With the release date only four months away, it was beginning to seem a bit strange that we’ve still seen nothing more of Star Trek: Discovery than a hastily produced FX shot of the titular ship, USS Discovery NCC-1031. No casting. No set pics. No leaked plotlines. Well, it all makes a little more sense now that the Star Trek: Discovery premiere date has been delayed until May of 2017.
CBS Television Studios announced on Thursday that the Star Trek: Discovery (DSC) release date would be delayed at the request of the production team. Showrunner Bryan Fuller and his co-executive producer Alex Kurtzman offered this explanation:
“Bringing Star Trek back to television carries a responsibility and mission: to connect fans and newcomers alike to the series that has fed our imaginations since childhood,” said executive producers Alex Kurtzman and Bryan Fuller.
“We aim to dream big and deliver, and that means making sure the demands of physical and post-production for a show that takes place entirely in space, and the need to meet an air date, don’t result in compromised quality.
Before heading into production, we evaluated these realities with our partners at CBS and they agreed: Star Trek deserves the very best, and these extra few months will help us achieve a vision we can all be proud of.”
CBS TV’s president, David Stapf, voiced his continued support for the new Star Trek, saying, “The series template and episodic scripts that Alex and Bryan have delivered are incredibly vivid and compelling… they are building a new, very ambitious Star Trek world for television, and everyone involved supports their vision for the best timing to bring to life what we all love on the page.”
While it’s disappointing that we won’t be getting new episodes of Star Trek at the top of the new year, it’s good to see CBS TV Studios won’t be rushing Star Trek: Discovery, providing Bryan Fuller and his cast and crew all the room they need to make DSC far more than a cash-grab for upstart streaming platform CBS All Access.
