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Star Trek Discovery Season 3 Trailer Breakdown: 10 Story Reveals & Secrets

Star Trek: Discovery season 3 arrives soon on CBS All Access, and the further adventures of the Discovery crew in the far-flung future have been teased in a new trailer. Picking up after the dramatic events of the season 2 finale, Star Trek: Discovery season 3 finds Michael Burnham and the other core characters in the year 3188, where the Federation as they once knew it no longer exists.

The jump forward in time puts Star Trek: Discovery in truly uncharted territory, as no other Star Trek show or movie has ever been set this far in the future. The Discovery was forced to time travel in order to keep important data away from an extremely dangerous rogue A.I. called Control. Burnham guided the Discovery into the future through the use of the Red Angel suit, a piece of tech developed by her parents, which her mother had previously used to make changes to the timeline and try to prevent Control from causing an apocalypse.

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In the Star Trek: Discovery season 3 trailer, Burnham learns that their sacrifice was worth it: the barren future that her mother travelled to has been replaced by one where life still exists. However, that doesn't mean that the last 930 years have been a peaceful time. Let's break down the biggest story and character reveals from the Star Trek: Discovery season 3 trailer.

The original plan was for the Discovery to jump 930 years into the future and land on the planet Terralysium, which had been Gabrielle Burnham's base of operations. However, last year Sonequa Martin-Green confirmed that the ship does not land on Terralysium as planned. In the Star Trek: Discovery season 3 trailer we also see that the ship makes a pretty rough landing when it does arrive in the future, and it looks like Michael Burnham is immediately separated from the Discovery. It's likely that the first episode of season 3 will follow Burnham as she tries to get some idea of where they've landed, and searches for a way back to her lost crewmates. The trailer does at least confirm, however, that they successfully landed in the year 3188.

There's a reason why Burnham gets so excited when the Red Angel suit informs her that multiple life signs have been detected in the planet. The entire purpose of the Discovery jumping forward into the future was to thwart control and prevent the apocalyptic future that Burnham's mother found. If the crew of the Discovery had arrived in a future that was similarly empty of life, then their sacrifice of leaving their entire world and their families and friends behind would have been for nothing. Fortunately, it appears that they were successful in changing the timeline - but this future has its problems as well.

The first person that Burnham meets in the future is Cleveland "Book" Booker, who tells her that the Federation is "mostly" gone due to a devastating event called The Burn. Based on information from the Star Trek Day panel, we know that The Burn was a cataclysmic event that struck the Federation from outside (as opposed to some kind of internal civil war). Whatever it was, it appears to have destroyed Starfleet and split the Federation's member worlds apart, leaving the galaxy in chaos.

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Star Trek: Discovery season 2's visit to the Kelpien homeworld, Kaminar, revealed that Saru's species undergo fairly rapid evolution and actually develop into a more predatory form after a certain age. Jumping forward almost a millennia, it seems that the Kelpiens may have evolved into another form after the Discovery's intervention on Kaminar. This character, who says that he always believed in the continued existence of the Federation, looks as though he could be a Kelpien that has evolved into a more human-like form, or perhaps the result of breeding between humans and Kelpiens. His ears look similar to Saru's and he has a line splitting his nose, though it's not as pronounced as we've seen in Kelpiens previously.

Book says that the Federation has only "mostly" been destroyed, and it appears that this updated version of the Federation flag shows what's left of it: just six member worlds. Based on the characters we see in the trailer, these members could include humans, Vulcans, Andorians, Kelpiens and Trills. In another clip from the trailer, Philippa Georgiou is told that she doesn't have any authority, which indicates that the Federation has lost a great deal of power and influence without the strength of Starfleet to support it. But so long as it still exists in some form, the Discovery's mission and mandate remains intact.

In this shot we see Saru being greeted by a Vulcan character. The planet visible through the window doesn't resemble either the planet that the Discovery initially lands on or the planet Vulcan, but instead has an iridescent green coloring. The Vulcans were one of the original four founding members of the Federation of Planets, so it would make sense that they would be one of the species whose membership survived The Burn. This scene could be the Vulcans welcoming Discovery back into the fold.

Non-binary actor Blu del Barrio will be making their debut in Star Trek: Discovery season 3 as a crew member called Adira. The show has already featured the first gay married couple in Star Trek history, Stamets and Culber, and Adira will find themselves forming a connection to those two established characters. However, this trailer also shows them sharing a moment with the Trill character Gray, the first transgender character in a Star Trek series. Trills have indirectly touched on the idea of gender fluidity before, since characters like Jadzia Dax consist of a host body that coexists with a being called a symbiont. The symbionts move from one host to another, collecting memories and experience throughout their many lives, and therefore are not attached to any particular gender. Del Barrio has said that Adira does not initially share their gender identity with the Discovery crew, so bonding with Stamets, Culber and Gray could be part of their journey towards coming out.

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Actor Ian Alexander is currently best known for his roles in the Netflix series The OA and video game sequel The Last Of Us Part II. In Star Trek: Discovery he'll play Gray, a Trill who has spent his life planning and training to become a host for a symbiont (only a few members of the species receive this honor). Upon becoming a host he will receive a second name that marks him as a joined Trill; for example, Jadzia Dax's name is a combination of the host (Jadzia) and her symbiont (Dax). This shot of Gray bonding with Adira suggests that the two could form a friendship or even a romantic bond - though that may be complicated by the addition of another consciousness into Gray's body and the personality change that follows.

This shot shows Gray lying in a Trill symbiont pool, where the symbionts live when they are outside of their host bodies. Jadzia Dax was seen using one of these pools in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode "Equilibrium." In this scene, Gray could be communicating with the symbiont he will eventually be a host for, or he could already be joined and his symbiont could be communicating with other organisms of its species. For fans of Jadzia Dax, it will definitely be interesting to have another Trill character at the heart of a Star Trek series.

Michael Burnham was forced to leave her former love interest, Ash Tyler, back in the past when the Discovery made the jump to the future. However, it looks like it won't take her very long to find a new man in the future. She and Book are seen bonding throughout the Star Trek: Discovery season 3 trailer, and in this shot they close in for a kiss. Romance is never free of complications, however, and Burnham may not be ready to let Ash go just yet.

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