<Tr> <Th_colspan="2"> External links </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="2"> Star Trek: Discovery - CBS.com </Td> </Tr> <P> Star Trek: Discovery is an American television series created for CBS All Access by Bryan Fuller and Alex Kurtzman . It is the first series developed specifically for that service, and the first Star Trek series since Star Trek: Enterprise concluded in 2005 . Set roughly a decade before the events of the original Star Trek series and separate from the timeline of the concurrently produced feature films, Discovery explores the Federation--Klingon war while following the crew of the USS Discovery . Gretchen J. Berg and Aaron Harberts serve as showrunners on the series, with producing support from Akiva Goldsman . </P> <P> Sonequa Martin - Green stars as Michael Burnham, a science specialist on the USS Discovery . Doug Jones, Shazad Latif, Anthony Rapp, Mary Wiseman, and Jason Isaacs also star . The new series was announced in November 2015, with Fuller joining as showrunner and wanting to make an anthology series . CBS asked him to make a single, serialized show first, with the prequel to the original series idea further developed . After further disagreements with CBS and struggles with other commitments, Fuller left the series in October 2016, replaced as showrunner by Berg and Harberts . </P>

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