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Why ‘Star Trek: Discovery’ Built Season 5 Around a Classic Episode From a Legacy Series
"Star Trek: Discovery" executive producer Michelle Paradise explains why Season 5 is built around a classic episode of "The Next Generation."
Kovich (David Cronenberg, yes, that one) — the equally mysterious Federation operative driving the mission — won’t even tell Fleet Admiral Charles Vance (Oden Fehr) about the object’s significance. Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart) — along with teams of Romulans, Klingons and Cardassians — learn that all humanoid life in the galaxy was created by a single species that existed billions of years earlier, and seeded thousands of planets with the DNA to pass along their legacy. (Along with presenting a profound vision of the origins of life, the episode also provided an imaginative explanation for why almost all the aliens in “Star Trek” basically look like humans with different kinds of forehead ridges.)
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