Hey , did you hear there ’s a raw Star Trek show commence September 24 ? Anticipation is mighty high here at io9 — but for everyone who has n’t been catalog every bit of information that CBS has unwrap about Star Trek : Discovery on the long road to its entry , we ’ve gather this handy guide to get you up to stop number .
Timeline and setting
Discovery , the sixth resilient - natural process Star Trek serial , was initially declare as taking placein the meridian timeline , the same universeas the other television receiver shows and their related films — but not the recent J.J. Abrams calculate and/or bring out movies . Since it takes berth 10 years prior to the consequence of The Original Series , it ’s more relevant to that show than Enterprise , which took place a century prior . That also imply we ’ll be run into some retro - future tense takes on the classic show ’s signature tune tech flourish , includinga stochastic variable on the phaser(though the badges and the flip communicator calculate clean conversant ) . The Starfleet uniforms , however , are near in look to Enterprise ’s blue jumpsuits , rather than the classic colorful costumes of original Trek . ( For once , though , away teams will get body armour , an idea that clearly fell out of way by the meter Captain Kirk and company were boldly going beyond . ) As the form of address implies , most of the action will center on the USS Discovery , though it wo n’t start up there ; instead , it seems we ’ll first fulfill the main character when she ’s serving aboard the USS Shenzou .
Main characters
Lt. Commander Michael Burnham (Sonequa Martin-Green)
Discovery ’s supporter is unequaled in the Star Trek pantheon for a variety of intellect . One is that — unlike Kirk , Picard , Sisko , Janeway , and Archer — Burnham is not ( yet ) a sea captain . Another is that she wasraised on Vulcanafter her giving birth parents ( both human being ) werekilled by Klingons . Her adopted parent just befall to be Spock ’s parents , Sarek and Amanda Grayson , and her unusual nurture mean she’sthe first human to have hang both the Vulcan Learning Center and the Vulcan Science Academy . ( This is the first we ’ve ever get a line that Spock had a babe , thoughone of Discovery ’s producersinsists there will eventually be an explanation for that . ) Based onominous hintswe’ve seen in the trailers , an former episode will excuse the incident that causes then - First Officer Burnham to leave the Shenzou , where she ’s serve up under Captain Philippa Georgiou ( Michelle Yeoh ) , and end up on the Discovery , to be Number One under Captain Lorca ( Jason Isaacs ) .
Sarek (James Frain)
We learnedway back in Januarythat Spock ’s father was join the show — as a young interlingual rendition , quite patently , of the character we first met on The Original Series . But it was n’t until July ’s San Diego Comic - Con that his specific connection to Burnham became known . Inthe first Discovery house trailer , Sarek appears in a Vulcan flashback , as well as in hologram form to Burnham to counsel her about leadership . Sarek has a long history in Trek , first come out with a strained kinship with his half - human , Starfleet boy and finally dying on The Next multiplication , after sharing a number of intense scene with Picard .
Captain Philippa Georgiou (Michelle Yeoh)
As mention above , she ’s the top air force officer on the USS Shenzou . In the preview , we watch that Burnham and Georgiou have been working together for for a while , and Georgiou has become confident that it ’s sentence for her protégé to get her own command . That is , until something ( peradventure an exotic object ? ) makes something ( maybe very unfit ? ) find to Georgiou . We are n’t certain of her destiny yet , but you might not want to get abominably attached to this particular quality .
Captain Lorca (Jason Isaacs)
He ’s the police captain of the Discovery — buthe ’s not the virtuoso of the show , and that ’s not the only thing that makes Lorca different from previous Star Trek captains . According to Isaacs , the character is “ in all likelihood more know up ” than most Starfleet officers , which means he ’s been through some exceptionally dotty shucks during his time in space . That ’s a quality that could create an interesting moral force between Lorca and Burnham;in the 2d laggard , he seems unrelenting when speaking with her : “ You helped start up a warfare . Do n’t you want to facilitate me terminate it ? ”
Lt. Commander Saru (Doug Jones)
The foreign science police officer aboard the Discovery , Saru ’s the guy who delivers the trailer ’s most scary assembly line : “ My masses were biologically see for one purpose alone : to sense the coming of last . I sense it get now . ” He ’s a Kelpien , a race that ’s Modern to both Starfleet and the Star Trek serial publication overall ; their power to sense death germinate on a home planetwhere they were hunted as target . He stand almost seven foot grandiloquent on his hooved feet . At SDCC , it was mentioned that Saru and Burnham have a “ pal / sister human relationship ; ” Jones has also read that Saru is a quality equivalent tothe Spock or Dataof this serial . That ’s a telling verbal description , since Trek loves to have a type with an foreign point of survey and , specifically , one who can comment on human characteristic .
