Kmart wrote:Sorry, didn't see this before. I'm guessing that Universal monster thing is dead, or at least on ice, for the near future.
As far as the rest goes ... I dunno why they are sticking with Kurtzman, unless they couldn't get somebody else to oversee the Trekverse. And maybe nobody likes the environment there, so that might be why there weren't better-qualified takers. More likely is that CBS likes their track record with Kurtzman, quality be damned, and are as content with him running things as Paramount used to be with Berman -- so long as the trains run on time.
Trying to turn trek in to MiniMarvelVerse for the tube seems foolishly ambitious to me, but part of that is their choices on what they are exploring. Have no interest in TNG-era stuff except for DS9, and even there I'm not sure that any more story needs telling. Animated Trek is a 'mehh' idea to me, and the starfleet kiddies is the dumb concept that has the potential to be smart but won't. Not interesting in Khan's history either. Ideally, if Pike is interesting, they could blow up DISCOVERY and just do a new pre-TOS series with Pike, but again, probably not where they're going.
As always, am personally interested in seeing events right after UNDISCOVERED COUNTRY explored, when Starfleet and Feds seem their most retro-20thcentury with political paranoia and scheming. How do you get from there to Picard's time? Is it just due to holo-tech that things get so different? Unlikely. To me the gap between late TOS and TNG is as glaring as the one between us now and ENT, though more in the matter of drama than history. I've had my own Enterprise-B miniseries idea ever since seeing GENERATIONS that I'd love to have somebody run with, though now you wouldn't be able to take advantage of cameos that you would have in the mid to late 90s.
Oh, and you might want to correct logline above, Goldsman didn't take over DSC, he got let go as well (though for all we know, he is still involved with developing one of these other trek series.)
Oh dang I misread that. Yeah I think he is still involved in one of the other projects. You are right.
I agree too that the era between TOS and TNG is potentially a bountiful one as we also go from that more militant look of the ships of TOS to a more artistic designed look of TNG era. Even the TNG Enterprise reflects that shift. I think they tried with the Excelsior to have that gentle nudge in that direction but there is still the whole Klingon/Fed peace left to figure out and we know that Khitomer happened in between that time too so there was still conflict.
But I think I know why they wont: if they do something in that timeframe fans will wonder where Sulu is commanding his own ship and the rest of the classic grew during this time. We know some of them were all still alive up to TNG.
You know what might be cool is to have a series or even a mini with the surviving TOS crew all assembled or maybe even just the Shat man and Takei at odds(would mirror real life) and then have it dovetail into TNG.
Isn't the gap between Trek VI and TNG roughly 75 years? Spock and Bones were both still alive and Scotty was stuck on that Dyson Sphere.
They could even have the whole Romulan angle playing out behind the scenes pulling strings to keep Klingons and Feds at odds.
It could easily be configured to mirror our own times as Russia has been in retrograde for the last few decades since the late 90s. And the movies have never utilized Romulans properly as a big threat in my opinion. It's always been some rogue Romulan.
If they want to really be ambitious,CBS and Paramount could get together and do one of those NuTrek films and then have the timeline merge back together with the new Sulu, Bones, Spock and Kirk coming back in and give them their own miniseries commanding the Excelsior and Enterprise in that timeframe with guest roles by Takei and Shat. Heck, they brought Nimoy back for NuTrek 09. They could do the same here with a movie or tv show.
It's too bad the movies and tv ownership is separate for now.
But to me, you want to use the classic TOS actors as much as possible. I grew up enjoying TNG but it hasn't had the staying power like the TOS era tv and movies has.Part of that is also the failure of the TNG movies to really cement those tv actors onto the big screen in a lasting way.
it makes SyFy channel look high brow & high quality by comparison 
CBS were hoping the people who want to pay long enough to fund a Season 2 (Netflix are only funding season1) do not notice its lifting a LOT of stuff from the Kelvin films and I mean a LOT of stuff some of it is almost 1:1 cut n paste! 
its actually coming across as SyFy Channel material right now which is going to sink the franchise even further to many how could the bar be set so low all those producers have to eat I guess...... 