Sonequa Martin-Green and the crew of the USS Discovery were on hand at New York Comic Con 2021 today to debut the official Season 4 trailer for the flagship Trek series on Paramount+. Key art for the season was also revealed, featuring Martin-Green as now-Captain Michael Burnham, complete with the new uniform design that we first glimpsed in the Disco teaser from last April.
You can watch the Season 4 trailer right here:
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Here's the logline for the season from Paramount Plus:
Season 4 of Star Trek: Discovery finds Captain Burnham and the crew of the U.S.S. Discovery facing a threat unlike any they’ve ever encountered. With Federation and non-Federation worlds alike feeling the impact, they must confront the unknown and work together to ensure a hopeful future for all.
The new season of Disco hits the Paramount streaming service on Thursday, Nov. 18. Check out the key art right here:
The NYCC Discovery panel included Martin-Green as well as her co-stars Anthony Rapp (Stamets), Mary Wiseman (Tilly), Wilson Cruz (Culber), David Ajala (Booker), and Blu del Barrio (Adira), plus showrunner and executive producer Michelle Paradise. The team was pretty tight-lipped about the new season, but they did drop a few hints about what to expect from their character arcs in year four.
Martin-Green spoke about her character's finally taking the captain's chair on a permanent basis, saying there are a lot of things that need to be learned and a lot of discoveries and challenges for Michael. And every relationship is affected by it because all of a sudden there’s a sort of distance that occurs, a bit of stepping back that has to happen so the captain can make the best decision for the entire crew.
The cast were asked how the “anomaly” threat of the season affects each member of the crew. Stamets is a scientist first and foremost, so he’s driven to solve this riddle day and night. Tilly is great at science, “so that helps,” said Wiseman. She’ll also be feeling more responsibility in a position of leadership this season. That combined with the events of Season 3 spirals her off into a personal journey of investigation. Culber will be taking on double duty as a medical officer as well as the ship’s counselor, and the danger of the anomaly means that there will be great anxiety among the crew. For inspiration, Cruz looked to the doctors and health professionals in the real world and how they have dealt with the pressures of COVID-19. Martin-Green added that none of the characters were expecting a threat this big so soon after jumping to the future, but that the true character of the crew comes out during this moment of pressure.
Paradise also mentioned that the Federation president who you can spot in the trailer is a Cardassian/Bajoran/Human – this is the 32nd century, after all!
Star Trek: Discovery continues to explore the undiscovered country on Paramount Plus when Season 4 premieres on Thursday, Nov. 18.