Meet the USS Discovery NCC-1031 – a starcraft quite unlike any headline Star Trek ship we’ve seen before.
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Fuller also asked a question many fans have asked: “If we were to undo Kirk’s death, wouldn’t it be wonderful to continue telling stories about Capt. Kirk with you in that role”, asked Fuller.
The actor said, as reported by the LA Times: ‘I think Star Trek in general has been about individual rights and about respecting everyone no matter who or what they are.
Leonard Nimoy as Mr. Spock and William Shatner as Captain James T. Kirk in the premiere episode of Star Trek, which aired on September 8, 1966. It will be the first Star Trek television series since Star Trek: Enterprise ended in 2005.
As a bigger surprise, it’s also been revealed that every episode of Star Trek – all 727, to be exact – will be available to stream through Netflix by the end of 2016.
Also per Fuller: The new Star Trek TV show is not episodic.
Star Trek Discovery was created by the king of short-lived yet cult-classic TV series, Bryan Fuller, and aided into being by Alex Kurtzman.
Fuller – who in the early morning served fans in line donuts and coffee – treated Hall H attendees to an exclusive first look video of the test flight of the U.S.S. Discovery, the newest Starfleet ship in the storied franchise’s return to television.
Joined at the panel by Scott Bakula, the Star Trek stalwart noted that, “the great thing about science fiction is the optimism present in the genre…”
However, outside the United States, “Star Trek: Discovery” will run on all territories serviced by Netflix. “It’s disturbing. Politicians could learn from Star Trek”.
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As for the teaser clip, we’ve already gleaned some new information from its introduction of the new spaceship. “We absolutely intend to continue that tradition of progressiveness in our casting choices and representation”. While the narrative decision to reveal Sulu as an openly gay man had a risk when it came to possible social media backlash, “Star Trek Beyond” writers Doug Jung and Simon Pegg as well as director Justin Lin and producer J.J. Abrams, saw the reveal as a very organic progression of the Star Trek universe.
