The new Star Trek TV series is already off to a good start.
15 years after he began his career as a writer on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and Star Trek: Voyager, Bryan Fuller (Hannibal, Pushing Daisies) is returning to the franchise to sit in the Captain’s chair.
“My very first experience of Star Trek is my oldest brother turning off all the lights in the house and flying his model of a D7 Class Klingon Battle Cruiser through the darkened halls,” Fuller told Entertainment Weekly. “Before seeing a frame of the television series, the Star Trek universe lit my imagination on fire. It is without exaggeration a dream come true to be crafting a brand-new iteration of Star Trek with fellow franchise alum Alex Kurtzman and boldly going where no Star Trek series has gone before.”
It’s clear that not only did the new Trek sign on a showrunner who is great with worldbuilding, as we experienced with both Pushing Daisies and Hannibal, they’ve also gained someone who has a deep love for Star Trek. “Bringing Star Trek back to television means returning it to its roots, and for years those roots flourished under Bryan’s devoted care,” explained executive producer Alex Kurtzman, also to EW. “His encyclopedic knowledge of Trek canon is surpassed only by his love for Gene Roddenberry’s optimistic future, a vision that continues to guide us as we explore strange new worlds.”
The new series will debut in early 2017 on CBS before shifting exclusively to the CBS All Access streaming platform.
This is a huge boon for both the new generation of Star Trek fans and CBS All Access, which is currently without any original programming. For Fuller, it appears to mark a long march back to Star Trek, as he’s been advocating for a new show for years. While there are no details about the story that will be told in this reboot, Fuller has said in previous interviews that he’d love to go back to the spirit and vibrancy of the original series. As he explained in a 2008 interview, the aesthetic of Star Trek “got cold over the years.”
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The two — soon to be three — films ushered in by J.J. Abrams and writers Kurtzman and Roberto Orci, have already done a lot of work in reviving the more colorful (and action-driven) version of Star Trek. The hope is that Fuller will use the TV space to return Trek even further to its roots, creating a show that is complex, thoughtful and most of all, scientific.
One interesting thing pointed out by EW: in 2013, Fuller did outline an idea he had for a Star Trek show. Instead of setting it on the U.S.S. Enterprise, he would have set it on the U.S.S. Reliant, a ship best known for being hijacked by Kahn in The Wrath of Kahn. Though he explained: “I think let that be the movies and let that be their story. I would love to do something on the Reliant … I want Angela Bassett to be the captain, that’s who I would love to have, you know Captain Angela Bassett and First Officer Rosario Dawson. I would love to do that version of the show and but that’s in the future to be told.”
Sign me up for an Angela Bassett, Rosario Dawson-led Star Trek series right now.
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