Star Trek: Discovery - new series in 2017

[Cli-Fi]

'Star Trek: Discovery' Storyline Revealed

IF they haven't filmed anything yet, it's going to be difficult to show anything on the small screen come to end of the September.

They are going to show eight episodes first and then take a break to finish up the remaining eight episodes. I agree it's going to be pretty tight.

 

[ctg]

?????? When the Klingons became completely black? I thought their physiology was well established in the NG/Voyager/DS-9/Enterprise.

We now have an answer to that, straight from one of the showrunners. Harberts said this to EW, about the Klingons' look in the show:

"In the different versions of Trek, the Klingons have never been completely consistent [...] We will introduce several different houses with different styles. Hopefully, fans will become more invested in the characters than worried about the redesign."

Essentially, then, it sounds like they aren't worried about disturbing the canon, because they don't think it was consistent in the first place.

The idea of multiple Klingon styles appearing in the show is intriguing. It'll be fun to see how that plays out.

Star Trek: Discovery - showrunner on Klingon continuity

 

[Parson]

?????? When the Klingons became completely black? I thought their physiology was well established in the NG/Voyager/DS-9/Enterprise.

Star Trek: Discovery - showrunner on Klingon continuity

Sigh! Why do I suddenly think "Power Rangers?"

More positively they could be Atevi from C. J. Cheeryh Foreigner universe.

 

[Brian G Turner]

Essentially, then, it sounds like they aren't worried about disturbing the canon, because they don't think it was consistent in the first place.

Which is pretty true, really.

 

[Vladd67]

Reminds me of one of the races in the void in Enterprise.

 

[Ursa major]

It's not really my place to say, obviously, but doesn't that new variety of Klingon look as if it's dicing with stereotypes?


And besides, it's almost as if they don't know who Michael Dorn is....

 

[Dave]

Well, Gene Roddenberry called them Northern and Southern Klingons. So, therefore, these must be the Eastern and Western Klingons. I expect that they all fought amongst themselves until only one race survived.

Fashion-wise, he looks like he was heavily influenced by Spiderman as a teenager.

 

[Ursa major]

he looks like he was heavily influenced by Spiderman as a teenager.

Or, perhaps, his special way with walls and ceilings means that the species was named after this ability....

 

[Cathbad]

it's almost as if they don't know who Michael Dorn is....

Michael who?

 

[Ursa major]

It a-piers that you may be harbouring a certain ignorance regarding a quay Star Trek character.

 

[Cathbad]

I don't recall any Dorns. There was Crusher, Troi, Worf, Data, and so many more... but no Dorns!

 

[Ursa major]

It'll dorn on you eventually.

 

[ctg]

Fashion-wise, he looks like he was heavily influenced by Spiderman as a teenager.

I was think drows (dark elves) from TSR forgotten realms series.

 

[SilentRoamer]

Looks like the Scarrans to me.

 

[psikeyhackr]

It'll dorn on you eventually.

Hopefully you will survive the experience. Hell hath no fury like a Klingon dorned.

 

[Cathbad]

To me, they just look like hairless Klingons.

 

[Dave]

Proper Klingons don't shave!

 

[Cathbad]

Trends change...

 

[ctg]

http://io9.gizmodo.com/these-discovery-props-reveal-a-ton-about-star-treks-new-1797102750

 

[Cli-Fi]

Full Official Trailer. Looks more generic sci-fi than Trek, but we'll see