Jason Isaacs To Captain Star Trek: Discovery’s Starship!

Studio City, CA  —  STAR TREK: DISCOVERY announces Jason Isaacs and Mary Wiseman as the newest additions to the series.

Jason Isaacs will star as “Captain Lorca,” Captain of the Starship Discovery. Isaacs’ current and upcoming credits include “The OA” on Netflix and Weinstein Company’s “Hotel Mumbai.”

Mary Wiseman will star as “Tilly,” a Starfleet Academy Cadet in her final year of study, assigned to the Starship Discovery. Wiseman, a recent graduate of Juilliard, can also be seen in “Baskets” on FX.

Star Trek, one of the most iconic and influential global television franchises, returns to television 50 years after it first premiered with STAR TREK: DISCOVERY.  The series will feature a new ship, new characters and new missions, while embracing the same ideology and hope for the future that inspired a generation of dreamers and doers. The series will premiere on the CBS Television Network with all subsequent episodes available on CBS All Access, the Network’s digital subscription video on demand and live streaming service, and will be distributed concurrently by CBS Studios International on Netflix in 188 countries and in Canada on Bell Media’s Space channel and OTT service CraveTV.

STAR TREK: DISCOVERY is produced by CBS Television Studios in association with Alex Kurtzman’s Secret Hideout, Bryan Fuller’s Living Dead Guy Productions and Roddenberry Entertainment. Alex Kurtzman, Bryan Fuller, Heather Kadin, Gretchen J. Berg & Aaron Harberts, Akiva Goldsman, Rod Roddenberry and Trevor Roth serve as executive producers.

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