Star Trek: Discovery. That's cool but......

[chronotigger65]

So we're going to get a new Star Trek series this fall called Star Trek: Discovery. But there's a catch. CBS is showing only the first episode on their TV network and the rest will be on CBS All Access, a streaming service of sorts. Just what we need, TV is going all Ferengi-like that video games has been doing for years. Other then that, things are different in this series like....

1. Gene Roddenberry's philosophy for the series is in some way throw out the window so there's more freedom for writers to do.
2. Something for the LGBT crowd. There's a gay couple on the show and it's two males.
3. It's set 10 years before the original series.
4. One of the main characters is a human who's Spock's adopted sister.
5. The star of the show isn't a captain for once.

Looking forward to seeing it somehow.....

[lurker]

I had been talking about it in the tv thread, though there didn't seem to be much interest.

[X-pert74]

I'm interested, but it's disappointing to hear it'll only be on CBS All Access. Does that require a paid subscription?

[backgroundnoise]

I don't see how point 1 is anything notable. Roddenberry's ideal vision of the future has been challenged and outright rejected in the later seasons of TNG and DS9, especially. Also, since it's a prequel, where does it fit in relation to Enterprise?

[lurker]

10 years before TOS.

[JoeQ]

So, is this set in the original continuity or the new movie continuity?

[lurker]

Aug 18, 2017 18:40:41 GMT -5 JoeQ said:

So, is this set in the original continuity or the new movie continuity?

Old continuity.

[GamerL]

That's not confusing.

Why another prequel and not something set after TNG? I'd like to see what the world would be like after TNG.

[surnshurn]

good to luck to cbs in dealing with stream capture devices paired with vpn uploading.

[magic89]

Aug 18, 2017 23:42:21 GMT -5 GamerL said:

That's not confusing.

Why another prequel and not something set after TNG? I'd like to see what the world would be like after TNG.

Or Deep Space Nine ive always wanted seen Sisko as Captain of some new Starship.