Rumor: the show takes place between TOS movies and TNG
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If it's set, say, 25 years after TUC, they could easily have guest appearances from quite a few TOS actors, no? I'm thinking Sulu, Chekov, Uhura, Saavik...
Even Michael Dorn's character from TUC could come back! Or Valeris!
When it comes to any developments in media, for years I've been automatically more and more in "cautiously optimistic" mode. That said, I think that in terms of creativity this model worked pretty wellin Fargo and American Crime. I'm not into horror so I've never seen American Horror Story, but from my limited vantage point that seems to be where this current trend began. Pardon the ramble below, but I'm just thinking through the potential benefits of this rumored "middle path" approach of serialization.
Strictly as an analogy: in regards to Fargo, I think the second year was a step down but that trying to extend the story of the first season would have been worse and would have directly watered down those characters. The story takes place in the same town; one of it's main characters was a secondary character in the first season. Set in the same town, it took place decades earlier. As a plus all these factors allow each season can sink or swim on their own merits. While the second season is vaguely referenced in the first can exist in isolation. A benefit is that each has room to fully "explore" characters, stories and themes without constant "reset buttons" (I'm looking at you, Voyager) but also without having to distend half-thought through storylines (I'm looking at you, Lost), thus allowing stories to have a more natural structure, breathing room, better pacing, and less deus ex machina in the conclusion.
American Crime is interesting in that (like American Horror Story, if I understand correctly) while the characters have all changed, they have kept the cast largely in tact as a sort of "troupe" or "company." Whether or not the new Trek goes this route, the Fargo route or some other permutation of actors, characters, setting in time, setting in place, etc. who knows. But it may also allow the showrunners to head off the curse of the first two rough years that seemed inherent in the last three series. Who knows. Something like this or Star Wars: Rogue One's apparent telling of a direct prequel/potentially concurrent story to Star Wars can help expand universes that have a tendency to shrink because they remind us that there are more than a handful of ships with a handful of command crew.
Plus, it's nice to now daydream that who knows -- maybe we could eventually see stories set in the TOS era or TNG era on a ship, base, planet, etc. that can be remembered by a name other than Enterprise.
Or, just possibly, T'Pol ?
I have no desire to see any of those actors in Trek again.
I hope it's a reverent and fun "connect the dots" between TOS and TNG, like what the 4th season of Enterprise tried to do with building to TOS.
I really like the idea, there's a lot of room for neat things. Even with the Khitomer Accords, there's plenty of opportunity for rogue Klingon factions.
Agreed. It would basically be another prequel, which wasn't so great last time.
Well, Vulcans aren't exactly known to emote a lot...
Not to mention Fargo, one of the best shows on TV today.
If it's true, I really like the timeframe. If TUC was the end of the cold war between USSR and USA, then this show can reflect a resurgent Russia trying to exert it's influence again. We know that it took the Enterprise C sacrificing itself to finalize the peace between the Federation and the Klingons. There were 50 years between Khitomer and Enterprise C's destruction. We're now 25 years after TUC in real life, so setting the show then would be right in the middle of the 50 year gap. Or if they're really doing the anthology, they could set the show on the Enterprise C and have the final episode end with its destruction.
If it's true then I'm fine with the time frame and the use of the prime universe. I'm not very interested in the anthology format. Beyond the original Twilight Zone, Outer Limits and Science Fiction Theater I've never had any interest in it. That said, I'll probably be surprised.
Very much agreed. Leave that (unnecessary) job to the fan films which can't go five minutes without making a canon reference.
If it's true, and that's a big IF, I'm a little disappointed with the setting. Don't get me wrong, I'm not against stories set in the so-called "lost era," but I was hoping for something where they would be less constrained by what's happen before and what will happen later. I trust Bryan Fuller to write good stories, so I'll watch. I just would have preferred either JJverse or a new Fullerverse.
While ultimately I'd be ok with setting the show a few years after TUC, I'm really not sure about an anthology series. I would think that would be rather costly; creating new sets and cgi when you can reuse stuff in the more traditional format. I was hoping to get to know a new crew, just not every season!
While ultimately I'd be ok with setting the show a few years after TUC, I'm really not sure about an anthology series. I would think that would be rather costly; creating new sets and cgi when you can reuse stuff in the more traditional format. I was hoping to get to know a new crew, just not every season!
The younger general viewing audience is going to see the blurb "See how the minute and obscure details of galactic politics of a future universe evolved in the decades set between some movies you never saw and don't care about and a TV show you never saw and don't care about." And they will say, "No, thanks."
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