A war with the Klingons will dominate the first season of Star Trek: Discovery, executive producer Alex Kurtzman has confirmed.

Series lead Michael Burnham (Sonequa Martin-Green) is an expert on alien races and has an obsession of sorts with Klingons, Kurtzman told Digital Spy.

"She is fascinated and fixated on alien races; particularly the Klingons, for reasons that we'll come to understand are very personal for her," he explained. "Given the fact that we're at war with the Klingons in the show, she's going to have a lot to say and do about it."

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With the war as season one's major plot arc, Kurtzman suggested that a second season of Discovery would tackle the aftermath, as well as new stories.

"Each season needs to be about a different thing," he said. "I wouldn't necessarily want to bring the Klingon War into season two.

"However, the results of the war are going to allow for a lot of new storytelling that will be the result of everything that happens and the people that are left behind; the casualties, the things that have grown in Starfleet as a result of the war. That's what we'll inherit in the second season."

Kurtzman also told us that more Star Trek TV shows are "totally possible" – including Bryan Fuller's planned anthology series.

Star Trek: Discovery will premiere on CBS and CBS All Access on Sunday, September 24 at 8.30/7.30c and will be available the following day on Netflix in the UK.

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