Star Trek: Discovery
 

http://www.startrek.com/article/new-...s-january-2017

Holy $hit, YES! YES YES YES!

Here's hoping they set it after TNG, DS9, and VOY. Make it so, CBS!

That's cool. I'm not a major fan of Star Trek, but I'll check this out regardless.

Maybe now we'll get that ep where they travel to Dimension X in a far off galaxy:P

Blasphemy against the Holy Federation!!! :trazz:

Wouldn't it be set in the same universe as the movies? I don't seem them going back to old continuity after the movies rebooted it.

Exclusive to CBS's streaming service? Screw that. Kurtzman sucks anyway.

Agreed. I'm all for new Trek, but this project seems like nothing more than a commercial for a crap digital service no one wants. The fact that they're airing the first episode on TV and then are going to be like, "Pay to see the rest online, suckers!" only proves this.

Maybe they don't have the budget to do a full-fledged Star Trek show for regular television anymore? I mean I'm no expert but I would assume Star Trek shows are very costly to produce.

You have to build the sets, the make-up for the aliens, the CG for the ships, the salary of all the actors, the directors, writers, music composers, etc.

Wasn't one of the reasons Enterprise was canceled was because they couldn't afford to keep it going?

While traditional TV won't go the way like radio did in the 1950s, streaming is definitely the new "pay cable" in addition to traditional "pay cable" channels like HBO, Cinemax, Showtime, etc. That said, standard TV nowadays is crap, mostly aimed at a least common denominator due to advertising and certain formulas. With an online streaming source, this could be more impetus to encourage streaming.

Enterprise just wasn't very good; despite fan myths about "franchise burnout" given that the series came on the heels of over two decades of movies, three other TV series, and numerous fan conventions including a fan film, Enterprise was subject to bland characters and confusing plots. That said, 12 years is a pretty decent gap between TV series, and with the technology and real life ideas that have surfaced, certainly has potential.

In my excitement at new Trek, I did not read that.

My hopes and dreams are shattered. Except there was every chance this is gonna be in nuTrek continuity, which means I still won't watch it unless a Jem'Hadar and a Cardassian are both main characters.

Oof... the instrument samples they used for the music... they couldn't have gotten a better sound out of it?

As the foremost Trekkie on here (seriously, am I only the one? I feel like the only one), I'm cautious and already feeling like this is a mistake.

"New enemies?" Star Trek has never been about the enemies. Never. It's had some amazing enemies (the Dominion, the Borg Collective, the Cardassians and the Romulans), but they've never been the focus. Only movies have ever seriously promoted the "big bads" (Khan, Borg Queen, Shinzon, Nero, Totally-Not-Khan, Iris Elba)... and considering how nuTrek is already a fundamental misunderstanding of Star Trek, and this is probably following in its footsteps...

I'm preparing myself for disappointment and anger.

A Trekie in its natural habitat. XD


But I gotta start watching some Star Trek shows. What order should I watch 'em, guys?

The Original Series, but you have to watch only the good ones... there are quite a few stinkers.
The Next Generation, ditto.
Deep Space Nine, ALL OF IT.
Voyager, there are some good ones...
Enterprise, if you so desire prequels.

I've been meaning to get into Star Trek as well, so thanks for the recommendations.

You will not miss anything if you skip Voyager, it takes the least amount of risks in Trek's whole televised canon, and Enterprise suffers from an identity crisis right until the last season and ends on a real bum note.

Zarius makes good points on both Voyager and Enterprise; Voyager is my least favorite, just because it has so much potential yet does so little.

If anyone wants detailed recommendations on which episodes are must-see and which are must-skip, PM me and I am more than happy to give you full intel.

Live long and prosper.

I would watch Enterprise first. I agree that the show didn't know what it was for a while, but it is the beginning. I think it does a good job of setting things up, and they deal with so much stuff that's figured out by the time Kirk and his crew are rolling through space, making cargo deliveries and facilitating diplomatic relations. Before the Federation, before the Prime Directive, and before Earth is a big player in galactic society, it really captures the excitement of trekking out into the final frontier.

I'll probably watch this if it's like the new movies.

The show is now titled "Star Trek Discovery". New teaser trailer here: http://www.comicbookmovie.com/scifi_...rek-tv-a143796

That felt epic, but that's not a very good ship design. Far too angular.

