CBS All Access releases new Star Trek: Discovery season 3 official trailer

The new Star Trek: Discovery logo from the official season 3 trailer

Yesterday was Star Trek Day - September 8th, the 54th anniversary of the premiere of Star Trek, way back in 1966. And along with the festivities and numerous panels, one lovely, shareable nugget made its way out of the CBS All Access marketing machine: a brand new proper trailer for Star Trek: Discovery season three.

The two minute and twelve second-long trailer opens with Michael Burnham proclaiming “Let’s show them who we are.” It’s followed by a new, colorful logo with a new Discovery font. We start with footage showing the end of season two: Burnham in the Red Angel suit towing the Discovery through a black hole...but what happens after that is new.

The Red Angel tumbles through ship debris, Discovery crashes on a planet, we see Burnham arriving in the year 3188 where she is overjoyed to find that there are “multiple life signs” on the planet she lands on. She is clearly separated from the Discovery, and we see Saru consoling Tilly that although they are cut off from what they knew, they are all together. Familiar faces give way to the new character, Book, who tells Burnham that the Federation mostly collapsed after an unexplained event that he refers to as “The Burn”, the day “the galaxy took a hard left.”

Cue disaster, explosions, inspirational speeches, a grumpy fellow telling someone they “got no authority here”...oh yeah, and Michelle Yeoh’s Georgiou kicking a little backside. Among the quick cuts, there’s even a shot of Burnham and Book leaning in for a kiss.

We’re just over a month away from the premiere of Star Trek: Discovery season three and the new official trailer should be just the beginning of their marketing push. Look out for more new information and footage in the coming weeks. And in the meantime, it’s worth brushing up on your “classic” Star Trek: Discovery, with seasons one and two streaming now on CBS All Access.