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The premiere of the highly anticipated series 'Star Trek: Discovery' has finally been announced, with the first half of season one kicking off Sept. 24th, and the second half of the season launching in January 2018.

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00:00Great unifiers are few and far between, but they do come.

00:04Get excited, Trekkies, because Star Trek Discovery is no longer light years away.

00:10CBS announced on Monday that the highly anticipated series will finally launch on Sunday,

00:15September 24th at 8.30pm. CBS All Access will make the first two episodes available to stream

00:22that same night. The subsequent episodes will premiere exclusively on the streaming service

00:27every Sunday. Discovery will have its 15-episode premiere season split into two chapters,

00:33with the first eight episodes airing through until November 5th, and then the remaining

00:37seven hitting screens in January 2018. The long-awaited series will be accompanied by a

00:42weekly after-show called Talking Trek, which will also launch exclusively on CBS All Access.

00:49Star Trek Discovery will follow the voyages of Starfleet on their various missions to discover

00:54new worlds and life forms. Fans can also expect to see a new ship, new missions, and new

01:03characters, yet still look forward to the franchise's well-known ideology and hope for the future.

01:09I'm trying to save all of you.

01:11The September premiere has been almost two years in the making, as the show was first ordered

01:16to series in late 2015, and originally intended to premiere before The Good Fight in 2017.

01:22The exit of original showrunner Brian Fuller resulted in the premiere being pushed to May

01:27and then to late summer, early fall, whereas The Good Fight premiere was moved up from spring

01:32to February.

01:33Fuller remains an executive producer on the series, which stars Sonequa Martin-Green from AMC's

01:39The Walking Dead, alongside Doug Jones, Jason Isaacs, Anthony Rapp, Michelle Yeoh,

01:45James Frayn, and Maureen Wilson.

01:47So what are you most looking forward to when it comes to Star Trek Discovery?

01:51Let us know in the comments section.

01:53For The Hollywood Reporter News, I'm Lyndsey Rodrigues.

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