SERIES OVERVIEW

STAR TREK: DISCOVERY follows the voyages of Starfleet on their missions to discover new worlds and new life forms, and one Starfleet officer who must learn that to truly understand all things alien, you must first understand yourself.

Premieres Sunday, Sept. 24, on CBS All Access Following a Broadcast Premiere on the CBS Television Network at 8:30-9:30 PM ET/PT

The Second Episode Will Be Available Immediately After the On-Air Premiereon CBS All Access

Following Premiere Night, All New Episodes Will Be Released Weekly

on Sundays Exclusively for CBS All Access Subscribers

15-Episode Season Will Roll Out in Two Chapters: Chapter One Will BeginSunday, Sept. 24 and the Second Chapter Will Resume in January 2018

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. The series will be distributed concurrently by CBS Studios International on Netflix in 188 countries and in Canada on Bell Media’s Space channel and OTTservice CraveTV.

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MICHAEL BURNHAMFIRST OFFICER

SONEQUA MARTIN-GREENFIRST OFFICER

MICHAEL BURNHAMFirst Officer on the Starship Shenzou. Through her Vulcan upbringing, she has cultivated a razor-sharp logic and

intellect.

Sonequa Martin-Green is best known for her portrayal of Sasha on the AMC series The Walking Dead. In addition to The Walking Dead,

Martin-Green is recognizable from her numerous recurring television roles across both comedy and drama. Most notably as the prankster

Rhonda on FOX’s comedy New Girl, Tamara on ABC’s Once Upon A Time and Courtney Wells on CBS’s Emmy-winning drama, The Good

Wife. Also, she left her mark on television with recurring roles on the CBS drama NYC 22 and Lifetime’s Army Wives. Her other television credits

include Gossip Girl and Law & Order: Criminal Intent.

In regards to film, Martin-Green received rave reviews for her starring turn in Emily Abt’s Sundance hit Toe To Toe in which she played Tosha

Spinner, a highly driven inner-city high school teenager. She followed up Toe To Toe with Victoria Mahoney’s film Yelling to the Sky alongside Gabourey Sidibe and Zoe Kravitz.

On stage, Martin-Green is best known for her critically acclaimed performances in Des McAnuff’s Fetch Clay, Make Man, in which she starred as Muhammad Ali’s first wife, Sonji Clay, and Outside People at the Vineyard Theater in New York City.

Currently, Martin-Green resides in Los Angeles, California, with her husband, Kenric Green, and their son.

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MICHELLE YEOHCAPTAIN

PHILIPPA GEORGIOU

Michelle Yeoh is considered one of Asia’s greatest and most successful actresses. Yeoh can be seen in season two of the Netflix series

Marco Polo as well as the film Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon 2, which premiered on Netflix and in IMAX theaters in 2016. Next, she will be seen

starring in in the Warner Bros. film Crazy Rich Asians directed by Jon Chu.

Yeoh starred in Luc Besson’s critically acclaimed The Lady and voiced a role in the DreamWorks animated hit Kung Fu Panda 2. A former Bond girl, Yeoh

is best known for her roles in Ang Lee’s Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon,Rob Marshall’s Memoirs of a Geisha, Roger Spotiswoode’s Tomorrow Never

Dies and Danny Boyle’s Sunshine.

Additionally, Yeoh was honored by People Magazine as one of the “35 All-Time Screen Beauties.”

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Starfleet Captain of Starship Shenzhou. She’s a strong, seasoned leader. Unpretentious and charismatic, you’d

follow her anywhere.

JASON ISAACSCAPTAIN

GABRIEL LORCAStarfleet Captain of the Starship Discovery. He is a formidable leader with a decisive charisma that hides many secrets.

The Golden Globe, BAFTA, International Emmy Award and Critic’s Circle Award-nominated actor Jason Isaacs began his acting career at Bristol University, where he studied Law, but found himself acting, producing, writing and directing most of the time.

After graduation, he trained for three years at London’s prestigious Royal Central School of Speech and Drama.

In 2000, his breakout role as Colonel William Tavington in Roland Emmerich’s feature film The Patriot garnered him numerous nominations, including one from the British Film Critics’ Circle.

Two years later, Isaacs began his role as Lucius Malfoy in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. He went on to reprise the role and garner global recognition in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, and in the last two films, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Parts I and II. Most recently, he was seen in the genre-bending breakout Netflix series The OA and is set to return for the second season of the hit show early 2018.

