10 Worst Star Trek Moments In 2024

If you barge your way onto the bridge from the future, you'd better have a damn good explanation. Chakotay did in Shattered and was promptly arrested. In Face the Strange, Captain Burnham had to fight her former self before she could step back on and off the turbolift. Unlike Captain Janeway, it didn't take much to convince Airiam, back from the not-yet-dead, to play along. The truth of her impending demise was inexplicably easier to believe than a good old-fashioned lie.

That Krenim chronophage has been buggy for everyone. 'Face the Strange' might as well be the leitmotif of this entire year. The episode itself feels like it aired ages ago. Cancelled after the fact, Star Trek: Discovery's fifth and final season was, at times, impossibly prescient. Then, there were those other faces missing, not knowing that time was running out.

After Mirrors, Commanders Owosekun and Detmer took the very long way round to Fed HQ storage with the ISS Enterprise. As showrunner Michelle Paradise noted on Twitter in May, both Oyin Oladejo and Emily Coutts "had other projects during that time so we got them when we could". Saru was also absent from several episodes of season five. As Doug Jones revealed to CinemaBlend's Mick Joest, he had "asked if there was a way to lessen the load" after season four so he could spend more time with his wife.