Hey, a new Star Trek television series!

Interesting how they’re going to do it, too. Or at least how they’re currently planning to do it; 2017 is a goodly way away. Well, OK, a bit over a year away.  Anyway…

The new Star Trek has been picked up straight to series at CBS, with the premiere slated for the network in January 2017. Subsequent episodes will air on its digital and VOD platform, CBS All Access. The premiere and all subsequent episodes will then be available in the U.S. on CBS All Access, the network’s digital subscription video on demand and live streaming service.Star Trek marks the first original series developed specifically for CBS All Access.

No idea whether it’s in the same continuity as the current movie series, in other words.  Watching people fight over that should prove entertaining. After all, it’s been far too long since the last nerdwar involving Star Trek…

13 thoughts on “Hey, a new Star Trek television series!”

  1. Well, Kurtzman is producing it, so i’m afraid it will suck. Orci was the Trekkie of the two and did you see the hash *he* made of it the last two movies?

  2. The line about ‘exploring contemporary themes’ has me a bit worried. Star Trek can get a little preachy and, well, heavy handed, at times. I shudder to think of a Trek series with a modern SJW spin.

  3. I’m tentatively optimistic. I’m still bothered that Enterprise ended just when it was really getting good.

  4. I’m really not interested in subscribing to another pay service just for Trek, and that’s assuming it’s good.

    1. Yeah, putting it behind a paywall is pretty much a deal killer for me too. Although I haven’t watched anything on TV except football for more than three years now, so I don’t know if I’d watch it even if they were giving it away.

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      Maybe I’ll check it out if somebody posts a crappy 360p version to YouTube, like how I’ve watched (some) Rick and Morty…

  6. it will end up on bittorent sites quickly enough. I might subscribe for a month to watch the whole thing, but not until its all up.

  7. After Star Trek: Into Suckness, they’ll have to work awfully long and hard to get this lifelong Trekkie back into the fold. I mean, I have TOS, TAS, TNG, and DS9 on Netflix streaming whenever I want them, plus a double DVD boxset of the films. So, all four series and all ten movies. What else do I need?
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    Wait, what? What is this Voyager of which you speak? And there was no series named Enterprise. I mean, there were four on-screen Enterprises…six if you count B’s brief appearance in “Generations,” as well as C’s guest shot in “Yesterday’s Enterprise.” If they had wanted to name a series after one, didn’t they have ample opportunity?
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    Enough, I say. I tell you I have access to ALL of Star Trek. Four series, ten movies. Just like there were only three Star Wars films. Trust me, my math works out.
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    MY. MATH. WORKS. OUT. End transmission.

    1. Enterprise was the best of them. I can’t believe anyone spent more than 30 minutes watching DS9 before realizing how ridiculous it was.

      1. DS9 was .. definitely not their best outing.
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        It got better, once they stopped trying to do “saloon along the road the wagons go down” and went back to doing “wagon train” but .. it never got *great*.
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        It was, however, preferable to some of the other crap on the air at the same time. Back in the dark ages, before internet-streaming-everything.
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        Mew

        1. Having the Defiant certainly gave DS9 some breathing room and made for a wider variety of stories, and it certainly took several seasons to find its footing. (And incorporated too much of the freakin’ Ferengi.) But it’s probably the best of the Treks overall from a pure sci-fi and an action sci-fi standpoint.
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          Having said that, I still am partial to TNG, which took only two seasons to find its footing and delivered the most great episodes. My only regret is that I never got to see Wesley cacked.

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