Bryan Fuller is Showrunner on New Trek Series
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Irony?
Really great news!
I think it's a pretty accurate prediction of what will eventually happen. Believe me, it won't be long before fandom will be divided in those who loathe FullerTrek and those who praise it as the best thing since sliced bread. So, let's enjoy this brief period of unanimous positivity!
I think this is quite possibly some of the most positively received news I have ever seen on the TrekBBS (and I joined a year before Enterprise started!)
And I agree completely! Such great news - my excitement for this has just doubled! Bryan Fuller is a very talented writer with a distinctive style. I think he will genuinely bring something very fresh to Star Trek!
And I agree completely! Such great news - my excitement for this has just doubled! Bryan Fuller is a very talented writer with a distinctive style. I think he will genuinely bring something very fresh to Star Trek!
I can't wait to see Bryan Fuller's take on a Star Trek show. I've been hoping for this for a whie!
If anything, this news has helped create a whole new group of Hannibal and Pushing Daisies fans.
As someone who hadn't seen any of Fuller's shows before hearing this news, I'm very excited to watch them now that I've read how much people love them.
As someone who hadn't seen any of Fuller's shows before hearing this news, I'm very excited to watch them now that I've read how much people love them.
Why? Our galaxy is vast, containing billions of stars. Going to some other galaxy isn't going to magically make all the stories better.
Are you telling me Mass Effect: Andromeda won't be better than the first three games in the franchise by default?
I have to admit I'm not familiar with Fuller's work. I haven't seen Hannibal, and only snippets of pushing daisies (which is not the kind of show I would watch, but I liked the colourfullness and character dynamics, two things Trek was lacking lately). And his Trek work was a bit of a mixed bag - he did the awful 'Voyager-crew-in-an-Irish-village' holodeck-episode ('Spirit Folks', which I despise), as well as 'Bride of Chaotica' (which is probably my guiltiest pleasure episode of Trek in general). But his episodes stand out in one particular way: They are never ordinary. All of them have a fresh idea as a foundation, and mostly stray away from the classic Trek-clichés and tropes, and are very, very diverse in their plots.
All in all I'm very happy with this choice: They got someone from the old guard who is very familiar with Trek, and who has shown later in his career that he is very capable and talented in creating successful and interesting tv-shows. His other shows display his quality in crafting interesting and memorable characters, and his work on Trek shows that he has the imagination to create diverse and interesting new concepts.
There are still a million ways the new Trek show could bomb (primarily CBS' All access tanking hard, because no one is willing to pay for another streaming service - THAT INCLUDE FREAKING AD'S(!) EVEN THOUGH I'M ALREADY PAYING FOR IT(!!!)), but no one can blame CBS for not trying to do quality Trek.
All in all I'm very happy with this choice: They got someone from the old guard who is very familiar with Trek, and who has shown later in his career that he is very capable and talented in creating successful and interesting tv-shows. His other shows display his quality in crafting interesting and memorable characters, and his work on Trek shows that he has the imagination to create diverse and interesting new concepts.
There are still a million ways the new Trek show could bomb (primarily CBS' All access tanking hard, because no one is willing to pay for another streaming service - THAT INCLUDE FREAKING AD'S(!) EVEN THOUGH I'M ALREADY PAYING FOR IT(!!!)), but no one can blame CBS for not trying to do quality Trek.
That was never going to happen. He's way too busy. He's probably on board mainly for the clout his name brings, as both a veteran of the movie series and the executive producer of popular CBS shows Hawaii Five-O, Scorpion, and Limitless.
Not to mention Wonderfalls and Dead Like Me (though he was shoved out of that one pretty quickly).
True, but it still feels like by the 24th Century that Starfleet has explored an awful dang lot of it. And at least by Trek standards the galaxy is starting to feel pretty crowded and familiar by this point, with most of the Alpha and Delta quadrants being already staked out by the Federation, Klingons, Borg, etc.
Plus this is just one galaxy in a sea of billions of galaxies, so it's hard not to feel like a show like Trek should be expanding it's reach just a bit more. Especially after 5 series and 12 movies.
By "Irony?" I refer to the inherently negative language in a post about positivity.I think it's a pretty accurate prediction of what will eventually happen. Believe me, it won't be long before fandom will be divided in those who loathe FullerTrek and those who praise it as the best thing since sliced bread. So, let's enjoy this brief period of unanimous positivity!
To wit:
I'm not complaining. I enjoy irony - intentional or not.
Hardly "most." The territories we've seen are a tiny, tiny fraction of the respective quadrants. Look at the galaxy map from Star Trek Star Charts. You see that little silver dot marked "LOCAL SPACE (sphere 1,500 LY in diameter)"? That's the equivalent of the "Known Space" map from the rear foldouts of the book. That tiny dot contains the entire Federation, Klingon, Romulan, Cardassian, Tholian, Breen, and Ferengi territories with plenty of extra room besides. You can also see how tiny the space is between the Idran system and the Founder homeworld (and frankly I think the book greatly overestimates the scale of things in the Gamma Quadrant), and you can see the very narrow line representing Voyager's journey (and keep in mind that the ship actually skipped over most of that line thanks to various transwarp jumps and wormholes and the like, so it's really just a few short, scattered dashes along that line). All the exploration we've seen in all the Trek shows has covered only a few tiny specks of the galaxy. Even if you throw in the "Approximate Limit of Explored Space" outline around the UFP and its neighbors, I'd say the total explored volume adds up to less than 5% of the entire Milky Way. And that map is based on an old assumption about the galaxy's radius -- we now think the galactic disk might actually be 60% wider, meaning it would have over 2.5 times the total area. Which would mean the explored total would be less than 2% of the whole.
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