Alex Kurtzman — the director of this weekend’s The Mummy — having been a writer and producer on the Star Trek film franchise, is also a producer on Star Trek: Discovery.
The fact that Discovery will only be streaming on CBS All-Access, means that there isn’t really the rush that there would be if it were only airing on broadcast TV.
The show has suffered a few delays over the course of its productions and will now be premiering in the fall of 2017.
Delays never exactly shout good news, so Kurtzman spoke with Collider to explain that the delays were a result of needed time to make the show the best that it possibly could be.