[Official] Star Trek: Discovery Thread

[LOC Veteran]

25 minutes ago, Slarlac249 said:

how about one last time travel episode where romulas isn't destroyed and spock doesn't have to go back in time / to alternate timelime. because X captain prevents it all and trek continues in the prime univese.

 

 

While we would all love a storyline like that to play out on the show, let's be honest. CBS isn't going to step on Paramount's feet here in regards to nuking their entire new Kelvin timeline. Plus, for most hardcore Trekkies I know, its exactly that. Just an offshoot timeline that happens to have a newer (more apple store-ish) Enterprise and crew and a super old Spock prime in it (sadly not anymore of course, rip Leonard) that is trying to tell new-ish stories in a cleaner more effects driven universe (literally). And we still have the Prime universe (which isn't a timeline, its a universe after all) and any number of offshoot dimensions from there like the mirror universe etc. CBS won't, in the course of say a 12 episode story arc, reset everything again just for the hardcore fans. Not when the movies are still making money anyways  

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5 hours ago, LOC said:

While we would all love a storyline like that to play out on the show, let's be honest. CBS isn't going to step on Paramount's feet here in regards to nuking their entire new Kelvin timeline. Plus, for most hardcore Trekkies I know, its exactly that. Just an offshoot timeline that happens to have a newer (more apple store-ish) Enterprise and crew and a super old Spock prime in it (sadly not anymore of course, rip Leonard) that is trying to tell new-ish stories in a cleaner more effects driven universe (literally). And we still have the Prime universe (which isn't a timeline, its a universe after all) and any number of offshoot dimensions from there like the mirror universe etc. CBS won't, in the course of say a 12 episode story arc, reset everything again just for the hardcore fans. Not when the movies are still making money anyways  

some of us old trekkies would like it to happen, but yeah, gotta be realistic as you say.

 

i just hope if this really is in the post st6 era, they make it look like that era and don't start creating weird new ships etc, because it won't look right.

 

seeing the teaser with the new ship, it just looks like crap, early footage or not. i hope it was just a test.

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21 hours ago, George P said:

I hardly remember much from voyager anyways, so maybe I'm totally off, but lets, for the love of all that's pure, stop with the damn time traveling/skipping/whatever trek stories, enough already!

You forgot the Borg

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Star Trek Discovery to feature female lead

 

The new Star Trek TV series is to centre on a female character, the show's executive producer has revealed.

Bryan Fuller said Star Trek Discovery will feature about seven lead roles, but will focus on a female lieutenant commander instead of the captain.

According to Deadline, it is thought the lead character will not be white in an effort to increase diversity.

Fuller also said the new show, which will air next year, will feature a gay character in the ensemble.

It is not the first time a Star Trek series has had a female lead - Kate Mulgrew played Captain Kathryn Janeway on Star Trek: Voyager, which ran from 1995 to 2001.

Speaking at the Television Critics Association panel for US network CBS, Fuller - who has also written the pilot episode - described the lead in Star Trek Discovery as a "lieutenant commander with caveats".

He said he decided not to focus on the captain because "we've seen six series from captain's point of view and to see one from another point of view gives us a richer context".

The other details Fuller revealed about the series included:

The show will be set 10 years before the original series featuring Captain Kirk and will bridge the gap between 2005 series Enterprise and the Kirk years.

There will be more aliens than you would usually expect on the crew - it will not be "one person with a bumpy head". And there will be robots.

There may be the possibility of seeing younger versions of the characters seen in Kirk's crew, but not until the second season. There is also the chance to see the character of Spock's mother, Amanda Grayson, played by Winona Ryder in JJ Abrams's 2009 big screen adaptation.

The first season will consist of 13 episodes rather than the traditional 20-24 episodes to keep storytelling tight.

Because the programme will be shown on CBS's on demand platform, it will not be "subject to broadcast standards and practices" usually seen on network TV. Fuller said it would allow a "broader spectrum" of content including "slightly more graphic content" and profanity.

The new series, which begins production in two months, will be streamed globally on Netflix the day after it is made available on CBS All Access in North America from January.

Source: BBC News

[Son_Of_Dad]

Sounds like they're making it as PC as they possibly can. Let's start a campaign insisting the security chief is a bisexual Jewish dwarf. The choice of main character has problem written all over it and as for bridging ENT and TOS they have +100 years between them how is 10 years before TOS going to assist it puts things at the same time as the original ST pilot.

