Looking forward to this.   

Out of all the Star Trek series that ran on TV only two actually made it, ST-TOS and ST-TNG. The rest...meh (with the possible exception of Voyager). Just don't tell JJ Adams. He'll want to twist it into something it wasn't meant to be. As for a new series, that remains to be seen. Thanks Doc and Hankers.

Live long and prosper

i know awhile back they were talking about bringing it back..but like 200 yrs from TNG or something like that..and the federation is weak..not much influence..and if i remember.. like in a state of chaos don't remember if it was from civil war or an actual war that ended..something like that catches my eye..because the federation has always been a galaxy power..with a lot of pull.. seeing it in a different state would be welcoming.

In my book the time is set five hundred years after ST-TNG and the Federation is as corrupt as can be. Earth and her allies have seceded from the Federation and formed the Terran Alliances, none of which have any love for the Feds. So rapha320's comment wouldn't surprise me at all.

As the Trek universe has been changed, so has the timeline. All the TV series' haven't happened yet in this timeline.

Temporal mechanics

They can do it all again...

Remember the IDIC......Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations

Using Star Trek to make money......who'da thunk it.

Seriously? It won't air on cable? That sucks...

Well, plenty of people are cutting the cable and content providers are competing on the market place. 

Since it's estimated (one piece I read quoting Netflix, I believe) 37% of young viewers have done so, there's a reason the content providers are doing so...especially with the ST movies being produced...

Whether it'll pan out? Couldn't begin to guess, but it would certainly belie the claim that cutting the cable "saves" money...

psychoak...they won't be putting it on their regular t.v. channel. This is:

I'm aware Doc, would you pay 6 bucks a month to watch a TV show that should have been on broadcast?  Their value is crap compared to their competitors, it's not even ad free.  They probably have dick for subscribers, and are attempting to pimp the service with some exclusives.  It's going to fail horribly, there's no way they're going to get the millions of subscribers they'd need to make this farce work.  A single national commercial spot on a moderately successful show is a couple hundred grand.

20 plus episodes a year, with several minutes of national commercials each, how many $6 subscriptions is that going to need to be offset?  The average cost of a TV show is a few million an episode, a good Trek show isn't going to be anywhere near that cheap if it's worth watching to start with.  The math just doesn't work out for this plan with anything less than garnering several million subscribers just for this show.  Maybe I'm just behind the times, but I see that happening some time after pigs fly through hell on a really cold day.

psychoak...I think the number of subscribers will depend on age and mobility...unless it'll work via dongle/smart tv as well. Also, they'll sell "packages" too...so the price won't be (necessarily) $6.episode. Should be interesting.

R' Elana, if you take a look at the article link in #14, it might answer your question quite well...at least according to the writer who really hasn't seen anything yet as it just on paper.

I doubt it'll be like TOS...simply because this isn't the '60s with the social issues we had then...but, I could be wrong.

Hum, what a pisser.