LOS ANGELES — The much-awaited Star Trek: Discovery is finally heading toward outer space — and a fall launch on CBS All Access.
The latest edition of the fabled sci-fi franchise will premiere Sept. 24 (8:30 ET/PT) on CBS, allowing it to attract a big broadcast network audience, before moving to the network’s digital-subscription streaming service, CBS All Access, for 14 remaining episodes.
The second will premiere on CBS All Access right after the premiere.Executive producer Alex Kurtzman told the Television Critics Association Tuesday that delays from a promised February start stemmed from production issues and the departure of original executive producer Bryan Fuller. However, in the finished show “we honor what he did. Much of what’s there came from his mind,” including a substantial redesign of the Klingons.
Discovery is set about 10 years before the original 1960s Star Trek series and will connect to that canon of that show, which featured William Shatner’s Captain Kirk and Leonard Nimoy’s Mr. Spock.
The series, which centers on First Officer Michael Burnham (Sonequa Martin-Green, The Walking Dead), aspires to the kind of peaceful society envisioned but not always achieved in the original series — or in the real world, Martin-Green said.
“While we are in a more utopian society in Star Trek, in our iteration there’s a conflict,” both inner and external, in terms of war, she said. “We ask those deeply profound questions: Who am I and who are…
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