posted 07-23-2016 06:29 PM               

Get a sneak peek of the newest ship in the "Star Trek" universe. Star Trek: Discovery premieres January 2017 on the CBS Television Network with the premiere and all subsequent episodes available exclusively on CBS All Access.

posted 07-24-2016 01:18 AM               

This is a simple promotional video, and the CGI quality is clearly rough, it should not be taken as an indication of how the final product will look.

posted 07-26-2016 07:11 PM               

[The influence of the McQuarrie art is] to a point where we legally can't comment on it until we figure out some things.

I mean, we had three weeks to throw that together... The concepts of the ship are totally what we're going for and they'll be honed up until, I think, the day we deliver.

posted 07-29-2016 02:04 AM               

'Star Trek: Discovery': Is the new starship named for NASA's space shuttle?

Four years ago, the Smithsonian swapped space shuttles at the National Air and Space Museum.

NASA's prototype orbiter Enterprise was rolled out and the space shuttle Discovery was rolled in.

Now "Star Trek," which inspired the earlier shuttle's name, has done the same.

posted 08-11-2016 08:23 AM               

Announced at the TCA today, the main character of Discovery will be a woman and — in an unprecedented move for the franchise — not the captain of the U.S.S. Discovery.

"We've seen six characters from the captain's point of view," Fuller noted. He added that putting a different character at the center will give the story a richer context.

...the new series will be set in the Prime Universe (as opposed to the Kelvin Timeline used in the J.J. Abrams-produced films) and will take place about 10 years before Captain Kirk's five-year mission.

In other words, the series will act as a bridge between the first two series in the timeline, about a century after "Star Trek: Enterprise" (which was a prequel) and a decade before "The Original Series." Fuller said they did this in part so they could utilize the iconography of the original ships and uniforms.

In terms of plot plots, he noted, "there's an incident, an event, in the history of Starfleet that has been talked about [in previous Star Trek series] but never fully explored." He didn't elaborate, but added that digging into the incident was "tantalizing."

When asked if the incident involved Section 31, he said no, "but that's not to say that might not have some marble through the meat of our season."

posted 09-15-2016 01:13 PM               

The new premiere date is driven by the creative team's belief that this will give the show the appropriate time for delivery of the highest-quality, premium edition of the first new Star Trek television series in more than a decade.

"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," executive producers Alex Kurtzman and Bryan Fuller said in a joint statement. "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."

posted 09-15-2016 08:29 PM               

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Originally posted by Blackarrow:
The "Third World War"?

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posted 10-26-2016 07:14 PM               

"We are extremely happy with the creative direction of 'Star Trek: Discovery' and the strong foundation that Bryan Fuller has helped us create for the series," producers CBS Television Studios said in a statement. "Due to Bryan's other projects, he is no longer able to oversee the day-to-day of Star Trek, but he remains an executive producer, and will continue to map out the story arc for the entire season.

"Alex Kurtzman, co-creator and executive producer, along with Fuller's producing partners and longtime collaborators, Gretchen Berg and Aaron Harberts, will also continue to oversee the show with the existing writing and producing team. Bryan is a brilliant creative talent and passionate Star Trek fan, who has helped us chart an exciting course for the series. We are all committed to seeing this vision through and look forward to premiering 'Star Trek: Discovery' this coming May 2017."

posted 11-29-2016 09:29 PM            

• Doug Jones, known for Abe Sapien, the "gillman" in Hellboy and Fauno, the main character in Pan's Labrynth (also a great guy in person), will play Lt. Saru, a Starfleet officer and a member of an alien species new to the Star Trek universe;

• Anthony Rapp, most recently he played Daniel in "Do You Take This Man," Bender in "A Beautiful Mind" and original member of the Broadway cast of "Rent", plays Lt. Stamets, Starfleet Science Officer, an astromycologist, fungus expert; Note: Rapp will be playing the gay character co-creator Bryan Fuller announced will be part of the show back in August.

• Michelle Yeoh, "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" and 007's "Tomorrow Never Dies" will play Cptn. Georgiou, of the Starship Shenzhou.

posted 01-19-2017 12:06 AM               

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Originally posted by Robert Pearlman:
"Star Trek: Discovery" will now launch in May 2017.

