[Bender2]

I was a Junior in college when "Star Trek" started and already a Sci-Fi fan for better than 10 years.

Really enjoyed "The Original Series" and still like to go back and watch favorites. I came to enjoy "The Next Generation" after they go it together past that terrible first season. "Deep Space" had a darker tone and I enjoyed it also. "Voyager" gave us a female Captain that had bigger gonads than even Kirk's and then they added Seven of Nine whose impressive pair was above the waist.

The "Enterprise" almost drove me away when Captain Jonathan Archer was a big, big fan of water polo!

And the films started off badly with The Motion Picture that was as flat as could be but came roaring back with Khan only to peter out by 1991's Number VI The Undiscovered Country. "The Next Generation" came back to finally kill Kirk off in 1994's Generations, hitting a homerun with 1996's kick-ass First Contact, a decent one in 1998's Insurrection and ending on 2002's Nemesis which I did not see so bad as to keel the series.

So, now we have "Discovery" that takes place10 years before Kirk, Spock and Bones but the trailer shows a Starfleet was more modern looking than it shoud be, especially the uniforms. I must say I found the trailer of Seth MacFarlane's upcoming new science fiction TV series "The Orville" having a more 'Star Trek' look than "Discovery."

Therefore, while I will turn in to the newest Star Trek series, I am not... getting my hopes up as the present PC media culture will likely make me throw up a little in my mouth watching it--

[Rebelbase]

"The "Enterprise" almost drove me away when Captain Jonathan Archer was a big, big fan of water polo! "

Past visionaries once envisioned it as the sport of the future.

[Malone LaVeigh]

This is going to be on CBS All Access. IOW, you’re going to have to pay to watch it. $5.99 per month for limited commercials, $9.99 per month commercial free. No thanks.

[VermiciousKnid]

Another girl captain (yawn) AND a gay first officer? Ugh. To borrow a phrase from a different franchise...I’ve got a BAD feeling about this.

Regards,

[TexasRepublic]

Westerns set in space are a genre that has been beat to death. Political Correctness will kill this series in its crib. It’s dead, Jim!

[Snickering Hound]

"You know what would set this show apart? A 4th redesign of the Klingons!"

----CBS Executives.

[Brooklyn Attitude]

IDK why peope are surprized by a female and a gay in the new series as ST has always been PC. The only reason there was a black commander in DS9 was because it was “the blacks turn”. In Voyager it was the women’s turn to be Captain. They tried to get their base audience back with Enterprise, but that failed. Now with Disco it’s time to push Gays in Space and my bet there will be as few straight white males as possible. Those that appear will be betas at best.

[Freedom_Is_Not_Free]

So, is this the 40th or 50th Star Trek TV series since the original. Or are we over 100 by now?

How unoriginal. The morons who run TV can’t even come up with an original Science Fiction show that stands on its own so they copy Star Trek over and over dozens of time.

A pox on the lost of them. TV is 95% crap today.

[<1/1,000,000th%]

Star Trek was Roddenberry’s socialist utopian future. People risked their lives in space and didn’t even get paid! Apparently they were engineered to want to do this.

But Roddenberry wasn’t consistent and the later shows kept drifting around. Must have been the dementia kicking in.

[x]

Photo reminds me of being back in grade school and being shown a picture and having to make up a story for it.

I'm guessing the subtext is something to do with erectile dysfunction.

Why the other six people ... er, beings ... are in the photo I couldn't say.

[morphing libertarian]

Nice synopsis. I a a fan of all of the above and the new movie series. I think the movies we are seeing now capture the essence of the original cast.