Today a web promo was released for the fourth episode of Star Trek: Discovery (“The Butcher’s Knife Cares Not For The Lamb’s Cry”). This is the same promo that was shown on CBS All Access at the end of last weekend’s episode.
Shields up! New episode streaming Sunday at 8:30ET / 5:30PT: https://t.co/zpcRz1YhVG #StarTrekDiscovery pic.twitter.com/AJvPsRIonK
— Star Trek: Discovery (@startrekcbs) October 5, 2017
Here is the official synopsis for the episode:
With tensions and stakes high as Starfleet continues in their efforts to end the war with Klingons, Burnham begins to settle in to her new position aboard the USS Discovery.
Episode 4 will be available on CBS All Access on Sunday, October 8 at 8:30 pm ET. It will air in Canada on the Space Channel at 8:00 pm ET and be available on Netflix outside the USA and Canada on Monday, October 9 at 8 am BST.
All Access comedy to start same day as Discovery’s first half-season ends
Earlier this week we reported that CBS All Access changed their schedule around so now the first half of the Discovery season will run nine episodes and wrap up on Sunday, November 12th. The final six episodes will begin again in January of 2018. And now CBS just announced they are launching their new original comedy No Activity on November 12th, the same day the first “chapter” of Discovery’s first season concludes.
No Activity is the first original comedy for All Access and it comes from from executive producers Will Ferrell, Adam McKay and Funny Or Die. The show “celebrates the mundane” following low-level two cops who are working surveillance on tracking a drug cartel. It stars co-creator Patrick Brammall and Tim Meadows with Will Ferrell as one of the many guest stars.
First publicity image from CBS All Access comedy No Activity
Launching this new series the same day that Discovery wraps up its first chapter shows CBS is aware they need to offer reasons for all those people who have signed up for Discovery to stick around. CBS All Access has already announced additional original programming is coming in 2018, including the second season of The Good Fight, the mystery/thriller $1 and the science-fiction drama Strange Angel from executive producer Ridley Scott.
Keep up with all the Star Trek: Discovery news at TrekMovie.
Yeah. Still doesn’t look like enough of a reason to keep AA beyond the first month of Trek. It’s really starting to look like CBSAA is just a much much weaker imitation of the CBS over the air network. Even with those announcements coming Trek seems to be the only thing to even raise an eyebrow for.
Try harder, CBS.
You know full well what it’s about. Why do you keep repeating the same fake surprise that All Access is not a fully formed and contented network channel or Netflix?
Have you watched it yet? Did it work? Or did it fail like Netflix does for you? Im legit curious to know if you had a positive experience with the AA service.
Sounds like most are.
Well, I’m not satisfied with All Access, and I think “Discovery” has the potential to be my new favorite Trek series.
AA’s two-channel audio is demonstrably subpar, the back catalog shows in its library are all horribly-compressed standard definition video, and (other than DSC) there is absolutely nothing on the service that I want.
I am thrilled to watch new installments of a Star Trek TV series for the first time in 12 years, and am delighted with the quality of the show so far. But I’m with Kirok on this one–CBS needs to try a lot harder if they expect me to keep AA active when DSC is not premiering new episodes weekly.
Scott,
As a CGI artist yourself, I’m curious what you think about the look of the show so far.
I personnally am not completely satisfied with the ship shot. Its seems blurry. I love the cinematic of the show but something bugs me. Im not a fan of the phaser sfx and I really hate the torpedoes effect. Looks real cheap. I can do it with my cpu. And their slow. Slow photon torpedoes. I dont like that. Besides that good show so far, in my opinion. Mysterious vibe.
The audio is pretty bad…
I’m glad I’m not the only one who’s experienced audio issues With All Access. I first noticed it when trying to watch TNG on their platform. I haven’t noticed it while watching DSC but yes they need to fix all that kind of stuff and fast if they want folks to stick around when DSC is on break. Especially since very tech savvy folks can just watch it in the US via… (well they know).
