I will be updating this thread every time new information is tweeted. That way it will all be in one place for easy access.
POSSIBLE SPOILERS
Even though any spoilers will probably be very light. This is a warning just in case.
Star Trek News
Will be set in the Prime Universe. 10 years before Kirk's 5-year mission. Prequel Confirmed.
Fuller says Star Trek: Discovery takes events mentioned in previous iterations of Trek but "never full explored"
Incident at the center of Star Trek: Discovery is not the Romulan War, Fuller says
Star Trek: Discovery to have Female lead
Female lead will be human, but not captain
Lead will be a Lt. Commander "with caveats"
The first season will be 13 episodes
Fuller: “We’ll probably have a few more aliens than you normally do in a Star Trek cast”
"Absolutely we're having a gay character." - Bryan Fuller
will be serialized but each weekly chapter will also feature closed-end stories
"Discovery is set so close to the Kirk era that we can play with all the iconography of those ships and those uniforms.”
Fuller: "We are not subject to broadcast standards & practices. Neither was Hannibal and we got away with murder."
Spock's mother Amanda Grayson "maybe" will be featured in Discovery but will not be central.
Bryan Fuller on the lead not being a captain: "We’ve seen 6 series from a captain’s point of view"
Series will center around an event referenced in TOS
One of the alien characters is named Saru
There will be robots in Star Trek Discovery. You can also bend space and time
Sources tell THR the rest of the cast will also feature an openly gay actor to play one one of the male leads (which Fuller confirmed), a female admiral, a male Klingon captain, a male admiral, a male adviser and a British male doctor.
CBS All Access information
There will be ads. about 12 minutes per hour
Head of CBS All Access: "It’s the lightest ad load you can get. We’re toying with the idea of a commercial free option."