Star Trek: Discovery's Jason Isaacs Is Looking Forward To Trekkie Outrage

08/15/2017 04:31 pm EDT

Though the premiere of Star Trek: Discovery is still more than a month away, the series has already raised the ire of certain fans of the franchise, and that's something that at least one of the show's stars is actually looking forward to experiencing.

Jason Isaacs, the Harry Potter alum who will play Captain Gabriel Lorca of the Starship USS Discovery, tells the New York Daily News that he's not at all concerned with backlash from hardcore Star Trek fans.

"I don't mean to sound irreverent when I say I don't care about the die-hard Trek fans," Isaacs said at a Los Angeles event. "I only 'don't care' about them in the sense that I know they're all going to watch anyway. I look forward to having the fun of them being outraged, so they can sit up all night and talk about it with each other."

For Isaacs, Discovery is changing what it means to be Star Trek.

"It's Star Trek, but not as we know it," he said. "There are places obviously where they've observed canon to do with things like uniforms and badges and stuff, but there are places where the rules of storytelling are reinvented."

Star Trek: Discovery's cast and crew have made no secret of the fact that it plans to take Star Trek to new places. The series will be fully serialized and have no standalone episodes, could kill off some of its main characters, and will discard at least one of Gene Roddenberry's golden rules.

We'll find out if the series can withstand fans' apprehension when the series debuts on September 24th.

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