new tv series: STAR TREK DISCOVERY (1 Viewer)

[dragon53]

Trailer link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqm9HSYbf0o

 

[marco55]

This is not going to be on regular tv?
Mark

 

[lancer]

Cable channel H&I is starting to carry the original 5 Star Trek series as of today, with Star Trek itself starting at 8pm EST, followed by each other show in sequence. I think they will run daily, but times vary. -- Al

 

[BLReed]

This is not going to be on regular tv?

A bit confusing, but evidently only the Premiere episode will air on CBS. Then it moves to its permanent home at CBS All Access.
CBS All Access is a $6 a month streaming service. If you Google CBS All Access you'll come up with some controversy about what
CBS is trying to do. Here's an example http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2014/10/20/2-reasons-why-cbs-all-access-will-flop.aspx

CBS thinks that so many are dropping Cable and only watch free over the air. Where as Cable and satellite pay them big bucks to
carry CBS. Remember when DISH blacked out CBS during a contract dispute.

As to the Series---it looks to be animated. You'd think they would be filming by now for a January showing and could name a few actors

 

[marco55]

If it's not on regular tv and if it's animated I won't be watching.All these different platforms for watching shows is confusing to me.After all I'm an old man.^&grin
Mark

 

[dragon53]

I have not seen anything saying the new series is animated. Here's some additional info I posted yesterday on another forum:


STAR TREK: DISCOVERY---is the official title of the new CBS ALL Access tv series which follows the voyage of the starship USS Discovery NCC-1031. A trailer was released showing the Discovery which resembles the unused Ralph McQuarrie-designed Enterprise that was considered for STAR TREK: THE MOTION PICTURE.
The pilot will be directed by David Semel (THE MAN IN THE HIGH CASTLE, PERSON OF INTEREST).
Also, series creator Bryan Fuller asked William Shatner if he could undo Capt. Kirk's death in STAR TREK: GENERATIONS, would he like to continue playing Kirk. Shatner replied, "Hell yes."


As another poster already mentioned, the pilot episode will premiere on CBS, then the remaining series episodes will be on CBS All Access.

 

[BLReed]

If it's not on regular tv and if it's animated I won't be watching.All these different platforms for watching shows is confusing to me. After all I'm an old man.^&grin
Mark

They don't want your money. They are after the 18-35 demographic. You know the ones with $5,000
Credit Card debit. $150 cell phone monthly, $100 Cable, $125 streaming service so the can watch a movie
on a 4" screen. and etc. Remember the biggest users of over-the-air CBS
is 54 and CBS News 59. You just aren't profitable. No money in over-the-air.

http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/nation/2001/02/2001-02-12-young-debt.htm

 

[OzDigger]

They don't want your money. They are after the 18-35 demographic. You know the ones with $5,000
Credit Card debit. $150 cell phone monthly, $100 Cable, $125 streaming service so the can watch a movie
on a 4" screen. and etc. Remember the biggest users of over-the-air CBS
is 54 and CBS News 59. You just aren't profitable. No money in over-the-air.

http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/nation/2001/02/2001-02-12-young-debt.htm

That's not USA "Today", that link is over 15 years old ^&grin

 

[BLReed]

I have not seen anything saying the new series is animated.

Neither have I. That trailer looks cartoonish. Five months to air date. Filming should be well in the can
and cast named. As of today this is all they have----http://trekmovie.com/2016/07/24/exclusive-star-trek-discovery-producers-on-ships-design-shows-themes/

 

[BLReed]

That's not USA "Today", that link is over 15 years old ^&grin

Well nothing has changed in fifteen years. It is USA Today Money Section.

 

[dragon53]

STAR TREK: DISCOVERY---creator Bryan Fuller said the starship USS Discovery in the CBS All Access series might have a black female captain, “I think that STAR TREK is a show of firsts. And in researching the characters for this new iteration of STAR TREK I’ve been talking to Mae Jemison, who’s the first black woman in space, and who saw STAR TREK in the ‘60s and who saw Nichelle Nichols on the bridge of a ship and said ‘I see myself in space.’
So there’s something wonderful about the legacy that Nichelle Nichols represents as giving a gift to people who weren’t previously able to see themselves in the future. We are going to be continuing that tradition of progressive casting and progressive character work to be an inclusive world.”

 

[BLReed]

We are going to be continuing that tradition of progressive casting and progressive character work to be an inclusive world.

Five months to air and they are still planning?

 

[BLReed]

Here's something a little more in the can.
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/cbs-all-access-star-trek-911872

Netflix has signed a deal with CBS Studios for worldwide rights to CBS All Access' upcoming new Star Trek series.

Netflix has also picked up worldwide rights to CBS' entire Star Trek catalog, acquiring rights for all 727 existing episodes of Star Trek: The Original Series, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Star Trek: Voyager and Star Trek: Enterprise. The rights will be available on Netflix around the world by the end of 2016.

The new Star Trek series will begin production in Toronto this September for a January 2017 debut. The premiere episode will go out on CBS' main network with all subsequent episodes streaming on CBS All Access, the network's digital subscription video on demand service. The series will mark the first new Star Trek series since Star Trek: Enterprise went off the air in 2005.

