The first season of next year's Star Trek series will be 13 episodes long.

Co-creator and showrunner Bryan Fuller confirmed that the episodes will tell one story, and that shooting begins in September.

"We've got the arc of the first season entirely written, or arced out, and we've got the first six episodes entirely broken," he told Collider.

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Fuller added that because the series will be on streaming service CBS All Access, the writers will have more flexibility.

"Because we're CBS All Access, we're not subject to network broadcast standards and practices," he said. "It will likely affect us more in terms of what we can do graphically, but Star Trek's not necessarily a universe where I want to hear a lot of profanity, either.

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"I've met with a few actors, and it's an interesting process.

"There's a few people that we like and we want to carry on what Star Trek does best, which is being progressive. So it's fascinating to look at all of these roles through a colourblind prism and a gender-blind prism, so that's exciting."

Early reports have hinted that the new Star Trek will be set on a ship other than the Enterprise - and will maintain continuity with the '60s series but not JJ Abrams's movie universe.

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