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Eadie Galactic Ambassador
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bulldogtrekker Space Sector Admiral
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Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2017 10:10 pm Post subject: "Star Trek: Discovery" to Premiere by Early Fall |
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CBS Chief Les Moonves told investors today that Star Trek: Discovery will premiere in late Summer or early Fall 2017. More details follow.
Moonves spoke about Star Trek: Discovery before investors at the Morgan Stanley Technology, Media, and Telecom Conference on February 27th, according to Deadline. Moonves noted that the premiere had been pushed back from its (re)scheduled May target date because --It's important to get it right, and Star Trek is the family jewels [sic]. -- Moonves elaborated, "We're not going to rush it in. There's a lot of post-production. But I'm very confident in what I've seen so far."
Speaking to the decision to air Discovery on CBS All Access, Moonves said:
Quote: | "There are millions and millions of Trekkies out there. We know for a fact that the other versions of Star Trek -- there were seven [sic] other series, some of them were great and some of them were terrible -- they all did really well on Netflix. That gave us great confidence that this was the right choice to put the full court press on All Access."
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Late Summer/Early Fall Premiere Lines Up with Production Schedule
As we have previously reported,"Discovery" is shooting at Pinewood Studios Toronto through September 7th. The target of a late-Summer or early-Fall release, means the majority of the first season's episodes will be done filming by then, giving the production plenty of time to polish the episodes in post-production. Assuming a September release date, the first season would finish airing (or in this case, streaming) around mid-November or early December.
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ralfy Mission Specialist
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bulldogtrekker Space Sector Admiral
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Posted: Sun Apr 30, 2017 6:58 pm Post subject: |
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Star Trek: Discovery continues to bring new cast members on board. The latest additions, revealed today, include Shazad Latif, Rekha Sharma, Kenneth Mitchell, Clare McConnell and Damon Runyan.
Shazad Latif will star as Lieutenant Tyler, a Starfleet officer in the Federation. Latif is known for his role as Dr. Henry Jekyll in the television series Penny Dreadful. Latif was originally announced in the role of Kol, now played by Kenneth Mitchell.
Kenneth Mitchell will portray Kol, a commanding officer in the Klingon Empire. Mitchell's television credits include the fan-favorite Jericho on CBS, The Astronaut Wives Club and Frequency.
Clare McConnell gets in on the action as Dennas, a leader in the Klingon Empire. McConnell's film credits include Dim the Fluorescents, slated for release this fall.
And, cast as Ujilli, a leader in the Klingon Empire, is Damon Runyan. His television credits include Suits, Supernatural and Gangland Undercover.
- See more at: http://www.startrek.com/article/discovery-adds-to-its-ranks#sthash.ETxTMkIc.dpuf
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bulldogtrekker Space Sector Admiral
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Bud Brewster Galactic Fleet Admiral (site admin)
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Posted: Mon May 22, 2017 9:29 am Post subject: |
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At last! A trailer!
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_______ Star Trek: Discovery - First Look Trailer
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Pow Galactic Ambassador
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Posted: Mon May 22, 2017 1:42 pm Post subject: |
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The trailer looks intriguing but those Star Fleet Uniforms are meh. |
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Bud Brewster Galactic Fleet Admiral (site admin)
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Posted: Mon May 22, 2017 4:10 pm Post subject: |
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They certainly don't look as comfortable as the uniforms in the other series. The most comfortable Star Trek uniforms were probably the ones in Enterprise, which appeared to be made of cotton, not the less "natural" fabrics like the ones in TNG, DS9, and Voyager appeared to be made of. _________________ ____________
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bulldogtrekker Space Sector Admiral
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Posted: Mon Jun 19, 2017 5:33 pm Post subject: |
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The latest chapter in the??Star Trek??saga has its premiere date -- with the 15-episode season set to be released in two chapters. Read below for specifics.
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U.S. Schedule
Star Trek: Discovery will launch in the U.S. on Sunday, September 24 with a broadcast premiere that night on the CBS Television Network airing at 8:30-9:30 PM, ET/PT (time approximate following NFL Football and 60 Minutes). The series premiere will also be available on-demand on CBS All Access and the second episode of the series will be available on the service that same night immediately following the broadcast premiere.
After premiere night, all new episodes will be available on-demand weekly on Sundays exclusively for CBS All Access subscribers in the U.S. The 15-episode season will be released in two chapters. The first eight episodes will run from Sunday, Sept. 24 through Sunday, Nov. 5. The season will then resume with the second chapter debuting in January 2018......
- See more at: http://www.startrek.com/article/star-trek-discovery-sets-premiere-date#sthash.vqCvxcFP.dpuf |
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bulldogtrekker Space Sector Admiral
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Entertainment Weekly has dripped out another bit from their upcoming story on Star Trek: Discovery. This time they're giving us the first image of Jason Isaacs as Captain Lorca of the U.S.S. Discovery. And they also revealed his first name: Gabriel.
The image ends any speculation that Isaacs is playing an alien as he appears to be very much a human. According to EW, Lorca is described as "a steely Federation Starship Captain who's considered a brilliant military tactician."
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http://trekmovie.com/2017/06/21/breaking-first-image-of-jason-isaacs-from-star-trek-discovery/Fuk |
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Pow Galactic Ambassador
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Posted: Thu Jun 22, 2017 7:52 am Post subject: |
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I agree, Bud. While the Star Fleet uniforms on ST:E were not eye catching, they looked comfortable & realistic.
Like something a star ship crew might one day actually wear.
The uniforms worn on Seaquest also seemed believable & a bit sharper compared to ST:E.
