Star Trek Discovery Season 2 - interview - IndieWire

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‘Star Trek: Discovery’ Producers on Season 1 Finale, and How Season 2 Will Be ‘What Trek Does Really Well’

Key quotes:

[Georgiou and Tyler] both are so important to Michael Burnham. And so our goal is to create a universe of characters and our goal has always been to find other avenues of storytelling in terms of characters who can carry storylines. We didn’t want to limit ourselves. We love those characters and there’s a very good chance that you’ll see them again.

Less war, more away missions?

We are excited, because this season does free us up to [say] ‘Let’s try more away missions,’ ‘Let’s find some new alien species,’ ‘Let’s chase down new mysteries,’” Harberts said. “That’s hard to do when there’s a war to deal with. So Chapter 2 of the novel does get to be about what ‘Star Trek’ does really well, which is philosophy and debate and intellectual ideas and science and all those things.

They're still saying there's more to come for Culber & Stamets:

For the record, the writers haven’t forgotten about Dr. Culber, played by Wilson Cruz, who they promised would eventually return following his tragic and untimely death. “The presence of Dr. Culber will continue to be extremely important,” Harberts said. “We know what we want to do, but we’re just figuring out when and how.”

And they note that now with the end of the Klingon war they're now running parallel to events that have been mentioned in previous canon, and are looking forward to making that all slot together. On Pike:

[Christopher Pike] is everything that Lorca was not. He sacrifices himself so many times for others [...] The other thing that’s interesting about that character is we don’t know a lot about him. There’s a lot of stuff we don’t know.

And the question is posed: Should Saru get a kitten?

Comments

[lilacsigil]

But would Saru be comfortable with a pet predator species?

I know they keep talking about more Culber, but I was seriously disappointed by them killing him for really no reason at all. I adore Michael and Saru and Tilly and Paul and the Emperor (and at least like everyone else) but it left a very bad taste in my mouth.