'Star Trek: Discovery' Season 2 Trailer Released at SDCC

The voyages of the starship USS Discovery are set to continue in the second season of Star Trek: [...]

The voyages of the starship USS Discovery are set to continue in the second season of Star Trek: Discovery on CBS All Access, and a new trailer for the season was revealed today during the Hall H panel at San Diego Comic-Con.

Check out the trailer above.

Star Trek: Discovery Season Two picks up where the first season left off. The show's first season finale concluded with the Discovery coming nose-to-nose with the USS Enterprise, the famous ship captained by James T. Kirk on his five-year mission in Star Trek: The Original Series.

Only Star Trek: Discovery takes place a decade prior to the events of Star Trek: The Original Series, meaning the Enterprise is still under the command of Captain Christopher Pike. Pike was originally played by Jeffrey Hunter in the first pilot for Star Trek: The Original Series, "The Cage." Marvel's Inhumans star Anson Mount will take over the role in Star Trek: Discovery.

"It's crazy man," Mount said of joining the Star Trek franchise during an episode of his podcast, The Well. "Getting cast in Star Trek is not like getting any other job. It's also kind of like a rite of passage that very few actors get to enjoy. It's nuts because you're not just joining a cast, you're joining cultural touchstone, a big family. Jonathan Frakes, who played 'Number One' in Star Trek: The Next Generation, he's our current director for episode two. Of course, I worked with Colm Meaney and they're constantly asking me about Colm and Marvin Rush, who was the DP on Hell on Wheels, shot a lot of Star Trek."

Pike isn't the only notable Star Trek character serving aboard the Enterprise during this time period in the history of the Star Trek universe. Mr. Spock, who was played memorably by the late Leonard Nimoy, served as Pike's Science Officer. Spock's father, Sarek (James Frain), was aboard the Discovery when it received Captain Pike's distress call, as was Commander Michael Burnham (Sonequa Martin-Green), the human who was adopted by Spock's parents when she was still a child.

"We're just as excited [as we were for season one], but there is a blanket of peace in this sense of preparedness because we're familiar with it and because we have our experiential knowledge from last year," Martin-Green said during the Emmy campaign for Discovery's first season. "Now, we have a little bit more hold on what it is that we're doing, the universe we're in, the story that we're telling, the roles that each of us have within the story. We're hopefully very boldly, if I may say, going higher and deeper."

The first season of Star Trek: Discovery is available to stream in its entirety on CBS All Access in the United States, through CraveTV in Canada, and through Netflix in other international markets. Star Trek: Discovery Season Two is now filming in Toronto.

Star Trek: Discovery returns to CBS All Access in January 2019.

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