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Meyer Possibly Developing Khan Miniseries

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https://www.bleedingcool.com/2017/07/30/star-trek-khan-series-nicholas-meyer/

Our friends over at Geek Exchange are stating that multiple sources have told them that Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan writer and director Nicholas Meyer is moving on from his work on Star Trek: Discovery to develop a miniseries involving Captain Kirk’s nemesis, Khan Noonien Singh. Details thus far are thin, but it does align with comments that had come out in interviews during San Diego Comic-Con last week implying that Discovery might be joined with a number of other expanded universe projects.

Meyer’s series would reportedly take place during the era after the events of
Star Trek’s original series episode Space Seed, when Kirk drops Khan (originally played by the late Ricardo Montalbán) and his crew off on Ceti Alpha V to start their own colony, but before the events in Star Trek II. This would largely have the series be planet-bound (keeping those SFX costs presumably down). However, other than Ceti Alpha IV’s being destroyed and turning a habitable planet into a great setting for a Mad Max sequel, we’re not sure what kind of overall storylines they might come up with to keep it engaging for 6-10 episodes.
 
Are Star Trek fans interested in something like this? Watching Khan and followers stranded on a planet? Personally I think it sounds like a boring plot. When it comes to non Star Trek fans, I really can't imagine that they are interested in it.
 
Week One - They fight those damned ear creatures and loose some people. Khan cries for them.
Week Two - They find the mother of those creatures in a cave, and it spits acid at them.
Week Three - Everyone huddles in a shelter during a sand storm telling each other their boring ass life stories
Week Four - They wake up in a paradise, Q has arrived, but it's really Q's adopted sister.
Week Five - There are 20 people left alive on the planet, the mother creature attacks their shelter, kills 10 of them, but at the end of the show there are still mysteriously 15 still walking about.
Week Six - They find the Time Guardian and go back in time, save Edith Keeler but kill Kirk, Sybock and McCoy.
Week Seven - No repercussions at all from the timeline changing event of the previous episode, they are milling about in the desert, get lost in a storm, and have another character building episode of flashbacks and two female survivors making out to help juice up the falling ratings.
 
Well.. it is not confirmed yet ..but, it looks like Star Trek finally would be an anthology series.
 
My bad. I read it on Bleeding Cool and jumped to conclusions. Sorry. I'll change thread title and link to geekexchange who broke the news
 
Doesn't bode well for their faith in DSC itself, but at least they don't intend to stop trying. I guess that can be a good thing.
 
I hope this isn't true. Nic Meyer is one of the main reasons I'm keeping faith that Discovery is going to be watchable.
His energies being split of diverted to other things at such an early stage of the new show would have me worried.
 
I hope this isn't true. Nic Meyer is one of the main reasons I'm keeping faith that Discovery is going to be watchable.
His energies being split of diverted to other things at such an early stage of the new show would have me worried.

He was never meant to be anything more than a consulting producer anyway.
 
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