New ‘Star Trek’ series debuts 2017

Star Trek will return to TV with a brand-new series in 2017, American broadcast network CBS said Monday. The series will air exclusively in the United States from January 2017 but will be available behind the paywall on CBS’s subscription channel. The original Star Trek told the story of the flight crew aboard the USS Enterprise spaceship, which ventured around the galaxy exploring new worlds in death-defying adventures. CBS said the new series will “introduce new characters seeking imaginative new worlds and new civilizations.” The original franchise snowballed into a cultural phenomenon in the 1970s and 80s, turning its stars into household names – the late Leonard Nimoy, who played the half-human, half-Vulcan “Mr Spock” and William Shatner, who played Captain James T. Kirk.

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