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Star Trek Discovery

And no doubt they'll be of the bumpy-headed variety, not the smooth-headed ENT<--->TOS variety. Because Star Track iz 4 nurds, we R here 2 make spaceship aliens pewpewpew whizbang N U luv it
 
Anyway, it seems a shame to refuck the TOS Klingons after Manny Coto brilliantly un-fucked them. IMO, if this creative team doesn't want to make a Star Trek series, they should rip the marquee off and do their own thing entirely. The franchise they're using to beg for ratings has some rules, and the era they've chosen has a layer more than just the franchise in general. If they're not talented enough or confident enough to work within those rules, they should go do something else.

You wouldn't sell Game Of Thrones fans a Game Of Thrones movie with robots in it. Conversely, the reason Westworld works so brilliantly in its updated form is that it updates the rules of the 1973 film without breaking them.
 
Nah their beards were more slick/beatnik like Fosse, rather than bushy like Ross.

Or more accurately, like Roy Scheider PORTRAYING Bob Fosse in All That Jazz:

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None. This is going to be yet another Star Trek property that's sold as a prequel but with which the executive team never had any intention of delivering the prequel they're selling. It's going to be just one more cynical bid to get Trekkies' asses in front of a screen, then give them a huge neon middle finger.

But I can promise you one thing: This will be The Very Last time they get to pull that stunt. After this, Trek will finally be dead and buried for good. Word to the wise, though, if somebody sees this on whatever version of the internet's "Way-Back Machine" archive site exists 20 or 30 years from now: If you're going to use a nostalgia nameplate to chicken out of taking the chance that your own creative vision will draw an audience? Don't fuck over the audience you're banking on by getting their mouths watering for one thing, then delivering something else. We call that a "bait and switch." Audiences don't like it, and it doesn't work.
 
The "lead" character of the show isn't the ship's captain...

Star Trek: Discovery casts Walking Dead actress as star — EXCLUSIVE
Sonequa Martin-Green to lead 'Discovery' cast on CBS All Access


by James Hibberd • @JamesHibberd
Posted December 14 2016 — 5:59 PM EST

Huge news, Star Trek fans: The first new Trek series in a decade has found its star.

Sonequa Martin-Green, well known to genre fans for her role on AMC’s mega-hit The Walking Dead, has been cast as the lead of Star Trek: Discovery, sources tell EW.

The casting ends meticulous search to find the ideal actress to anchor the eagerly anticipated new CBS All Access drama. Martin-Green will play a lieutenant commander on the Discovery. (CBS Television Studios had no comment.)

Martin-Green will continue to serve as a series regular on AMC’s zombie drama, where she has played the tough pragmatic survivor Sasha Williams since season 3.

The casting brings the 31-year-old Martin-Green back to the CBS family. She previously played Courtney Wells on The Good Wife (which is getting a spin-off series, titled The Good Fight, on All Access that debuts in February). She also starred as Tamara on ABC’s Once Upon a Time. Martin-Green’s husband, Kenric Green, is also an actor on TWD.

Martin-Green represents the first African-American woman to lead the cast of a Trek ensemble, fulfilling a years-long goal by the project’s original showrunner Bryan Fuller. The series will also have the TV franchise’s first openly gay character, a lieutenant played by Anthony Rapp.

“Star Trek started with a wonderful expression of diversity in its cast … we’re continuing that tradition,” Fuller noted to reporters in August. “We wanted to paint a picture of Starlet that’s indicative of encountering people who are much more different than we are.” While Fuller stepped down from his duties to focus on his upcoming series on Starz, American Gods, Discovery’s new showrunners Gretchen J. Berg and Aaron Harberts are moving forward with his original vision.

Another evolution from Trek tradition: Unlike the previous series in the franchise, the main protagonist of Discovery won’t be a captain (at least, not initially). Fuller described Martin-Green’s character as a “lieutenant commander with caveats.”

“We’ve seen six series from the captain’s point of view,” he explained. “To see a character from a [new] perspective on the starship — one who has different dynamic relationships with a captain, with subordinates, it gave us richer context.”

The casting of Martin-Green fills the most crucial role in the series, which CBS will premiere in May on its All Access streaming service. Discovery has made a flurry of other castings in recent few weeks too. Michelle Yeoh will play Captain Georgiou, the Starfleet Captain aboard the Starship Shenzhou; Doug Jones (Hellboy, Falling Skies) will play Lt. Saru, a Starfleet Science Officer and a new alien species in the Star Trek universe; and Rapp (Rent, Road Trip) was cast as Lt. Stamets, an “astromycologist,” fungus expert, and Starfleet Science Officer aboard the Starship Discovery.

The show also cast three actors as Klingons: Chris Obi (Roots) as T’Kuvma, a leader seeking to unite the Klingon houses; Shazad Latif (Penny Dreadful), who will play Kol, a Klingon Commanding Officer, and protege of T’Kuvma; and the newcomer Mary Chieffo as L’Rell, the Battle Deck Commander of a Klingon ship.

Trek is executive-produced by Fuller, Berg and Harberts along with Alex Kurtzman, Heather Kadin, Akiva Goldsman, Rod Roddenberry and Trevor Roth.
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We've known that the main character is the first officer for quite a while.

I guess Sasha will be dying in The Walking Dead soon then.
 
Maybe not. Its possible the two shows filming schedules allow her characters to live on both shows.
 
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