Let's grab lunch sometime ;)

Soon!

I'm finishing up two records for MegaTrax this month but will have some time in June. :)

Joe Menosky and Aron Coleite have reportedly joined the writing staff of the upcoming "Star Trek" TV series for CBS All Access.

Bryan Fuller ("Hannibal," "American Gods") and Alex Kurtzman ("Fringe," "Sleepy Hollow") are producing the series which also recently hired acclaimed "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan" director Nicholas Meyer to produce.

Joe Menosky was staff writer on "Star Trek: The Next Generation," "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine" and "Star Trek: Voyager" with his credits including famed episodes like "Darmok," "Clues," "Time's Arrow," "The Chase" and "Suspicions" for TNG along with "The Thaw," "Future's End," "Scorpion," "Distant Origin", "Year of Hell," "The Killing Game," "Hope and Fear," "Timeless," "Equinox," "Tinker, Tenor, Doctor, Spy" and "Blink of an Eye" for 'Voyager'.

Aron Coleite is a comic book writer best known for his work on "Ultimate X-Men". He also has TV experience, working on all four seasons of NBC's "Heroes". The pair join novelist Kirsten Beyer who has penned numerous "Star Trek: Voyager" and "Buffy" books.

Fuller himself got his start on both DS9 and Voyager, penning episodes like "Empok Nor," "The Raven," "Living Witness," "Drone," "Bride of Chaotica," "Gravity," "Dark Frontier," "Juggernaut," "Relativity," "One Small Step," "Fury," "Flesh and Blood" and "Friendship One".

The new series is not going to be connected to the films, and has been speculated to take place in the original pre-Abrams Trek universe. It is expected to be set in the decades between Kirk and Picard. Production begins later this year for an early 2017 premiere.

They are making good hires in regards to this aside from Aron and 3 of his 4 seasons of writing for Heroes.

Still... this all has me feeling like

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Remember all those rumors about Star Trek 2017 being set between Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country and Star Trek: The Next Generation? Well showrunner Bryan Fuller says you can forget about them.

Bryan Fuller spoke to Moviefone on the Star Trek 2017 timeline rumors and had this to say:


I mean, it’s funny. I’ve read that we’re [set] before “Next Generation,” after [“Star Trek VI: The] Undiscovered Country,” which is false. I’ve read that it’s an anthology show, which is not accurate. So it’s interesting to see those suggestions, and seeing the truth mixed in with them and going like, “Oh, they got that part right…” But it’s sort of on the truth-o-meter on PolitiFacts. It’s sort of like some truth, and a lot of like, “No — pants on fire! That’s not true.”

We think this is fantastic news, Star Trek needs to move forward not backward. Rehashing the past of Trek has been tried before and it has never inspired or grabbed an audience like moving forward. Star Trek: Enterprise had some great moments, but we aren’t sure the franchise can withstand another Enterprise.

It sounds like Fuller has learned a lesson from Trek’s past and possibly the Star Wars movies. The prequels never got the kind of enthusiasm and support that Star Wars: The Force Awakens got. It might be something to do with an audience wanting to move the story forward, not see it written in reverse.

When Moviefone asked Fuller if we’d be seeing some familiar Star Trek faces all he said was…


Eventually. Eventually.

That probably means we are set after Star Trek Nemesis!

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Damn, how far into the Trek future did they go?

In a packed panel during San Diego Comic-Con, the name of the new Star Trek series—which, in the grand tradition of Star Trek, is also the name of the ship—was revealed. In a press conference after the panel, executive producers Bryan Fuller and Heather Kadin gave just a few more details about the show.

First off, Fuller answered the question of whether the Discovery, just revealed, was based on Ralph McQuarrie’s ‘70s designs for the Enterprise. Fuller said it was, but “to a point that we can’t legally comment on it until [our legal team] figures out some things.”

Kadin was asked about being a woman working behind the scenes of the show and what that meant, and she answered that she takes inspiring women seriously and that Fuller does, too. “As a female, you’ll see, when you start to hear more about the series, that that’s a big part of it,” she added.

Fuller put to rest the speculation about which universe the show was set in, saying “It is in the prime timeline.” He couldn’t say exactly when in the timeline would be set, however.

“I don’t think we’re supposed to say yet because there are so many new things about this series,” Fuller said. that “There’s a lot of new and exciting things we’re doing with this show, that we [don’t] want to [over]saturate you.”

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I would guess between Enterprise and the original series.

Yep, that's right. Don't know what the hell I was seeing there, lol.

I kind of want it to be a story past TNG, but I get why they don't want to mess with the split realities of TNG universe and the Abrams universe.

The Kelvin Universe will come to an end in the fourth movie, which brings back Hemsworth as Kirk's dad.

After I typed that, I remembered you mentioning that in the other thread. Curious as to how they'll pull that off. Will it be some type of plot vessel to get Pine's Kirk and crew to continue on in the TOS universe, past the time of Picard (Spock entered the Kelvin Universe from a point 50 years or so past Nemesis in the TOS universe, iirc)?

I have no idea how they'll pull it off but essentially, the new Star Trek would, once again, reboot the films.

I guess it would give Paramount a reason to re-cast but it's not as if Zach Quinto and even Chris Pine are lighting the world on fire. But Karl Urban really didn't want to do this film and he's not under contract for the next, so he might be out, eventually.

Karl Urban has been great as Bones. He was one of the highlights of the latest movie. It would be a shame if they lost him (especially after losing Anton Yelchin, RIP). And agreed about Pine and Quinto - they're both "fine", but neither have that "pop" those roles demand. Urban is an underrated actor. I can't think of much I've seen him in that he wasn't great.

But back to the thread - has anything you're seen or heard convinced you to pay the extra to CBS towatch this? I'm on the fence, personally. Definitely not sold on the idea yet.

No, nothing I've heard has made me want to pay for this series yet, especially after reading that it'll be available worldwide on Netflix (of which I'm a subscriber) but in America, I'd have to pony up for CBS All Access.

That really leaves a bad taste.