Olympic Fan
05-27-2017, 06:20 PM
To avoid hijacking the Summer Movies thread (more than we have), I thought I'd start this thread for all things Star Trek.
To big news is that after 12 years with nothing but the three re-booted Star Trek movies, we have a new TV Trek series coming this fall.
It's called Star Trek Discovery -- and it is set 10 years before TOS (the original Shatner TV series). I'm pretty sure it's part of the traditional TOS, TNG, DS9, VOY, ENT universe and not part of the JJ Abrams alternate Trek universe.
It's going to star Sonequa Martin Green (from the Walking Dead and before that Once Upon a Time and before that The Good Wife). It will debut with a two-part episode on CBS this fall and then move to the new CBS All-Access channel.
Not much is known about the series beyond this trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dxe_ugmIVM
Not a lot is known about the series ... except one factoid -- and that fact has the Star Trek fandom in an uproar. Martin-Green's character name is Michael Burnham.
The name Michael has stirred up a right-wing backlash from Trek "fans" who assume that with that name for an apparent female character, that Burnham must be transgendered. Apparently evey member of the North Carolina legislature is blowing up Trek fan sites with their disgust. Of course, they ignore the fact that Michael is often a female name (Michael Learned of The Waltons is one example -- Michael Micelle of ER is another). Never the less, many have assumed that this character is transgendered and that Trek is trying to jam political correctness down our neck.
We'll see.
There is also a series on Fox this fall called The Orville .... its a Seth MacFarlane spoof of Star Trek). Here's the trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8aUuFsXRjU
To big news is that after 12 years with nothing but the three re-booted Star Trek movies, we have a new TV Trek series coming this fall.
It's called Star Trek Discovery -- and it is set 10 years before TOS (the original Shatner TV series). I'm pretty sure it's part of the traditional TOS, TNG, DS9, VOY, ENT universe and not part of the JJ Abrams alternate Trek universe.
It's going to star Sonequa Martin Green (from the Walking Dead and before that Once Upon a Time and before that The Good Wife). It will debut with a two-part episode on CBS this fall and then move to the new CBS All-Access channel.
Not much is known about the series beyond this trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dxe_ugmIVM
Not a lot is known about the series ... except one factoid -- and that fact has the Star Trek fandom in an uproar. Martin-Green's character name is Michael Burnham.
The name Michael has stirred up a right-wing backlash from Trek "fans" who assume that with that name for an apparent female character, that Burnham must be transgendered. Apparently evey member of the North Carolina legislature is blowing up Trek fan sites with their disgust. Of course, they ignore the fact that Michael is often a female name (Michael Learned of The Waltons is one example -- Michael Micelle of ER is another). Never the less, many have assumed that this character is transgendered and that Trek is trying to jam political correctness down our neck.
We'll see.
There is also a series on Fox this fall called The Orville .... its a Seth MacFarlane spoof of Star Trek). Here's the trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8aUuFsXRjU