I'm guessing those people won't care, or will have heard about it already, but to canonize it, maybe it's simply a matter of casually mentioning something simple, like the continued existence of Vulcan? Star Trek 2009 had the luxury of Spock Prime giving us the exposition to establish the timeline reset. I wonder how they will establish the return to the prime universe onscreen for those who don't follow such things behind the scenes. It just allows for this to feel more of a piece with what Star Trek has been for 50 years rather than an extension of the still-bareboned universe of the films or, worse, a third universe under a second reboot. I like the decision to go back to the prime universe.
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The new series will be set in the prime universe, not the reboot universe, and will take place about 10 years before the TOS five-year mission. And if I'm paying a subscription fee for it, I would hope there would be no in-program ads, but from what I gather that's not likely to be the case, which is unfortunate. CBS All Access is available on Chromecast, Roku, FireTV, and others, so that should make it reasonably easy, albeit not as easy as getting it through my cable set-top box. I want to watch this on my 55-inch screen in my living room with my wife, so the key point for me will be a quality HD viewing experience with ease-of-use for streaming it to my large screen. To my own viewing habits, I have no desire to watch this show on a phone or tablet, so I don't care about the on-the-go convenience of a streaming service that has only one show I'll probably ever watch. This effort might be smart for CBS, but that remains to be seen. I honestly don't care if CBS All Access as a concept is successful apart from it being the home to the new Trek. Maybe this is more like the Hulu model.Īs a viewer, I'd probably prefer just to see this show on CBS in the first place. The Netflix model is so unique (and murky, given that they never disclose how many people actually watch their ever-expanding myriad of shows) that I don't know that it can be replicated. This is CBS's gambit, and who knows if it will be successful enough to make this more than a single-season experiment. At the very least, they are going to pick up a not-insignificant portion of the core fanbase.
It's definitely a gamble putting the new Trek series there, but if you're committed to putting your streaming service on the map, you need high-profile original content that isn't offered anywhere else, and putting something there with a built-in fanbase probably makes more sense than debuting something unknown. I have no idea how successful it is and have done no research to that point. CBS All Access is a streaming service that currently offers the library of CBS content on demand, as well as live CBS programming. That's the multi-million-dollar question. Will that be a viable home for a Star Trek series?
So this looks like a promising team of Trek-specific writers. And, of course, Menosky strikes me as a writer that knows the Trek universe but also has his own individually unique ideas. Bringing on Meyer as a consultant will hopefully ground the series in the sort of humanity seen in The Wrath of Khan while also being allegorically relevant like The Undiscovered Country. That's probably exactly what this franchise needs - a balance between Trek knowledge/experience and creative visions that are more individually driven. I'm glad that a showrunner was selected who has both previous experience with Star Trek and also has been distinguished creatively in the auteur vein in the ensuing years since his Trek tenure. While I have not seen Hannibal or Fuller's other shows, I am aware of them and their ambitious creative visions. Also on board are high-profile Trek veterans Nicholas Meyer, Joe Menosky, and others. The show is being run by Bryan Fuller, of Hannibal and Pushing Daisies fame. Older comments can also be seen on this article from November 2015 when the series was first announced. Discuss the latest on 'Star Trek: Discovery'īelow are musings I wrote in August 2016 about the latest (at that time) on Star Trek: Discovery, which is set to premiere sometime in 2017, unless it's delayed again.
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