Isaacs’ extensive film credits include the war films Fury, Black Hawk Down, Green Zone, Windtalkers and Field of Lost Shoes, the fantasy films Armageddon, Event Horizon, Dragonheart, Peter Pan (2003) and The Tuxedo, and the indie hits and festival award winners Friends with Money, Skeletons, Stockholm PA, The End of the Affair, Sweetwater, Passionada, The Infiltrator, Rio I Love You, Nine Lives, Good - which he also produced - as well as Sweet November, Abduction and Soldier.

Isaacs has multiple awards and nominations for his television roles in both America and Britain, including the BAFTA “Best Actor” nomination for The Curse of Steptoe and a Golden Globe nomination for “Best Performance by an Actor in a Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television” for the BBC’s The State Within. Critics raved

over his performances in C4’s Scars and Lynda LaPlante’s Civvies for the BBC and as Michael Caffee in three seasons of Showtime’s Peabody Award-winning series Brotherhood, for which he was nominated for a Satellite Award as “Best Leading Actor.” He later won that award for starring as Jackson Brodie in series one and two of the BBC’s Case Histories, which he also executive produced. The role also garnered him various other nominations including an International Emmy Award for “Best Leading Actor.” Case Histories also won the BAFTA Scotland Award for “Best Drama Series.”

Isaacs produced and starred as Detective Michael Britten in the NBC drama Awake and starred as an FBI agent trying to prevent the end of the world in contemporary Jerusalem in the event series Dig, from the creators of Homeland and Heroes. He also appeared in The West Wing and Entourage and, in Britain, in The Fix for Paul Greengrass, Inspector Morse directed by Danny Boyle and as identical twins in Taggart. On stage, Isaacs created the role of Louis in the award-winning Royal National Theatre production of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Angels in America and has performed to packed houses at London’s Royal Court, Almeida Theatre and Trafalgar theatre, where he also starred in a sell-out run of Pinter’s The Dumb Waiter with comedian Lee Evans.

Isaacs’ recent film roles include the thriller A Cure for Wellness directed by Gore Verbinski and Red Dog: True Blue, a sequel to the phenomenally successful Australian film. Also, Isaacs voiced The Inquisitor in Star Wars Rebels, Admiral Zhao in Avatar: The Last Airbender and Siddeley in Cars 2. Soon, Isaacs will be seen in the animated comedy Happy Family, which features the voices of Nick Frost, Catherine Tate and Emily Watson; political satire The Death of Stalin from Veep creator Armando Iannucci; YA thriller Behind the Glass from award-winning Israeli filmmaker Assaf Bernstein and Hotel Mumbai, the story of the terrorist siege of the Taj Hotel in 2008.

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DOUG JONES

SARUA Starfleet Science Officer and Lieutenant Commander on the Starship Shenzou. Saru is Kelpien, an alien prey species that

have biologically fostered the ability to sense threats.

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LIEUTENANT COMMANDER

While famous for working under prosthetics in iconic feature film roles, Doug Jones is also a versatile character actor who has performed as

“himself” in guest star roles on shows like Arrow, The Flash, Teen Wolf, Z-Nation, The Neighbors, Criminal Minds, C.S.I. and NBC’s horror anthology

Fear Itself. A veteran of over 100 commercials, Jones was Mac Tonight, the moon-headed piano player in the long-running 1990’s McDonald’s campaign.

Also, he starred as the lead villain in “Hush,” an Emmy-winning episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, long considered a fan favorite. Additionally, Jones is

a semi-regular guest judge on the hit SyFy reality series, Face Off.

In 2005, he played the title role of Pan, as well as the nightmare character known as The Pale Man, in Guillermo del Toro’s Oscar-winning Spanish language

fantasy/horror feature Pan’s Labyrinth. However, it was his sensitive and elegant performance as Abe Sapien in del Toro’s 2004 box office hit Hellboy that brought Jones’s unique work to a wider audience. He went on to voice that same character for the Emmy-nominated Cartoon Network animations Hellboy: Sword of Storms and Hellboy: Blood and Iron. In 2007, Jones’s title role performance in Fantastic Four: The Rise of the Silver Surfer was hailed by fans and critics alike. In 2008, Jones reprised his starring role, as well as two other characters, in Hellboy II: The Golden Army, once more under the direction of del Toro. Also, he starred in Gainsbourg, a stylized biopic of the famous French poet/singer/composer Serge Gainsbourg, in which he played Gainsbourg’s dark alter ego. The film won three Cesar Awards, the French equivalent of the Oscars. Also, Jones has had prominent creature roles in Crimson Peak, The Watch, The Bye Bye Man, Always Watching: A Marble Hornets Story, Legion and many others.