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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.

posted 02-01-2017 01:14 PM               

In 1964, Gene Roddenberry wrote three words on a blank page: Star Trek is..." Now, CBS All Access will begin that sentence once again. Production has begun on Star Trek: Discovery.

posted 04-28-2017 12:58 PM               

Star Trek: Discovery — launching exclusively on CBS All Access — has added more Klingons and Starfleet officers to its ranks.

Shazad Latif (Penny Dreadful) will now star as Lieutenant Tyler, a Starfleet officer in the Federation. Rekha Sharma (Battlestar Galactica, The 100) will star as Commander Landry, the security officer of the Starship Discovery.

Kenneth Mitchell (Jericho, Astronaut Wives Club, Frequency) will star as Kol, a commanding officer in the Klingon Empire. Clare McConnell (Dim the Fluorescents) will star as Dennas, a leader in the Klingon Empire. Damon Runyan (Suits, Supernatural, Gangland Undercover) will star as Ujilli, a leader in the Klingon Empire.

The stars join previously announced cast members Sonequa Martin-Green, Jason Isaacs, Mary Wiseman, Terry Serpico, Maulik Pancholy, Sam Vartholomeos, James Frain, Doug Jones, Michelle Yeoh, Anthony Rapp, Chris Obi, Mary Chieffo, and Rainn Wilson.

The new series, which began production in January, is set about 10 years before Captain Kirk's five-year mission.

posted 06-20-2017 06:22 PM               

Star Trek: Discovery To Launch Sunday, September 24 On CBS And CBS All Access

Special broadcast premiere to air on CBS at 8:30/7:30c.

On Monday, June 19, CBS All Access, the CBS digital subscription video on-demand and live streaming service, announced its second original drama series, the highly anticipated Star Trek: Discovery, will launch Sunday, Sept. 24 with a broadcast premiere that night on the CBS airing at 8:30/7:30c*.

The series premiere will also be available on-demand on CBS All Access. Plus, the second episode of the series will be available on the service that same night immediately following the broadcast premiere.

After premiere night, all-new episodes will be available on-demand weekly on Sundays, exclusively for CBS All Access subscribers in the United States.

The 15-episode season will be released in two chapters. The first eight episodes will run from Sunday, Sept. 24 through Sunday, Nov. 5. The season will then resume with the second chapter in January 2018.

Star Trek, one of the most iconic and influential global television franchises, returns to television 50 years after it first premiered with Star Trek: Discovery.

Star Trek: Discovery will follow the voyages of Starfleet on their missions to discover new worlds and new lifeforms, and one Starfleet officer who must learn that to truly understand all things alien, you must first understand yourself.

The series will feature a new ship, new characters, and new missions, while embracing the same ideology and hope for the future that inspired a generation of dreamers and doers.

posted 06-27-2017 12:53 PM            

With the story revolving around a first officer rather than a captain, Harberts and Berg say this takes the action out of the bridge and lets viewers see different parts of the ship. As we already know, this series will also be the first to break one of creator Gene Roddenberry's cardinal rules about Star Trek, in that it's not supposed to be about conflict between members of Starfleet.

posted 06-27-2017 08:07 PM               

No space pirates? There's "Gambit." Starships should have two nacelles (or at least, an even pair)? Roddenberry broke that rule when he authorized the Franz Joseph Tech Manual with the Hermes and Saladin classes, Next Generation broke it during the Battle of Wolf 359 (Freedom-class), and Abrams broke it with the USS Kelvin.

posted 06-28-2017 12:28 PM               

Frakes is very experienced behind the camera, having helmed several episodes of TNG, Deep Space Nine, and Voyager, as well as the Trek films "First Contact" and "Insurrection." In addition, he's directed episodes of several non-Trek titles such as Leverage, Burn Notice, and NCIS: Los Angeles. Berg and Harberts previously worked with Frakes when he directed five episodes of CBS' Roswell.

posted 09-23-2017 08:08 PM               

USS Discovery cruising up the Hudson River along the NYC skyline.

posted 09-24-2017 11:22 PM               

Production designer John Eaves has been hinting on his Facebook page to a connection with the X-15 pilots, and in the second episode, one of the ships seen was the "Dana" (in addition to the Yeager, Earhart, Clark, Edison and Ride).