The planned Star Trek TV series which will be hitting our screens in a ten parts in 2017 is set to have a female lead, so reports Deadline. The show will be entitled Star Trek Discovery and is being developed by Bryan Fuller (Hannibal) and Alex Kurtzman (upcoming The Mummy).
It was revealed at the CBS All Access panel at TCA that the new character will likely not be white. Fuller also confirmed that the lead in Star Trek Discovery will be woman and that she IS NOT a captain, but “a lieutenant commander with caveats,” so says the trade blog.
The 2017 series will be set 10 years before the voyages of Captain Kirk, and will bridge the gap between that series and ‘Enterprise.’
Deadline also went on to say that the opening scene isn’t set on a planet or Earth; and there will be robots and a lot of aliens. We’ll find out just what that means when the show airs in January.
More as it comes in.
