{"id":49972,"date":"2019-01-31T13:14:50","date_gmt":"2019-01-31T21:14:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/?p=49972"},"modified":"2019-01-31T13:14:50","modified_gmt":"2019-01-31T21:14:50","slug":"new-star-trek-short-treks-directors-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2019\/01\/new-star-trek-short-treks-directors-announced\/","title":{"rendered":"New Star Trek: Short Treks Directors Announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two new directors for brand-new <strong>Star Trek: Short Treks<\/strong> episodes have been revealed at the <em>Television Critics Association Winter Event<\/em>, and they are familiar names to Trek fans. Plus: Spock!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Michael Giacchino<\/strong>, who composed the music for the Kelvin Timeline Trek movies, is one of the directors. <strong>Olatunde Osunsnami<\/strong>, who is a <em>Discovery<\/em> director and producer, will direct the other <em>Short Trek<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Both <em>Short Treks<\/em> will be animated, and both will air after Season Two of <em>Star Trek: Discovery<\/em> is completed.<\/p>\n<p>This season will mark the debut of Spock in <em>Discovery.<\/em> <strong>Alex Kurtzman<\/strong> said that the &#8220;gray area of not knowing what happened to Spock&#8221; [after <em>The Cage<\/em>] will create an &#8220;amazing opportunity&#8221; for <em>Discovery<\/em>&#8216;s writers.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Heather Kadin<\/strong> promised fans that &#8220;When you see [Spock], it&#8217;s going to be so different from what you expected.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s no word on which episode Spock will first appear, but rumor is that it might be on episode seven.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t forget to watch the newest<em> Discovery<\/em> episode tonight on <em>CBS All Access.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two new directors for brand-new Star Trek: Short Treks episodes have been revealed at the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":49973,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9585],"tags":[2643,9746],"class_list":["post-49972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-star-trek-short-treks","tag-giacchino","tag-osunsnami"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/DiscoGettyImages013119.jpg",580,225,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/DiscoGettyImages013119-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/DiscoGettyImages013119.jpg",580,225,false],"medium_large":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/DiscoGettyImages013119.jpg",580,225,false],"large":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/DiscoGettyImages013119.jpg",580,225,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/DiscoGettyImages013119.jpg",580,225,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/DiscoGettyImages013119.jpg",580,225,false],"newsphere-slider-full":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/DiscoGettyImages013119.jpg",580,225,false],"newsphere-featured":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/DiscoGettyImages013119.jpg",580,225,false],"newsphere-medium":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/DiscoGettyImages013119.jpg",580,225,false]},"author_info":{"display_name":"T&#39;Bonz","author_link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/author\/tbonz\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/categories\/star-trek-short-treks\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Star Trek: Short Treks<\/a>","tag_info":"Star Trek: Short Treks","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49972"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49974,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49972\/revisions\/49974"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}