Star Trek: Discovery -- from EP Bryan Fuller -- Coming to CBS All-Access in 2017
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Pushing Daisies creator angling for new Star Trek TV show!
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Pushing Daisies creator angling for new Star Trek TV show
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Bryan Fuller goes boldly in search of a retro-trek TV experience...
Published on Mar 3, 2009
Pushing Daisies creator Bryan Fuller - who now has a bit of time on his hands -has revealed that he is trying to get a new TV vision for Star Trek off the ground.
In an interview with IF magazine, the writer and producer said: "I told my agent and told the people of J.J. Abrams' team I want to create another Star Trek series and have an idea that I’m kicking around. I would love to return to the spirit of the old series with the colours and attitude. I loved Voyager and Deep Space Nine, but they seem to have lost the ‘60s fun and I would love to take it back to its origin."
Fuller's vision for the putative new show is one based on 'old-style' Star Trek, and presumably he might have to fight a great many other contenders if J.J. Abrams Star Trek movie is the blockbuster Paramount hopes for in May - not least of whom is Abrams, currently a more formidable presence in television. There's obvious potential to simply reboot The Original Series with a new TV cast playing Kirk, Spock, McCoy et al, running in tandem with a new cinematic Star Trek prequel franchise.
The last time the federation was on the small screen was for the four-season run of Enterprise, which ended when the series was cancelled in 2005. By general consensus, Star Trek product had been over-saturating TV for years...but has the jaded palette of viewers been cleansed enough now for a new infusion of episodic Enterprise antics?
Fuller is no Trek-amateur - he produced the final season of Voyager and contributed 22 episodes as writer to both Deep Space Nine and Voyager.
http://www.denofgeek.com/television/...k_tv_show.html
Pushing Daisies creator angling for new Star Trek TV show
Martin Anderson
Bryan Fuller goes boldly in search of a retro-trek TV experience...
Published on Mar 3, 2009
Pushing Daisies creator Bryan Fuller - who now has a bit of time on his hands -has revealed that he is trying to get a new TV vision for Star Trek off the ground.
In an interview with IF magazine, the writer and producer said: "I told my agent and told the people of J.J. Abrams' team I want to create another Star Trek series and have an idea that I’m kicking around. I would love to return to the spirit of the old series with the colours and attitude. I loved Voyager and Deep Space Nine, but they seem to have lost the ‘60s fun and I would love to take it back to its origin."
Fuller's vision for the putative new show is one based on 'old-style' Star Trek, and presumably he might have to fight a great many other contenders if J.J. Abrams Star Trek movie is the blockbuster Paramount hopes for in May - not least of whom is Abrams, currently a more formidable presence in television. There's obvious potential to simply reboot The Original Series with a new TV cast playing Kirk, Spock, McCoy et al, running in tandem with a new cinematic Star Trek prequel franchise.
The last time the federation was on the small screen was for the four-season run of Enterprise, which ended when the series was cancelled in 2005. By general consensus, Star Trek product had been over-saturating TV for years...but has the jaded palette of viewers been cleansed enough now for a new infusion of episodic Enterprise antics?
Fuller is no Trek-amateur - he produced the final season of Voyager and contributed 22 episodes as writer to both Deep Space Nine and Voyager.
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I had no idea Fuller was so involved with ST.
I say give him a shot at it, as long as it's done on cable at about a pace of 12 episodes a season.
I say give him a shot at it, as long as it's done on cable at about a pace of 12 episodes a season.
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Fuller was treated like dogshit on Voyager, according to Ron Moore who at the time was obviously close to the situation, working with him on some DS9 episodes (two fantastic and dark episodes: 'The Darkness and the Light' and 'Empok Nor' both in it's fifth season), and also during Moore's very brief stint on Voyager.
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I didn't know about the ST connection either.
I didn't watch Enterprise when it was on, but a year or two ago I went through it on DVD and liked it. I thought it recaptured the original's sense of adventure and exploration without the camp. Still, even if the movie is a hit I don't think TV land is any more receptive to a new ST series than it was a few years ago.
I didn't watch Enterprise when it was on, but a year or two ago I went through it on DVD and liked it. I thought it recaptured the original's sense of adventure and exploration without the camp. Still, even if the movie is a hit I don't think TV land is any more receptive to a new ST series than it was a few years ago.
