Hire Steven Moffat to Write Next Trek Feature

[The Wormhole]

I thought Doctor Who went to shit after Matt Smith. I've no idea who the showrunners or writers are for subsequent incarnations but if he's one of them, pass.

Moffat's term as showrunner covers Matt Smith and Peter Capaldi's eras as the Doctor.

 

[Turtletrekker]

You want Trek looking like a bad acid trip?

Sounds good to me.

 

[Winterwind]

Moffat's term as showrunner covers Matt Smith and Peter Capaldi's eras as the Doctor.

Sadly true. More than once I've wondered what Smith and Capaldi could have done with someone else at the helm.

 

[F. King Daniel]

Moffat's term as showrunner covers Matt Smith and Peter Capaldi's eras as the Doctor.

As someone who really enjoyed Matt Smith's era (he's my Doctor), I can only imagine he ran out of steam. Peter Capaldi deserved much better.

 

[The Wormhole]

As someone who really enjoyed Matt Smith's era (he's my Doctor), I can only imagine he ran out of steam. Peter Capaldi deserved much better.

Moffat reportedly burned out after the whole 50th anniversary affair in 2013, which would have impacted his performance during Capaldi's era.

 

[The Overlord]

Steven Moffat, the genius writer who helmed Dr. Who through six seasons, contributed classic episodes before that such as "Blink" and "Silence in the Library," re-imagined Sherlock Holmes in Sherlock, would be a fantastic choice to write the next Star Trek feature. Many of his Who episodes are sprinkled with Trek references, so he obviously knows and respects Trek. What better writer is out there who is skilled in handling iconic characters and re-invigorating them for the visual medium?

He can write an episode or 2 of one of the new series, but a movie would be too big a risk, IMO.

 

[The Wormhole]

Considering all the current Trek shows are arc based, that doesn't exactly make it easy to bring in a writer to do "one or two episodes."

 

[SolarisOne]

As someone who really enjoyed Matt Smith's era (he's my Doctor), I can only imagine he ran out of steam. Peter Capaldi deserved much better.

Oooooooh. This is a touchy subject with me. Moffat is one of my favorite writers, period, but he really did run out of steam.

 

[The Wormhole]

Oooooooh. This is a touchy subject with me. Moffat is one of my favorite writers, period, but he really did run out of steam.

I suspect he ended up biting off more than he could chew. I doubt Moffat was prepared for the publicity side of being the showrunner of Doctor Who, which I suspect was forced on him by BBC after how much of a showman RTD was. Then there's the aforementioned fact that Moffat's term as showrunner was during the 50th anniversary event, a period in which Doctor Who saw the most publicity it ever has in the history of the franchise. The show's international popularity (especially in the US) really took off during his term, and finally while Moffat was running Doctor Who he had Sherlock going on, which ended up being a lot more popular then he (or really anyone) was expecting. It's easy to see how this could all accumulate to making him stressed, burned out, and lose steam with his writing.

 

[Shaka Zulu]

No, thanks!

He's ok but hardly a genius writer, he wrote some great Who episodes but his best work happened when RTD ran the show, as soon as Moffat took over the quality of his writing took a nosedive, his story arcs where for the most part at the same time obvious and unnecessarily convoluted. He overused the timey wimeyness he's obviously in love with, kept characters around way too long and missed obvious points for their exit that would make sense only to write them out later in a stupid way.

And Sherlock is pretty bad, if you want to see a good modern day adaptation of Sherlock Holmes watch Elementary. Better Sherlock, better Watson, better chemistry between the leads and generally better writing.

For real? Elementary is a better version of Sherlock than Sherlock? The fans of Sherlock (and the general public) might disagree.

 

[Takeru]

For real? Elementary is a better version of Sherlock than Sherlock? The fans of Sherlock (and the general public) might disagree.

Elementary is definitely better, Sherlock is pretentious and completely overrated.

 

[F. King Daniel]

Elementary is definitely better, Sherlock is pretentious and completely overrated.

Apologise for that right now.

 

[Mudd]

Works for me.

 

[thribs]

Only if he has a good idea. He usually starts off good but drastically diminishes in quality.

 

[Noname Given]

Akiva Goldsman isn’t a showrunner, but rather an established screenwriter with some successes to his credit but generally a poor track record. Moffat is an actual, experienced showrunner with an excellent run on Sherlock and a good- to great one on Doctor Who.

Yeah...IMO - no.