Star Trek: Discovery Starts Production

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♦It may have been put back on the schedule but CBS’s Star Trek: Discovery has released a teaser video giving us a few little clues as to what we can expect so here it is courtesy of JoBlo Trailers…

Here is what wikipedia has said about the show:

Set roughly a decade before the events of the original Star Trek series, the series follows the crew of the USS Discovery as they discover new worlds and civilizations, while exploring the franchise’s signature contemporary themes. The season-long storyline revolves around “an incident and an event in Star Trek history that’s been talked about but never been explored”.

Star Trek: Discovery stars Sonequa Martin-Green as Rainsford: The lieutenant commander of the USS Discovery, referred to as “Number One”.The decision to not make the series’ protagonist a starship captain, like those of previous Star Trek series, was made “to see a character from a different perspective on the starship—one who has different dynamic relationships with a captain, with subordinates, it gave us richer context”. The decision to call her Number One was made in honor of the character of the same name portrayed by Majel Barrett in the original Star Trek pilot “The Cage”. The character was initially pitched to CBS as only being called Number One in the series; Doug Jones as Saru: A Science Officer serving as a lieutenant aboard the Discovery. Jones, portraying a member of a species created for the series, was excited that he was able to, “from the ground up, develop and find this character and his species” and not have to honor a previous fan-favourite representation^; Anthony Rapp as Stamets: A Science Officer specialising in astromycology (the study of fungi in space) and James Frain as Sarek: A Vulcan astrophysicist, and the father of Spock. Frain appears as a younger version of the character who was first portrayed by Mark Lenard in the original Star Trek series.