News Kurtzman On Discovery: Klingon War And Aftermath

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While the first season of Star Trek: Discovery will be about war with the Klingons, don’t expect that for the second season,...

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[Cake]

http://trekmovie.com/2017/08/15/kur...trek-discovery-will-not-be-about-klingon-war/

Alex Kurtzman:

“Each season needs to be about a different thing. I wouldn’t necessarily want to bring the Klingon War into season two.

“However, the results of the war are going to allow for a lot of new storytelling that will be the result of everything that happens and the people that are left behind; the casualties, the things that have grown in Starfleet as a result of the war. That’s what we’ll inherit in the second season.”

 

[Spider]

Pretty much reiterates what they've already said, each season is a novel, each show a chapter in the novel. Next season is a new novel. It's a good plan, and I like the plan. Don't know about the show just yet, but I like the plan. LOL

 

[Jackson_Roykirk]

As I said on another thread, it that since Burnham's specialty is the study of alien races ("xenoanthlopology"), it seemed likely that there would be plots in Discovery that have to do with the exploration of space, and the contact with new aliens (you know -- "...to seek out new life and new civilizations..." and the such).

Sure, from other things we heard about Burnham, the Klingons will be of extra interest to her, but I never really thought that this show would be "all about Klingons, all the time."

 

[Zonker]

Nice. That's exactly what I was hoping for.

 

[BillJ]

War? In a time period where we never knew there was a war before. Yay.

Over the course of two hundred years, it doesn't seem the human-led Federation can get along with anyone.

 

[Albinator]

Pretty much reiterates what they've already said, each season is a novel, each show a chapter in the novel. Next season is a new novel. It's a good plan, and I like the plan. Don't know about the show just yet, but I like the plan. LOL

This is exactly what I'd hoped for. Remains to be seen if the subsequent seasons will focus on the same crew, or hop to a new ship, cast, potentially time period (Ala Fargo or True Detective). Maybe that is a compromise from Fuller's original concept of an anthology.

 

[Mirror Mirror]

War? In a time period where we never knew there was a war before. Yay.

Over the course of two hundred years, it doesn't seem the human-led Federation can get along with anyone.

Well, this era has long held the fan fav and as to now, non -canon Klingon/federation war. It would also match some quotes from TNG as to when the Fedration/Klingon conflict was.

 

[Albinator]

Didn't Spock, in TUC, refer to the previous 75 years as "unremitting hostilities?" I have to imagine that involved some battles, skirmishes, and conflicts that some might characterize as a war.

 

[cultcross]

War? In a time period where we never knew there was a war before. Yay.

Over the course of two hundred years, it doesn't seem the human-led Federation can get along with anyone.

Let's see:

Xindi
Romulans
---- Federation founded----
Klingons
Cardassians
Tzenkethi
Klingons again
Dominion + Cardassians again + Breen

That's screen-mentioned wars, not counting one-off attacks by Borg, Sheliak, probes of various descriptions, god beings, godlike machines, or planet killers.

Roughly five significant wars since the Federation was founded, and two before it. Not stellar (heh) but not awful, in historical terms.

 

[Kor]

And of course, the Federation was never the aggressor in any of those wars.

Kor

 

[cultcross]

And of course, the Federation was never the aggressor in any of those wars.

Kor

Hmmmm. I imagine that depends on perspective. Where we actually know the cause, the common theme is reaction to Federation expansion. I guess you can say that doesn't make them the 'aggressor', but it does muddy the waters somewhat.

 

[Kor]

Hmmmm. I imagine that depends on perspective. Where we actually know the cause, the common theme is reaction to Federation expansion. I guess you can say that doesn't make them the 'aggressor', but it does muddy the waters somewhat.

I did think of that aspect after I made that post. From the other side's perspective, the Federation may have looked like they were overstepping their boundaries.

Kor

 

[Noname Given]

And of course, the Federation was never the aggressor in any of those wars.

Kor

I'd say that depends on which species history books you're reading (and I'm sure NONE of them are 100% accurate on the subject either.

 

[Captain of the USS Averof]

Pretty much reiterates what they've already said, each season is a novel, each show a chapter in the novel. Next season is a new novel.

So it will be like Game Of Thrones then! Once again.

 

[cultcross]

Game of Thrones is nothing like that. In fact, it's the opposite, one continuous story over the whole run of the series.

 

[Mudd]

War? In a time period where we never knew there was a war before. Yay.

Over the course of two hundred years, it doesn't seem the human-led Federation can get along with anyone.

Just like now.

Nearly continual war, for the United States, has been the reality for more than a century. That fact has fueled our growth and rise to importance and is possibly driving our cultural downfall.This is the culture that produced the writers, this is what they think about, this is what they write about.

We are at war right now. It underlies the anxieties of our times...as well as the ways we try to distract and entertain ourselves.

Telling endless stories of a lower-case utopia where such things have vanished with no plausible, examined explanation is not inspiring; it's soporific.

 

[Jackson_Roykirk]

Telling endless stories of a lower-case utopia where such things have vanished with no plausible, examined explanation is not inspiring; it's soporific.

But Serveaux, we will have learned to overcome our differences. #thats-how

 

[Mudd]

But Serveaux, we have learned to overcome our differences. #thats-how

Evidently by having all the folks who don't behave comfortably like middle class Americans wither away somehow.

Convenient.

 

[BillJ]

We are at war right now. It underlies the anxieties of our times...as well as the ways we try to distract and entertain ourselves.

I agree. But there are already so many dystopic shows out there now. I was really hoping for something different from Discovery. You can have character drama and conflict without a continual war as the backdrop.