Rumor: the show takes place between TOS movies and TNG

[AvBaur]

This is a very intriguing rumor that would set the 2017 CBS show firmly in the prime universe:

http://birthmoviesdeath.com/2016/04...v-show-will-be-set-before-the-next-generation

There's a part of me that would want to put a little more distance between this show and any of the previous ones, but I do love the aesthetic of the TOS movie era (uniform & ship designs, etc.). Also, this would give Nicholas Meyer a chance to directly follow up TUC!

 

[JoeZhang]

Devin Faraci

What more needs to be said?

 

[Longinus]

I hope this is true.

 

[Shalashaska]

Full post:

It definitely isn't in the JJ rebootverse.

I have heard some intriguing rumors about the new Star Trek TV show that will be coming to CBS All Access next year under the stewardship of Bryan Fuller: it won't be set in the JJ Abrams reboot universe. The new show will be set in the original, classic continuity.

But when? Will it be a prequel, like Enterprise? Or will it be the next generation for The Next Generation? Neither, I've heard. The show will be set some time after the events of Star Trek: The Undiscovered Country, so between the original series and The Next Generation.

I love this. For my money the original series movie uniforms are just the best uniforms, and I would love a TV series with that look. I think there's a rich vein of stories to be mined between the years of the swashbuckling OG crew and the more reserved TNG crew. The only bummer is that we won't be able to have cameos from some of the original crew, as most of them are dead (and Captain Kirk will have already disappeared into the Nexus by the time this show is set, no matter when it's set - he fell into the Nexus the same year as the events of The Undiscovered Country!).

I've also heard the show, which will be heavily serialized, will not be set on an Enterprise, although that feels like a no-brainer. One last rumble I heard, which I could not get second sourced at this time, so consider this a wild rumor: while the Khitomer Conference will have paved the way for Klingons and humans to find peace, Fuller has a plan as to how he can still feature villainous Klingons, something we haven't seen in decades!

This show is shaping up to be awesome, and I'll happily plunk down a subscription fee for it.

UPDATE! A trusted source has chimed in and told me that it looks like the show will be a seasonal anthology, which means the first season will be set post-Undiscovered Country. After that the entire Star Trek universe is potentially open. So those of you hoping for a post-Dominion War show... don't give up hope. That could come some day.

Oh shit.

Get hyped, boys. Devin Faraci is a pretty trusted source, no? I may be confusing him with someone else.

Makes me laugh regardless with people saying "It's not going to be set after TUC! Meyer was just saying it'd be an influence thematically!"

 

[Shalashaska]

Also, apparently, it's a seasonal anthology!

UPDATE! A trusted source has chimed in and told me that it looks like the show will be a seasonal anthology, which means the first season will be set post-Undiscovered Country. After that the entire Star Trek universe is potentially open. So those of you hoping for a post-Dominion War show... don't give up hope. That could come some day.

Hmmm... I'm actually not all that sure about the idea of a new cast, crew and ship every season.

Very interesting, nonetheless.

 

[Kemaiku]

Devin Faraci is a pretty trusted source, no?

No, not remotely.

 

[Dukhat]

No, not remotely.

Yep. Pretty sure this is nothing but more bullshit in a long line of bullshit that we'll be hearing of for the next three months or so, until CBS actually becomes the one to give information about the show.

Also, I love how he interprets the words "seasonal anthology" to mean that each season the show will be set in a different era. That's not how TV shows work, Devin. You don't keep a casual audience's interest by changing characters and settings every 13 episodes. Not to mention how expensive things would be if you have to build new sets every season for different time periods.

 

[LtChange]

I dig the anthology concept. And if one series is an ultra success because of the crew it could spin a new series with them. Also I hope it will be set on an Excelsior class star ship. That would be a dream.

 

[DaddlerTheDalek]

"Trusted source" yeah right...

 

[Greg Cox]

Thanks for clearly identifying this as a "Rumor" in the thread title. Drives me crazy when rumors and speculation get reported as "news."

And, yeah, I'll wait for something official before I jump to any conclusions.

 

[Shalashaska]

Faraci can be an asshole, but if he writes an article about something, he is usually pretty confident in it.

 

[Tomalak]

Makes sense, but only because it's what we expect based on the tiny amount of things we do know. Confirmation bias at work here I think. Far too early to tell if there's anything in this.

 

[Dukhat]

Faraci can be an asshole, but if he writes an article about something, he is usually pretty confident in it.

He can be confident in it all he wants. That doesn't make it true.

 

[Greg Cox]

Shall we take bets on how many people mistake this for an official announcement of some sort?

"But I heard that it was definitely not set in the new movieverse. The internet said so!"

 

[Danlav05]

I heard this a few weeks ago.

being Nicholas Meyer this could make sense plus it could opportunitise cameos for George Takei/other TOS-era characters as well as younger TNG folk.

The Lost Era as Pocket call it is of great interest to me and I wouldn't be opposed.

 

[Greg Cox]

Isn't Faraci the guy behind that dopey, over-hyped poll a few years back, the one that "proved" that all us Trekkies hate the new movies?

Seems to me he's hardly an unbiased source . . . .

 

[AviTrek]

I'm a little surprised TrekMovie picked this up as confirmed. It reads way too fan speculation to me. Especially the anthology part. Personally, I'm waiting for an official source, or at least trusted industry publication before believing anything.

 

[AvBaur]

@Greg Cox No, that was Jordan Hoffman. Faraci just wrote an article about it.

People give Faraci a lot of shit and he can be an asshole, but I believe he wouldn't run an article unless he has multiple sources saying the same things. So, yes, it's a rumor and it could very well be wrong, but I think there's a decent chance that at least some of it is true.

The anthology show thing is pretty popular right now, with American Crime Story, American Horror Story, True Detective, etc., being very successful.

 

[BillJ]

I hope so. It'll be fun to watch people go ape-shit crazy when it doesn't look or feel anything like the time period in question.

 

[Arrrrgggh]

I'm not sure why people think that because it's set during a certain period of time relative to the original universe (or whatever people insist on calling it) that it's actually set in the original universe. Why would they even be making a TV series about that universe given the popularity of the new one from the movies? It's doubly confusing since there's almost no way it's going to include characters (let alone actors) from either universe. So why would they take a step back instead of embracing the new?