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Three rumors have emerged regarding the CBS All Access Star Trek series launching in January:

1) The series will be set in the Shatnervese, and not the Quintoverse established in the 2009 J.J. Abrams movie.

2) Rather than confine itself to a single era in Starfleet history, each season of the new series will tackle a different era. Each season could go pre-Archer, post-Janeway, or any timeframe in between.

3) The first CBS season will take place between the events of “Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country” and the launch of the Enterprise-D in “Star Trek: The Next Generation.”

This is different from the concept Bryan Fuller was considering before he got job running CBS’ Trek. That idea dealt with the new ship and crew operating concurrently with the Abrams-produced movies in the Quintoverse.

It's entirely possible that Paramount execs, who control the Star Trek movie rights, requested that CBS not utilize the Quintoverse established for the big screen in 2009.

If you’ve not heard, “Star Trek VI” writer-director Nicholas Meyer is helping Fuller write the new Trek series.

Jim wrote:I like the idea of it being Shatnerverse and I like the idea of jumping around time wise as it opens a lot more stories and options and such... but that is going to be expensive. You figure most sets and effects have their costs distributed over the life of a series (for the most part). This will require new sets and effects for each season.

The New STAR TREK TV Show Will Be Set Before THE NEXT GENERATION

It definitely isn't in the JJ rebootverse.

By Devin Faraci Apr. 13, 2016

I have heard some intriguing rumors about the new Star Trek TV show that will be coming to CBS All Access next year under the stewardship of Bryan Fuller: it won't be set in the JJ Abrams reboot universe. The new show will be set in the original, classic continuity.

But when? Will it be a prequel, like Enterprise? Or will it be the next generation for The Next Generation? Neither, I've heard. The show will be set some time after the events of Star Trek: The Undiscovered Country, so between the original series and The Next Generation.

I love this. For my money the original series movie uniforms are just the best uniforms, and I would love a TV series with that look. I think there's a rich vein of stories to be mined between the years of the swashbuckling OG crew and the more reserved TNG crew. The only bummer is that we won't be able to have cameos from some of the original crew, as most of them are dead (and Captain Kirk will have already disappeared into the Nexus by the time this show is set, no matter when it's set - he fell into the Nexus the same year as the events of The Undiscovered Country!).

I've also heard the show, which will be heavily serialized, will not be set on an Enterprise, although that feels like a no-brainer. One last rumble I heard, which I could not get second sourced at this time, so consider this a wild rumor: while the Khitomer Conference will have paved the way for Klingons and humans to find peace, Fuller has a plan as to how he can still feature villainous Klingons, something we haven't seen in decades!

This show is shaping up to be awesome, and I'll happily plunk down a subscription fee for it.

UPDATE! A trusted source has chimed in and told me that it looks like the show will be a seasonal anthology, which means the first season will be set post-Undiscovered Country. After that the entire Star Trek universe is potentially open. So those of you hoping for a post-Dominion War show... don't give up hope. That could come some day.

Griffin wrote:I thought the Shatnerverse was the one Shatner co-wrote...

Mikey wrote:Well, I can't dismiss the idea of unrelated seasons out of hand - it's worked like a friggin' charm for AHS, after all. It certainly lends a flexibility and an "escape valve" of sorts, and certainly would help (though not guarantee) keep things from getting stale. I'm just not sure if it would work as well in what's traditionally been a character-driven drama.

Graham Kennedy wrote: Downsides are obvious :

Have to redo all sets, special effects, etc every season.
Audience can get to really like characters/situations, only to have them flushed away at the season end.