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Here is the announcement:

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About 9 mins 15 secs into the clip if you dont want to watch it all. ;)

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http://www.startrek.com/article/etha...covery-s-spock

Ethan Peck has been cast as Spock -- the half-human, half-Vulcan Science Officer of the U.S.S. Enterprise, and foster brother of Michael Burnham -- in the upcoming second season of Star Trek: Discovery

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Well at least if they're not now doing the rebooted Star Trek 4, there won't be two Spocks ;)

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Very cool, he is Gregory Peck's grandson,

They have also promised a new look for the Klingons too. perhaps more in line with what they should actually look like.

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The current production team do seem committed to reversing some of the needless damage done to the established continuity by those originally tasked with reviving the franchise. They have a very difficult task but thankfully the trek universe has proven itself adaptable in the past.

With the Klingons, I’d put my money on a botched attempt to rectify the superhuman genetic treatment as the ‘in universe’ explanation for the over-Klingon Klingons in Discovery season 1.

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There was reference to Kahless, and how he created the first Bat'leth which was in a TNG episode.

'He took a lock of hair and flung it in the Volcano, to create the first Bat'leth.'

Apparently the fanatical Klingons we saw were inspired by that and got rid of their hair. Also there was mention that we only saw 6 of the 24 houses.

It is good though that the current show runners are trying to undo all the screw ups within canon/continuity and find ways of correcting them.

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well this is a let down. For some reason I had it in my head that there were 4 mini series each with 4 episodes in each telling a different story and I thought it made sense because it would work out at one series person month starting in October and take us up to Discovery season 2 in January. But no :nono:

http://www.startrek.com/article/shor...edule-revealed

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I always knew it was 4 episodes with it being one per month till the new series starts.

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Here was my post from July

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I didn't see that, whatever press release I read at the time made me think there were going to be 4 mini series of indeterminate episode length but probably 4 episodes each so you would have one series per month and one of them was Captain Picard's. So is he having a full series of his own now?

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Not sure what gave you those ideas.

Yes. Picard is a totally separate series and will be set roughly 20 years after Nemesis.

The plan in future is to always have some sort of Trek show on air or in production.

There were rumblings of a new animated show as well.

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Season 2 trailer

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looks good. I knew they were expanding their horizons but I didn't realise there were going as far as Pandora :)

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Season 2 looks so much better than the first one. I just hope it holds up from the trailer as much as I enjoyed the first one it didn't grap me as much from the other trek series

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There was a big change in Showrunner and production so they appear to have listened to the fans and undone some of the silly things that Simon Fuller brought in at the start of Season 1. However he was gone midway through season 1 and the latter half os the season does show a big difference from where it started.

but no with the bringing back of proper Klingons(albeit with a silly reason) and the apparent classic Klingon ships being reintroduced as well as tryig to cram in and fit it back to cannon in some ways, I appreciate their efforts but when you read some of their reasons and the excuses they are a bit lame.

For example, trying to tie back to Kahless and him cutting lock of hair and throwing it in a volcano to make the first Bat'lethm they have explained the no hair Klingons were because they were at war so shave all their hair and then grown it during war. but then they weren't at war in the start of the show so?.... but also the makeup is clearly different and facially the ridges and features are now more in line with the TNG Klingons.