DIS Season 3

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(written from a Production point of view)

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Season 3 logo

Star Trek Discovery Season 3 poster — Season 3 poster

This page contains information specifically pertaining to the third season of Star Trek: Discovery.

Episodes

Title	Episode	Production number	Stardate	Original airdate
"That Hope Is You, Part 1"	3x01	301	Unknown	2020-10-15
"Far From Home"	3x02	302	Unknown	2020-10-22
"People of Earth"	3x03	303-32	865211.3	2020-10-29
"Forget Me Not"	3x04	304	Unknown	2020-11-05
"Die Trying"	3x05	305	Unknown	2020-11-12
"Scavengers"	3x06	306	Unknown	2020-11-19
"Unification III"	3x07	307	Unknown	2020-11-26
"The Sanctuary"	3x08	308	Unknown	2020-12-03
"Terra Firma, Part 1"	3x09	309	Unknown	2020-12-10
"Terra Firma, Part 2"	3x10	310	Unknown	2020-12-17
"Su'Kal"	3x11	311	Unknown	2020-12-24
"There Is A Tide..."	3x12	312	Unknown	2020-12-31
"That Hope Is You, Part 2"	3x13	313	Unknown	2021-01-07

Summary

Background information

On 27 February 2019, it was announced that the series had been renewed for a third season. DIS Season 3 at StarTrek.com
On 18 March 2019, it was announced that Season 2 series regular Anson Mount (Christopher Pike) and guest star Rebecca Romijn (Una) would not be returning for Season 3. [1]
On 20 July 2019, it was announced that David Ajala (Cleveland Booker) had joined the cast.
As of 5 May 2020, Composer Jeff Russo was working on writing the fourth episode of this season and spotting through episode 8. [2]
As part of a celebratory series of virtual panels on "Star Trek Day" this year (i.e., 8 September 2020), it was announced that this season would introduce a new font for the show's title. [3]
On 14 October 2020, it was announced that the opening titles for this season, as had been the case for those used in the second season, would feature new animations. [4] Robots featured in the opening credits sequence for this season are identified in the Netflix audio description track as "maintenance robots".
The third season, consisting of thirteen episodes, premiered on 15 October 2020, following the ten-week run of Star Trek: Lower Decks.
The premise of this season has similarities to the unproduced concepts Star Trek: Federation and Star Trek: Final Frontier. In the former, the Federation, circa the year 3000, had collapsed to a handful of worlds, and a single ship represented Starfleet's original values. In the latter, the Federation was fractured, after an attack in the 2460s by unknown parties with Omega molecules caused vast areas of the galaxy to be considered impassable, and the crew of the latest starship Enterprise, circa the 2520s, had to remind Starfleet of the higher ideals which that organization, and the Federation, were founded on. It is also reminiscent of Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda (2000–2005), a science fiction television series in which the namesake ship is transported into the future to find the intergalactic civilization from which it was derived has collapsed, after which the crew embarks on the mission to restore said civilization.
A series of "Star Trek Logs" are being released on Instagram throughout the season. These short videos consist of in-universe personal log recordings from the main cast, posted after each new episode. [5]

Credits

Main cast

Sonequa Martin-Green as Michael Burnham
Doug Jones as Saru ("Far From Home"–)
Anthony Rapp as Paul Stamets ("Far From Home"–)
Mary Wiseman as Sylvia Tilly ("Far From Home"–)
Wilson Cruz as Hugh Culber ("Far From Home", "Forget Me Not"–"Scavengers", "Terra Firma, Part 1"–)
Rachael Ancheril as D. Nhan ("Far From Home", "Forget Me Not"–"Die Trying")