New 'Star Trek' series to air on CBS All Access in 2017

Looking forward to this.   

Remakes are generally not up to speed with the origional
sometimes they are
we'll see.

Out of all the Star Trek series that ran on TV only two actually made it, ST-TOS and ST-TNG. The rest...meh (with the possible exception of Voyager). Just don't tell JJ Adams. He'll want to twist it into something it wasn't meant to be. As for a new series, that remains to be seen. Thanks Doc and Hankers.

Sounds like this is NOT the one that Walter Koenig and Tim Russ were trying to pull together?

Live long and prosper

Not sure what to expect here...

Abrams/Kurtzman/Orci did the epic Fringe, but then their last Trek movie was just ass.  They're either severely hit or miss, or they just can't do reboots without torturing us with terrible reworkings of the old classics.  They also have a super ship fetish, and the series will get real old, real fast, if they're blowing up hugely powerful aliens every week.

i know awhile back they were talking about bringing it back..but like 200 yrs from TNG or something like that..and the federation is weak..not much influence..and if i remember.. like in a state of chaos don't remember if it was from civil war or an actual war that ended..something like that catches my eye..because the federation has always been a galaxy power..with a lot of pull.. seeing it in a different state would be welcoming.

The future is now

In my book the time is set five hundred years after ST-TNG and the Federation is as corrupt as can be. Earth and her allies have seceded from the Federation and formed the Terran Alliances, none of which have any love for the Feds. So rapha320's comment wouldn't surprise me at all.

I hope they bring Anna Torv for this in some capacity...she alone was worth reason to watch the Fringe

Anyway, looking forward to this, but i hope its better than recent movies.

As the Trek universe has been changed, so has the timeline. All the TV series' haven't happened yet in this timeline.

Temporal mechanics

They can do it all again...

Remember the IDIC......Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations

Just an update...this WON'T be free tv. 

http://www.engadget.com/2015/11/03/im-not-paying-cbs-to-watch-star-trek-online/

Using Star Trek to make money......who'da thunk it.

Seriously? It won't air on cable? That sucks...

Meh, CBS is dreaming, I wouldn't expect it to stay like that.  Anyone that thinks they can grab subscribers this easily is deluding themselves, they'll lose their shirts on it.

Well, plenty of people are cutting the cable and content providers are competing on the market place. 

Since it's estimated (one piece I read quoting Netflix, I believe) 37% of young viewers have done so, there's a reason the content providers are doing so...especially with the ST movies being produced...

Whether it'll pan out? Couldn't begin to guess, but it would certainly belie the claim that cutting the cable "saves" money...

CBS is broadcast, they're deluding themselves if they think they can get a decent market share off 5 bucks for just their content.  97% of the country is in broadcast range of a great signal.

psychoak...they won't be putting it on their regular t.v. channel. This is:

So when all the other stations follow suit we'll have umpteen mini cables, each with its own price tag.

I'm aware Doc, would you pay 6 bucks a month to watch a TV show that should have been on broadcast?  Their value is crap compared to their competitors, it's not even ad free.  They probably have dick for subscribers, and are attempting to pimp the service with some exclusives.  It's going to fail horribly, there's no way they're going to get the millions of subscribers they'd need to make this farce work.  A single national commercial spot on a moderately successful show is a couple hundred grand.

20 plus episodes a year, with several minutes of national commercials each, how many $6 subscriptions is that going to need to be offset?  The average cost of a TV show is a few million an episode, a good Trek show isn't going to be anywhere near that cheap if it's worth watching to start with.  The math just doesn't work out for this plan with anything less than garnering several million subscribers just for this show.  Maybe I'm just behind the times, but I see that happening some time after pigs fly through hell on a really cold day.

It will be another journey of exploration.  My fav (and I have seen all the various imaginations of the Star Trek Universe) is actually the lower budget "Enterprise" -sometimes refereed to as 'Archer.'  I wish the network would release the new series to netflix, as that the only TV I watch - except for NBC on the web.  ABC and CBS both block web access unless you can document being a subscriber to one of those cable sharks.  I'm not.  In any case, may the new show live long an prosper.

psychoak...I think the number of subscribers will depend on age and mobility...unless it'll work via dongle/smart tv as well. Also, they'll sell "packages" too...so the price won't be (necessarily) $6.episode. Should be interesting.

R' Elana, if you take a look at the article link in #14, it might answer your question quite well...at least according to the writer who really hasn't seen anything yet as it just on paper.

I doubt it'll be like TOS...simply because this isn't the '60s with the social issues we had then...but, I could be wrong.

Thanks Doc for highlighting the link.     Based on what seems to be planned for NBC's streaming service (commercials remain) - and how few shows I watch on NBC (currently zero) - I won't be subscribing. Back to trek - I agree that it is unlikely that the social issues addressed in the earlier incarnations of the trek franchise will be highlighted.  Many of the social concerns of the 60's were explored and the show could be quite preachy about it.  Remember when Kirk kissed Uhura?  Interracial kissing - was a first on network TV is U$A.  ... Perhaps the new show will take us somewhere none of us have been before?  Probably not?

Hum, what a pisser.