The series’ title was officially announced on Saturday at San Diego Comic-Con during the 50th anniversary Star Trek panel. What the new series needs to do is continue to be progressive, push boundaries and tell stories that give us hope for a future.One of the most handsome things of Star Trek is that you have people who see this show and they want to be scientists, they want to make it into space.
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Hoping to draw an even wider audience, C-Net reveals that CBS sent a Star Trek panel to San Diego Comic-Con. “There are so many reasons why we settled on Discovery”, Fuller explained. And it’s continuing the tradition of naming the show after the primary ship or space station featured in the production.
This new “Star Trek” will eventually premiere on CBS, prior to the show moving over to the CBS All Access platform and becoming a full-fledged series there. McQuarrie worked on a project called Star Trek: Planet of the Titans, which was meant to be the first Star Trek movie before being mothballed in 1977.
Bryan Fuller will headline the new streaming iteration of Star Trek as co-creator and executive producer, while Wrath of Khan director Nicholas Meyer has also joined alongside Gene Roddenberry’s son Rod, fan-favorite Voyager novel alum Kirsten Beyer, franchise vet Joe Menosky and Heroes writer Aron Coleite.
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Fans got particularly excited noting this because it means that the new series timeline will be at the same time as the original, as its later ships had five-digit numbers. The concepts of the ship are totally what we’re going for and they’ll be honed up until, I think, the day we deliver. Fuller said it was, but “to a point that we can’t legally comment on it until [our legal team] figures out some things”. All we know is that Star Trek: Discovery takes place in the original “Prime” universe, and CBS will reveal its place in the timeline at a later date.
