Star Trek: Discovery

[Klosterheim]

Great casting, but that can't be good news for Sasha... Walking Dead shoots in Georgia, which makes me doubt that they could really accommodate her shooting both series.

I was starting to think that when the news was revealed.


She would make a good captain.

[sprytel]

Discovery finally has its lead.. it's Sonequa Martin-Green, Sasha from The Walking Dead.

http://www.eonline.com/news/816045/s...a-martin-green

Great casting, but that can't be good news for Sasha... Walking Dead shoots in Georgia, which makes me doubt that they could really accommodate her shooting both series.

[Sideshow Spock]

Discovery finally has its lead.. it's Sonequa Martin-Green, Sasha from The Walking Dead.

http://www.eonline.com/news/816045/star-trek-discovery-has-found-its-lead-in-sonequa-martin-green

[samurainoir]

A busy Bryan Fuller stepping back as Discovery show runner. And even tho production is slated to begin next month, the lead still hasn't been cast..

http://variety.com/2016/tv/news/brya...bs-1201901398/

I'm kind of glad that Fuller's devoting more time to American Gods. I'm much more excited about that series than another entry into the Trek Universe. American Gods seems much more aligned with his sensibilities.

it's not the first time they have been so last minute on a lead in a Trek show... remember they jettisoned the original Trek leads from the original Pilot, in favour of Shatner. Kate Mulgrew was an 11th hour replacement for Geneviève Bujold on Voyager.

and Stewart's casting in TNG sounds like a difficult choice as well...

http://trekmovie.com/2010/08/13/patrick-stewart-on-his-lunatic-casting-as-picard/

[rykerw1701]

I'm still keeping an open mind, but the turmoil before things even get started does worry me a bit.

The one thing I can be sure about, though, is not related to the content of the show but the delivery of it. People are not going to want to sign up for yet another digital subscription service just to get the show. In other countries they're making it available on Netflix. In the US, though, we are forced to pay for CBS' new service if we want to watch the show. I already have Netflix and Amazon and would prefer not to pay for multiple other services. I don't expect this to go well for them.

--SKot

I completely agree with this, and I also have Amazon and Netflix. I don't want three. And will the series be available all at once like Netflix, or will it be one episode at a time, so we don't all sign up for a free trail, watch the series and bail? The quality would have to be exceptional, like TNG or TOS at their best, but definitely not anything like the other series, that were all hit or miss each episode. Wasn't it Voyager Paramount used to get people to watch UPN? How did that work out for both the show and network?

And yes, there seems to some amount of chaos getting this thing done right now. Paramount is a mess as a studio, that can't help. They had a good Star Trek movie this summer that did modestly well at best at the box office because in part they failed to promote it. Now this new series is off to a bad start before it even begins.

[SKotK]

I'm still keeping an open mind, but the turmoil before things even get started does worry me a bit.

The one thing I can be sure about, though, is not related to the content of the show but the delivery of it. People are not going to want to sign up for yet another digital subscription service just to get the show. In other countries they're making it available on Netflix. In the US, though, we are forced to pay for CBS' new service if we want to watch the show. I already have Netflix and Amazon and would prefer not to pay for multiple other services. I don't expect this to go well for them.

--SKot

[The Bat]

I just don't get how anyone can have a strong opinion one way or another on the prospective content of the show, since there have been little to no details revealed as of yet, and it hasn't even started production..

agreed...I don't get it either.

[palitoy]

I just don't get how anyone can have a strong opinion one way or another on the prospective content of the show, since there have been little to no details revealed as of yet, and it hasn't even started production..

Yeah, I'm not sure how something that only exists currently on paper has erupted so much fan umbrage either. I mean as a whole, not a single individual.

It'd be different if a season was out there but they are just ideas at this point.

[Sideshow Spock]

What I just read makes me hope it never happens. It sounds like it has too much garbage forced into it before it starts.

Can you elaborate on what you "just read"? And what the "garbage" is?

I just don't get how anyone can have a strong opinion one way or another on the prospective content of the show, since there have been little to no details revealed as of yet, and it hasn't even started production..

[LonnieFisher]

What I just read makes me hope it never happens. It sounds like it has too much garbage forced into it before it starts.

[Brown Bear]

From everything I've read this far, I can't say I will lose any sleep if it doesn't happen.

[thunderbolt]

sounds like its crashing and burning.

[Sideshow Spock]

A busy Bryan Fuller stepping back as Discovery show runner. And even tho production is slated to begin next month, the lead still hasn't been cast..

http://variety.com/2016/tv/news/bryan-fuller-showrunner-star-trek-discovery-cbs-1201901398/

[Sideshow Spock]

Delayed until May 2017:

http://variety.com/2016/tv/news/star-trek-discovery-good-wife-spinoff-cbs-all-access-premiere-date-1201860613/

[SKotK]

So for those who cough up the cash for CBS All Access, guess what? You're still getting commercials. 12 minutes of them every episode:

http://variety.com/2016/voices/colum...ss-1201843135/

I'm just going to stand back and watch this business model go down in flames. Anyone got marshmallows?

--SKot