The new Star Trek TV series has a name and a spaceship

Prepare for Discovery

Published: Saturday, 23 July 2016 at 10:29 pm

Just days after it was revealed that Netflix had snapped up Bryan Fuller's new Star Trek series for worldwide distribution, we're learning even more about the hotly-anticipated sci-fi show. Or you could say...we're DISCOVERING more.

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Yes, that's right – the new series will officially be called Star Trek: Discovery as revealed during a panel at San Diego Comic-con today, where punters where also treated to a look at the Discovery ship the name comes from (as is tradition in the series with Star Trek: Enterprise, Voyager, Deep Space Nine and more).

Excitingly said ship can be seen in the newly-released "test flight" video below, and it's clear that this is a rather different sort of Federation starship, more functional and birdlike than we've seen before.

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There's still no news on the cast of the series yet, but frankly this is all looking very promising. Consider us fully engaged.

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Star Trek: Discovery begins production in Toronto this September

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Radio Times commissioning editor Huw Fullerton. He sits in front of a shelving unit, looking at the camera and smiling. He wears glasses and has a moustache

Huw FullertonCommissioning editor

Huw Fullerton is a commissioning editor for Radio Times magazine handling comedy, entertainment and specialist drama. In a previous regeneration, he covered all things sci-fi and fantasy for RadioTimes.com.

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