The next Star Trek series – Discovery – will feature Jason Isaacs as the captain of the eponymous starship.
Very few details of the upcoming science fiction show are available as yet. It airS on CBS All Access, a streaming video-on-demand service in the US, and on Netflix in the rest of the world.
Discovery’s showrunners are Bryan Fuller and Alex Kurtzman. Kurtzman, who like Isaacs is Jewish, was co-writer and executive producer on the 2009 Star Trek reboot film as well as a slew of other hit film and TV properties. Fuller also has some Trek history, with writing credits on both Deep Space Nine and Voyager.
Unusually for a Star Trek series the captain of the ship – Isaacs in this case – is not intended to be the main character in the action. Instead we will follow the stores from the point of view of Rainsford, a lieutenant commander newly assigned to the USS Discovery, who will be played by Walking Dead alumna Sonequa Martin-Green.
