The show will be called Star Trek Discovery, showrunner Bryan Fuller revealed at a star-studded panel at Comic-Con to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the space franchise.
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Shatner was joined onstage for the panel by other actors in the “Star Trek” canon, including Scott Bakula Michael Dorn and Jeri Ryan.
With the release of Star Trek Beyond this weekend and Comic-Con 2016 in full gear it’s hard not to be excited about the Star Trek franchise.
The show “will be told like a novel”, Fuller told the audience, describing a season-long story “chapter by chapter”.
A clip played at the end of the session in San Diego revealed the new ship and also the title of the streaming series.
He emphasized that Discovery would connect to late Trek creator Gene Roddenberry’s vision of an inclusive, peaceful future. “CBS All Access already offers every episode of all previous Star Trek television series”.
Comic-Con came and went without any casting news regarding the new Star Trek series helmed by Bryan Fuller.
Star Trek: Discovery is coming to CBS All Access in January 2017, following the premiere on the CBS Television Network, and will be distributed concurrently on Netflix in 188 countries and through Bell Media in Canada. “We need curiosity and we need inspiration and we need to find better versions of ourselves and we need to discover better versions of ourselves”.
The show, which will feature new characters and new missions, will begin production in Toronto in September.
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Fuller also confirmed that “Star Trek: Discovery” is going to happen in the prime timeline, per Independent. It’s clear Fuller will use his Trek to convey that message. “There’s a lot of new and exciting things we’re doing with this show, that we [don’t] want to [over] saturate you”.