Jones was a series regular on three seasons of TNT’s Spielberg-produced sci-fi series Falling Skies and recurred on Guillermo del Toro’s FX series The Strain. Upcoming, Jones will star opposite Sally Hawkinsin del Toro’s The Shape of Water.

ANTHONY RAPPLIEUTENANT

PAUL STAMETS An astromycologist - or fungus expert - and Starfleet Science Officer aboard the Starship Discovery. He is a genius with the air of a curmudgeon twice his age.

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Anthony Rapp has been acting and singing professionally since he was nine years old. With an extensive list of achievements, Rapp is best known for originating the role of Mark Cohen in Jonathan Larson’s Tony Award-winning rock opera, Rent, for which he shared an OBIE Award with the rest of the cast. He reprised his role in Chris Columbus’ film version opposite other members of the original cast.

Recently, Rapp appeared on CBS All Access’s new hit spin-off series The Good Fight. Also, he recently starred in three independent features: Do You Take This Man opposite Alyson Hannigan, Opening Night with fellow Broadway-favorite Cheyenne Jackson, and the LGBT thriller BWOY, which he also produced.

Rapp starred in the Broadway production and national tour of If/Then from the Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning creators of Next to Normal. He joined former Rent cast member Idina Menzel in this romantic and original musical about how choice and chance collide and how we learn to lovethe fallout.

Additional Broadway credits include the revival of You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown and John Guare’s Six Degrees of Separation. His Broadway debut was in Precious Sons with Judith Ivey

and Ed Harris, for which he received an Outer Critics Circle award and a Drama Desk nomination. Other theater credits include Raised In Captivity (Vineyard Theatre), Trafficking in Broken Hearts (Atlantic), Some Americans Abroad (Second Stage), Dedalus Lounge (Interart Theatre Annex), and the national tour of Little Shop of Horrors.

Rapp’s television credits include The Knick, Psych, Law & Order: SVU, Kidnapped, The Beach Boys: An American Family and The X-Files.

Rapp has been featured in a number of iconic feature films ranging from dramas like the Oscar Award-winning A Beautiful Mind, Six Degrees of Separation and The Other Woman opposite Natalie Portman, to comedies like Dazed and Confused with Matthew McConaughey and Road Trip directed by Todd Phillips. Additional film credits include Opening Night, Junction, Adventures in Babysitting, School Ties, Man of the Century and David Searching. Also, he appeared in Winter Passing, a film written and directed by his brother, Adam Rapp.

A writer as well, Rapp penned Without You: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and the Musical Rent (Simon & Schuster) about his struggle to balance the demands of life in the theatre with his responsibility to his family during his mother’s battle with cancer. He adapted the book into a one-man show entitled Without You which he has performed on stages both nationally and internationally. In 2000, Rapp released his debut album, Look Around. He has performed his music in clubs and collegesthroughout the country.

Rapp is proud to support and continue to help raise funds for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS.

MARY WISEMANCADET

SYLVIA TILLY

After graduating from Juilliard in 2015, Mary Wiseman quickly went on to star opposite Keira Knightley in the Broadway production of Therese Raquin. Recently,

Wiseman starred in the world premiere of Romance Novels for Dummies at the Williamstown Theatre Festival. Prior to that, she starred in the Williamstown Theatre

Festival’s production of Off the Main Road opposite Kyra Sedgwick as well as in theOff-Broadway, Obie Award-winning production of An Octoroon, in which her

performance was described as “delicious” and “comically inspired.”

For television, Wiseman appeared in the Netflix series Longmire and The Charactersand in Hulu’s Difficult People.

Currently, Wiseman can be seen opposite Zach Galifianakis in the second season of the FX series Baskets. Recently, she wrapped a starring role in the new Off-Broadway production

of The Skin of Our Teeth at the Theatre for a New Audience in Brooklyn, New York.

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A freshly minted Starfleet Academy Cadet assigned to Starship Discovery. She is wide-eyed, good-natured and full of nervous

excitement.

