Bryan Fuller Explains the Meaning Behind the 'Star Trek: Discovery' Title
With Star Trek Discovery bringing the sci-fi franchise back to the small screen, and with the title deriving from the starship that will feature in the series, showrunner Bryan Fuller has gone into more detail behind that decision.
“This ship is called the Discovery for a few reasons,” Fuller explained. “Not the least of which is Stanley Kubrick’s contribution to the Discovery on 2001: A Space Odyssey, NASA’s vessel the Discovery, and also the sense of discovery.”
It's also about "what the word 'discovery' means to Star Trek audiences who have been promised a future by Gene Roddenberry where we come together as a planet and seek new worlds and new alien races to explore and understand and collaborate with."
Fuller also expressed his eagerness to take the focus off the male leading man of virtually all prior incarnations. “There have been six series all from the captains’ perspective, and it felt like, for this new iteration of Star Trek, we need to look at life on a Starfleet vessel from a new perspective,” Instead, it will be a lower ranked female lead who we follow primarily.
The series launches January 2017.
Source: Comicbook
