STAR TREK: DISCOVERY
ACTION / ADVENTURE / DRAMA / SCI-FI
USA
2017-2024
STAR TREK: DISCOVERY is an American television series created by Bryan Fuller and Alex Kurtzman for the streaming service CBS All Access (later renamed Paramount+). It premiered in 2017 and is the seventh Star Trek series and was the first since Star Trek: Enterprise concluded in 2005. It begins ten years before Star Trek: The Original Series and follows the crew of the USS Discovery. STAR TREK: DISCOVERY consists of 65 episodes of 1 hour.
STORY: The series begins about ten years before the events of Star Trek: The Original Series, when the recklessness of Commander Michael Burnham (Sonequa Martin-Green) starts a war between the United Federation of Planets and the Klingon Empire. She is court-martialed, demoted and reassigned to the Discovery spaceship, which has a unique, secret propulsion system known as the "Spore Drive". After an adventure in the Mirror Universe, Discovery's crew helps end the Klingon War.
GAY COUPLE STORYLINE: Paul Stamets (Anthony Rapp) is Discovery's chief engineer and a science officer specializing in astromycology (the study of fungi in space) whose research led to the development of Discovery's experimental organic propulsion system. He is the first openly gay character in a Star Trek series. Hugh Culber (Wilson Cruz) is a medical officer aboard Discovery and Stamets' husband.
Paul Stamets (Anthony Rapp) & Hugh Culber (Wilson Cruz)
ANTHONY RAPP (2017-2021)
October 26, 1971, Chicago, IL, USA
WILSON CRUZ (2017-2021) December 27, 1973, New York City, NY, USA
SPECIAL: Cruz said it was a long time coming to portray the first openly gay couple on Star Trek and praised the way the series failed to focus on their relationship. The character is killed off in the first season, but returns from the dead in the second season in a bigger role.
AWARDS: ‘STAR TREK: DISCOVERY’ won 2 Primetime Emmys. 21 wins & 87 nominations.
7.2 IMDB
