Star Trek Discovery

[Pike]

Thanks to less lazy people on reddit, have a collection of news!

Star Trek News

• Will be set in the Prime Universe. 10 years before Kirk's 5-year mission. Prequel Confirmed.
• Fuller says Star Trek: Discovery takes events mentioned in previous iterations of Trek but "never full explored"
• Incident at the center of Star Trek: Discovery is not the Romulan War, Fuller says
• Star Trek: Discovery to have Female lead
• Female lead will be human, but not captain
• Lead will be a Lt. Commander "with caveats"
• The first season will be 13 episodes
• Fuller: “We’ll probably have a few more aliens than you normally do in a Star Trek cast”
• "Absolutely we're having a gay character." - Bryan Fuller
• will be serialized but each weekly chapter will also feature closed-end stories
• "Discovery is set so close to the Kirk era that we can play with all the iconography of those ships and those uniforms.”
• Fuller: "We are not subject to broadcast standards & practices. Neither was Hannibal and we got away with murder."
• Spock's mother Amanda Grayson "maybe" will be featured in Discovery but will not be central.
• Bryan Fuller on the lead not being a captain: "We’ve seen 6 series from a captain’s point of view"
• Series will center around an event referenced in TOS
• One of the alien characters is named Saru
• There will be robots in Star Trek Discovery. You can also bend space and time
• Sources tell THR the rest of the cast will also feature an openly gay actor to play one one of the male leads (which Fuller confirmed), a female admiral, a male Klingon captain, a male admiral, a male adviser and a British male doctor.

CBS All Access information

• There will be ads. about 12 minutes per hour
• Head of CBS All Access: "It’s the lightest ad load you can get. We’re toying with the idea of a commercial free option."

good word I am so stoked for this.

I mean I've been disappointed by new Treks before (hi Enterprise) but I dunno I have high hopes for this one.

KLINGON CAPTAIN I am hyped. I am ready.