Star Trek Discovery is set ten years before the first Kirk and Spock
space mission. The CBS All Access Original Series arrives this Fall.
Set roughly ten years before the events of the original Star Trek,
the series follows the crew of the USS Discovery as they discover new
worlds and civilizations, while exploring the franchise’s signature
contemporary themes. The season-long storyline revolves around “an
incident and an event in Star Trek history that’s been talked about but
never been explored
From Emmy Award-winning executive producer and creator Seth MacFarlane
(FAMILY GUY, “Ted”) and directed by Jon Favreau (“The Jungle Book,”
“Iron Man”), THE ORVILLE is a one-hour science fiction series set 400
years in the future that follows the adventures of the U.S.S. Orville, a
mid-level exploratory vessel. Its crew, both human and alien, faces the
wonders and dangers of outer space, while also dealing with the
familiar, often humorous problems of regular people in a workplace…even
though some of those people are from other planets, and the workplace is
a faster-than-light spaceship.
In the 25th century, Earth is part of
the Planetary Union, a far-reaching, advanced and mostly peaceful
civilization with a fleet of 3,000 ships. Down on his luck after a
bitter divorce, Planetary Union officer ED MERCER (MacFarlane) finally
gets his chance to command one of these ships: the U.S.S. Orville.
Determined to prove his worth and write a new chapter in his life, Ed
finds that task all the more difficult when the First Officer assigned
to his ship is his ex-wife, KELLY GRAYSON (Adrianne Palicki, “Agents of
S.H.I.E.L.D.,” “Friday Night Lights”).
As the new commander, Ed
assembles a qualified, but eccentric crew, including his best friend,
GORDON MALLOY (Scott Grimes, “ER,” “Justified”), who has problems with
authority, but is the best helmsman in the fleet; DR. CLAIRE FINN (Penny
Johnson Jerald, “24,” “The Larry Sanders Show”), one of the Union’s
most accomplished physicians; BORTUS (Peter Macon, “Shameless,”
“Bosch”), an alien from a single-sex species; ISAAC (Mark Jackson, “That
Royal Today”), an artificial life-form from a machine society that
thinks biological life-forms are inferior; navigator JOHN LAMARR (J.
Lee, FAMILY GUY, “The Cleveland Show”), whose casual humor cuts through
even the most dire situations; ALARA KITAN (Halston Sage, “Neighbors,”
“Goosebumps”), a young, inexperienced security officer whose home
planet’s high gravity gives her superior physical strength; and YAPHIT, a
gelatinous creature voiced by comedian Norm Macdonald (“The Middle,”
“Saturday Night Live”).
Somehow, Ed and Kelly must put the past behind
them and, with the help of the crew, navigate fascinating and sometimes
dangerous adventures in outer space, as well as the tumultuous and
captivating day-to-day personal relationships with their colleagues.