'Star Trek: Discovery': Decoding the 1st Trailer of Trek's New Chapter

Space.com ^ | May 19, 2017 01:54pm ET | Elizabeth Howell

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'Star Trek: Discovery': Decoding the 1st Trailer of Trek's New Chapter

The first full trailer for "Star Trek: Discovery" hints at a complicated past for one of its main characters, while bringing in famous alien species such as the Vulcans and the Klingons.


"Discovery" is set about 10 years before the original "Star Trek" series that featured Capt. James T. Kirk, Science Officer Spock and other memorable characters.


As such, the trailer focuses heavily on Spock's father, Sarek (played by James Frain). You can see more series here from our sister site Newsarama. But let's take a close look at our first glimpse of Trek's new chapter to see what's in store fans in the final frontier. -SNIP-

[Telepathic Intruder]

Seven of Nine (Tertiary Adjunct of Unimatrix Zero One) was the only reason I watched the Voyager series. And when Jadzia died (Terri Farrell quit for that stupid Becker show) I stopped watching DS9. I’m only in this for the space babes.

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

Just when things are going good, Psi Corps shows up.

[PLMerite]

“...this Star Trek show has a GAY SCIENCE OFFICER.”

So what does an Officer of Gay Science do on a Starship?

[exPBRrat]

meh...no excitement from this former ST fan. That franchise has become a PC re-education exercise.

[Vaquero]

STTOS was great for it’s time. There was nothing else out there. Out of 3 years there was maybe 22 excellent episodes with a bunch of Space Hippies Space Nazis and Spock’s Brain making by up the rest. E. Pleb Neesto.

I looked forward to Next Generation. And watched every episode ..... but the PC crap was ripe and DS9 and Voyager were worse(7 of 9 made Voyager somewhat palatable ).
No.. I found Enterprise to be the best series since TOS. water polo aside. In 4 years it had around 30 excellent episodes. No Prime Directive = less PC crap. Though Archer eventually succumbed to the dark side.

As far as movies. TOS it goes 2,4,6,3,1,5 (sorry Bill). TNG best was 8. After that? Meh. The reboot movies? I liked them all. Just not enough techno-babble based on real science (red matter is not even attempting to do science ). Kind of just action.....but good action. ( Like Armageddon...just put your brain on hold and enjoy it, then hit a few golf balls at Greenpeace ).

I would pay good money to see a Movie based on Enterprise. Without (SPOILER ALERT) Trips untimely demise. Hell. Bring back Bobby Baccalà from season 4 as a crewman somehow. Aaaaa fugetaboutit. Perhaps replace Bacula with Chris Pratt as the captain and make Archer a chair bound admiral who breeds prize transportable beagles.

That’s it for now

[Erik Latranyi]

Jeri Ryan is tied into FReeper history as she was married to Republican Congressman Jack Ryan.

After getting a divorce, Jack Ryan ran for an open Senate seat in the Illinois State Senate in 2004.

His opponent was an unknown named Barack H Obama.

Ryan was polling strong until someone unsealed his divorce records illegally. Jeri Ryan claimed in her complaint that Jack forced her to go to sex clubs, etc.

This sank Jack Ryan’s campaign and Barack Obama went on to be elected one of the youngest Illinois State Senators in history.

This was the first of many illegal “unmaskings” that resulted in Obama’s political opponents being destroyed.

[Telepathic Intruder]

Interesting. There are so many shady things surrounding Obama and the Clintons that liberals don’t even want to acknowledge. There is truly no justice in the world if it’s politically incorrect to even question their actions. The only justice they’re likely to get is on Judgement Day.

[ealgeone]

I never could figure out what drove her hubby to want to take her to sex clubs. The dude must have had some serious porn issues or she was just cold. Something there wasn’t happening in the bedroom.

[sauropod]

I’ve seen a trailer for the new film.

Seems Star Trek has fallen victim to the same disease as Star Wars. Protagonists have to be female.

[Vaquero]

Ryan was polling strong until someone unsealed his divorce records illegally. Jeri Ryan claimed in her complaint that Jack forced her to go to sex clubs, etc.

Forcing the wife to go to sex clubs would have been a lock for a dhimmicrat candidate. Only republicans are held to a higher standard.

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

Whatever the reason unsealing those divorce records helped give us Obama.

[ealgeone]

True. It’s how dims play.

[Berosus]

I liked “Enterprise” too. In particular I liked how the Andorians were played as anti-heroes; they were good guys, but most of the time they didn’t act like it.

That being said, I was also disappointed that they wasted chances to show some potentially great stories.

For a start, the series was set in the time of the Romulan War, but they never showed that. Instead, they tried to retell the story of 21st-century terrorism by introducing the Xindi, and tied up the whole third season in a plotline you could only follow if you saw every episode.

Travis is called a “Boomer,” because he spent his whole life in space, and we learn his family owns a merchant ship called the Horizon. In “A Piece of the Action,” one of the funniest shows from the original series, we learn that a ship named the Horizon visited the Iotian planet a hundred years before the Enterprise, and it left behind a book about Chicago in the 1920s that became the planet’s Bible. What if that Horizon was the same ship as Travis’ Horizon? Culture shock was never so much fun!

And I agree; I didn’t get the way the series ended. I preferred the third season episode (”E20”?) where we met Lorian, the son of Trip and T’Pol. That episode also had a Philippine actress play Archer’s great-granddaughter, so even my wife’s people were represented. How did the scriptwriters of “These Are the Voyages” explain “E20,” as an alternate timeline that didn’t really happen?

[Daniel Ramsey]

I guess then the mini skirts didn’t come into fashion yet?
And i suppose there must be a strong Chinese are superior tone as well?

[vladimir998]

I saw this trailer a couple of days ago. Visually it looks great (although I think they went overboard on the Klingons’ new look).

I’m just so, so, so tired of the “Girl Power” crappola. In the new Star Wars movies - both VII and Rogue One - the main star HAD to be a woman. Now in this new Star Trek the two most prominent characters (at least in initial episodes I guess) have to be a Chinese woman (Michelle Yeoh, Malaysian Chinese if I recall correctly) and Sonequa Martin-Green (who is black). I like both actresses, but I’m so tired of the “Girl Power” nonsense.

[Magnatron]

"I guess then the mini skirts didn’t come into fashion yet?"

No, but judging by one quick shot in the trailer, hot butt pants definitely were...

[Dalberg-Acton]

“So what does an Officer of Gay Science do on a Starship?”

Fellatio?

[COBOL2Java]

The new series has a gay science officer and Paramount/CBS has gone out of their way to hammer it into our heads that this Star Trek show has a GAY SCIENCE OFFICER.

[Magnatron]

"Not watching it. Star Trek is dead. The 23rd century has become more of a communist reeducation camp than boldly going where no person of indeterminate gender has gone before."

Well, to be fair, it always was. Gene Roddenbery was as lefty as could be, and actually envisioned a much more commie/lib version of Star Trek before CBS made him tone it down.

[Erik Latranyi]

I never could figure out what drove her hubby to want to take her to sex clubs. The dude must have had some serious porn issues or she was just cold. Something there wasn’t happening in the bedroom.

It was an allegation in a divorce case. It may not even be true. Both sides in a divorce say all sorts of things that get recorded, but do not amount to much.

I think we should not ASSume anything about this.