10 Greatest Star Trek Moments In 2024
9. The Chase, Part II
Star Trek: Discovery's fifth season was an "Indiana Jones […] action-adventure show," in the words of Jonathan Frakes once again. It was a rip-roaring archaeological race around the galaxy, unearthing hundreds of years-old puzzles to technology that was billions of years more. The newest directive — Red — of the 32nd century was a nod to the 24th, via the face of Jean-Luc Picard. Without even knowing it, Discovery had picked the greatest topic of them all to go out on — the origins of (humanoid) "life itself".
Star Trek has always been the show of 'big ideas,' with a healthy dose of technobabble on the side. It has also been guilty of letting some of its greatest concepts go to waste. Long before Life, Itself, Professor Galen had good reason to be a bit thrilled from beyond the grave. The crew of the Enterprise-D completed what he had begun. To the outside world, The Chase ended there.
This year, Discovery put paid to the years of waiting and put a name to the "Progenitors". There was even a real one, so to speak, not holographic, at the end of this particular trail of clues. The creators, we learnt, weren't even the creators of the creation. The chase is still on! In the end, it was probably all just Fred.