<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 Alex Kurtzman serving as showrunner . </P> <P> Original 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 a hybrid approach was eventually used following the same characters but telling 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 . Gretchen J. Berg and Aaron Harberts, showrunners for the first season, returned for the second but were fired during production . Co-creator Kurtzman replaced them during filming on the fifth episode . </P> <P> The season is expected to debut in 2019, and will consist of 13 episodes . </P> <P> Showrunner Alex Kurtzman directed the first episode of the season . Jonathan Frakes is directing the second and tenth episodes . </P>

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