just days before the fourth season premiere, constituted a surprise for many fans outside North America. Much to their chagrin and anger – which was shared by Discoverys cast and crew – the international Discovery fanbase was now forced to await the launch of Paramount+ in one format or another in their territories sometime in 2022. This was not the case for viewers in Scandinavia, South America, and Australia, where Paramount+ had already been operational since mid-2021, and where the fourth season was expected to be sooner available for viewing after its debut in North America. 
* The gesture of making the season available on Pluto TV in those European territories without Paramount+ was only a partial fix as the service was not available in a large swath of smaller European countries including Ireland, Belgium, the Netherlands, Portugal, and the majority of the Eastern European countries.
* It appears that the November 2021 one-sided termination of the Discovery streaming rights by ViacomCBS came with financial compensation for Netflix. 
* Those countries without Paramount+ and/or Pluto TV were expected to be able to stream the season with the advent of a new, Paramount+ encompassing, streaming service in late 2022. However, when that service, SkyShowtime, was eventually launched in the Autumn of 2022, Discovery was not part of its inaugural library content, meaning that the elusive fourth season remained unavailable for official and legal watching in those countries where SkyShowtime was launched. This intentional omission appeared to have been a conscious decision by SkyShowtime itself, arguably motivated to do so by the continued bad press (and resulting weak ratings) it received from classic fandom that kept hounding Discovery ever since it premiered in 2017. For those fans who liked the show however, the issue became moot very shortly thereafter when the fourth season Blu-ray and DVD home video formats were released in early December 2022.
* The previous point did not apply for those European countries where Paramount+ had been launched a few months earlier that year (but months after the fourth season had already premiered in North America) under its own name, most conspicuously the UK, and where Discovery was a part of the library. UK fans incidentally, were able to watch the fourth season from its very start through Pluto TV, as that service had already been available in the country since 1 October 2018. 
* The premiere of season four came without an official series renewal announcement as had hitherto been customary for the Kurtzman-era Star Trek shows, which included Discoverys season four which had been officially announced the day after its third season debuted.
* The renewal for a fifth season was eventually announced on . 
===Awards===
The fourth season scored three wins out of twenty-one award nominations, thereby achieving a success ratio of 14%, but which also constituted a 48% decrease over the preceding season. Furthermore, the season earned the dubious distinction of becoming the very first Star Trek live-action season not to receive even a single Emmy Award nomination, and up until that point in time a distinction only shared with the second season of the animated .
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Award 	Category 	Nominees 	Result
CAFTCAD Awards 	Excellence in Crafts - Textile Arts 	Bonnie McCabe, David Webb, Urs Dierker 	nominated
CAFTCAD Awards 	Excellence in Crafts - Building 	Kim Crossley, Reilly Kizer, Karen Merriam, Marie Glass, Leanne Reimer, Emaan El-Houni, Scott Patterson, and Kevin Morra 	nominated
CAFTCAD Awards 	Excellence in Crafts - SPFX Building 	Gersha Phillips (costume designer), Kim Crossley, Sheryl Willock, Becky MacKinnon, Carly Nicodemo, Camellia Koo, Heather Constable, Christina Cattle, Laura Delchiaro, Saman Hamid, Heetesh Patel, Ananthy Rajah, Scott Patterson, and Kevin Morra 	nominated
CCA Super Awards 	Best Science Fiction/Fantasy Series 	Paramount+/CBS Studios 	nominated
CCA Super Awards 	Best Actress in a Science Fiction/Fantasy Series 	Sonequa Martin-Green 	nominated
CSC Award 	Best Cinematography in TV Drama ("Coming Home") 	Philip Lanyon 	nominated
Dragon Awards 	Best Science Fiction or Fantasy TV Series 	Bryan Fuller, and Alex Kurtzman 	nominated
GLAAD Media Awards 	Outstanding Drama Series 	Paramount+/CBS Studios 	nominated
Golden Reel Awards 	Outstanding Achievement in Sound Editing - Series One Hour - Music ("Kobayashi Maru") 	Moira Marquis (supervising music editor), and Matea Prljevic (scoring editor) 	nominated
Golden Reel Awards 	Outstanding Achievement in Sound Editing - Series One Hour - Dialogue/ADR ("Kobayashi Maru") 	Matthew E. Taylor (supervising sound editor), Sean Heissinger (supervising dialogue editor), and Cormac Funge (supervising dialogue editor, adr editor) 	nominated
Golden Reel Awards 	Outstanding Achievement in Sound Editing - Series One Hour - Effects/Foley ("Kobayashi Maru") 	Matthew E. Taylor (supervising sound editor), Michael Schapiro (supervising sound editor), Harry Cohen (sound designer), Katie Halliday (sound designer), Andrew Twite (sound effects editor), Clayton Weber (foley editor),Alyson Dee Moore (foley artist), and Christopher Moriana (foley artist)	nominated
Hollywood Makeup Artist and Hair Stylist Guild Awards 	Best Special Makeup Effects - Television Series, Limited Series or Miniseries, or New Media Series	Glenn Hetrick, Rocky Faulkner, Nicola Bendrey, and Chris Burgoyne 	won
NAACP Image Awards 	Outstanding Costume Design (Television or Film) 	Gersha Phillips, Carly Nicodemo, Heather Constable, Christina Cattle, Sheryl Willock, and Becky MacKinnon 	nominated
OFTA Television Awards 	Best Production Design - Sci-Fi/Fantasy 	Paramount+/CBS Studios 	nominated
The Queerties 	The Livin' My Truth On-Screen Romance Award 	Paramount+/CBS Studios 	nominated
The Queerties 	TV Performance 	Wilson Cruz 	nominated
ReFrame Stamp 	IMDbPro Top 200 Most Popular TV Titles 2021-2022 	Paramount+ 	won
Saturn Awards 	Best Streaming Science Fiction Series 	Paramount+/CBS Studios 	nominated
TV Scholar Awards 	TV Scholar Queer Representation Award 	Paramount+/CBS Studios 	nominated
TV Scholar Awards 	Best Guest Performance in a Drama 	David Cronenberg 	nominated
Women's Image Network (WIN) Awards 	Outstanding Actress Drama Series 	Sonequa Martin-Green 	won (tied with P-Valley actress Brandee Evans)
== Credits ==
=== Main cast ===
* Sonequa Martin-Green as Michael Burnham 
* Doug Jones as Saru 
* Anthony Rapp as Paul Stamets
* Mary Wiseman as Sylvia Tilly ("Kobayashi Maru" – "All Is Possible", "Coming Home")
* Wilson Cruz as Hugh Culber 
* Blu del Barrio as Adira Tal ("Kobayashi Maru" – "All Is Possible", "Stormy Weather" – "...But to Connect", "The Galactic Barrier" – "Coming Home")
;With
* Tig Notaro as Jett Reno ("The Examples", "Rosetta" – "Coming Home")
;And
* David Ajala as Cleveland Booker
=== Recurring guest star ===
* Ian Alexander as Gray Tal 
=== Additional cast ===
* Emily Coutts as Keyla Detmer 
* David Cronenberg as Kovich 
* Raven Dauda as Dr. Tracy Pollard 
* Oded Fehr as Charles Vance 
* Oyin Oladejo as Joann Owosekun 
* Tara Rosling as T'Rina 
* Ronnie Rowe Jr. as R.A. Bryce
=== Crew ===
;Directors
* James Anthony Usas
* Maria Norris – Covid Testing Coordinator
== See also ==
* DIS Season 4 performers
* DIS Season 4 Blu-ray
* DIS Season 4 DVD
==External links==
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