We’re back from our holiday break, and now it’s time to catch up on some of the news we missed — starting with a look ahead to the forthcoming final season of Star Trek: Discovery.
 
While the series won’t return for the last run of adventures until April, some tantalizing clues about where the show’s concluding season have come in the form of Season 5’s ten episode titles.
 
Normally held back under a veil of secrecy until closer to airdate, with the long delays since Discovery finished filming (almost a year will have passed when the upcoming season airs), we’ve gotten a look early thanks to script registration listings on the Writers Guild of America website. The final year of Discovery will be a now-standard Trek season of ten episodes, with contributions from twelve different writers including series showrunner Michelle Paradise.
 

While it’s of course still very possible that these final episode titles may change between their 2022-2023 registration dates and the April 2024 airings, here is what’s been listed as of this week:

Season 5 begins with “Red Directive” (Episode 501) by Michelle Paradise, followed by “Under the Twin Moons” (502) by Alan McElroy and “Jinaal” (503) by the Kyle Jarrow and Lauren Wilkinson.

The season continues with “Face the Strange” (504) by Sean Cochran, “Mirrors” (505) by Johanna Lee and Carlos Cisco, “Whistlespeak” (506) by Kennith Lin and Brandon A. Schultz, then “Erigah” (507) by M. Raven Metzner, and then “Labyrinths” (508) as a second entry from Lauren Wilkinson, joined by Eric J. Robins.

Discovery’s final entries are known to be a two-part story, with “Lagrange Point” (509) directed by Jonathan Frakes and written by Sean Cochran and Ari Friedman, while the concluding “Life, Itself” (510) is scripted by Kyle Jarrow and showrunner Michelle Paradise, and directed by longtime supervising director and executive producer Olatunde Osunsanme.

There’s already been plenty of speculation in the Trek community about these titles over the last few days, but we’ll throw in our ideas as well.

• “Under the Twin Moons” may be a Saru-focused episode, as his homeworld of Kaminar is known to have two moons (as seen in “The Brighest Star” and “That Hope is You, Part 2”).

• “Face the Strange” is likely a reference to David Bowie’s song “Changes,” where listeners are told to “Turn and face the strange.”

• Perhaps “Whistlespeak” might refer to whale song… if Discovery decides to check in on the Whale Probe aliens from Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home in the 32nd century? (This one’s pretty unlikely, we’ll admit!)

Anyway, we’re still a ways off from really learning more about the upcoming final season of Star Trek: Discovery, which will be returning sometime this April and is — so far — the only live-action Star Trek scheduled for 2024.

Keep checking back to TrekCore as we get closer to the show’s return for more on the closing chapter of the Discovery story!