Star Trek: Discovery makes its long-awaited premiere Sunday night, September 24 on the CBS broadcast network and on CBS All Access. It’s the first new Star Trek series on broadcast TV since Enterprise, and with Sonequa Martin-Green in the lead, the show will explore new worlds and situations.
Here’s how CBS describes how you can actually watch it. You can subscribe to the CBS All Access streaming service here!
The highly anticipated STAR TREK: DISCOVERY, will launch Sunday, Sept. 24 with a broadcast premiere that night on the CBS Television Network airing 8:30-9:30 PM, ET/PT*. The series premiere will also be available on-demand on CBS All Access and the second episode of the series will be available on the service that same night immediately following the broadcast premiere. After premiere night, all new episodes will be available on-demand weekly on Sundays exclusively for CBS All Access subscribers in the U.S. The 15-episode season will be released in two chapters. The first eight episodes will run from Sunday, Sept. 24 through Sunday, Nov. 5. The season will then resume with the second chapter in January 2018. Star Trek, one of the most iconic and influential global television franchises, returns to television 50 years after it first premiered with STAR TREK: DISCOVERY. STAR TREK: DISCOVERY will follow the voyages of Starfleet on their missions to discover new worlds and new lifeforms, and one Starfleet officer who must learn that to truly understand all things alien, you must first understand yourself. The series will feature a new ship, new characters and new missions, while embracing the same ideology and hope for the future that inspired a generation of dreamers and doers.
The premiere episode is called “The Vulcan Hello,” and here’s how CBS describes it:
While patrolling Federation space, the U.S.S. Shenzhou encounters an object of unknown origin, putting First Officer Michael Burnham (Sonequa Martin-Green) to her greatest test yet.
Some promotional photos and cast shots can be found below. If you watch, be sure to come talk about the show on the KSiteTV forum!