News Kurtzman On The Future Of Star Trek

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Alex Kurtzman is walking that tricky line of making Star Trek that both the old school fans and the newest of Trek...

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[BillJ]

Funny. YouTube told me he got fired today.

 

[Krandor]

Funny. YouTube told me he got fired today.

I know. I’m so confused. Don’t tell me somebody named doomcock could be wrong.

 

[Awesome Possum]

Fucking reality, always ruining things.

 

[Mudd]

I know. I’m so confused. Don’t tell me somebody named doomcock could be wrong.

Doomcock: Often Wrong, But Briefly Entertaining.

The other YT rumormongers? Not so much.

I like Doomcock. He's in on the joke and he's fleecin' the dummies on Patreon.

 

[Vger23]

I hope Kurtzman focuses on making good television, and not on "pleasing the old fans and drawing in the new."

Just have a good premise with great stories. Everything else will take care of itself.

 

[eschaton]

The most interesting comment from Kurtzman in regard to Discovery was his admitting that in Seasons 1/2 they were basically "winging it" - though with a particular end goal in mind in the final episode.

He seems to indicate they are not doing this for the third season, and that a good chunk of it has already been written in advance.

 

[Mudd]

I hope Kurtzman focuses on making good television...

That would be refreshing.

 

[fireproof78]

I hope Kurtzman focuses on making good television, and not on "pleasing the old fans and drawing in the new."

Just have a good premise with great stories. Everything else will take care of itself.

I'll settle for OK television with a target of good.

 

[seigezunt]

I hope Kurtzman focuses on making good television, and not on "pleasing the old fans and drawing in the new."

Just have a good premise with great stories. Everything else will take care of itself.

Pretty sure that's what he's trying to do, and that you please people by doing that. People may not like how he's going about it, but to assume he's taking some other apporach is ... odd.

 

[Vger23]

Pretty sure that's what he's trying to do, and that you please people by doing that. People may not like how he's going about it, but to assume he's taking some other apporach is ... odd.

It's actually not odd at all, since that's what he said right in the interview.

I think my entire point is that they've indicated too often that they are taking an approach based on fan feedback or whatever.

I'm just saying I wish he would drop the self-imposed burdens of "pleasing the fans" and "TEH CANNON!!1!" and just tell good stories that he wants to tell. And I'm saying this as a fan of DSC and an admirer of Kurtzman's.

 

[Noname Given]

I'm just saying I wish he would drop the self-imposed burdens of "pleasing the fans" and "TEH CANNON!!1!" and just tell good stories that he wants to tell. And I'm saying this as a fan of DSC and an admirer of Kurtzman's.

^^^
Kurtzman did 'test the waters' for that in ST: D Season 1 - particularly with the Klingons; and fans watching the show rebuked him and the production staff to the point they 'course corrected' in ST: D Season 2. Kurtzman doesn't want to alienate the whole of existing fanbase if he can avoid it.

 

[Vger23]

^^^
Kurtzman did 'test the waters' for that in ST: D Season 1 - particularly with the Klingons; and fans watching the show rebuked him and the production staff to the point they 'course corrected' in ST: D Season 2. Kurtzman doesn't want to alienate the whole of existing fanbase if he can avoid it.

I actually think the Klingon redesign was more Fuller's push than Kurtzman's.

 

[Noname Given]

I actually think the Klingon redesign was more Fuller's push than Kurtzman's.

The point is, the show tried ignoring canon; and a sizable segment of Star trek fandom was not pleased. So the production team relented a bit.

 

[BillJ]

Doomcock: Often Wrong, But Briefly Entertaining.

The other YT rumormongers? Not so much.

I like Doomcock. He's in on the joke and he's fleecin' the dummies on Patreon.

Yeah, he at least gives it a humorous spin.

Mikey Spock.

 

[Vger23]

The point is, the show tried ignoring canon; and a sizable segment of Star trek fandom was not pleased. So the production team relented a bit.

I don't think they tried "ignoring canon." I think they decided to not give a shit about things that don't matter, like makeup. Ignoring visual continuity perhaps, but not canon.

 

[Dukhat]

I don't think they tried "ignoring canon." I think they decided to not give a shit about things that don't matter, like makeup. Ignoring visual continuity perhaps, but not canon.

I don't even think it was that. I think that Fuller started out with an idea, which then got changed over time even before the show started being produced, and then turned into a messy hodgepodge of different ideas when it finally came time to film something, and by that time the people who ended up producing it weren't even quite sure what their show was actually supposed to be about. Hence the need to finally take the show in a different direction after essentially retooling the show at least once.

 

[Beckerjr]

I'm just saying I wish he would drop the self-imposed burdens of "pleasing the fans" and "TEH CANNON!!1!" and just tell good stories that he wants to tell. And I'm saying this as a fan of DSC and an admirer of Kurtzman's.

The huge time jump pretty much says to me. Whatever they do next season any criticisms of possible canon problems or continuity can be brushed aside with the "Its 900 years in the future" retort.

 

[Awesome Possum]

People will still complain. Complaining comes as naturally to Trekkies as scratching stuff up comes to cats.

 

[F. King Daniel]

Since the other new Trek shows take place in the 23rd and 24th centuries, continuity problems of the Disco S1/2 kind will continue on through Kurtzman Trek. Either get used to it, or it's gonna be a miserable 5 years...