10 Dumbest Things In Star Trek: Discovery
8. "A" Plot Hole
Life, Itself wasn't the finale Discovery needed, wanted or controversially deserved, but what is done is done. The final 15-minute coda attempted to clean up the last strands of the show in a reasonable manner, but there was one thing that was swept with force under the franchise's Big Rug of Problems.
The superb Calypso short, which helped bridge the season gaps during the Covid pandemic, shot the series forward to a point well beyond the 32nd Century, revealing the USS Discovery NCC-1031 adrift and crewless. In its original configuration from seasons one and two, the Discovery and Zora played host to Craft while he recovered, before he once again left the ship alone in the great beyond.
Of course, this was written and produced well before, on screen, the Discovery was kicked into the 32nd Century and received substantial upgrades, including a shiny "A" suffix to its registry. The writers would have been fully aware of the existence of Calypso, and allegedly, there would have been a clearer journey towards that point had a sixth season aired. But it didn't, and the show was left with a challenge. In this case, one that was hurriedly not explained.
The ship had to be reconfigured to its original settings purely to fit the larger narrative created by the Short Trek, but the finale gives no explanation for it happening, and viewers were none the wiser as to what was going on.
A truly dumb move where a few lines of dialogue could have closed the loop without fans being effectively told, "Well, because it just is," and having to accept what is shown.