Yeah. The nacell placement is totally odd. I guess I can get used to that. Gonna be interesting tho who they cast as the crew.

Apparantly this was a rejected design for the Enterprise.... I can see why. :P

Agreed. Eew. :tlol:

Hope the scripts are up to par. That ship design looks like somebody sat on the NX-01.

They've said it's in the "real" timeline... but what they aren't telling people is that the only reason it is, is because it's set pre-Kelvin incident but post-Enterprise. Likely it's in the aftermath of the Romulan Wars that broke out a few years after Enterprise ended.

How boring. 3 prequels in a row? Forward, damn you. Forward, not back.

Let me remind everyone about three kickass audio Trek series. I may or may not have written for both production teams. :tcool:

http://darkerprojects.com/section31/
http://darkerprojects.com/lostfrontier/
http://starshipexcelsior.com/

New info on Star Trek Discovery. It's set 10 years before TOS and the main character will be a female Lt. Commander.

So basically expect to see Teen Spock and Teen Kirk. :P

http://spinoff.comicbookresources.co...iginal-series/

Eh. Resounding apathy.

Another female Captain? Why do I get the feeling this is pandering to Star Wars with Rey being the new lead and then the girl in the new Rogue One movie?

Seems everything has a female lead these days. On another note did Janeway remind anyone else of Hilary Clinton?

No. Not a female Captain. It's a female Lt. Commander. She is NOT the Captain.

Janeway didn't remind me of anyone. I found her boring.

Kira Nerys was a much more impressive command figure.

So after a decade long wait for new telly Trek, it's just more of the prequel malarkey that fans only took to in the dying days of Enterprise?

Are they allergic to present day follow ups or something? I don't think there's been anything set in the modern timeline since that "Countdown" prequel to the 2009 Trek movie which explained where Nero came from.

Seems reminiscent of the original pilot for TOS and its character "Number One," the ship's first officer who would have been played by Majel Barrett.

Exactly. Prequels are so very hard to pull off... almost none of them are ever critically well received.

So much open space and time, but no, ten years before "The Corbomite Manuever" or whatever. Such a waste.

"It's a prequel to TOS but after Enterprise, so it's technically in the Prime Timeline but it's before the Kelvin Incident so we won't piss off Abrams or his fans," is basically what they're saying.

Still, I don't think we're quite getting the big picture here. The trailer promised "new crews," plural, and there was earlier a lot of talk about exploring different eras each season.

Maybe at the end of season 1, the USS Discovery does something amazing, some heroic sacrifice that's forever remembered in the annals of Starfleet. Then, a young captain takes command of the USS Discovery NCC-1031-A in the days after the Khitomer Accords in Season 2. Then, Season 3, the USS Discovery NCC-1031-F launches in the 25th century. Or maybe the Discovery just does something incredible that establishes a theme to each season in different eras. Or something.

Or maybe the USS Discovery time-travels and becomes marooned in the post-TNG future.

Or maybe CBS is just plain too chickensh*t to do anything post-Abrams.

Cylons I'm shocked and dismayed. Voyager your least favorite? SKIP IT?! :teek: You blasphemer!! Janeway and her crew were among tbe most interesting and well-developed characters, and had the added bonus of being COMPLETELY independant of the Federation since they were stuck flying blind in the Gamma Quadrant. And we got to see Q ask her to have his baby- certainly one of MY most memorable Trek moments, LOL!!

As an aside, no Cy, you're not the only Trekkie here. But I'd just as soon only watch the first couple of seasons of DS9. I got kind of bored with tbe political undertones it constantly threw at us.

With all this prequel discussion, do you think AbramsTrek should be retconned with this series? Why or why not?

I'm OK with it just left dangling as this timeline branch off the main one, but a very big part of me would love seeing, like, the 29th century Starfleet temporal division sorting out Nero upon his arrival into the 23rd century and restoring everything.

The mentioning that Star Trek 4 would have Kirk teaming up with his dad suggests that might even be what they're going to do, but differently. End the Abramsverse with NuKirk sacrificing himself to save his dad and stop Nero right on the Narada's arrival. That, I could get behind. We'd get a definitive beginning, middle, and end of the Abramsverse as well as some purpose to NuKirk. Though with Beyond looking to make less than half of Into Darkness' box office... it might not even happen.