SHAZAD LATIFLIEUTENANT

ASH TYLERA Starfleet Officer in the federation and prisoner-of-war,Lt. Tyler has seen the dark side of Starfleet’s battle with the Klingons.

Shazad Latif has made a name for himself in the UK for the characters he has created on screen. In the U.S., 2016 was a breakout year for Latif as he co-starred in Showtime’s hit

gothic thriller Penny Dreadful as renowned character Dr. Henry Jekyll.

On the film front, Latif most recently played Chandra Mahalanobis in The Man Who Knew Infinity (IFC Films) alongside Jeremy Irons, Dev Patel, Toby Jones and Stephen Fry.

Also, Latif is well known for his role as Kushal in The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel(Fox Searchlight Pictures) which was released worldwide in spring 2015. He appeared

alongside Maggie Smith, Dev Patel, Judi Dench, Bill Nighy and Richard Gere.

Up next, Latif will be seen opposite Liam Neeson and Vera Farmiga in The Commuterfor Lionsgate. The film will be released worldwide in 2018.

Born and raised in London, Latif, who is English, Scottish and Pakistani, attended the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School and, after just one year, secured his first television role as Tariq Masood in BBC One’s Spooks. Subsequent television roles include Salting the Battlefield, and the BAFTA-nominated series My Mad Fat Diary. In 2012, he landed the regular role of Clem Fandango in multi-award winning comedy Toast of London, as well as receiving critical acclaim for his appearance in BBC One’s Ordinary Lies.

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THE SARCOPHAGUS SHIP

THE SARCOPHAGUS SHIP

KLINGON LEADER T’KUVMA

Chris Obi is an English actor, most recently known for Snow White and the Huntsman

where he worked with director Rupert Sanders. Obi reunites once again with Sanders

in the DreamWorks/Paramount Pictures release Ghost in the Shell. As well as being

a successful TV and film actor, Obi has also graced the stages of many theatres across

the UK playing a variety of roles and has also lent his voice to numerous radio plays.

Additional film credits include The Counselor, Burke & Hare, and The Call Up.

CHRIS OBI

T’KUVMAA Klingon leader seeking to unite the twenty-four Klingon houses.

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MARY CHIEFFO

L’RELLA Klingon and the battle deck commanderof T’Kuvma’s Klingon ship.

Mary Chieffo received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from Juilliard in 2015,

winning the Elizabeth Smith Voice and Speech Prize and the Saint-Denis Prize

for “Outstanding Achievement and Leadership in Drama.” In her fourth year,

Chieffo took on the title character in award-winning director Erica Schmidt’s

all-female Macbeth, reprising the role with Schmidt in 2016 for Seattle Repertory

Theatre’s The Other Season. After portraying Iago in October 2015 for Harlem

Shakespeare Festival’s all-female Othello, Chieffo began developing a Virtual

Reality miniseries, Operation Othello — set in the modern world of U.S.

Navy SEALs — with Viola Davis and Julius Tennon’s JuVee Productions.

For the miniseries, Eugene O’Neill Directing Fellow Jeff Liu (Yellow Face)

will direct Chieffo’s female Ensign Iago to Tennon’s Captain Othello.

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KENNETH MITCHELL

KOLThe leader of the Klingon House of Kor.

Kenneth Mitchell’s talents have been utilized in some of television’s most premiere dramas, including a starring role as Eric Green in the iconic

series Jericho on CBS. Also, Mitchell portrayed the Mercury Seven astronaut Deke Slayton on the ABC series The Astronaut Wives Club.

His many recurring roles include playing Deacon Joe Hurley on The CW’s Frequency, Detective Matthews on ABC’s Notorious and Wes Gable on the ABC Family drama Switched at Birth. Mitchell has made distinctive guest appearances on shows including Code Black, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, CSI: Cyber, CSI: Miami, Without a Trace, Major Crimes, Grey’s Anatomy, Criminal Minds, Private Practice, Castle, The Mentalist, Grimm, NCIS, NCIS: Los Angeles, Bones, Hawaii 5-0 and Ghost Whisperer. Born in Toronto, Canada, Mitchell landed his first major role in the Showtime movie Charms for the Easy Life, co-starring alongside Gena Rowlands. This led to two leading roles in the Showtime series Odyssey 5 and Leap Years.

