Star Trek: Discovery is gearing up to return to screens in North America on Thursday this week (October 15, 2020). International fans will get to see the first episode of season 3 the following day via Netflix but today we’ve got a new teaser to share with you.
Watch the teaser in the player below:
www.facebook.com/watch/?v=853478175393628The cast of Discovery also appeared at the virtual New York Comic Con over the weekend to tease what’s coming in this latest batch of episodes.
Co-showrunner Michelle Paradise spoke to why the writers chose the new time period in which the USS Discovery finds itself in season 3, “That takes us beyond canon. It takes us far beyond. There are some stories in [Star Trek:] Enterprise where there is some time travel-y stuff, and this takes us beyond. So it really is some fresh snow.”
“In season three we take our heroes to a place beyond canon, but at the same time it is Star Trek and it has an incredible rich history of canon.” she continued. “So while we are going past it, we also have to honor everything that came before. It is not as if they can go beyond it and everything is just wiped away. There is so much of the history and we are exploring in our new present day. It’s just that things are not exactly as we expect them to be.”
Executive producer Alex Kurtzman discussed how the technology of the future will still feel routed in the history of the franchise.
“We always want to come up with the coolest ideas and we usually try to come at them from a place of how does this play a part in our story. So usually the technology comes from a need that the story is telling us it wants to deliver. The temptation is you can do anything. The temptation is you can just say that anything is possible and the laws of physics don’t apply anymore. While the crew definitely go into a world where there’s a tremendous amount of technology that they’ve never seen before, it was also equally important for us to have it feel grounded. So some of the technology they find is actually the evolved versions of technologies they’re already familiar with. That keeps it grounded in the language of Star Trek.”
You can watch the full panel in the player below:
Star Trek: Discovery is produced by CBS Television Studios in association with Alex Kurtzman’s Secret Hideout, Bryan Fuller’s Living Dead Guy Productions and Roddenberry Entertainment. Alex Kurtzman, Bryan Fuller, Heather Kadin, Gretchen J. Berg & Aaron Harberts, Akiva Goldsman, Rod Roddenberry and Trevor Roth serve as executive producers.
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