 

[dragon53]

TUESDAY, AUGUST 2

STAR TREK: DISCOVERY---showrunner Bryan Fuller hinted DISCOVERY is set between STAR TREK: ENTERPRISE and the original STAR TREK, “There’s a big clue in the number of the ship [NCC-1031] that indicates when we’re set.” The starship Enterprise in the sequel series was NX-01, and the Enterprise in the original series was NCC-1701.

 

[Toy Soldier Brigade]

Looks Cheesy

 

[dragon53]

STAR TREK: DISCOVERY---creator Bryan Fuller released new details about the series, “We’re telling a Star Trek novel over 13 episodes."
He said the lead character is a female "Lieutenant Commander---with caveats" and that the role might be a black female. Fuller added, “We’ve seen six shows from a Captain’s point of view —STAR TREK: DISCOVERY will show the bridge from a different perspective.”
He said about the main plot, “There’s an incident, an event in Star Trek history in the history of Starfleet that had been talked about but never fully explored. [We’re telling] that story through a character who is on a journey that is going to teach her how to get along with others in the galaxy.”
The incident is not Kobayashi Maru, the Romulan War and doesn't involve Black Ops Section 31 (Starfleet’s black-ops), but it was mentioned in the original tv series and Trekkies, “should be very happy. It’s something I want to see.”
He added, “We’ll probably have a few more aliens than you normally do in a Star Trek cast,” Fuller revealed. “We’re going to have new exciting aliens and also re-imaginings of existing aliens."
Fuller said the new series will, “bridge the gap between Enterprise and the original series,” and is “about 10 years before Kirk” and his five-year mission.
He said, “There will be robots."
On diversity, he said, "We’re absolutely having a gay character." When Fuller was on the DEEP SPACE NINE staff, he kept fan mail protesting the rumor that Seven of Nine (Jeri Ryan) might be a lesbian.
He hinted that Amanda Grayson (Spock’s mother) might be in the series, “I love that character. I loved Winona Ryder’s portrayal of her [in the 2009 movie] and it’s a great character. It would be fun in some iteration of this show to incorporate her and her storyline she’s not a central part of the show but we love that character.”
Fuller added about profanity, “There will probably be slightly more graphic content...We discuss every day about language… Is it appropriate to have a bridge blow up and have somebody say, ‘Oh, s—t?'”
The opening scene is, “not set on Earth, and not on a planet."
There will be, “about seven” lead characters, and “wholeheartedly” that‘ Lee Pace (PUSHING DAISIES) might be involved.

 

[BLReed]

This is really starting to sound terrible They should add an alien hermaphrodite character just to cover all bases.
Lee Pace? They must be scraping the bottom of the barrel.

 

[combatmen]

STAR TREK: DISCOVERY---creator Bryan Fuller released new details about the series, “We’re telling a Star Trek novel over 13 episodes."
He said the lead character is a female "Lieutenant Commander---with caveats" and that the role might be a black female. Fuller added, “We’ve seen six shows from a Captain’s point of view —STAR TREK: DISCOVERY will show the bridge from a different perspective.”
He said about the main plot, “There’s an incident, an event in Star Trek history in the history of Starfleet that had been talked about but never fully explored. [We’re telling] that story through a character who is on a journey that is going to teach her how to get along with others in the galaxy.”
The incident is not Kobayashi Maru, the Romulan War and doesn't involve Black Ops Section 31 (Starfleet’s black-ops), but it was mentioned in the original tv series and Trekkies, “should be very happy. It’s something I want to see.”
He added, “We’ll probably have a few more aliens than you normally do in a Star Trek cast,” Fuller revealed. “We’re going to have new exciting aliens and also re-imaginings of existing aliens."
Fuller said the new series will, “bridge the gap between Enterprise and the original series,” and is “about 10 years before Kirk” and his five-year mission.
He said, “There will be robots."
On diversity, he said, "We’re absolutely having a gay character." When Fuller was on the DEEP SPACE NINE staff, he kept fan mail protesting the rumor that Seven of Nine (Jeri Ryan) might be a lesbian.
He hinted that Amanda Grayson (Spock’s mother) might be in the series, “I love that character. I loved Winona Ryder’s portrayal of her [in the 2009 movie] and it’s a great character. It would be fun in some iteration of this show to incorporate her and her storyline she’s not a central part of the show but we love that character.”
Fuller added about profanity, “There will probably be slightly more graphic content...We discuss every day about language… Is it appropriate to have a bridge blow up and have somebody say, ‘Oh, s—t?'”
The opening scene is, “not set on Earth, and not on a planet."
There will be, “about seven” lead characters, and “wholeheartedly” that‘ Lee Pace (PUSHING DAISIES) might be involved.

Instead of a fun, adventureous, action packed Star Trek, it is going to be the polically correct, lets not offend anyone but 75% of the fans who would watch a well done ST type show. Someone has to get ahold of these people and talk sense to them.
BOBBYGMO

 

[dragon53]

STAR TREK: DISCOVERY---creator Bryan Fuller said DISCOVERY's lead character is a female human, non-captain, Starfleet officer known as Number One “in honor of Majel Barrett’s character in the original [STAR TREK] pilot.” The new series is set ten years before the original series.
He also said Nicholas Meyer (STAR TREK II: THE WRATH OF KHAN) wrote the second episode.
Sources said other characters include a female admiral, a male admiral, a male Klingon captain, a male adviser and a male British doctor.