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New Star Trek TV Series Coming In 2017 (hollywoodreporter.com)

Posted by Soulskill on from the make-it-so dept.

An anonymous reader writes: Star Trek is returning to television. In January, 2017, a new series will begin. The first episode will air on CBS, and subsequent episodes will appear on CBS's online platform, "All Access." "The new Star Trek will introduce new characters seeking imaginative new worlds and new civilizations, while exploring the dramatic contemporary themes that have been a signature of the franchise since its inception in 1966." The show will be produced by Alex Kurtzman, who produced the two recent Star Trek films in 2009 and 2013. No details have been released regarding what the show will be about, or who will star in it. CBS is currently looking for a writer to helm the show.

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  1. Please, no. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    Please, no. Just let the poor thing rest in peace.

  2. Beating A Dead Horse? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    Come on, the universe has already got enough of the shows. We do not need another bunch of poorly written Trek. Didn't they get that memo when "Enterprise" was suddeny cancelled by UPN a few years back?

  3. Re:"TV series" by Jason+Levine · · Score: 4, Informative

    We actually tried CBS's All Access service after getting a month free promotion. I've found the selection limited and there are a lot of ads. Every commercial break is about 1.5 minutes of ads. Contrast this with Hulu which has 20-30 seconds of ads in each break. It's amazing how quickly you lose your tolerance for long commercial breaks when you cut cable.

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  4. Re:10 years was a decent rest by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Enterprise was vastly superior to Voyager.

  5. Re:10 years was a decent rest by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    Voyager was crap, but Enterprise wasn't that bad at all, especially the last three seasons.

  6. Re:10 years was a decent rest by __aaclcg7560 · · Score: 3, Informative

    The episode was nominated for the 2003 Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation (short form) and received the highest Nielsen ratings for any episode of Enterprise during season two at that point.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Night_in_Sickbay

    A highly rated low point for the series.

  7. Re:10 years was a decent rest by AmiMoJo · · Score: 5, Informative

    Enterprise was a return to what made Star Trek good - the ideas. Voyager had some, but always copped out by resolving every moral or philosophical question by firing an inverse tachyon beam at it.

    My worry is that this new TV series will suck like the new movies did. They were okay as action movies I guess, if you like being blinded by lens flare, but as Star Trek they were the worst of what Voyager wanted to be - an action driven show. DS9 had action but you actually cared about it, not so much in Voyager or the two new movies.

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  8. Re:10 years was a decent rest by CanadianMacFan · · Score: 3, Informative

    DS9 beat B5 to air by a couple of weeks but B5 was in concept phase at least a couple of years before DS9.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...