# New Star Trek has a title: Star Trek Discovery. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 23, 2016, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-star-trek-has-a-title-star-trek-discovery/760717 "2016-07-23T22:55:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2017, 10:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-star-trek-has-a-title-star-trek-discovery/760717/61 "2017-03-08T10:44:08Z")
> [@Dale\_Sams](#): > > Some cameos others may not have thought of: > > Bakula could show up aged. Guinan could. Zachary Quinto could without anyone raising an eyebrow. Bruce Greenwood could as Pike. Chris Pine…coulllld pull it off but not as easily as Greenwood or Quinto. > > Edit: Is this ten years before Kirk or ten years before the Enterprise launches?? That’s a big question cause ten years before Kirk the Enterprise is already around so Discovery should actually outclass her if she’s supposed to be leading edge tech. Or maybe not…maybe she’s just newer. This show takes place ten years before TOS. Bakula would be long-dead, but elderly T’Pol could show up, as could Guinan or an early Dax. ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2017, 12:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-star-trek-has-a-title-star-trek-discovery/760717/62 "2017-03-08T12:00:49Z")
I’m truly Hating the design of that ship. Its literally worse than putting the tail-fins of a 1959 Chevy Impala on the back of 911 Porsche. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Dale\_Sams](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/779978/32.png) [@Dale\_Sams](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dale_Sams)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2017, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-star-trek-has-a-title-star-trek-discovery/760717/63 "2017-03-08T13:32:14Z")
> [@friedo](#): > > This show takes place ten years before TOS. Bakula would be long-dead, but elderly T’Pol could show up, as could Guinan or an early Dax. NuTrek refers to Archer and its timeline is probably a tad bit later then what we will see in Discovery. Or around the same time actually. edit: Heh. Maybe we’ll find out that Number One is Lwaxana Troi. ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2017, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-star-trek-has-a-title-star-trek-discovery/760717/64 "2017-03-08T15:05:09Z")
Well, we don’t know for sure that Admiral Archer is Jonathan…but it’s not impossible. He’d be an old man, but not outside the same range as Bones when he appeared on TNG. (And looking at the dates on MA…yeah, Discovery would be at about the same time period as the main action of the movie, albeit in a different timeline (or altogether different universe, as I believe it to be).) ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2017, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-star-trek-has-a-title-star-trek-discovery/760717/65 "2017-03-08T16:36:34Z")
I’m just happy that Star Trek finally has another Jewish captain. ---
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2017, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-star-trek-has-a-title-star-trek-discovery/760717/66 "2017-03-31T19:23:13Z")
More casting news: Rain Wilson (Dwight from The Office) is cast as Harry Mudd. If Mudd is involved, that’s not a bad choice. ---
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2017, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-star-trek-has-a-title-star-trek-discovery/760717/67 "2017-05-17T22:16:27Z")
The [trailer](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dxe_ugmIVM&ab_channel=StarTrek) is up. ---
**Author:** ![Dale\_Sams](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/779978/32.png) [@Dale\_Sams](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dale_Sams)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2017, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-star-trek-has-a-title-star-trek-discovery/760717/68 "2017-05-18T00:31:26Z")
> [@Quimby](#): > > The [trailer](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dxe_ugmIVM&ab_channel=StarTrek) is up. All that fucking lens flare. The creators have forgot that The Kelvin Incident is what led to the Kelvin timeline Enterprise looking as advanced as it does. And we arn’t in the Kelvin Timeline. That said…I can fanwank it away by saying that if Discovery is new then its actually built after NCC-1701. I’ll watch it. Certainly looks better than any post-TOS pilot. And I haven’t seen any shoehorned in diversity for diversity’s sake. Or anything cringey…that is until we get a time travel ep with Colonel Green looking like Trump. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Tooth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c67d28/32.png) [@The\_Tooth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Tooth)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2017, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-star-trek-has-a-title-star-trek-discovery/760717/69 "2017-05-18T00:33:36Z")
That looks awful. It’s not a trailer, it’s a warning. ---
**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2017, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-star-trek-has-a-title-star-trek-discovery/760717/70 "2017-05-18T01:34:25Z")
I had pretty low expectations, but that trailer looked very good to me. The Klingons looked weird, but then the movie and TNG Klingons probably looked weird to TOS fans. Production values were way, way above what I expected. ---
**Author:** ![DSYoungEsq](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c6cbf5/32.png) [@DSYoungEsq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSYoungEsq)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2017, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-star-trek-has-a-title-star-trek-discovery/760717/71 "2017-05-18T01:50:56Z")
I hate to say it, but [The Orville](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yy9sKeCE8V0) looks better. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Aquadementia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aquadementia/32/555_2.png) [@Aquadementia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aquadementia)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2017, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-star-trek-has-a-title-star-trek-discovery/760717/72 "2017-05-18T02:11:37Z")
I thought Malfoy was going to be captain? And I still don’t know if this is part of the original universe or follows the recent movies. ---
**Author:** ![Dale\_Sams](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/779978/32.png) [@Dale\_Sams](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dale_Sams)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2017, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-star-trek-has-a-title-star-trek-discovery/760717/73 "2017-05-18T02:46:42Z")
> [@Aquadementia](#): > > I thought Malfoy was going to be captain? > > And I still don’t know if this is part of the original universe or follows the recent movies. OU ---
**Author:** ![brossa](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/brossa/32/3040_2.png) [@brossa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brossa)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2017, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-star-trek-has-a-title-star-trek-discovery/760717/74 "2017-05-18T03:06:23Z")
Oof, that writing… “You can’t set a course without a star” “It would be irresponsible to leave whatever that is unknown” “You will never learn Vulcan… your tongue is too human” “My people were biologically determined for one purpose alone” Ugh. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2017, 5:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-star-trek-has-a-title-star-trek-discovery/760717/75 "2017-05-18T05:48:11Z")
I will be watching The Orville. The trailer was very funny. Have they said when it premieres? ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2017, 10:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-star-trek-has-a-title-star-trek-discovery/760717/76 "2017-05-18T10:39:49Z")
Having seen that trailer, I am eagerly looking forward to playing _Mass Effect: Discovery_ when it debuts on PC. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2017, 10:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-star-trek-has-a-title-star-trek-discovery/760717/77 "2017-05-18T10:44:32Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > Have they said when it premieres? Yes, several times. But each time, it gets later. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2017, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-star-trek-has-a-title-star-trek-discovery/760717/78 "2017-05-18T12:32:55Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > Yes, several times. But each time, it gets later. You see! They’re already introducing time travel to cover up bad writing. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2017, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-star-trek-has-a-title-star-trek-discovery/760717/79 "2017-05-18T15:23:24Z")
Looks good! I’ve long thought Michelle Yeoh would be a great addition to ST. And I guess that’s a new Klingon subspecies (or they’re reenvisioning the entire race). Still not crazy about the design of the USS _Discovery_, though. ---
**Author:** ![Kinthalis](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kinthalis/32/16084_2.png) [@Kinthalis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kinthalis)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2017, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-star-trek-has-a-title-star-trek-discovery/760717/80 "2017-05-24T00:03:27Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Having seen that trailer, I am eagerly looking forward to playing _Mass Effect: Discovery_ when it debuts on PC. 😛 Good one. Yeah this definitely doesn’t look good enough to spend $10 a month to watch… at least not off of this trailer. I’ll watch the pilot, but like the new movies it seems whoever is responsible just never “got” Trek. And what the fuck is up with the Klingons? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-star-trek-has-a-title-star-trek-discovery/760717.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-star-trek-has-a-title-star-trek-discovery/760717.md?page=5)