Hoping to draw an even wider audience, C-Net reveals that CBS sent a Star Trek panel to San Diego Comic-Con. That’s because the Bryan Fuller produced new series has been kept tightly under wraps ever since it was first announced past year.
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The brief teaser footage featured close-ups of a Starfleet ship called Discovery moving out of a docking station located within an asteroid.
The next adventure in “Star Trek” will be a discovery for all.
While fan reaction for the USS Discovery – that’s the ship that the new series will focus on – was mixed, one thing was certain.
Original crew member William Shatner was joined by stars from the franchise series Brent Spiner, Michael Dorn, Jeri Ryan and Scott Bakula for the highly anticipated panel discussion which also saw first look at the latest series.
The bulk of Fuller’s questions for the panel of stars from previous series were related to the broader theme running through “Star Trek” of inclusion.
The series is produced by CBS Television Studios in association with Kurtzman’s Secret Hideout, Fuller’s Living Dead Guy Productions and Roddenberry Entertainment.
What? You expected something fancier following Star Trek: Enterprise, Voyager, Deep Space Nine etc?
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Star Trek No. 59, launching the “Altered Encounters” storyline, is available now in comic book stores and digitally.
The “Discovery” is named after the new ship where the show is set, the U.S.S. Discovery (NCC-1031).
As for the teaser clip, we’ve already gleaned some new information from its introduction of the new spaceship.
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The new series, which begins filming in Toronto in September ahead of a premiere planned for January next year, will be the franchise’s first new outing in more than a decade. “We’re in a time now where identity is under attack”, he said.
