Perhaps to bridge the gap (along with Sarek) between this show's era and the TOS era. After all, Mudd did appear thrice in the TOS era (twice in the The Original Series and once in The Animated Series). It turns out that when directing Star Trek III: The Search for Spock, Leonard Nimoy wanted Roger C. Carmel to play Mudd again in a cameo. However, Carmel was too ill by that point to travel to Los Angeles for the filming. Sadly, he passed away only a few years later in 1986. -G
so what year will this take place in? And please tell me that we get some Romulan appearances I'm not familiar with CBS All Access. anyone else?
They've had some original content that I haven't watched. A Good Wife spin-off and an extra season of Big Brother come to mind...
It also turns out that Carmel was slated to play Mudd in a first-season episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation (Mudd would've been found and awoken from cryogenic suspension by the Enterprise-D crew), but he died before filming could commence. -G
wikipedia lists the budget at 6-7 million per episode. I'm sure the pilot will be double that though.
The Good Wife spinoff, The Good Fight premiered on CBA AA and was recently renewed for a second season.
The last Star Trek show to be on the air, "Enterprise", had a production budget of 1 million dollars per episode in the first two seasons and a reduced budget of 850000 per episode for the final two seasons. I know that is now 12 years ago, but that's still a crazy increase in terms of cost. So this might at the very least be the best ever "Star Trek" series in terms of its production values, if nothing else. Even adjusted for inflation, that 6-7 million per episode number is still 5 times what they spent on "Enterprise" per episode.
I'm aware of that. I mentioned that show a few posts up, but that show doesn't have much of a budget down to the cast members who are mostly nobodies.
If I remember correctly, ST: TNG had a budget around that much per episode when it was being produced, so adjusting for inflation Enterprise was probably cheaper to produce than TNG, DS9 or Voyager. Plus by then CGI was really starting to become a thing, so I'm sure they saved a decent amount of money on ship models, which helped keep the cost down. Having said that, even if it's going to be digital only, we are talking CBS vs. UPN here, so it might not be as much of a stretch as you might think.
Another round of casting news http://www.startrek.com/article/discovery-adds-to-its-ranks Heavy on the Klingon characters. I PRAY that those leaked photos of the supposed Klingons are not true, I wasn't a fan of the movie Klingons either.
It's so harsh. Glare and dark and sharp and complicated. It wants to look like a modern movie, and that's great if you want to be overwhelmed for 90 minutes, but it doesn't suit a series well.