The countdown to Star Trek: Discovery is on!
The anticipated CBS All Access original series blasts off on Sunday with a special premiere on CBS, before debuting new episodes weekly on the streaming service. Actress Mary Wiseman, who plays Sylvia Tilly, a cadet in her final year at Starfleet Academy assigned to the USS Discovery, spoke to ET about what awaits Trekkies and new fans alike.
���The main thing is that we're doing it in 2017, so there's a lot of TV -- [it] means something so different. There's a lot of technology at our fingertips, so the way that it looks is going to be really different,��� Wiseman told ET���s Lauren Zima at the Star Trek: Discovery world premiere in Hollywood on Tuesday.
���That will be exciting for fans to see how much work and blood and sweat and tears went into this thing,��� she added. ���[Spock���s father and Michael Burnham���s surrogate dad] Sarek���s there. There are Vulcans. There are Klingons. All the things that make people really excited to tune in will be there.���
The Longmire alum teased that the 15-episode series is quite dirty, but not in the way you���d think.
���Like, physically dirty with mud. It���s still pretty Star Trek-y!��� Wiseman previewed with a laugh. ���The focus is not sex, drugs and rock ���n��� roll, it���s really still the same sort of thrust. That being said, we can go a little darker with the characters. It���s more of an investigation of who these people are and the challenges that they���re faced with and how they���re going to persevere.���
Wiseman also shared the grueling stunts and training that several members of the cast have��gone through while filming the show. ��
���I have had a couple days where I lost my body,��� she revealed. ���I did things where I ran for six hours. Or, like, things that Sonequa [Martin-Green] wasn���t working up a sweat [doing] that I was like, ���Oh my god, no! When is it over?!��� But that���s also really exciting, because I���m doing stuff that I never imagined for myself.���
Star Trek: Discovery��premieres Sunday, Sept. 24 at 8:30 p.m. ET/PT on CBS, before debuting new episodes on��CBS All Access��weekly. The��Talking Trek��aftershow launches Sunday following the debut on CBS All Access.
