american-tulip:

For anyone curious about the possible storyline/ background for Discovery, here’s a hint from Bryan.

Star Trek: Discovery To Get Two-Hour Pilot

denofgeek:

Good news! The first three episodes of the Star Trek: Discovery TV show have already been written. Speaking to Nerd World Report (via TrekCore), Fuller confirmed that the show’s pilot would be a two-part episode. Fuller and Alex Kurtzman will pen the first hour, and Nicholas Meyer will write the second hour. (It’s unclear whether both episodes will air on CBS or just the first, with the second half available via CBS All-Access.)

Past that, script outlines have been started for the fourth and fifth episodes, with the entire story arc for the first season already fleshed out.

Read more at Den of Geek!

frontier001:

New interview with Fuller.

The lead will at first be called Number One, but she’s not THAT number one. Paying homage with the title.

thetrekkiehasthephonebox:

frontier001:

So I’ve got a theory.  It might be crazy.  It is pure speculation and should be taken with a grain of salt the size of Everest.  I have nothing but some tweets and a hunch based on instinct. 

What if “Star Trek: Discovery” starts off in 2255 - but doesn’t stay there/then?

Fuller said something about “bending time and space” at the TCA event on the 10th, when all that news came out.  It was a comment that didn’t get much attention - I had to spend an hour just now on Twitter searching for tweets about it.  But it sounded odd to me.  Was he just talking about how warp drive does something like that?  Seems unlikely though, doesn’t it?

And then I remembered the same day, Fuller responded to laments about the time setting with the comment “all good things” - not once, but twice.  There are two ways to take that.  The obvious is, “All good things must come to an end.”  Was that what he was saying about the 24th century, post-Voyager, post-Nemesis time?

The other way to take it is “All good things come to those who wait.”  And adding to that, it is the name of TNG’s finale - which did a whole lot of time travel, didn’t it?

Alone, neither comment stands out.  Together, they still don’t stand out.  Unless you’re obsessive and can’t help but wonder about the endgame of a show set 10 years before Kirk’s 5 year mission.  Yes, there are things they can do there, stories to tell; but setting it *so close* to Kirk’s time just feels odd.  Maybe it has to be then to fit in to this “event/incident” we can’t yet identify.  But how long could they play in that sandbox, really?

So what if they’re only intending to play in that time-frame for a while?  A season or two, perhaps?

What if Discovery and her crew are from 2255, the show is set there initially, but they don’t remain in their own time? 

It’s probably just a crazy nonsense idea.  I’m grasping at straws because I don’t have the full picture of how this show can be set where/when it’s set. 

But, on the off chance I’ve somehow cleverly deduced some big secret plot… thought I’d post my insane theorizing so it’s documented for the future.  lol.

That’s definitely a TNG reference. TIME TRAVEL HERE WE COME

paternalpadfoot:

U.S.S Discovery

docnickie:

Bryan talking about Star Trek and Hannibal Season 4 with Paul F. Tompkins and Kumail Nanjiani, nbd.

we have been blessed, the future is bright, my crops are watered, my pores are clear, my anxiety is eased

elphabaforpresidentofgallifrey:

wait….WHAT UHM

eXCUSE ME DID SOMEONE SAY REAL LIFE AND FICTIONAL DIVERSITY WAIT WHAT

A FAMOUS BLACK WOMAN SCIENTIST WAS CONSULTED?! HOLY FUCK?!

MMMM YEESSS give me that hierarchical diversity too, fuller

#REVENGEGAY

cannot forget our AI friends 🙌

god bless that continuity

RESPONSIBLE FRANCHISE ADOPTION 101

HE GETS IT!!!!

and the most important….the equivalent of bones will FINALLY GET TO SAY FUCK

shipofthevalkyries:

i’m so glad simon pegg, doug jung and bryan fuller finally broke into the vault where cbs/paramount keep all the gay star trek characters. reblog to keep the vault open

plaidshirtjimkirk:

I WANT TO CRY WE’RE GETTING A FEMALE LEAD AND A GAY CHARACTER I’M SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO HAPPY JUST FROM THIS NEWS

Star Trek: Discovery - Bryan Fuller confirms female lead, gay character, prequel setting, and more!

alex-moreland:

Today was the penultimate day of the Television Critics Association summer press tour, an annual event which holds a variety of different panels – and this year, one of those panels was ran by Bryan Fuller, who revealed a lot of information about the new Star Trek: Discovery program, set to launch in 2017 on CBS All Access in the US and Canada, and Netflix worldwide.

Excitingly, one of the first things that Fuller confirmed was a human female lead; interestingly, however, it’s been said confirmed by Fuller that she will not be a Captain. The intention is to provide a different point of view from prior Star Trek series, given that the previous 6 (presumably including the animated series) have been from the perspective of the Captain. This female lead is yet to be cast, with shooting still two months away; Fuller has, in the past, stated that casting for Discovery will be ‘colour blind’, and as such our new lead may be of any race. Rather excitingly, Fuller has also said there will “absolutely” be a gay character, thus breaking new ground for televised Star Trek.

The series will be of 13 episodes in length. Unlike on other internet television services, these episodes will air weekly - according to Fuller, the show will be serialised, but also feature close ended storylines that resolve each week. Being on CBS All Access, it means that Discovery will not be subject to broadcast standards and practices, rather appropriately allowing them the option of pushing the show further than Star Trek has ever gone before. Furthermore, we’ll see more aliens than has previously been typical of a Star Trek show; on his twitter feed recently, a photo from a makeup test suggested that one such alien species may be the Andorians. It’s also been confirmed that we’ll see robots, which is nice.

The show is going to be set 10 years before The Original Series; it’s another prequel series, much like Enterprise before it, although far closer in time to the original Star Trek. In setting the show so closely to the original, it means that Discovery is able to “play with all the iconography of those ships and those uniforms.” It won’t just be the ships and the uniforms, though, with one returning character having been brought up in discussion – Spock’s mother, Amanda Greyson. Rather obliquely, Fuller has suggested that Discovery will depict an event in Starfleet history that has “never been explored”; several guesses as to what this unexplored event is have been ruled out, such as the Romulan War, and it currently remains a guarded secret. This event was, however, confirmed to be referenced on The Original Series, so get ready for plenty of speculation.

It’s also said that you can bend space and time. Currently, however, it’s not entirely clear what this means, as the statement is yet to be expanded upon. We can, though, infer that there will presumably be some involvement of time travel concepts in the show, which continues a long (albeit at times controversial) tradition of such ideas within Star Trek.

The news that we’ll have both a female lead and Star Trek’s first gay character has excited me – it’s great to see Star Trek really living up to its ethos of inclusivity and diversity, and it continues to confirm my belief that Bryan Fuller really does understand what Star Trek means, and that he’s the right man to take it forward into the future. I’m also quite intrigued by the fact that it’s been stated the aforementioned female lead will not be a Captain; it’s obviously far too early to tell, but it may well mean that Discovery is going to be a very different type of Trek than we’ve ever seen before.

Admittedly, I am disappointed that Discovery will be set so close to the timeframe of the original series, and seemingly drawing from it a lot; I feel that following Star Trek’s 50^th anniversary, we should be looking to the future, not back to the beginning. Equally, however, Fuller’s comments about presenting Discovery from a new perspective makes it pretty obvious that he has something unique he intends to bring to the table, and that is ultimately a lot more important for Star Trek right now than just when the show is set.

Related:

Bryan Fuller reveals new details about Star Trek: Discovery at Comic-Con

Five Things we can expect from Bryan Fuller’s Star Trek

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