CBS is going where no network has gone in a while and is producing a new Star Trek TV show led by Bryan Fuller. There’s also going where nobody has gone before when it comes to the Captain Kirk of the show.
The Hollywood Reporter recently reported that CBS’ Star Trek: Discovery will be casting a woman to play the captain, or captain equivalent, of the show’s central spaceship. Sources told THR that more information and details on the series will be unveiled soon at the Television Critics Association’s summer press tour.
“Think about what’s happening in America, and think about the promise of Star Trek, and what we can all do to get there,” he told the crowd at Comic-Con before ending the panel by asking all the fans in attendance to take each other’s hands and “make a promise to leave this room with love, to leave this room with hope, to leave this room and take responsibility to craft a path to Gene Roddenberry’s vision.”
