DIS Season 5 Blu-ray

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(written from a production point of view)

SteelBook® contents

Star Trek: Discovery – The Final Season is a Blu-ray Disc release, featuring the complete fifth and final season of Star Trek: Discovery in 1080p high-definition. The set debuted in the UK and several EU countries on 19 August 2024, followed a week later by its North American release. The release came packaged as the standard four-disc holding plastic snap-case in a cardboard slip-over sleeve.

A limited SteelBook® edition accompanied the standard release(s).

While in a very few cases still being marketed as region-restricted, the releases are in actuality region-free as this has by 2022 become standard practice for the Blu-ray format – explaining the unified contents for all regions.

Disc contents

Disc
Episode
1
"Red Directive"
"Under the Twin Moons"
"Jinaal"
2
"Face the Strange"
"Mirrors"
"Whistlespeak"
3
"Erigah"
"Labyrinths"
"Lagrange Point"
4
"Life, Itself"
Special Features
  • Audio commentary "Life, Itself" with writer/co-producer Michelle Paradise, producing director Olatunde Osunsanmi, and cast members Sonequa Martin-Green and David Ajala.
  • 1 deleted scene "Life, Itself"
  • A Team Effort (20:00) – Co-showrunner Michele Paradise talks about the pressure of making a high quality show and how it comes down to teamwork to pull off a show with special emphasis on the production design department.
  • Discovery's Creative Force (10:00) – A tribute to Olatunde Osunsanmi.
  • Being Michael Burnham: The Captain's Log (13:00) – In this log Sonequa Martin-Green takes fans through her personal journey as the newly-promoted Captain Burnham.
  • Character Development (23:00) – Cast and crew discuss the character arcs over all five seasons.
  • Star Trek: Discovery – The Voyage Of Season 5 (39:00) – Writers, producers, directors, and cast are interviewed about the making of the ten episodes.
  • Gag Reel (4:00)

Background information

  • As with the previous four releases, this release features the same amount of special features as its DVD counterpart, constituting something of a break in release policies as the Star Trek franchise had until 2017 favored the Blu-ray format with the inclusion of more special features. Quite conceivably this had been an intentional franchise attempt to avoid the 2014 "second VAM controversy" that had followed in the wake of the home video format releases of the first two alternate reality films.
  • Even though Discovery's fourth and fifth seasons had become the second television production, after the entirety of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds to be wholly produced to 4K HD 2160p resolution standards by using the new 4K+ ultra high resolution ARRI Alexa cameras, no Discovery 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray release was ever contemplated by the franchise, [1] if only because the first three Discovery seasons had not been produced to these standards, contrary to the May and December 2023 ones for Strange New Worlds. This may have been additionally due to, besides the generic societal trend of dwindling physical home video sales, the skepticism the series continued to engender within the critical fanbase, which has remained unabated since its debut, again in stark contrast to the much better received Strange New Worlds. The Blu-ray and its DVD counterpart releases are therefore in essence to their respective resolution downscaled release variants.

External links

Previous release:
LD Season 4 Blu-ray 		Star Trek: Discovery
Blu-ray 		Next release:
Star Trek: Discovery - The Complete Series
Previous series release:
DIS Season 4 Blu-ray
DVD • Blu-ray • Digital
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