Hey, Christopher Bennett....any chance for you to get a chair in the writers room too?
No, I'm afraid I don't have the temperament or the energy to handle a job like that. I could never maintain the pace of the work or handle the stress, and my few attempts to pitch to DS9 and VGR back in the day convinced me that I'm terrible at verbal pitching and that Hollywood isn't the environment for me. It'd be nice if they were open to the occasional freelance pitch, but a staff job is not for me.
According to the article they are looking for prime universe specialists.
That's the article writer's own spin, not an actual statement from the producers. All it means is that Bryan Fuller, Nicholas Meyer, and Kirsten all have experience working on pre-2009 Trek fiction -- and it ignores that the senior executive producer, Alex Kurtzman, is a veteran of the Abrams movies instead. I'm sure that there will be other staffers who have never worked on
Star Trek before, and indeed there should be, because
Star Trek should always innovate and look to the future. And not only in terms of its own storytelling, but in terms of cultivating new talent. Look at how many of today's top producers began their careers on
Star Trek staffs -- Ron Moore, Rene Echevarria, Naren Shankar, Brannon Braga, Bradley Thompson & David Weddle, Mike Sussman, Fuller himself, etc. A modern television writing staff is essentially a talent farm for future showrunners. So I expect that from this point, most or all of the remaining writing staffers to be announced will be relative newcomers. (And indeed, Kirsten is one of those newcomers as far as TV writing is concerned.)
If I was making a Star Trek series spanning multiple eras (if that rumor is true)
If I listed every rumor about new
Star Trek shows over the decades that turned out to be untrue, we'd be here all day. Never believe rumors. If they're false, as the vast majority are, then it's a complete waste of mental energy to worry about them. And if they're true, then they'll be confirmed by some more reliable source later on, so you might as well just save your energy until you know for sure.