Personally I think that people cancelling All Access between new airings of DSC will only be beneficial to Trek and might result in CBS commissioning a second show to run when DSC is not screening.
I wonder if reception is not the same in different regions.
Not only have I had no problem watching Discovery,
I have been testing CBSAA for months watching other shows with no difficulty at all.
@TUP
As usual there was a lot of misinterpretation on your part. Allow me to correct you… Just looked over my post and I cannot seem to find anything regarding me asking what “it” was about. Nor do I know what “it” is you are referring to. Nor have I ever expected CBSAA to be more than it is. As someone who will soon be subscribing to it it would be nice if they had enough product to get me to not go through the hassle of unsubscribing and subscribing 4 times a year. That’s all.
Haven’t seen anything beyond the first episode yet. Was going to subscribe last week and take advantage of the alleged free week but when I did I discovered there was no free week for the commercial free option. Only a mere 2 days. Then came the announcement that CBS is adding another week before the break. Now waiting until October 11th to subscribe to get the most bang for my buck. CBS has not been making this easy since day one. I’m also going to expect sound issues as others have reported now on top of some of the other issues I’ve read about regarding their service.
@Kirok – you’re the most inane poster here. You changed handles to start fresh and immediately go right back to your game of semantics and silly bugger.
You whine every day about a service you havent even used yet because you want to maximize the amount of Trek you can watch under a free preview.
CBS isnt in business to try and help cheap whiners who dont understand streaming get MORE free content. Good Lord man…
Ok… that post was paranoid and just weird. I’m going to back away slowly….
What are do you mean? If you dont want to discuss, then dont. But making a comment like that begs for a response. Are you denying you posted extensively here under another handle?
Holy crap! We dont get another episode until January 2108?
Geeze….
Lol!
That is actually hilarious. Not the show necessarily, but the idea I would keep the service for that.
They know many people wont keep it. Just as they know many Good Fight fans probably didnt keep it for Star Trek or vice versa.
Its all about slow growth over time. Personally none of their announced original content appeals to me either, aside from Trek and Good Fight.
Missus was a fan of “The Good Wife” and adores Christine Baranski, so we may keep AA active during the winter break, or at least until we’re caught up on “The Good Fight”. But if it were solely up to me, I’d turn off the subscription the moment I finished watching the “After Trek” installment for episode 9, and wouldn’t reengage until the premiere of episode 10.
CBS All Access has a back catalog series library of nothing but standard definition videos that look terrible on my big screen. Until they fix that, start broadcasting in Dolby 5.1 surround sound (seriously, CBS, 5.1 has been around since the turn of the millennium—get it together!), and add more exclusive content that actually appeals to me, I will only have AA turned on when Star Trek is premiering new episodes.
@Scott — that’s exactly right. And unlike the cable and satellite companies that have been bilking the poor consumer with overpriced packages of programming most didn’t care about for years, the customer now has the choice to cancel and resubscribe at will, with no hassle, whenever they like. When the programmer offers them something they’re interested in, they can sign up. That’s healthy competition in the marketplace, and is a win for the consumer, both in quality of programming and ability to chose.
I recently signed up for Hulu, to get a specific show. Hulu dropped the show, and now I’m going to drop Hulu, because there is absolutely nothing else of interest on it. I may drop Netflix soon because they’re not offering me anything of interest that I haven’t already seen, and sign up again when a new season of a show I like comes out. HBO currently has nothing I want to see worth signing up for, as I’m not a GOT fan. Amazon on the other hand offers me quite a lot more than just a catalogue of shows I’ve mostly seen, between seasons of original shows I’d pay to see — namely: Prime shipping. So Amazon keeps my business year round. Free shipping may not be of interest to everyone else, but it is to me. And that’s how this works.
The only way CBSAA is a bad thing, is if someone has an axe to grind about DISCOVERY or the forward march of technology.
@Curious Cadet
So instead of being “bilked” by cable and satellite companies the consumer gets a choice to be “bilked” by the individual studios and other content providing organizations. Offering overpriced packages of mostly unwanted programming. Being forced to pay no matter when you opt to cancel.
