Star Trek: Discovery's Finale Apparently Depends on an Easter Egg From Episode 1
The final season of Star Trek: Discovery will revolve around an Easter egg that fans will see at the end of the first episode, according to its co-creator Alex Kurtzman.
Kurtzman, a filmmaker and executive producer of all Star Trek projects, teased fans about the upcoming finale of Star Trek: Discovery, which will premiere next week. According to him, the fifth and final season will pay tribute to the original Star Trek lore. To help the audience better understand the final story arc, the executive producer hinted that the whole journey would be based on a hidden message to be featured in the final scenes of its first episode.
In a recent interview with TV Line, just days before the premiere of Star Trek: Discovery, Kurtzman confirmed that there would be Easter eggs that the audience should be watching out for in the series. He acknowledged that Easter eggs could backfire and might fall short of achieving their intended goal when only added to pay lip service and lacked substance. However, he clarified that it wasn't the case for the show.
The Star Trek co-creator hinted that fans should keep their attention on the final scenes of the first episode because it would tie the previous events to the series' remaining episodes. The Easter egg will be the audience's compass on how the rest of the season will unfold. In Star Trek: Discovery season 5, Captain Michael Burnham (Sonequa Martin-Green) and the U.S.S. Discovery crew will solve a mystery that sets them on an epic galactic quest to locate an ancient force whose presence has been purposefully concealed for generations. However, along the way, they will encounter adversaries who are also after the same power and will do all it takes to seize the prize for their own benefit.
In this particular case, the whole season is dependent on a very significant Star Trek Easter egg that you’ll find out at the end of the first episode. It sheds some light on things that happened in the past, but it also paves the way for where we go
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