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12 minutes ago, Son_Of_Dad said:

Sounds like they're making it as PC as they possibly can

Sounds like they are making it as reflective of not only Gene's ideas of the future, but also the reality of the here and now as they possibly can.

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Some more details and some duplicates
 

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* “Discovery” is another prequel, set in the Shatner (not JJ Abrams) universe ten years before Kirk and Spock’s famous five-year mission depicted in the 1960s TV series.

* It follows that “Discovery” is set about 100 years after “Star Trek Enterprise.”

* "Discovery's" lead character will be a human female. The female part has only happened once before, with “Star Trek: Voyager,” another series creator-showrunner Bryan Fuller helped write.

* For the first time since the early episodes of “Deep Space Nine,” the lead character will not be a captain. When I asked creator-showrunner Bryan Fuller if he could describe the lead character’s rank, he replied “lieutenant commander.” A few minutes later though Fuller told me exclusively “she will hold many ranks.”

* The series will explore an incident mentioned in the 1960s series. (In the 1969 episode “Whom Gods Destroy,” there’s a reference to a war the Federation was fighting about 15 years earlier.)

* Fuller seemed to hint he would pursue Winona Ryder to reprise the role of Spock’s mother, Amanda Grayson. Hers would not be a regular role. When I asked if Grayson would appear in the first season of “Discovery,” Fuller smiled and replied “maybe.”

* Other established characters besides Greyson could appear.  For example, a young Doctor McCoy could turn up, allowed Fuller, but Fuller also said there are no plans for McCoy.

* Shooting on the series is still months away and no one has been cast yet.

* The series will not be subject to broadcast standards and will feature “slightly more graphic content” than a typical Trek series.

* The CBS All Access exec who introduced Fuller indicated that there will only be 13 episodes of “Discovery” per season, and certainly no more than 13 airing in 2017. Prior live-action seasons of Star Trek have typically run north of 20 episodes, often as many as 26.

* Fuller described the series as one 13-episode novel. Trek has featured copious episode-to-episode continuity in the past, notably during the third season of “Star Trek: Enterprise.”

* The infamous Kobayashi Maru incident (used to train Starfleet cadets) occurred prior to the events of “Discovery,” and will be referenced in the series.

* Fuller confirmed Starfleet’s super-secret black-ops division Section 31 may be a component of the series. Discovery’s registry number is NCC-1031.

* Sets, makeup and effects will be upgraded to 2016 standards, just as these things were upgraded to 2002 standards for fellow prequel “Star Trek Enterprise.”

There's an additional QA with Bryan Fuller, http://www.aintitcool.com/node/75945

 

[Dot Matrix]

42 minutes ago, Nik Louch said:

Sounds like they are making it as reflective of not only Gene's ideas of the future, but also the reality of the here and now as they possibly can.

I thought the reality here was to be a white xenophobic racist? 

[Dot Matrix]

Kinda hoping we get some closure with Enterprise with this series. Still wished Enterprise got more seasons to pursue the Earth-Romulan Wars. 

 

 

Sounds as if the Discovery series will show the 4 Years War? Is this why CBS is going after Axanar?

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still months behind on shooting? i thought it's meant to air in january?

[Son_Of_Dad]

On ‎11‎/‎08‎/‎2016 at 10:12 PM, Dot Matrix said:

Kinda hoping we get some closure with Enterprise with this series. Still wished Enterprise got more seasons to pursue the Earth-Romulan Wars. 

It's been said it will bridge ENT and TOS though something recently said it's set 10 years prior to TOS, which doesn't imply much bridge work to me.

[Dot Matrix]

1 hour ago, Son_Of_Dad said:

It's been said it will bridge ENT and TOS though something recently said it's set 10 years prior to TOS, which doesn't imply much bridge work to me.

Yeah, sounds to me this is why they went after Axanar. Same timeframe. 

[DocM]

Postponed to May 2017

 

http://www.superherohype.com/news/382003-star-trek-discovery-delayed-until-may-2017#WRvd6MQJtjr2rFDQ.99

 

“Bringing ‘Star Trek’ back to television carries a responsibility and mission: to connect fans and newcomers alike to the series that has fed our imaginations since childhood,” said executive producers Alex Kurtzman and Bryan Fuller. “We aim to dream big and deliver, and that means making sure the demands of physical and post-production for a show that takes place entirely in space, and the need to meet an air date, don’t result in compromised quality. Before heading into production, we evaluated these realities with our partners at CBS and they agreed: ‘Star Trek’ deserves the very best, and these extra few months will help us achieve a vision we can all be proud of.”

