We poured over the new Star Trek: Discovery trailer for clues about the story.
Here’s what we found!
CBS debuted our best look yet atStar Trek: Discoveryat this weekends San Diego Comic Con presentation.
Before we get started, did you miss the trailer?
Check it out below:
The trailer begins, as it should, in space.
We get a shot of a spaceship moving across the stars.
It looks like it’s the U.S.S.
Shenzhou, the ship on which Lt.
Commander Burnham (Sonequa Martin-Green) serves under Captain Georgiou (Michelle Yeoh).
The trailer moves quickly to a desert setting where Burnham and Georgiou make their way across the sands.
The Klingon Empire has been in disarray for generations, Sarek tells Burnham.
We have enountered them, she tells him.
We have been waiting for someone worthy of our attention, TKuvma tells Georgiou in a threatening manner.
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But the Klingons are not just identity-less villains here.
Could this be the origin story of TKuvma, the lead Klingon character?
Later, we see a bunch of adult Klingons gathered at some sort of ceremony.
Theres something else at work here…
There are clues to this other antagonist sprinkled throughout the trailer.
(Also, Jason Isaacs is kind of known for playing villains… food for thought.)
One of the most chilling is Burnhams question What the hell is going on on this ship?
followed by a scene in which she tells the others to Run!
Throughout the trailer, we get glimpses of Burnham in a cage made of blue light.
It feels like a brig of sorts, but it doesnt look like any Starfleet vessel weve seen before.
Whatever it is, we see Burnham looking out through it do the destruction around her.
Is she on the ship that sustains damage in other parts of the trailer?
Does the force field save her?
We also see Burnham bursting out of it and into the vacuum of space without a suit, Killjoys-style.
Presumably, this is all during the battle between the Shenzhou and the Klingon ships.
We see Burnham with two different hairstyles.
She seems to be intrigued and confused by both.
And why does this lady look so sketched out?
Heres Isaacs Captain Lorca seemingly coming to visit Burnham in prison to recruit her for a mission.
(This reminds me of Janeway and Paris inVoyagers pilot.)
All life is born from chaos.
The world doesnt always adhere to logic.
Sometimes down is up.
And sometimes when youre lost, youre found.
This feels like part of a conversation Burnham is having with her adoptive father Sarek.
Logic is the watchword here.
It is the North star of the Vulcan people.
But, while Burnham may have been raised on Vulcan, she is human.
Could she be rebelling against part of her Vulcan upbringing with her partial dismissal of logic?
Ireallyhope she doesnt die in the first episode.
Or the second episode.
Or the third episode…
The trailer ends with Burnham floating along in the vacuum of space.
All in all, the trailer was pretty great, though arguably on the action-heavy side for aStar Trektrailer.
That being said, theres a lot to like here!
The cast is diverse.
The visuals hold up.
And theres a hint at a much larger plot at work here.
Perhaps the character and philsopical stuff will come later.
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