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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. 10 years was a decent rest by peter303 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Running the 2nd thru 5th season in a row and overlapping probably exhausted the genre. Its had enough rest now for new ideas.

    1. Re:10 years was a decent rest by Tx · · Score: 4, Interesting

      It can't get any worse than Enterprise.

      Then again, I thought it couldn't get any worse than Voyager, so I could be wrong.

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  2. Which continuity? by timholman · · Score: 4, Interesting

    From the article:

    The new television series is not related to the upcoming feature film Star Trek Beyond which is scheduled to be distributed by Paramount Pictures in summer 2016.

    So will this show be set in the original TOS / TNG / DS9 continuity, or in the Abrams continuity?

    Lots of plusses and minuses either way.

  3. Re:Trek is ABOUT Social Justice Warrioring by Actually,+I+do+RTFA · · Score: 4, Interesting

    e. It was basically Roddenberry's idealistic version of the USA in space. I mean, come on, the starship was named after one of the most staunchly pro-capitalist concepts ever.

    Well, it's set in a post-scarcity communist utopia .The bridge crew was expressly made up of Americans, Russians and Japanese people in an era when fighting the "Japs" was a recent memory and the Russians were the new enemy, in a direct appeal to get over our differences. It featured the first inter-racial kiss as though black people and white people could get along (in spite of the still existent legal segregation). The one guy who was racist was shown as anachronistic.

    But yeah, if you ignore everything and focus on the starship name, totally a paean to America!

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