{"id":98400,"date":"2017-08-02T11:36:05","date_gmt":"2017-08-02T10:36:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/?p=98400"},"modified":"2017-08-02T11:36:05","modified_gmt":"2017-08-02T10:36:05","slug":"star-trek-discovery-insignia-character-posters-amp-up-the-hype","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/news\/star-trek-discovery-insignia-character-posters-amp-up-the-hype\/","title":{"rendered":"Star Trek Discovery insignia character posters amp up the hype"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s almost here!\u00a0<em><strong>Star Trek Discovery\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>is so close we can practically smell it, and it smells wonderful. As if we needed to turn the excitement up a bit more, the show has just released a batch of brand new character posters, which you can view in the gallery above.<\/p>\n<p>You can read the full series synopsis here:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Star Trek, one of the most iconic and influential global television franchises, returns 50 years after it first premiered with\u00a0<strong><em>Star Trek: Discovery<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Star Trek: Discovery<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0will 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.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong><em>Star Trek: Discovery<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0stars Sonequa Martin-Green, Michelle Yeoh, Jason Isaacs, Doug Jones, Chris Obi, Anthony Rapp, Shazad Latif, Mary Chieffo, Mary Wiseman, Terry Serpico, Maulik Pancholy,\u00a0Sam Vartholomeos, and James Frain. Rainn Wilson will be playing classic series character\u00a0Harry Mudd.<\/p>\n<p>Gretchen J Berg and Aaron Harberts are acting as showrunners for the series, while Akiva Goldsman, Vincenzo Natali and Nicholas Meyer are\u00a0producing. Bryan Fuller, Alex Kurtzman, Berg, Heather Kadin, Rod Roddenberry, Trevor Roth and David Semel are serving as executive producers. The first season will consist of 15 episodes.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Star Trek: Discovery<\/strong><\/em><strong>\u00a0will air on CBS All Access and Netflix\u00a0weekly from 25 September. Get all the latest science fiction news\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/shop.kelsey.co.uk\/subscription\/sci\">with every issue of SciFiNow.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oWnYtyNKPsA\" width=\"616\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These moody new Star Trek Discovery character posters are just what we needed<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":98404,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"MSN_Categories":"Uncategorized","MSN_Publish_Option":false,"MSN_Is_Local_News":false,"MSN_Is_AIAC_Included":"Empty","MSN_Location":"[]","MSN_Add_Feature_Img_On_Top_Of_Post":false,"MSN_Has_Custom_Author":false,"MSN_Custom_Author":"","MSN_Has_Custom_Canonical_Url":false,"MSN_Custom_Canonical_Url":""},"categories":[3,207],"tags":[5265],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/star_trek_discovery_ver16_xlg.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98400"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98400\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}