I contemplated Amazon Prime but decided I don’t order enough items through Amazon to make it worth my while. Nor was it worth it for the one thing they started that piqued my interest some time after that. It’s just not worth adding when you factor in the other home entertainment services I already pay for and am more than satisfied with. Further, I do not want to be hassled with having to start and stop services on multiple sites at multiple times a year.
There are plenty of other ways CBSAA can be a bad thing. For one, the way they have run their service which has been radically different from all the other major streamers out there. Two days free trial when they were advertising 7? When everyone else seems to offer a month? And that’s just the beginning of it.
I’m happy you are fine with turning on and off multiple streaming services. It works for you. Just please don’t assume such behavior works for everyone else.
@Kirok – you’re not forced to buy anything. The idea that you’re being forced implies that you have some sort of primal need for content. If you feel that way, then isnt CBS and all the other content providers doing you a service?
I assume you have a job. Does your boss gripe about paying you for your service? Or does he expect it for free?
You whine about Cadet’s remarks and tell him not to assume things that work for him work for everyone else. But thats exactly what you do. You whine incessantly for over a year about this.
Just because you dont believe in Streaming and want it for free and are committed to Disc based media, please dont assume that works for everyone else.
Many people UNDERSTAND the concept here. If you don’t, just keep quiet.
@Curious Cadet,
“The only way CBSAA is a bad thing, is if someone has an axe to grind about DISCOVERY or the forward march of technology.”
Lol!
Is CBS any big in America.
I would say that BBC Iplayer, Netflix and Amazon are the biggest streaming providers in the UK, and they seem to be good quality in terms of picture, sound and menus/user interface.
@DataMat — nope, CBSAA is a brand new streaming service. Aside from a strong following from the hit series THE GOOD WIFE/GOOD FIGHT, DISCOVERY is it for now, and it’s just starting to build a subscriber base.
Clearly an upcoming Will Ferrell produced comedy and a Ridley Scott produced sci-fi drama will raise some interest especially if they are any good. But this network is very much a launch. In the US, it would be Netflix, Amazon and Hulu. HBO, Showtime, and others offer direct streaming packages bypassing the cable and satellite providers, but I’d bet most people still get those networks traditionally.
Once studios like CBS, Disney, Warner Bros., Sony, etc. start pulling their programming from Netflix, and launching their own streaming networks, that options will not be as necessarily popular as it is at the moment. Not to mention increased competition from companies like Apple, which has already launched a limited streaming original programming service. Amazon already pays for itself in free shipping for me, so whether they offer compelling programs or not is almost beside the point, so I suspect they’re less concerned about losing third party content. Netflix relies heavily upon it.
That’s actually one of the nice things about streaming services. You can pause and restart them without any hassle. I do the same with Netflix, and with Hulu (but that one has been over a year since I paused it).
@MattR — Yup. Try that with a cable or satellite provider, and you’ll find yourself on hold, followed by a sales pitch offering a new package you’ll have to commit to for another year, and having to defend the reason you want out.
The difference is you don’t HAVEto with those services. I’ve never felt the need to add and remove. Ever. I’ve never heard of anyone else even wishing they could. The only complaints I’ve regularly heard were anoint the tier system and wishing there was some sort of ala carte plan. So no, it’s not perfect. But when you do cancel they don’t charge you for time you didn’t use the service.
For the record when I’ve called to complain about a few or service or something I always get a hefty discount. That’s never happened with my streaming provider. They basically give me a “tough s*it” type of response.
Both formats have pluses and minuses. I use both currently but if I HAD to choose one, for me cable/satellite with its flaws offered the most bang for my buck. For a multitude of reasons that work for me but don’t for you.
You literally just described people wanting to add and remove.
You basically said “Ive never heard of anyone wishing they could add or remove. I’ve only heard of people wishing they could add or remove”.
Why would you subscribe for 40 minutes of Star Trek?