Lt. Stamets (Anthony Rapp)
He ’s another science policeman aboard Discovery , an astromycologist ( rendering : this clotheshorse knows a fortune aboutspace fungus ) . A far more exciting fact about Lt . Stamets is that he ’s Star Trek ’s first openly cheery quality ( on telecasting at least ; in the picture , Suluhas a male partner ) . As it pass , Discovery also has Star Trek ’s second openly gay television type as well , in the form of Lt . Stamets ’ partner : ship ’s doctor Dr. Hugh Culber ( played by Wilson Cruz ) .
Cadet Sylvia Tilly (Mary Wiseman)
She is an eager young Starfleet cadet assigned to Discovery , specializing in engineering and reportage to Lt . Stamets . After she becomes Burnham ’s roomie , they shape what Wiseman describe as “ an unlikely friendly relationship . ”
Harry Mudd (Rainn Wilson)
This fictional character — full name : Harcourt Fenton Mudd — is a con homo , contrabandist , and delightful tat who first appeared on The Original Series and has since become a cult favorite , largely thanks to Roger C. Carmel ’s over - the - top functioning . you could get a prompt glimpse of Wilson ’s take on Mudd as a younger mankind ( “ Are you unbalanced ? ” “ I ’m MUDD ! ” ) in the second Discovery drone .
T’Kuvma (Chris Obi)
He ’s a Klingon leaderseeking to link up the 24 enceinte Klingon mansion — no soft task , peculiarly since ( as the 2d lagger reminds us ) “ the Klingon Empire has been in disarray for generations . ” Klingons arethe elementary opposer on Discovery , but the show will portray them as estimable warriors with — as you could see on T’Kuvma here — somereally fantastic battle ensembles , not to mention new ship , at least one highly elaborate coffin , subtitles(when they ’re speak Klingon ) , anda biological reasonfor those distinctive frontal bone ridges .
Story and conflict
As mentioned above , Discovery will find the Federation at war with the Klingons . The show will scat 15 episodes and we know a teeny bit about the first four installments . sequence one is style “ The Vulcan Hello , ” and the description is about exactly what the two trailers have already revealed :
While police Federation space , the USS Shenzhou encounters an object of unknown origin , putting First Officer Michael Burnham to her greatest test yet .
Subsequent known episode titles include “ Battle at the Binary Stars , ” “ Context Is for Kings , ” and “ The Butcher ’s Knife Cares Not for the Lamb ’s Cry , ” though we do n’t have secret plan verbal description for those yet . Based on confidential information from showrunners Aaron Harberts and Gretchen Berg , however , the season will also focus on how the role work through their deviation together . base on what the showrunners have said , he war with the Klingons will be in some way a input on current political events , much like The Original Series think over then - present-day Cold War tension . And Burnham will have to cope with whatever happened on the Shenzou , growing into the sort of leader that Sarek further her to be . She may also find herselfcaught between Vulcan and human cultures , much like her adoptive brother Spock was .
And the rest
The Discovery is a science vessel , which specify it apart from the Enterprise , which , as the flagship , was tax with all sorts of things ; with Voyager , which was designed specifically for long - term exploration ; and Deep Space Nine , which was a space station . ( And also very dissimilar from the Defiant , Deep Space Nine ’s ship , which was design to fight . ) agree toMemory Alpha , science vessel are n’t meant to be out in place for prospicient period of sentence , so maybe Discovery will be docked more often than in the other shows .
The design of the Discovery itself can be distinguish , in the words of io9 ’s Katharine Trendacosta , as being “ sort of like Ralph McQuarrie’soriginal concept artfor a new Enterprise and the original show ’s ship had a babe . A sister about to go where no one has go before . ”
Composer Jeff Russo’sDiscovery motif songcalls back to Alexander Courage ’s iconic archetype , while also doing its own melodious affair .
There will be a Mirror Universe episode .
Aftersome initial misinterpretation , it ’s actually completely fine to say “ God”(as in “ For God ’s sake ! ” ) on the show .
There will be Tribbles .
Star Trek : Discovery premieres September 24 on CBS and CBS All Access . The rest period of the series runs through November on CBS All Access , before engage a hiatus until January 2018 . Each instalment will be follow by blab Trek , a resilient aftershow usable on CBS All Access .
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