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We thought it way back during the opening episodes and now Star Trek: Discovery's showrunner has confirmed a major Game of Thrones influence.

Talking to Digital Spy and other press, Aaron Harberts spoke about how the storytelling in HBO's hit affected how he approached the new Star Trek series, especially since he didn't "consider [himself] to be a fan of fantasy or genre".

"Our goal for Star Trek was to create not just something that fans loved, but that it was something that other people who thought they didn't like Star Trek would jump into, and the only thing I could draw from was Game of Thrones," he explained.

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"It's very much inspired by that, the goal to look for a cliffhanger, be it an emotional cliffhanger or a plot cliffhanger. I think we have more hope than Game of Thrones, because it's very bleak, but yes, it has always been our goal."

Ahead of the mid-season finale, Star Trek: Discovery's Shazad Latif may have confirmed a major fan theory that *POTENTIAL SPOILERS* the human character of Ash Tyler is actually a Klingon in disguise.

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"We have 15 hours to explore these characters, I haven't done a job where I've done 15 hours of TV, it's an incredible amount of work that we've done over 10 months, that really excited me," Latif noted.

"But I didn't get to choose, I just auditioned and they chose me, it wasn't me going, 'You know what, I'll do Star Trek next'."

Latif only made his debut in episode five of the first season, so he wouldn't have done 15 hours of TV, although he might well have done if he had appeared in the first four episodes as a Klingon.

Star Trek: Discovery airs on CBS All Access in the US and Netflix in the UK.

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