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First Star Trek: Discovery trailer goes where many Treks have gone before

The first real trailer for Star Trek: Discovery . If you’ve been waiting patiently for  Star Trek: Discovery , we have some good news and some bad news (and, I guess, some in-between news). The good news is that the series will make its debut on CBS All Access this fall, and that its order has been expanded to 15 episodes from the originally promised 13 episodes . The neither-good-nor-bad news is that it will be accompanied by a  Talking Dead -style post-show discussion show called  Talking Trek , which you can watch if you like that sort of thing or ignore if you don’t. And the bad news is that, well, the trailer falls a little flat, especially knowing what we do about the behind-the-camera turmoil (Bryan Fuller, its original showrunner, dropped out of the process partway , and the show was originally supposed to launch this past January ). Though the new show canonically takes place in the same fictional universe as the original series,  The Next Generation , and most of the other pre-JJ Abrams  Trek shows and movies, the show’s look has a lot more in common with Abrams’  Trek than with any of the older entries. Everything, including the uniforms and the bridge, is shiny and slick. And while later episodes of  Deep Space Nine ,  Voyager , and  Enterprise made extensive use of computer-generated effects, decades of advancements in the field are going to mean much bigger and flashier effects than anything that has been possible in older series. As a lifelong fan my impulse is to be pretty forgiving of  Trek , but the trailer doesn’t do much for me. In some ways, it’s  Trek -by-numbers: warp signatures are detected, crewmembers are beamed up, (newly redesigned and honestly sort of off-putting) Klingons are engaged, computers are spoken to, objects are viewed onscreen, frontiers are explored. But a few wooden performances and editing that leaps wildly from scene to obviously unrelated scene does the trailer no favors. Read 5 remaining paragraphs | Comments

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CBS delays streaming ‘Star Trek’ debut until May 2017

CBS said its new Star Trek series would debut in January, but since it’s September and we still haven’t even heard about the cast, that date seemed to be in doubt. Today CBS confirmed a delay, essentially swapping debut windows between Star Trek: Discovery and its upcoming spinoff of The Good Wife , which will both be available exclusively in the US on the streaming CBS All Access service (outside the US and Canada, it will be on Netflix ). Star Trek: Discovery will launch in May 2017, while the new The Good Wife show will launch with a CBS TV broadcast in January, before jumping to All Access streaming. There’s also a new streaming edition of Big Brother called Over the Top that will launch on September 28th. Executive producers Alex Kurtzman and Bryan Fuller said in a statement that “We aim to dream big and deliver, and that means making sure the demands of physical and post-production for a show that takes place entirely in space, and the need to meet an air date, don’t result in compromised quality. Before heading into production, we evaluated these realities with our partners at CBS and they agreed: Star Trek deserves the very best, and these extra few months will help us achieve a vision we can all be proud of.” If it aims to convince more skeptical viewers to sign up — and maybe grab that $4 commercial-free option — a delay to make sure everything is working could be a good idea. Source: CBS

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CBS delays streaming ‘Star Trek’ debut until May 2017