In 2004, Mitchell received strong recognition for his starring role as Ralph Cox in the classic Disney sports film, Miracle, opposite Kurt Russell and directed by Gavin O’Connor. Also, Mitchell has lent his leading talents to films such as Touchstone Pictures’ The Recruit, with Al Pacino and directed by Roger Donaldson, the independent features Blood Honey and Tennis, Anyone?, as well as the television features Iron Road, Tasmanian Devil and Home of the Giants. Currently, Mitchell resides in Studio City, California, with his wife, Susan May Pratt, and two children, Lilah and Kallum.

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JAMES FRAIN

SAREKThe Vulcan Ambassador andfamed father of Spock.

James Frain is one of Hollywood’s most versatile and respected actors. He has a reputation for bold, intelligent performances in a diverse body

of work in which he has collaborated with some of the finest actors and directors working today.

Frain’s film work includes Disney’s The Lone Ranger from director Gore

Verbinski opposite Johnny Depp and Armie Hammer, Tron: Legacy opposite Jeff Bridges, Fox’s Water for Elephants opposite Reese Witherspoon and Robert Pattinson and Transit opposite James Caviezel for producer Joel Silver.

On television, he most recently starred as Theo Galavan in FOX’s Gotham, as

well as in seasons three, four and five of Orphan Black, the BBC/Starz series The White Queen and the BBC miniseries Bert & Dickie. He portrayed the much-

talked about character of Franklin Mott in HBO’s True Blood. Previously, he played Thomas Cromwell for three seasons in Showtime’s critically acclaimed drama The Tudors.

Frain’s past film credits include Elizabeth with Cate Blanchett, Hilary and Jackie opposite Emily Watson, The Count of Monte Cristo with Jim Caviezel and Guy Pearce, Where the Heart Is opposite Natalie Portman, Reindeer Games with Ben Affleck and Charlize Theron and Into the Blue with Paul Walker. Frain has an extensive theatre background having performed with The Royal Shakespeare Company, Almeida and Royal Court. In 2007, Frain co-starred with Ian McShane on Broadway in The Homecoming for which the cast won The Drama Critics Circle “Best Ensemble” Award. Born in the north of England, Frain earned his degree in Drama and Film at the University of East Anglia and studied acting at London’s Central School of Speech and Drama. While studying in London, Frain was spotted by Sir Richard Attenborough who immediately cast him in his first feature Shadowlands opposite Sir Anthony Hopkins and Debra Winger.

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RAINN WILSON

HARRY MUDDThe charismatic conman and intergalactic criminal first introduced in the original

Star Trek television series.

Rainn Wilson is an Emmy-nominated and Screen Actors Guild Award-winning actor who has found himself in

a variety of comedic and theatrical roles throughout his career. His first breakthrough role came when he played assistant mortician Arthur Martin in HBO’s Six

Feet Under, winning him and the cast a Screen Actors Guild Award for “Outstanding Performance by an

Ensemble in a Drama Series.” Wilson is best known for playing the inimitable Dwight Schrute for nine seasons on NBC’s Emmy Award-winning comedy The Office.

Wilson’s film credits include Hesher, opposite Natalie Portman and Joseph Gordon-Levitt; Super, with Kevin

Bacon, Liv Tyler and Ellen Page; Cooties opposite Elijah Wood; and the acclaimed comedies Juno and Almost Famous. Most recently, he starred in The Boy, which premiered at the 2015 SXSW Film Festival, and Permanent, opposite Patricia Arquette. Next up, he is co-starring in Warner Bros. horror-adventure feature Meg, opposite Jason Statham. Currently, Wilson can be seen in the Netflix feature Shimmer Lake, directed by Oren Uziel.

On television, Wilson portrayed the irascible but brilliant Detective Everett Backstrom in FOX’s subversive, comic crime procedural Backstrom and recently appeared as a special guest star in Cameron Crowe’s Showtime series Roadies.

Wilson has a Master of Fine Arts from New York University’s Graduate Acting Program at the Tisch School of the Arts, and spent 10 years doing theatre in New York before moving to Los Angeles. On Broadway, he was in The Tempest with Patrick Stewart, and the Tony-nominated London Assurance. Off-Broadway, Wilson worked at The Public Theater and Playwrights Horizons, and performed regularly at The Arena Stage, The Guthrie and with the touring repertory theater The Acting Company. The comedy show he created, The New Bonanza, had a successful off-Broadway run at The Cherry Lane and later played in Los Angeles at The Hudson Guild and The Tiffany. Most recently, Wilson performed the critically acclaimed one-person monologue Thom Pain (based on nothing) at The Geffen.

