Interview: Michael Chabon

[Danja]

EP Michael Chabon on Picard:

Chabon: "It’s always a bad time to be alive, and it’s always a wonderful time to be alive"


I Heard Patrick’s Voice in My Head’: Michael Chabon on Making ‘Picard’ and Being a Fanboy

https://www.rollingstone.com/tv/tv-features/star-trek-picard-michael-chabon-interview-937028/

 

[locborg]

In canon in our story, Picard is I believe 92.

so the year is 2397?

 

[The Habs Fan]

Awesome interview. And he confirms he will still be executive producer and write episodes for season 2 of Picard, he just won’t be the showrunner anymore

 

[ITDUDE]

so the year is 2397?

Even TPTB don’t know what year it’s taking place in. Not reassuring...

 

[Blooded]

Chabon confirms, himself, that he's sticking around as an Executive Producer and will still be writing scripts. Literally just the showrunner role he's stepping away from, which seems responsible.

I'm sure this still won't shut up the haters who want to highlight the change in showrunner as some sort of damning statement about the show.

 

[Nerys Myk]

Even TPTB don’t know what year it’s taking place in. Not reassuring...

Worked for TOS. So probably not a serious issue.

 

[Paul Weaver]

Even TPTB don’t know what year it’s taking place in. Not reassuring...

What year did TOS take place in?

More likely is that Chabon doesn't have the encyclopedic recall of Picard's birthdate of 2305 like normal people do. A date that was listed on a graphic is an episode of TNG.

 

[Danja]

Chabon confirms, himself, that he's sticking around as an Executive Producer and will still be writing scripts. Literally just the showrunner role he's stepping away from, which seems responsible.

I'm sure this still won't shut up the haters who want to highlight the change in showrunner as some sort of damning statement about the show.

 

[Paul Weaver]

Players gonna play, play, play, play
Haters gonna hate, hate, hate, hate
I'm just gonna...

 

[KennyB]

Even TPTB don’t know what year it’s taking place in. Not reassuring...

SirPat didn't know for sure on Graham Norton......should we take his knighthood away?

 

[Danja]

SirPat didn't know for sure on Graham Norton......should we take his knighthood away?

Yes ... and we should flog him as well.

Fifty lashes with an Andorian noodle!

 

[USS Firefly]

SirPat didn't know for sure on Graham Norton......should we take his knighthood away?

Good Idea!
And besides, Patrick Stewart will never make it as a actor

 

[Cyrus]

Interesting that he had dinner with Rick Berman. Berman has been singing his praises for a while, saying Star Trek is lucky to have Chabon working on it.

 

[Mudd]

I'm delighted to learn that Chabon grew up in Columbia, Maryland. That's a few miles north of me; one of my daughters lives there now with her kids and husband.

Interesting that he had dinner with Rick Berman. Berman has been singing his praises for a while, saying Star Trek is lucky to have Chabon working on it.

Berman was always a smart dude.

 

[Paul Weaver]

Interesting that he had dinner with Rick Berman. Berman has been singing his praises for a while, saying Star Trek is lucky to have Chabon working on it.

Well that's a death knell -- everyone hated Berman

 

[Nerys Myk]

Well that's a death knell -- everyone hated Berman

Branrick Bermaga. I hate that guy.

 

[urbandk]

it's been such a treat to get this bevy of excellent interviews in advance of the première

 

[SpocksOddSocks]

Fifty lashes with an Andorian noodle!

Euphemism or not , that sounds kinky.

 

[Noname Given]

Chabon confirms, himself, that he's sticking around as an Executive Producer and will still be writing scripts. Literally just the showrunner role he's stepping away from, which seems responsible.

I'm sure this still won't shut up the haters who want to highlight the change in showrunner as some sort of damning statement about the show.

So just like the STD haters then.

Yep we're back to the "live Star Trek in production" paradigm again, just like 1987.

 

[donners22]

So just like the STD haters then.

Yep we're back to the "live Star Trek in production" paradigm again, just like 1987.

Poor Brent Spiner seemed nonplussed at the misinformation and negativity which any mention of the Picard show attracts on Twitter.

It was easier to avoid that stuff back in the '80s and '90s - I quickly learned to skip the letters page of fan magazines.