Star Trek: Discovery (TV Series)

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Star Trek: Discovery

Genre	Science fiction Adventure Drama
Created by	Bryan Fuller Alex Kurtzman
Based on	Star Trek by Gene Roddenberry
Starring	Sonequa Martin-Green Doug Jones Shazad Latif Anthony Rapp Mary Wiseman Jason Isaacs Wilson Cruz Anson Mount David Ajala
Composer(s)	Jeff Russo
Country of origin	United States
Original language(s)	English
No. of seasons	2
No. of episodes	29 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producer(s)	Bryan Fuller David Semel (1x01) Rod Roddenberry Trevor Roth Akiva Goldsman Heather Kadin Gretchen J. Berg Aaron Harberts Alex Kurtzman
Production location(s)	Toronto, Canada
Running time	37–65 minutes
Production company(s)	Secret Hideout Roddenberry Entertainment Living Dead Guy Productions CBS Television Studios
Distributor	CBS Television Distribution
Budget	$8–8.5 million per episode
Release
Original network	CBS (1x01) CBS All Access
Picture format	HDTV 1080p (2:1/2.39:1)
Audio format	Dolby Digital 5.1
Original release	September 24, 2017 – present
Chronology
Preceded by	Enterprise
Followed by	Picard
Related shows	Star Trek: Short Treks
External links

Star Trek: Discovery is an American web television series created for CBS All Access by Bryan Fuller and Alex Kurtzman. Launched in 2017, it is the first scripted series developed specifically for that service. The seventh series in the Star Trek franchise, it was the first series in the franchise since Star Trek: Enterprise concluded in 2005. Star Trek: Discovery begins roughly a decade before the events of the original Star Trek series, and follows the crew of the USS Discovery on various adventures.

Sonequa Martin-Green stars as Michael Burnham, a female science specialist on the Discovery. Doug Jones, Shazad Latif, Anthony Rapp, Mary Wiseman, and Wilson Cruz also star, along with Jason Isaacs for the first season, Anson Mount for the second, and David Ajala for the third. The series was announced in November 2015, with Fuller acting as showrunner from February to October 2016 but leaving due to creative differences with CBS. He was replaced by Gretchen J. Berg and Aaron Harberts, who received producing support from Akiva Goldsman. Goldsman did not return after the first season, while Berg and Harberts were fired by CBS during production of the second; Kurtzman took over as showrunner, and was joined by Michelle Paradise for the third season.

Star Trek: Discovery premiered on September 19, 2017, at ArcLight Hollywood, before debuting on CBS and CBS All Access on September 24. The rest of the 15-episode first season was streamed weekly on All Access, ending in February 2018. The season's release led to record subscriptions for All Access, and positive reviews from critics who highlighted Martin-Green's performance. The 14-episode second season was released from January to April 2019, and the 13-episode third season is expected to debut in 2020.

The series began an expansion of the Star Trek franchise by CBS and Kurtzman, leading to multiple other series being produced, including companion series Star Trek: Short Treks and spin-off series Star Trek: Section 31 and Star Trek: Strange New Worlds.

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[edit] Premise

Beginning roughly ten years before the events of Star Trek: The Original Series, the show sees the Klingon houses become united in a war with the United Federation of Planets that heavily involves the crew of the USS Discovery (NCC-1031). In the second season, after the war has ended, Discovery investigates seven mysterious signals and a strange figure known as the "Red Angel". This conflict ends with the Discovery travelling to the 32nd century, more than 900 years into their future.

[edit] Episodes

Main article: List of Star Trek: Discovery episodes

Season		Episodes		Originally aired
Season		Episodes		First aired	Last aired
	1	15	9	September 24, 2017	November 12, 2017
	1	15	6	January 7, 2018	February 11, 2018
	2	14		January 17, 2019	April 18, 2019
	3	13		2020	TBA

[edit] Cast and characters

Main article: List of Star Trek: Discovery characters

[edit] Production

[edit] Development

[edit] Announcement

[edit] Bryan Fuller

[edit] Gretchen J. Berg and Aaron Harberts

[edit] Alex Kurtzman and Michelle Paradise

[edit] Writing

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Season		Home media release dates
Season		Region 1	Region 2	Region 4

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[edit] Accolades

In 2019, Nerdist ranked Star Trek: Discovery the fourth best television series out of seven in the Star Trek franchise. They call it "a very ambitious show that does a lot of things right, but just as many things wrong", praising the "uniformly wonderful" cast and high production values, but criticising the writing as "hit and miss". Radio Times listed the series as one of the top ten shows on Netflix, remarking "... the first Star Trek TV series since Enterprise found its feet in a fiercely confident manner..".

Year	Award	Category	Recipient	Result	Ref.

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[edit] Spin-offs

The expanded franchise includes several direct spin-offs from Star Trek: Discovery:

[edit] Star Trek: Short Treks

Main article: Star Trek: Short Treks

[edit] Star Trek: Section 31

[edit] Star Trek: Strange New Worlds

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Title	Author(s)	Date	ISBN

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[edit] After Trek

Main article" After Trek

[edit] The Ready Room

Main article: The Ready Room

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