Wilson founded the YouTube channel Soul Pancake, which has over 1.7 million subscribers. In 2015, he published his memoir, The Bassoon King: My Life in Art, Faith, and Idiocy.

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PRODUCTION CREDITS

Gretchen J. Berg,Executive Producer/Co-ShowrunnerPrior to serving as a co-showrunner on Star Trek: Discovery, Gretchen J. Berg served as an executive producer on The CW’s Reign, ABC’s Revenge and Off the Map, as an executive producer and showrunner of ABC’s G.C.B., and as an executive producer and co-showrunner of NBC’s nursing drama Mercy. Berg is a graduate of Northwestern University where she met future collaborator Aaron Harberts. The duo started their television career on the original Beverly Hills, 90210. Writing and producing stints on Roswell, John Doe, Wonderfalls, and North Shore preceded her and Harbert’s creation of Pepper Dennis, which starred Rebecca Romijn and Josh Hopkins. Additional credits include Women’s Murder Club, Pushing Daisies, the feature film Valentine and a variety of drama pilots for 20th Century Fox, Warner Bros. Television and ABC Studios. Berg hails from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Aaron Harberts,Executive Producer/Co-ShowrunnerPrior to serving as a co-showrunner on Star Trek: Discovery, Aaron Harberts served as an executive producer on The CW’s Reign, ABC’s Revenge and Off the Map, as an executive producer and showrunner of ABC’s G.C.B., and as an executive producer and co-showrunner of NBC’s nursing drama Mercy. Harberts is a graduate of Northwestern University where he met future collaborator Gretchen J. Berg. The duo started their television career on the original Beverly Hills, 90210. Writing and producing stints on Roswell, John Doe, Wonderfalls, and North Shore preceded his and Berg’s creation of Pepper Dennis, which starred Rebecca Romijn and Josh Hopkins. Additional credits include Women’s Murder Club, Pushing Daisies, the feature film Valentine and a variety of drama pilots for 20th Century Fox, Warner Bros. Television and ABC Studios. Harberts hails from Ft. Lauderdale, Florida.

Alex Kurtzman,Executive ProducerAs one of the leading creative voices in the entertainment industry today, Alex Kurtzman is known for his ability to bring complex source material to the screen with character-driven stories grounded in reality.

In 2015, Kurtzman launched his new production company, Secret Hideout, and signed an overall TV deal with CBS Television Studios. Through the company, Kurtzman co-created and is executive producing the upcoming Star Trek: Discovery. Also, Kurtzman is an executive producer on CBS’s current summer event series Salvation and midseason series Instinct.

In addition, Kurtzman is continuing to produce shows from his former K/O Paper Products banner under the new production company including the upcoming fourth season of the critically acclaimed series Scorpion and the eighth season of Hawaii Five-0 on CBS. The company’s supernatural series, Sleepy Hollow, recently wrapped a successful four years on FOX in 2017. Kurtzman, along with Roberto

Orci and J.J. Abrams, previously co-created and executive producedthe popular show Fringe, which ended its five-season run in 2013.

Outside of TV, Kurtzman has co-written some of the decade’s biggest films including Star Trek, Star Trek: Into Darkness, The Amazing Spider Man 2, Transformers and Mission: Impossible III and has directed films such as The Mummy and People Like Us. Additionally, he executive produced the romantic comedy The Proposal as well as the Now You See Me franchise. Overall, his writing and producing credits have earned over $4 billion worldwide. Kurtzman began his career writing for the popular TV series Hercules. He went on to write for Xena: Warrior Princess, where he moved up the ranks to become a head writer for the show at the age of 23. Next, he wrote for J.J. Abrams’ popular series Alias, leading to a fruitful and collaborative relationship with Abrams. He eventually served as an executive producer on the show.

PRODUCTION CREDITS

Heather Kadin,Executive ProducerHeather Kadin is an accomplished producer whose body of workspans a range of iconic television shows and feature films from thispast decade.

