Since Comic-Con back in July, people have been speculating about the new Star Trek television series planned for 2017. Much of the talk swirling around the convention was based on rumor. As it turns out, some of those rumors were more accurate than others. But Trekkies were delighted for any morsel of information they could get about the new cast, new crew, and, gasp! new ship, whether it was true or not.

Now we're able to piece together a better picture of the new series. Though CBS will not confirm a Thing, preferring, I think, to preserve the mystery, they have released two teaser trailers. However, others involved with the show have revealed some pretty juicy tidbits for us to piece together, including the tweet from producer Bryan Fuller at left.

Besides that somewhat cryptic tweet, here are 7 other Things we've heard (from reasonably reliable sources) so far:

• Star Trek: Discovery will premiere on CBS in May, 2017 and be released to their streaming service All Access soon after.
• The main character won't be the captain. Instead, the protagonist, Number One, is a female Lieutenant Commander. (We don't know her on- or off-screen name yet.)
• The series takes place ten years before Kirk & Spock and will "bridge the gap" between Star Trek: Enterprise and The Original Series (around the year 2255).
• The Enterprise is in service at the same time as the Discovery, most likely under the command of Captain Christopher Pike with Mr. Spock as Second Officer.
• There will be a comic book and a book released in conjunction with the series.
• The show will feature a gay regular character, robots (not androids), and a LOT more aliens than previous series.
• The first season will run for 13 episodes and tell a complete story, much like chapters of a novel, but each episode will also stand alone.

Now here's the interesting Thing: the Romulan war ended (roughly) 95 years before Discovery launches, so now everyone is wondering: where will this story arc go? I surely don't know. On that topic, no one is talking. But I'm betting it will be where none has gone before.

See you next week,
Bobby