Star Trek Executive Producer Bryan Fuller today announced at San Diego Comic Con that the new Star Trek series set to debut in January 2017 will be called Star Trek Discovery. The series will focus on the adventures of the U.S.S. Discovery, a ship of an unknown class with the registry NCC-1031, set in the Prime Timeline.
Fuller stated that the new series needed to remind the audience of Star Trek’s message of hope and optimism for the future, and continue to be progressive and push boundaries. Fuller believes that we have to celebrate a progression of our species, but that we need a little help. The new series will not be episodic, but will instead tell stories like a novel chapter by chapter.
The ship design is an interesting choice, heavily influenced by Ralph McQuarrie’s concepts for an Enterprise redesign during the abandoned Phase II series/telemovies. More info on the concept designs can be found at Memory Alpha.
NOTE: This is a simple promotional video, and the CGI quality is clearly rough, it should not be taken as an indication of how the final product will look.
I'm behind a firewall now and can't view the trailer, but that still of the ship's underbelly makes it look like a piece of costume jewelry from Lincoln Enterprises. Specifically, an IDIC pin. And the publicity talk so far has made a huge deal about diversity and inclusion for the LGBT-etc. movement. So I'd guess the ship's resemblance to the IDIC is intentional. I seriously doubt that I'll want to pay for CBS Access just to get STD. But I'm sure the show will serve its intended audience, and that's all that matters.
I'm behind a firewall now and can't view the trailer, but that still of the ship's underbelly makes it look like a piece of costume jewelry from Lincoln Enterprises. Specifically, an IDIC pin. And the publicity talk so far has made a huge deal about diversity and inclusion for the LGBT-etc. movement. So I'd guess the ship's resemblance to the IDIC is intentional. I seriously doubt that I'll want to pay for CBS Access just to get STD. But I'm sure the show will serve its intended audience, and that's all that matters.
Think you might be reading too much into the design.
It actually looks almost identical to Ralph MacQuarie's concept art for ST:TMP
I seriously doubt that I'll want to pay for CBS Access just to get STD. But I'm sure the show will serve its intended audience, and that's all that matters.
I seriously doubt that I'll want to pay for CBS Access just to get STD. But I'm sure the show will serve its intended audience, and that's all that matters.
STD...LOL
Yeah, a lot of people on social media have been commenting on that rather unfortunate abbreviation. They might want to slightly alter the series name.
I can understand not using this design in ST:TMP because it was alittle too different for fans expecting some continuity with the TV series. As there's been several series since then, and this will be a different crew, different ship name, etc. why not use it?
This trailer is really just a teaser and doesn't really show or tell us anything other than the ship is constructed in an asteroid.
For me, it's just okay, something's coming, hope the stories are good. We'll see. I'm just not sure I'm going to want to pay $5.99 a month to get the CBS streaming service just for this.
This trailer is really just a teaser and doesn't really show or tell us anything other than the ship is constructed in an asteroid.
For me, it's just okay, something's coming, hope the stories are good. We'll see. I'm just not sure I'm going to want to pay $5.99 a month to get the CBS streaming service just for this.
Outside the US and Canada, the series will be available through Netflix.
