Star Trek: Discovery might be diving into a period that hasn't been thoroughly explored in Star Trek lore, but its creators are very cognizant of what canon they can and can't stay true to.
"We're mostly pretty much an object that takes its reference from the other shows," executive producer Akiva Goldsman said at the 2017 TV Critics' Association summer press tour. "Mostly what we're doing is we're trying to look at all the shows, including Enterprise, as canon, and trying to be very sensitive to all the interesting boundaries that exist. The number of things that are seen for the first time in Enterprise will blow your brain. ... That's sort of a great game to be able to navigate."
So what is canon, and what isn't canon? We break it down below.
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Like Star Wars, much of the non-canon Star Trek books are being thrown out the window, but there are elements of the side stories that will be represented in Discovery, Goldsman told IGN.
"We are considering the novels not to be canon, but we are aware of them. We are going to cross paths with components that Trek fans are familiar with," he said. He added later, "We are aware of the books if it's useful, and if it doesn't interfere with canon, we may pick from it. One interesting side note is we are publishing a series of books that actually are directly linked to this series."
Before Bryan Fuller left Star Trek: Discovery, one of the biggest changes he was most passionate about, according to showrunner Aaron Haberts, was updating the design of the Klingons to not have them be "the thugs of the galaxy." Instead, he wanted them, according to Haberts, to be "sexy and vital and different from what had come before" and "different from one another."
Because of that, Fuller dug deep with designers Neville Page and Glenn Hetrick to update the Klingons, drilling down on everything from redundant pieces of anatomy to the plates on their head.
This shouldn't come as much of a surprise, but Star Trek: Discovery exists in the same universe as Star Trek: The Original Series, and isn't connected to J.J. Abrams' rebooted Star Trek films. However, there is a lot of new mythology added, including that Sarek has adopted Sonequa Martin-Green's character Michael Burnham, thus technically making her a relative of Spock.
"We don't necessarily call her the half sister, we tend to refer to her as Sarek's ward or Sarek's almost foster adopted daughter," said executive producer Akiva Goldsman. "The relationship between Michael and Sarek plays a huge part in [where she was raised and what she brings to the ships she is on]." Additionally, being raised on Vulcan causes her to make decisions that have ripple effects on rest of show, and Discovery also explores how a Vulcan raising a human child affects their dynamic.
One of the most interesting aspects of Star Trek: Discovery taking place a decade before Kirk and Spock is that viewers will get to see the origins of much of the philsophies that define later series of Star Trek.
"Over the course of the show, what was theory became canon," said Kurtzman. "Part of what we've tried to do is speak to how those philosophical presets became to be. ... We're trying to find out who we are as a federation and as a coalition of people in the face of adversity. It is entirely the outcome of the show to arrive at the principals that I think are endemic to Star Trek."
Added Martin-Green: "It's one thing to speak of a utopia... but to be abe to see it in action, to be able to see us aspiring to it, we havent reached this perfection yet, but we're trying."
Fortunately for Star Trek purists, the writers and creators of Discovery are just as passionate about what rules they can bend and what they can't as you are.
"The aim is to not violate things that are very important to people," said Haberts. "I think that so far we've found a way to balance it. If we sat there and worried about it and studied every single hour, it's easy to choke. You have to push through."
Added Kurtzman: "The writers room is a group of people with very different relationships to social media and to canon, and so it's a constant debate about where the line is in terms of canon violation. ... In that debate, there's a kind of supreme court of debate that allows us to stay true to canon and also stretch the boundaries of it."
"The show has been made by people who are trying to protect that legacy," said Kurtzman.
Star Trek: Discovery will launch at 8:30 p.m. Sunday, September 24, on CBS. Eight episodes of the sci-fi show will air through November 5 on CBS All Access, followed by the remaining seven starting in January.
Terri Schwartz is Editorial Producer at IGN. Talk to her on Twitter at @Terri_Schwartz.
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