Currently, Kadin serves as President of Television at Alex Kurtzman’s new banner, Secret Hideout. Previously, she worked with Kurtzman at K/O Paper Products, where she served as president of television and executive produced a number of successful television series, including Scorpion and Hawaii Five-0 on CBS as well as Sleepy Hollow, whichjust wrapped a successful four-year run on FOX. She continues to serve as an executive producer for Scorpion and Hawaii Five-0 through Secret Hideout, where she is also an executive producer on CBS’s summer event series Salvation and midseason drama Instinct as well as the highly-anticipated Star Trek: Discovery.

In 2004, Kadin joined Warner Bros. Television where she re-teamed with leading producers J.J. Abrams, Roberto Orci and Kurtzman to develop

the cult genre series Fringe. Furthermore, Kadin played an instrumental role in the development of other celebrated shows including The Closer, The Vampire Diaries, Supernatural and Terminator: The SarahConnor Chronicles.

Kadin began her television career in 2000 at ABC, where she worked closely with J.J. Abrams and future collaborators Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci on Alias. During her time at ABC, Kadin was an integral part in the development of some of the network’s longest-running series including Lost, Grey’s Anatomy and Desperate Housewives.

Prior to her career in television, Kadin ran Tom Shadyac’s Shady Acres Entertainment. While part of the production company, Kadin worked on projects such as Patch Adams, Bruce Almighty and I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry.

Kadin is a graduate of the University of Michigan and currently resides in Los Angeles, California, with her husband and two sons.

Akiva Goldsman,Executive Producer/DirectorRaised in Brooklyn Heights, New York, Akiva Goldsman received his bachelor’s degree from Wesleyan University and attended the graduate fiction writing program at New York University. His feature writing credits include The Client, Batman Forever, A Time to Kill, Practical Magic, Cinderella Man, I Am Legend, The Da Vinci Code, Angels & Demons, Insurgent, The Fifth Wave, Rings and I, Robot; as well as The Dark Tower. Also, he wrote A Beautiful Mind, for which he won an Academy Award, Golden Globe and Writers Guild of America (WGA) Award. Also, Goldsman served as executive producer on Paranormal Activity 2, 3 and 4. Under his Weed Road Pictures banner, Goldsman has produced Deep Blue Sea, Constantine, Mr. & Mrs. Smith, Hancock, Fair Game and Lone Survivor, as well as King Arthur: Legend of the Sword. Goldsman has worked in television as a consulting producer, writer and director on the television show Fringe, for which he garnered a Saturn

Award and a Hugo Award nomination. Goldsman executive produced the Syfy miniseries Childhood’s End, the WGN original drama series Underground, as well as the upcoming Star Trek: Discovery forCBS All Access. Goldsman’s feature directorial debut, Winter’s Tale, starring Colin Farrell, Jessica Brown Findlay, Jennifer Connelly, Will Smith and Russell Crowe was released in February 2014. Most recently, he directed the sci-fi horror film Stephanie for Blumhouse Productions and Universal.

PRODUCTION CREDITS

Eugene “Rod” Roddenberry,Executive ProducerEugene “Rod” Roddenberry, is the guardian of the Roddenberry legacy and champions its timeless and universal ideals to new generations through creative and inspiring science fiction productions, merchandise, publishing, adventures and philanthropy.

As the son of legendary science fiction producer Gene Roddenberry, whose Star Trek series changed the face of television and continues to inspire today, Roddenberry has followed in his father’s footsteps to be a catalyst in the creation of a world where humanity works together for the greater good.

In 2006, Roddenberry became chief executive officer of Roddenberry Entertainment, a science fiction leader with a tradition of groundbreaking entertainment. Roddenberry Entertainment builds on the best of Gene Roddenberry’s work and continues to pioneer the development of a multimedia portfolio of smart and provocative science fiction that incorporates graphic novels, comics, television and film projects, including the critically acclaimed Trek Nation, which debuted in 2011.

Trek Nation is the documentation of Roddenberry’s 10-year journey to explore his father’s life. The undertaking inspired him to fully embrace the vision Gene had for the world and invest himself in its future. One expression of this was the founding of The Roddenberry Foundation in 2010.The Roddenberry Foundation funds paradigm-changing solutions to critical global issues in science and technology, the environment, education and humanitarian advances.

Having originally aimed for the stars, the Roddenberry legacy lives on in Roddenberry Adventures. In the spirit of Star Trek, which sought to explore the human condition, Roddenberry founded Adventures with the goal of promoting exploration through unique, perspective-shifting experiences.He leads the adventure-based team in its exploration of strange, new worlds, revealing the beauty and diversity that surrounds us and unites all species on Earth.

