Jonathan Frakes on Directing Next Generation, Lower Decks
This interview goes assorted places, but it has a small interesting bit about next year’s Discovery finale.
“I directed the first half of the finale of Season 5, which turned out to be the real finale… And then [‘Discovery’ executive producer and director] Olatunde Osunsanmi had to go back up and do two or three days of new stuff to actually make the finale the finale." https://variety.com/2023/tv/news/jonathan-frakes-star-trek-director-strange-new-worlds-lower-decks-crossover-1235680140/
It brought Trek back, and also, I think surprisingly at the time, brought the film-level feel of polished production and longer serialised arcs along with it, all while having its own vibe and doing its own thing (I’m still madly in love with the idea of a time jump 900 years into a future of a broken federation!!).