Following last week’s confirmation that After Trek has been replaced by a planned Facebook Live streaming show for Star Trek: Discovery Season 2, CBS has announced that The Ready Room will kick off its inaugural show today — and it did just that.

While we still have little detail past “Friday afternoons” on when each week’s livestream will air on Facebook, the new interview series’ host Naomi Kyle spoke first with Discovery bosses Alex Kurtzman and Heather Kadin in today’s session, which debuted at 2PM Pacific.

 
While the fifteen-minute interview session didn’t reveal much about the season overall, the show’s producers did share some detail about the upcoming Spring 2019 “Short Treks,” clarifying that while that they will be animated episodes, they will not be tied into the Star Trek: Short Treks animated series that is coming in 2020, and will be full-Discovery tales.

In addition, Kurtzman also shot down the growing rumor that the reason for Spock and Burnham’s estrangement in Discovery Season 2 was due to some romantic history in their past: “Oh God!,” he laughed, emphatically denying the rumor. (Sonequa Martin-Green also addressed that topic during an interview on The Talk yesterday.)

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Along with this first entry in “The Ready Room” series, CBS has released the entire first episode of the season, last week’s “Brother,” for free viewing on the CBS All Access YouTube channel.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rvMqRrtmkY

We’ll keep you posted on the lasted details on The Ready Room as soon as we have them.

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