“Star Trek: Discovery” will premiere September 24th, 2017 at 8:30 PM on CBS. Following which, the show’s second episode will immediately premiere through CBS All Access, the channel’s new subscription based streaming platform. Following which, the rest of the fifteen episode season will be aired weekly through a traditional TV style block, with the first half releasing week by week to November 5th, followed by a season break that will air its next episode in January 2018.

“Star Trek: Discovery,” set ten years before “Star Trek: The Original Series,” follows the exploits of the crew on the eponymous USS Discovery. A Klingon warlord is seeking to unite the twenty-four great Klingon houses that creates Cold War like tensions between his race and the United Federation of Planets. The Discovery’s crew must investigate this to prevent all-out conflict from erupting between these superpowers.

“Star Trek: Discovery,” the first “Star Trek” TV series since “Enterprise,” was created by cult TV showrunner Bryan Fuller (“Pushing Daisies,” “Hannibal”) and Alex Kurtzman, who produced the first two installments of the newest batch “Star Trek” movies staring in 2009. Following some disagreements and scheduling conflict, however, Fuller left the production, with fellow producers Gretchen J. Berg and Aaron Harberts replacing him as showrunner. Among the other major producing credits are Heather Kadin (“Limitless”), Akiva Goldsman (“A Beautiful Mind”) and Rod Roddenbury (son of franchise creator Gene).

“Star Trek: Discovery” has also attracted an enormous amount of talent in front of and behind the camera. The show will have four different creative consultants, including Nicholas Meyer (director/writer of “Wrath of Khan”) as a consulting producer, Vincenzo Natali (“Cube,” “Splice”) serving as a directing consultant and Ted Sullivan (“Supergirl”) as a writing consultant.

Headlining the cast are Sonequa Martin-Green, Jason Isaacs, Doug Jones, Michelle Yeoh, Anthony Rapp, James Frain, Chris Obi, Kenneth Mitchell and a recurring guest role by Rainn Wilson playing the fan favorite character of Harry Mudd from the original series.

The “Star Trek: Discovery” pilot will premiere following a special episode of “60 Minutes” and will be followed by “NCIS: Los Angeles.” It will air in the middle of ABC’s “Celebrity Family Feud,” in the middle of Fox’s animated prime time slot with “The Simpsons” and will compete head to head with NBC’s broadcasting of the Raiders and Redskins game.