The production for Star Trek: Discovery has been slow going to be sure and largely expected based on what’s involved with it after Bryan Fuller stepped back from the production and a new showrunner was brought in. Add in the time to do special effects right, most of it in a from-scratch kind of approach as well, and the already ambitious plans that we saw for an early 2017 release went out the window and were then planned for a May debut. Even that felt unrealistic recently considering the time it takes for special effects and that’s now been confirmed as CBS chief Leslie Moonves has revealed that the CBS All Access show is likely to be a late summer or early fall debut citing the amount of post-production work involved.
“There are millions and millions of Trekkies out there,” Moonves said. “We know for a fact that the other versions of ‘Star Trek’ — there were seven 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.’”
The cast includes Sonequa Martin-Green as Rainsford, Doug Jones as Saru, Anthony Rapp as Stamets, James Frain as Sarek, Terry Serpico as Anderson, Maulik Pancholy as Nambue, Sam Vartholomeos as Connor, Michelle Yeoh as Georgiou, Shazad Latif as Kol, Chris Obi as T’Kuvma and Mary Chieffo as L’Rell.
Alex Kurtzman will serve as executive producer for the new Star Trek TV series. Kurtzman and Heather Kadin will serve as executive producers.
