There is nothing quite like a new series or movie to cause furious debate amongst Star Trek fans. The announcement of Star Trek: Discovery’s air date of and subsequent trailers released by CBS and Netflix let loose a storm of activity online as Trekkies speculated, analysed and argued over the details of the new show. Set ten years before Captain Kirk and Spock embarked on their famous five year exploratory mission in The Original Series, Discovery’s story arc contains two new starships, a ‘cold war’ with the Klingons and a whole host of new characters.
As the show debuts on Netflix in the UK, let’s bring you up to speed on the main players, races and organisations in the latest entry into one of fiction’s greatest saga’s…