A Certain Point of View: Writing, Film and Stuff

© 2019 Paramount Home Media Distribution and CBS Studios On Tuesday, November 12, Paramount Home Media Distribution and CBS Studios released Star Trek: Discovery - Season Two on Blu-ray and DVD almost seven months after Bryan Fuller and Alex Kurtzman's series completed its second season on CBS All-Access, CBS Television's streaming service. Set approximately 10 years before the first season of Star Trek: The Original Series (TOS), Star Trek: Discovery chronicles the voyages of the USS Discovery, a Crossfield- class starship equipped with an experimental propulsion system that's faster than standard warp drives, during the last Klingon-Federation War and its immediate aftermath. Starring Sonequa Martin-Green, Doug Jones, Anthony Rapp, Mary Wiseman, Michelle Yeoh, Shazad Latif, Wilson Cruz, and Emily Coutts, Star Trek: Discovery expands the lore of Star Trek while paying homage to the existing canon. Although its high-tech 21st Century production design and its sh

Before I tell you how I feel about Patrick Stewart’s return to  Star Trek  in a CBS Access series about which little is known, let’s get our showbiz terminology straight. First, let’s stop referring to “reboots” in cases where it is not necessary. For instance,  Star Trek: Picard  (for lack of a better name) is  not  a reboot; it’s a sequel to, and a continuation of,  Star Trek: The Next Generation.  Based on what little information CBS (the owner of the  Star Trek  franchise’s television half; Paramount Pictures handles the features) has released, the new show starring Stewart in his TNG role is set 25 years after the events of  Star Trek: Nemesis. A “reboot” would be a totally different animal. It would involve a re-telling of  Star Trek: The Next Generation  with an all-new cast and would be presented as either a “hard” reboot (the 1987–2002 series and features  never  happened, thus allowing CBS to recast every role, including Picard’s), or a “soft” reboot, in which the eve

(C) 2018 CBS Studios/Paramount Home Media Distribution On November 13, Paramount Home Media Distribution released Star Trek: Discovery - Season One, a four-disc Blu-ray set of the newest television series in the Star Trek franchise. Created by Bryan Fuller and Alex Kurtzman for the streaming service CBS All Access, Star Trek: Discovery is the seventh television series set in the universe created by Gene Roddenberry in the mid-1960s and the first new show to premiere since the cancellation of Star Trek: Enterprise in 2005. Although it was co-created by Kurtzman, one of the writers of 2009's Star Trek feature film, Star Trek: Discovery is not set in the Kelvin timeline in which the current feature films are set. Rather, the new show's setting is the Prime timeline seen in all the other television series. Like Enterprise, Star Trek: Discovery is a prequel to Star Trek: The Original Series, but its tale takes place a decade before the five-year mission of Capt. James T. Kirk