<P> The second season of the American television series Star Trek: Discovery is set roughly a decade before the events of the original Star Trek series, and follows the crew of the USS Discovery . The season will be produced by CBS Television Studios in association with Secret Hideout, Roddenberry Entertainment, and Living Dead Guy Productions, with Gretchen J. Berg and Aaron Harberts serving as showrunners, and Akiva Goldsman providing producing support . </P> <P> Original series showrunner Bryan Fuller had intended for Discovery to be an anthology series that told different stories each season . CBS did not agree with this, but the other executive producers later expressed interest in a hybrid approach in which the series followed the same characters but told different stories each season . The second season was officially ordered in October 2017, and does not continue the war storyline of the first season . Filming began in April 2018 . </P> <P> The season is expected to debut in 2019, and will consist of 13 episodes . </P> <P> Co-creator Alex Kurtzman will direct the first episode of the season . Jonathan Frakes will direct the second and tenth episodes . </P>

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