Trevor Roth,Executive ProducerAs C.O.O. and Head of Development for Roddenberry Entertainment, Trevor Roth works to develop and produce innovative science-fiction entertainment properties that remain true to traditions of the late Gene Roddenberry, creator of Star Trek. Roth serves as executive producer on the new CBS All Access series Star Trek: Discovery, as well as its upcoming companion series. Spearheading Roddenberry Entertainment’s development process, Roth created the critically-acclaimed graphic novel series Days Missing and WORTH, and the original comic strip Gene’s Journal. Additionally, Roth created the company newest animation project, Rod & Barry, based on the comic strip of the same team. He served as producer on the company’s documentary, Trek Nation, as well as executive producer on a first-of-its-kind 360 degree film, White Room:02B3. Roth will also play

the role of executive producer on the variety of projects the company has currently set for television and film development. He is also credited with reshaping the company’s successful merchandising arm and building its significant online presence. Prior to joining Roddenberry Entertainment, Roth spent almost a decade in the world of advertising and marketing. Roth is a magna cum laude graduate of the University of California, Los Angeles, with a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology and a minor in Film. He lives in Los Angeles, California, with his wife and two daughters.

CBS All Access is the subscription video on-demand and live streaming service for theCBS Television Network. Offering two subscription tiers, $5.99 a month with reduced commercials or $9.99 for commercial-free, CBS All Access gives CBS Television fans the ability to watch more than 9,000 episodes on demand - spanning current CBS shows, past seasons and classic TV hits - and stream their local CBS station live online and across devices, including the NFL on CBS. In November 2015, CBS All Access announced plans to develop CBS All Access Originals. The service’s first original series, a digital extension of the hit reality competition series Big Brother, Big Brother: Over the Top, aired September 2016. The service has developed two original drama series, the new edition of The Good Wife, titled The Good Fight, which debuted on Feb. 19, 2017, and the highly anticipated Star Trek: Discovery. The second season of The Good Fight will debut in 2018.

AVAILABILITYCBS All Access is currently available online atCBS.com, on mobile devices and tablets via the CBS App for Android, iOS, and Windows 10, and on major connected device platforms: Fire TV, Android TV, Apple TV, Chromecast, PlayStation 4, Roku Players and Roku TVs, Xbox 360 andXbox One. LAUNCH DATEOct. 15, 2014 OWNERSHIPCBS All Access is developed by CBS Interactive, a division of CBS Corporation.

EXECUTIVESJIM LANZONEChief Digital OfficerCBS Corporation Chief Executive OfficerCBS Interactive MARC DEBEVOISEPresident & Chief Operating OfficerCBS Interactive

www.cbs.com/allaccess

CBS Television Studios is one of the industry’s leading suppliers of programmingfor broadcast, basic and premium cable, as well as streaming platforms. The Studio’s primetime programming includes the phenomenally successful NCIS franchise; the critically acclaimed series Madam Secretary, Jane The Virgin and Crazy Ex-Girlfriend; the hit dramas Elementary, Blue Bloods, Hawaii Five-0, MacGyver, Bull and Scorpion; the popular comedies Kevin Can Wait, Superior Donuts and Man With A Plan; and the summer series Zoo and Salvation.

The Studio’s new series for the 2017-2018 television season include the dramas SEAL Team, Wisdom Of The Crowd and Instinct; comedy 9JKL; and

dramas Dynasty and Valor for The CW. The Studio also produces the Daytime Emmy Award-winning talk show The Talk, as well as the Emmy

nominated late night series, The Late Show with Stephen Colbertand The Late Late Show with James Corden.

For CBS All Access, the CBS Television Network’s subscription video on-demand and live streaming service, the Studio

produces the highly anticipated Star Trek: Discovery,and the critically acclaimed The Good Fight.

The Studio also produces two new series based on popular, viral segments from The Late

Late Show – Carpool Karaoke for Apple Music and Drop The Mic for TBS – as

well as comedies American Vandal and Insatiable for Netflix, and the

comedy anthology series, The Guest Book for TBS.

CBS ALL ACCESS CONTACTS:Morgan Seal646.424.4321 | morgan.seal@cbsi.com

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CBS TELEVISION STUDIO CONTACTS:Lauri Metrose818.655.7223 | lauri.metrose@cbs.com

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