 

“The series template and episodic scripts that Alex and Bryan have delivered are incredibly vivid and compelling,” said David Stapf, President, CBS Television Studios. “They are building a new, very ambitious ‘Star Trek’ world for television, and everyone involved supports their vision for the best timing to bring to life what we all love on the page.”

[Son_Of_Dad]

Has any casting actually been announced yet?

[DocM]

Nothing firm. 

 

Tony Todd said he was on a short list.

 

Former astronaut Mae Jamison is being consulted in some manner.

 

Other rumors say some cast members will be announced in October.

[Gone]

Can't they let Star Trek die with some dignity?

I mean really! 

 

They ruined the ending of Enterprise (which many original fans hated but I liked it). 

[George P Global Moderator]

No, they can't.   As long as fans want more, and the movies have brought in new fans, so, again, no.

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The crew for Star Trek: Discovery – both aboard the titular ship and elsewhere in the galaxy – has been slowly beaming aboard the show. And now the team has found the main character, with The Walking Dead's Sonequa Martin-Green on to play Lieutenant Commander Rainsford.

As envisioned by original showrunner Bryan Fuller (who has since stepped aside to focus on other projects), she's purposefully not a captain, as all the Trek stories so far have focused (with the exception of early Deep Space Nine seasons, though Sisko was in command even before he became a captain) on a commanding officer. The rank offers the chance to explore other facets of ship life.

http://www.empireonline.com/people/michelle-yeoh/walking-dead-sonequa-martin-green-star-trek-discovery-lead/

 

Good choice IMO. She's great in TWD, definitely makes the best of a now terrible program.

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Smart to go with someone from a hit TV show.

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http://www.polygon.com/2017/1/18/14312680/star-trek-discovery-delayed

 

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Star Trek: Discovery, CBS’ upcoming addition to the long running sci-fi series, has been delayed again. 

 

The Hollywood Reporter confirmed that the network decided to push back the release date as the show continues to round out its casting. In a statement to the magazine, a CBS representative said while filming on the series begins next week in Toronto, the show will premiere later than expected because of late casting and script changes. 

 

“This is an ambitious project; we will be flexible on a launch date if it's best for the show,” the rep said. “We've said from the beginning it's more important to do this right than to do it fast. There is also added flexibility presenting on CBS All Access, which isn't beholden to seasonal premieres or launch windows.” 

 

Star Trek: Discovery, which is set before the events of the original series in 1966, does not have a new premiere date at this time.

 

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James Frain Joins Discovery As Sarek, http://www.startrek.com/article/james-frain-joins-discovery-as-sarek

 

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James Frain will play Sarek, Spock's father, on Star Trek: Discovery, it was announced today by CBS Television Studios, which also confirmed that production on Discovery will begin next week in Toronto. Sarek, a formidable Vulcan, is a beloved character who appeared throughout the Star Trek franchise, from The Original Series to several of the TOS features and from Star Trek: The Next Generation to Star Trek (2009). - See more at: http://www.startrek.com/article/james-frain-joins-discovery-as-sarek#sthash.1CjWLCrP.dpuf

 

A respected British actor, Frain's many film and television credits include Prime Suspect, Elizabeth, Hilary and Jackie, The Tudors, FlashForward, True Blood and Tron Legacy. More recently, he played Leet Brannis on Agent Carter, Ferdinand on Orphan Black, and Theo Galavan/Azrael on Gotham. 

Frain joins the previously announced cast members Michelle Yeoh, Doug Jones, Anthony Rapp, Chris Obi, Shazad Latif and Mary Chieffo. Star Trek: Discovery is coming to CBS All Access in 2017, following the premiere on the CBS Television Network, and will be distributed concurrently on Netflix in 188 countries and through Bell Media in Canada.

 

[LOC Veteran]

Kinda glad they delayed it again. I just want it to be good, and delaying is usually a good indicator they are taking things slow for a good reason (unless they don't really want to do the show in which case they are just blowing smoke up everyones buttocks). Please, please be good!

[Dot Matrix]

I give it 3 months before it's canned. 

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[Son_Of_Dad]

23 hours ago, Dot Matrix said:

I give it 3 months before it's canned. 

That long?