I would also say that if ST:D is set only 10 years prior to the Kirk & Spock era, the evolution from the uniforms we see on ST:D to the ones we see on ST:TOS seems odd & too radical. Clothes in human history usually don't seem to make such jumps.
Music Awards shows notwithstanding.
I think that when a sci-fi TV series like this is produced that the 2 things fans will ultimately see a great deal of each week are the standing sets as well as the clothing.
Yes, props & visual effects are crucial. But when you thing about it we see these thing for a limited amount of time on weekly basis.
On ST:TOS we see the Enterprise moving in space,we see the crew use Tricorders, Phasers & Communicators.
However, their respective screen time is brief.
Again, the visual effects & props need to be first class.
But it's the uniforms & sets that are in our faces for the majority of the show. So it is fantastic when they get it right in those areas.A shame when they blow it & we'll have to see it every week...a lot. |
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Gord Green Galactic Ambassador
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Posted: Fri Jun 23, 2017 11:17 am Post subject: |
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From ENTERTAINMENT ;
http://ew.com/tv/2017/06/23/star-trek-discovery-rules/
Star Trek: Discovery is shedding a creative restriction that's long frustrated top writers on previous shows in the franchise.
Showrunners Aaron Harberts and Gretchen J. Berg - working from a creative roadmap laid out by executive producer Bryan Fuller - are delivering a Trek saga that gets rid of one the franchise's decades-old limitations in an effort to evolve the series.
As part of Trek creator Gene Roddenberry's utopian vision of the future (and one that Trek franchise executive producer Rick Berman carried on after Roddenberry's death in 1991), writers on Trek shows were urged to avoid having Starfleet crew members in significant conflict with one another (unless a crew member is, say, possessed by an alien force), or from being shown in any seriously negative way.
This guideline wasn't strictly followed across all 700 previous franchise episodes, of course. But in an aspirational effort to make the future more idyllic, Starfleet crew members typically weren't supposed to demonstrate baser human flaws.
For writers on Trek shows, the restriction has been a point of behind-the-scenes contention (one TNG and Voyager writer, Michael Piller, famously dubbed it "Roddenberry's Box").
Drama is conflict, after all, and if all the conflict stems from non-Starfleet members on a show whose regular cast consists almost entirely of Starfleet officers, it hugely limits the types of stories that can be told.
So for the CBS All Access series coming Sept. 24, that restriction has been lifted and the writers are allowed to tell types of stories that were discouraged for decades.
"We're trying to do stories that are complicated, with characters with strong points of view and strong passions," Harberts said. "People have to make mistakes -- mistakes are still going to be made in the future. We're still going to argue in the future."
"The rules of Starfleet remain the same," Berg added. "But while we're human or alien in various ways, none of us are perfect."
The handling of these inner-Starfleet conflicts will still draw inspiration from Roddenberry's ideals, however."The thing we're taking from Roddenberry is how we solve those conflicts," Harberts said. "So we do have our characters in conflict, we do have them struggling with each other, but it's about how they find a solution and work through their problems."
Another major change is the new series is heavily serialized, unlike all the previous iterations which consisted of close-ended episodes (with occasional story arcs that were two or three episodes long, plus Deep Space Nine's more ambitious Dominion Wars arc).
Serialization likewise makes it very difficult to keep all conflict from external sources because Discovery isn't telling a new destination-based adventure each week. When you create dramatic storylines among the crew that spans an entire season or more, there should be some real friction and not just have the crew sitting around cheerfully playing tri-dimensional chess whenever they're not under direct attack.
There's also the fact the last Trek series (Star Trek: Enterprise) went off the air 12 years ago and the TV drama storytelling has evolved to be more realistic since then -- and so has sci-fi.
A former Trek writer, Ron Moore (who, like Piller, was outspoken about Trek's limitations), conceived of his acclaimed 2004 Battlestar Galactica reboot as a way of telling the types of morally murky stories that Deep Space Nine and Voyager wouldn't allow.
Moore, Piller and Discovery's Fuller all worked on late 1990s Trek shows, collectively trying to push the format's creative envelope in bold new ways. Mind you, Discovery isn't nearly as dark as BSG -- it's very much Star Trek and Starfleet officers have still evolved in all respects from where we are now.
As always, they're admirable people you wish you knew in real life. But the show will also depict a wider and more realistic bandwidth of human (and alien) drama.
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bulldogtrekker Space Sector Admiral
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Posted: Sat Sep 16, 2017 9:27 pm Post subject: |
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CBS Won't Allow Any Reviews of Star Trek: Discovery Before It Airs
by Katharine Trendacosta, I09
Welcome, friends, to the story that never ends: it's Star Trek: Discovery and the flaming nightmare pile that has been every bit of PR for this show. It could be great, it could be bad, it has been impossible to tell. And it will remain impossible to tell, since CBS has reportedly made it a condition of seeing the show early that no reviews be released until Discovery airs.
The Ain't It Cool News reviewer who goes by Hercules shared this information via Twitter yesterday:
Quote: | EMBARGO!! CBS is prohibiting publication of reviews of #StarTrekDiscovery prior to airing. |
And that is usually a bad sign......
Link for full story:
http://io9.gizmodo.com/cbs-wont-allow-any-reviews-of-star-trek-discovery-befo-1809073782 |
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Bud Brewster Galactic Fleet Admiral (site admin)
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Posted: Mon Sep 18, 2017 4:16 pm Post subject: |
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I must admit, the U.S.S. Shenzou makes a helluva entrance in this short Youtube clip!
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_________________ The U.S.S. Shenzou Arrives
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