The press coverage of Star Trek: Discovery’s final season is growing as we get closer to the show’s April 4 return, and today a lengthy new piece in SFX Magazine offers fans new insight into the upcoming episodes.
 

The full Discovery special features a lengthy new interview with showrunner Michelle Paradise, who speaks about the Season 5 journey, shares her thoughts about new villains Mol (Eve Harlow) and L’ak (Elias Toufexis), offers crypic clues about each of the year’s 10 episodes, and more.

During the conversation with SFX’s Darren Scott, Paradise revealed a minor tidbit about one of Season 5’s new characters, Captain Rayner (Callum Keith Rennie), which will be sure to scratch an itch to many fans wondering about the large-eared officer’s origins.

“He’s Kellerun, which is a minor planet mentioned in one of the other [Star Trek] iterations… we learn more about his personal backstory and how that plays into who he is, and why he is how he is. We learn about that as the season goes on, and the planet he’s from has a lot to do with that.”

The Kellerun species has been seen only once before, in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine’s Season 2 episode “Armageddon Game” — where Chief O’Brien and Dr. Bashir are sent to destroy a stockpile of biological weapons… only to find they are also targeted for execution after learning the science behind the weapons.

The SFX spotlight article also include a new interview with Discovery lead Sonequa Martin-Green (Captain Burnham) discussing the show’s ending, and filming the ‘coda’ footage after the cancellation announcement was made public.

You can read the full eight-page Star Trek: Discovery feature in the April issue of SFX Magazine, available for digital purchase today through PocketMags. The issue also features new articles on Amazon Prime’s adaptation of Fallout and Netflix’s Rebel Moon, Part 2.