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Jeez the movie isn't even out yet and someone wants to put it back on TV.
No that wouldn't confuse the audience Paramount is going after OR further piss off the original series fanbase at all . . .
For the record I am all for the new movie, hope it does well and excited to see it, but I don't want to see anymore Trek on TV for a long long time.
There's obvious potential to simply reboot The Original Series with a new TV cast playing Kirk, Spock, McCoy et al, running in tandem with a new cinematic Star Trek prequel franchise
For the record I am all for the new movie, hope it does well and excited to see it, but I don't want to see anymore Trek on TV for a long long time.
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No, no, 1000 times no. One of the reasons (although not the only reason) the movies started to perform poorly after Star Trek IV was because there was more and more new Star Trek on TV.
Let's keep Star Trek a once-every-three years movie experience for a decade or so...THEN we can start thinking about a new TV series.
Let's keep Star Trek a once-every-three years movie experience for a decade or so...THEN we can start thinking about a new TV series.
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i'm in. i agree that doing a reboot about the kirk/spock days only goes to confuse casual fans. i think paramount may think about this hard if the movie ends up doing well at the box office. as long as you can have creative people such as Abrams/Fuller behind the show, I think it will definitely be a higher quality product.
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Bring back Star Trek=GOOD IDEA
Bring back old style Star Trek+AWFUL IDEA.
I do NOT want to see new actors cast in the iconic roles. It's not a fan boy obsession that only the original actors can do the roles justice...I don't believe that for one second and am confident if we can find different actors to play iconic roles such as Batman and James Bond then different actors can tackle James T. Kirk and crew...but it's like ENOUGH already with the old Trek.
I grew up with the Next Generation crew, and loved the idea of them jumping 80 years in the future after the last series. That's what I really want to see them do...jump another generation or two into the future and tell tales of the Federation many, many years from now. If done well enough, it could have the tone of the original series but be completely different from what we know already and has become tired and worn out.
Bring back old style Star Trek+AWFUL IDEA.
I do NOT want to see new actors cast in the iconic roles. It's not a fan boy obsession that only the original actors can do the roles justice...I don't believe that for one second and am confident if we can find different actors to play iconic roles such as Batman and James Bond then different actors can tackle James T. Kirk and crew...but it's like ENOUGH already with the old Trek.
I grew up with the Next Generation crew, and loved the idea of them jumping 80 years in the future after the last series. That's what I really want to see them do...jump another generation or two into the future and tell tales of the Federation many, many years from now. If done well enough, it could have the tone of the original series but be completely different from what we know already and has become tired and worn out.
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You know the reason the producers of Smallville didn't want to develop a romantic relationship with Lois on the show before Superman Returns came out was because they thought it would confuse people. As if they can't figure out one is a TV show and one is a movie, one is Erica Durance and one is Kate Bosworth.
That's corporate mindset there, and it's just asinine. Not you, but that mindset. It's like saying Daniel Craig confuses Roger Moore fans or something.
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sure, it confuses people. it muddies the brand. i mean, if they continue with the movie cast making ST movies, why should the casual fan go to see if there is a TV show with the same characters?
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Fuller was treated like dogshit on Voyager, according to Ron Moore who at the time was obviously close to the situation, working with him on some DS9 episodes (two fantastic and dark episodes: 'The Darkness and the Light' and 'Empok Nor' both in it's fifth season), and also during Moore's very brief stint on Voyager.
As far as a new show goes, I just don't think they should do it. Fuller or no Fuller. No more prequels.
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Your last argument reminds me of the opening sequence in the Simpsons movie when Homer is mad because he got dragged to the Itchy and Scratchy movie because he can watch the show on TV for free. Yet casual fans showed up for the Simpsons movie and other TV to movie movies.
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I'd love to see it set in the era of TOS, but on another ship, maybe one that Kirk and Co. ran into during the original series, and do it not only with the cable style 12 eps a season, but make each little season a somewhat contained story thing. If it doesn't go past 1 season, it can still be sold as a "mini-series" type package.
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I'd really like to see what Bryan Fuller had in mind for this. I liked all his work so far.
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If they don't jump in the future another generation or two, I always wanted to see a series with Captain Riker and his new crew. I know they put out some books, but it's just not the same.