During a presentation at the Television Critics Association press tour this past week, Bryan Fuller has revealed the first details about CBS’ upcoming Star Trek TV series Star Trek: Discovery.
The show, which is confirmed as being set in the original ‘Prime Universe’ timeline, will take place approximately ten years prior to Star Trek: The Original Series; it will be told from the viewpoint of a female lieutenant commander as opposed to a captain, and will “absolutely” feature a gay character, with Fuller speaking about his plans for a diverse cast:
“Star Trek started with a wonderful expression of diversity in its cast. Our lead of the show is going to be subject of that same level of who’s the best actor and also what can we say about diversity on the show. We haven’t cast her yet, so we don’t know what level of diversity she will be, but that’s forefront in our minds. We’ll probably have a few more aliens than you typically have on the show. We wanted to paint a picture of Starfleet where we’re going to have new exciting aliens and also new imagining of existing aliens.”
Fuller also touched upon the premise of the show, stating that: “There’s an incident and an event in Star Trek history that’s been talked about but never been explored. To do this series, we’re telling a much more serialized story, to dig deep into a very tantalizing storyline. And we have a character who’s on a journey, and in order to understand something that is alien, she first has to understand herself.”
The first season of the show will run for thirteen episodes, and there is the possibility of younger versions of The Original Trilogy characters appearing, although not until the second season. Spock’s mother, Amanda Grayson (played by Winona Ryder in the 2009 reboot), could also potentially feature.
Star Trek: Discovery will get underway in January on CBS All Access in the States and Netflix internationally.
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Originally published August 13, 2016. Updated April 14, 2018.
