Also interesting that the article lists three actors as Klingon cast members, so same crew or Klingon "hero ship" ?
Klingon "hero ship". If Discovery is set 10 years before TOS, then there is no way that there will be Klingon crew members on a Starfleet ship. The original trailer marketed Discovery as "New Crews. New Villains. New Heroes. New Worlds." Therefore, the only options were an Outer Limits style of show where each episode featured new characters, story, and setting or there are multiple crews that are focused on in the same setting and story. So we might have 3 Federation crews, 1 Klingon crew, and 1 alien crew that hasn't been mentioned yet where there might be a few episodes that doesn't have the Federation crews.
The Outer Limits style show would have worked well if they wanted to tell stories in different settings like have a few episodes set between Enterprise and TOS, a few episodes set between TOS and TNG, and a few episodes set after Nemesis. Of course, the production values for such a setting would be too expensive. However, this was speculation that only came out after the first trailer was released and we had no actual information about the series.
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DSC is set ten years prior to TOS right? I wonder what the reason they didn't recast Ben Cross was?
Norway and Yeager dammit... I still want my Typhoon and Jupiter though. JJ Trek The Kelvin Timeline is just Trek and it's fully canon... get over it. But I still prefer TAR.
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'...I can tell you that we're not in the military and that we intend no harm to the whales.' Kirk: The Voyage Home
'Starfleet is not a military organisation. Its purpose is exploration.' Picard: Peak Performance
'This is clearly a military operation. Is that what we are now? Because I thought we were explorers!' Scotty: Into Darkness
'...The Federation. Starfleet. We're not a military agency.' Scotty: Beyond
'I'm not a soldier anymore. I'm an engineer.' Miles O'Brien: Empok Nor
'...Starfleet could use you... It's a peacekeeping and humanitarian armada...' Admiral Pike: Star Trek
Perhaps maybe Fuller will be coming back, maybe they decided his guiding hand is necessary for it to be the Hit show they want it to be.
Here's hoping...
I'm thinking we may not see this now till the fall of 2017.
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Doug Jones tweeted today that they started shooting the pilot
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This delay probably also means that STO will be able to get stuff from "DISCOVERY" into the game by Christmas this year.
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This delay probably also means that STO will be able to get stuff from "DISCOVERY" into the game by Christmas this year.
I wouldn't be so sure about that. thats assuming that it'll even come out this year. thats looking less and less likely. thats assuming it doesn't get killed entirely before it hits the air, which is still a possibility, especially given what a trainwreck its been so far
I don't think the delay is a product of malice. I think it is more likely that they simply rushed out the announcement and estimated release date for the Trek anniversary without actually having any idea of what the show would be. From what I've seen it usually takes around a year or more to get a TV show up and off the ground, so it is no surprise that they have had to delay things.
Much, much better in my opinion. If the Discovery herself gets a similiar overhaul I wouldn't mind.
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Sigh. I preferred the old one. That is clearly a DS9 era ship. How hard can it be to get the ship right? It needs to take design clues from either Kelvin era ships (which would still be in service) or brand new cutting edge ones like the TOS Constitution. Not the 24th century.
Edit: The original design is still in the video so fingers crossed it stays. Gods forbid Star Trek try anything new for a change instead of the same Akira over and over again.
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Norway and Yeager dammit... I still want my Typhoon and Jupiter though. JJ Trek The Kelvin Timeline is just Trek and it's fully canon... get over it. But I still prefer TAR.
#TASforSTO
'...I can tell you that we're not in the military and that we intend no harm to the whales.' Kirk: The Voyage Home
'Starfleet is not a military organisation. Its purpose is exploration.' Picard: Peak Performance
'This is clearly a military operation. Is that what we are now? Because I thought we were explorers!' Scotty: Into Darkness
'...The Federation. Starfleet. We're not a military agency.' Scotty: Beyond
'I'm not a soldier anymore. I'm an engineer.' Miles O'Brien: Empok Nor
'...Starfleet could use you... It's a peacekeeping and humanitarian armada...' Admiral Pike: Star Trek
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It does kinda-sorta look like a relative of the NX-01 though.
I just wish they would go with an earlier version of the Constitution's Nacelles.
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I like it. I like the blue, it resembles the ENT, Kelvin, and Franklin era uniforms as well as the excursion uniforms from BEY.
Norway and Yeager dammit... I still want my Typhoon and Jupiter though. JJ Trek The Kelvin Timeline is just Trek and it's fully canon... get over it. But I still prefer TAR.
#TASforSTO
'...I can tell you that we're not in the military and that we intend no harm to the whales.' Kirk: The Voyage Home
'Starfleet is not a military organisation. Its purpose is exploration.' Picard: Peak Performance
'This is clearly a military operation. Is that what we are now? Because I thought we were explorers!' Scotty: Into Darkness
'...The Federation. Starfleet. We're not a military agency.' Scotty: Beyond
'I'm not a soldier anymore. I'm an engineer.' Miles O'Brien: Empok Nor
'...Starfleet could use you... It's a peacekeeping and humanitarian armada...' Admiral Pike: Star Trek
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Neither show runs a 20-26 episode season (although, I don't watch TWD).
Glad they got the lead actress figured out!
