'Star Trek: Discover' will not be delayed until May 2017 according to CBS. The sci-fi series will be replaced by the network's new series which is a spin-off of the legal drama "The Good Wife."
"Star Trek: Discovery" was originally supposed to be launched in February of 2017, Screen Rant reported. Producers Alex Kurtzman and Bryan Fuller explained that they will need for time to grow the series.
In an interview, Kurtzman and Fuller said that bringing back "Star Trek" on TV is not something that they can take lightly. They said that they do not want to compromise the quality of the series by launching in an earlier date, Variety reported.
"Bringing Star Trek back to television carries a responsibility and mission: to connect fans and newcomers alike to the series that has fed our imaginations since childhood. We aim to dream big and deliver, and that means making sure the demands of physical and post-production for a show that takes place entirely in space, and the need to meet an air date, don't result in compromised quality," they explained.
The duo went to say that they evaluated the situation with CBS and the network agreed. CBS TV Studios president David Stapf also chimed in and teased that scripts of the upcoming series are "incredibly vivid and compelling" hinting, that the series will be worth the wait.
Casting for "Star Trek: Discovery" is still on-going. The production for the upcoming series is now slated to begin in November in Toronto.
"Star Trek: Discovery" is the first "Star Trek" series since "Enterprise" ended in 2005. The series will be set 10 years before the events of the original "Star Trek" series.
