After a tumultuous June that saw Star Trek: Discovery‘s leadership team ousted, the month concludes with another round of shifts inside the franchise spin-off as the series continues down the road to Season 2.

Announced today via Deadline, cable television veteran James Duff — who created and ran longtime TNT drama The Closer and spin-off Major Crimes for the last thirteen years — has joined the Discovery team in an executive producer role, set to work directly with new showrunner Alex Kurtzman to run the Season 2 writers’ room.

While Duff is new to Discovery, it’s not his first time visiting the Star Trek universe, as he wrote the Naussican-centric “Fortunate Son” in Star Trek: Enterprise’s first season.

In addition to Duff’s appointment to the Star Trek: Discovery team, new Season 2 writer and consulting producer Jenny Lumet — who previously worked with Kurtzman on 2017’s The Mummy — has also been promoted to a co-executive producer role on the series.

Finally, Season 1 mainstay Olatunde Osunsanmi, who both served as a co-EP and episodic director has gotten the bump to full Executive Producer status, and will serve as the on-set lead producer at Pinewood Studios in Toronto where Discovery is filmed.

Osunsanmi directed two episodes of last season’s story — “The Butcher’s Knife Cares Not for the Lamb’s Cry” and “What’s Past is Prologue” — and is expected to continue helming at least one more episode in the upcoming second year of the show.

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