Klingon "hero ship". If Discovery is set 10 years before TOS, then there is no way that there will be Klingon crew members on a Starfleet ship. The original trailer marketed Discovery as "New Crews. New Villains. New Heroes. New Worlds." Therefore, the only options were an Outer Limits style of show where each episode featured new characters, story, and setting or there are multiple crews that are focused on in the same setting and story. So we might have 3 Federation crews, 1 Klingon crew, and 1 alien crew that hasn't been mentioned yet where there might be a few episodes that doesn't have the Federation crews.
The Outer Limits style show would have worked well if they wanted to tell stories in different settings like have a few episodes set between Enterprise and TOS, a few episodes set between TOS and TNG, and a few episodes set after Nemesis. Of course, the production values for such a setting would be too expensive. However, this was speculation that only came out after the first trailer was released and we had no actual information about the series.
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Found it here...
https://www.yahoo.com/tv/star-trek-discovery-what-we-know-so-far-201737992.html
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http://www.comingsoon.net/tv/news/804393-james-frain-cast-as-spocks-father-in-star-trek-discovery
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Norway and Yeager dammit... I still want my Typhoon and Jupiter though.
JJ Trek The Kelvin Timeline is just Trek and it's fully canon... get over it. But I still prefer TAR.
#TASforSTO
'...I can tell you that we're not in the military and that we intend no harm to the whales.' Kirk: The Voyage Home
'Starfleet is not a military organisation. Its purpose is exploration.' Picard: Peak Performance
'This is clearly a military operation. Is that what we are now? Because I thought we were explorers!' Scotty: Into Darkness
'...The Federation. Starfleet. We're not a military agency.' Scotty: Beyond
'I'm not a soldier anymore. I'm an engineer.' Miles O'Brien: Empok Nor
'...Starfleet could use you... It's a peacekeeping and humanitarian armada...' Admiral Pike: Star Trek
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http://www.digitaltrends.com/movies/star-trek-discovery-stuck-in-spacedock/
Perhaps maybe Fuller will be coming back, maybe they decided his guiding hand is necessary for it to be the Hit show they want it to be.
Here's hoping...
I'm thinking we may not see this now till the fall of 2017.
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And, I wonder about the Fuller thing, too. That drama seems unnecessary, now in retrospect...
Let us explore it... together. Each man hides a secret pain. It must be exposed and reckoned with. It must be dragged from the darkness and forced into the light. Share your pain. Share your pain with me... and gain strength from the sharing.
Why does this sound like they're trying to can it?
Maybe CBS is shooting too high, or not high enough... but, the fact that filming has begun should prove to be good news.
They better have lots of details in blu-ray special features, LOL.
http://gazette.com/tv-talk-veteran-character-actor-added-to-star-trek-discovery-cast/article/1595179
And here is a recent interview with the lead actress...
http://ew.com/tv/2017/01/25/walking-dead-sonequa-martin-green-star-trek-discovery-sasha/
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I wouldn't be so sure about that. thats assuming that it'll even come out this year. thats looking less and less likely. thats assuming it doesn't get killed entirely before it hits the air, which is still a possibility, especially given what a trainwreck its been so far
Neat. I remember him better from that short-lived series The Cape. I liked him there.
And I think he has a face that's very easy to make to look Vulcan.
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Edit: The original design is still in the video so fingers crossed it stays. Gods forbid Star Trek try anything new for a change instead of the same Akira over and over again.
Norway and Yeager dammit... I still want my Typhoon and Jupiter though.
JJ Trek The Kelvin Timeline is just Trek and it's fully canon... get over it. But I still prefer TAR.
#TASforSTO
'...I can tell you that we're not in the military and that we intend no harm to the whales.' Kirk: The Voyage Home
'Starfleet is not a military organisation. Its purpose is exploration.' Picard: Peak Performance
'This is clearly a military operation. Is that what we are now? Because I thought we were explorers!' Scotty: Into Darkness
'...The Federation. Starfleet. We're not a military agency.' Scotty: Beyond
'I'm not a soldier anymore. I'm an engineer.' Miles O'Brien: Empok Nor
'...Starfleet could use you... It's a peacekeeping and humanitarian armada...' Admiral Pike: Star Trek
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Still no actual release date though.
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It does kinda-sorta look like a relative of the NX-01 though.
I just wish they would go with an earlier version of the Constitution's Nacelles.
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Also, I guess the little horn riff is the Discovery theme. It's appeared in almost every official video, and it ain't the classic Courage fanfare.
I like it. I like the blue, it resembles the ENT, Kelvin, and Franklin era uniforms as well as the excursion uniforms from BEY.
Norway and Yeager dammit... I still want my Typhoon and Jupiter though.
JJ Trek The Kelvin Timeline is just Trek and it's fully canon... get over it. But I still prefer TAR.
#TASforSTO
'...I can tell you that we're not in the military and that we intend no harm to the whales.' Kirk: The Voyage Home
'Starfleet is not a military organisation. Its purpose is exploration.' Picard: Peak Performance
'This is clearly a military operation. Is that what we are now? Because I thought we were explorers!' Scotty: Into Darkness
'...The Federation. Starfleet. We're not a military agency.' Scotty: Beyond
'I'm not a soldier anymore. I'm an engineer.' Miles O'Brien: Empok Nor
'...Starfleet could use you... It's a peacekeeping and humanitarian armada...' Admiral Pike: Star Trek
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