Actually, I signed up to watch 40 minutes of Star Trek 15 times.
So far, I am pleased with the results.
Exactly
@Gary8.5
Are the episodes still just 40 minutes long? That’s a bit surprising too. I thought streaming didn’t need to conform to standard TV’s ad model. On Netflix the hour shows hover around 50-60 minutes.
It’s kind of funny because when Star Trek enterprise went off the air I thought to myself that I would pay for new episodes. I was totally supportive of the fan funded fifth season. How come now I’m finding it difficult to say yes to subscribing to the streaming service? I can’t figure it out
Good question. I know fans who will throw money hand-over-fist at fan productions and Kickstarters, yet ask them to drop the price of a burger meal once a month for new Trek and they balk.
And for what tentatively looks to be a much better show, too. You tell me. 😊
I think it’s the idea of “subscribing” that gets people – the word implies a commitment, but you’re not locked into a year. Thank Netflix for starting that revolution. If CBS Changes their tune on that – I’ll be the first to complain, but so far, it’s more accurate to call it an On-Demand service and price or rental.
@Mike C
That is a very interesting question. I have a number of thoughts on that but would need to write an essay here on it and just don’t think lengthy posts like that are appropriate. Let’s just say that there very well could be a multitude of reasons for different people.
Its not the norm, thats why. People get anxious when taken out of their comfort zone.
If All Access was a new channel on your cable guide and you had to select “yes” on your remote or even phone in and it still cost you $6 a month or $1.50 an episode or whatever, you’d do it.
People do that all the time. Thats why cable companies make it so easy to add and remove channels, packages etc.
I knew people that were anxious about PVR’s…new technology etc.
This is the way of the future…actually its the way of now.
Netflix took years to grow and nearly went under many times.
People like Kirok are afraid of new technology and the unknown, especially when they have to pay for it.
But streaming is really a consumer-friendly technology. When you keep your cable and add streaming it might not seem like that. But in time, it will be easier and cheaper. And even if its the SAME price, the convenience factor will be the difference.
No (or limited) commercials. Ability to watch what you want when you want wherever you want. You could have the kids watching a program in their room or living room while you pack up the car, have them pause their show and pick it up from the same spot IN the car, then walk into Grandma’s house and pick it up again. Or go sit in the yard and watch it on your tablet, pick it up on the TV in your fridge.
Anything and everything is possible now.
People who complain either dont understand the tech, dont understand the business strategy, are cheap or are simply attacking this because they just want to attack Discovery.
So it’s like $6 for up to 4 episodes? Let’s say they skip a week or even two in a month. That’s 2 episodes for $6 or $3 per episode? So about the cost of a rental? Seems fair to me.
I’m so Glad I am in Australia & Have Netflix & don’t have to pay for CBSAA to see how bad this Section 31 show can get.
Seeing Star Trek perverted into some pro-war dictatorship where prisoners are abused & used as slave labor, people & scientists are shanghaied into working for the war effort against there will for a war monger captain who has no moral code all
“justified” by a War.
Thats not the show that I have seen.
But each to their own opinion.
“people & scientists are shanghaied into working for the war effort against there will”
The Genesis scientists in Wrath of Khan seemed very cautious about working for Starfleet. Maybe they had good reason to be cautious.
Nope, not impressed.
I don’t have cable, but am a streaming-only user. For me, CBSAA makes perfect sense. I can see why people paying for cable that are paying for CBS already, think they’re now paying twice for just one additional show. But it’s $6 for a couple hours of entertainment. Cheaper than a single movie rental, cheaper than lunch or a coffee FFS!
So they’re releasing the giant tardigrade? – I predict the following: That’s the point when security chief Landry (that was her name, wasn’t it?) demonstrates her most recent findings, namely that a phaser is way more effective when switched to a steady beam instead of “bolts”.
Tadaaa, one step closer to Trek.
The “kitty kitty” may be their version of the Tribble that may be beamed aboard a Klingon ship in the future.