Re: New Series Announcement from StarTrek.com - Begins January 17, 201
Moderators, can you close my thread? It's all the same discussion here.
I'll post my 5 questions here into this thread. "Not Related" does leave some room for ambiguity. I'd personally be ok with a spin-off of the JJ-Verse that didn't deal with the Enterprise crew, like a USS Constitution/Exeter etc kind of series.
1. Who will be "The Powers That Be?"
Consensus answer is that it will be Kurtzman ALONE through his production company SECRET HIDEOUT.
Latest reports indicate that Robert Orci is not yet involved and that Bad Robot is not involved either. This would mean JJ Abrams and Producer Damon Lindelof are not involved (which makes perfect sense since they're focused on Star Wars).
Surely however the property is of high enough value that they will be overseen by executives at CBS. This is not going to be like Rick Berman being the czar of Star Trek for 20 years.
2. How will CBS Television (Or Digital Television) cooperate with Paramount? We know Paramount wants a billion dollar Avengers-like franchise. Paramount wants at least another film out of Chris Pine and Co. Now that there's a new series, how will these two corporate siblings behave when sharing the Star Trek pie?
Confusion on this point. Some reports say that the film and series will not be related, however Vox.com reports: "Kurtzman wrote the screenplays for Star Trek and Star Trek: Into Darkness, and the new series would presumably be set in the new timeline he established for those films."
That however, appears to be merely the opinion of Vox writer Matthew Yglesias who has written several opinion pieces about Star Trek and its future in television.
3. Which era of Star Trek will it be set in? Prime timeline, JJ-Timeline, Next Generation Era? Prequel? Thousands of years later? There's merits and drawbacks to each.
Pure speculation at this point. But fun speculation.
4. Per episode budget? It should have a high budget for effects like Agents of Shield, Daredevil and Supergirl. That puts it in the $3-4 million dollar range. These days a genre series lasts about 18-20 episodes per season. Would Star Trek work better over a long season or as a limited run serial with 12 episodes?
5. How far into multimedia will this series reach? It finally seems like CBS is actually doing something for the 50th Anniversary. A huge marketing campaign for the new show + the new film will put Star Trek back into the pop culture limelight. Will we see the expansive empire that JJ Abrams envisioned, but was disappointed to be denied when he signed on in 2008-- a vast, cohesive multimedia empire to include books, comics, animated series, video games, toys etc?
The answers will determine the fate of Star Trek for, well, the next generation.
Ideally though I'd like a story set in the TNG prime-verse. The thing was, Kurtzman had talked about string theory and how eventually the timeline will try to correct itself, and that's what I assumed would happen, that at some point the divergent JJ-verse would merge back into the prime universe. I swear he went in depth in an early interview after Star Trek 2009 premiered.
Still, Star Trek really would benefit from a Marvel Cinematic Universe approach where the TV show and movie were connected and it had a big overarching story.
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Moderators, can you close my thread? It's all the same discussion here.
I'll post my 5 questions here into this thread. "Not Related" does leave some room for ambiguity. I'd personally be ok with a spin-off of the JJ-Verse that didn't deal with the Enterprise crew, like a USS Constitution/Exeter etc kind of series.
1. Who will be "The Powers That Be?"
Consensus answer is that it will be Kurtzman ALONE through his production company SECRET HIDEOUT.
Latest reports indicate that Robert Orci is not yet involved and that Bad Robot is not involved either. This would mean JJ Abrams and Producer Damon Lindelof are not involved (which makes perfect sense since they're focused on Star Wars).
Surely however the property is of high enough value that they will be overseen by executives at CBS. This is not going to be like Rick Berman being the czar of Star Trek for 20 years.
2. How will CBS Television (Or Digital Television) cooperate with Paramount? We know Paramount wants a billion dollar Avengers-like franchise. Paramount wants at least another film out of Chris Pine and Co. Now that there's a new series, how will these two corporate siblings behave when sharing the Star Trek pie?
Confusion on this point. Some reports say that the film and series will not be related, however Vox.com reports: "Kurtzman wrote the screenplays for Star Trek and Star Trek: Into Darkness, and the new series would presumably be set in the new timeline he established for those films."
That however, appears to be merely the opinion of Vox writer Matthew Yglesias who has written several opinion pieces about Star Trek and its future in television.
3. Which era of Star Trek will it be set in? Prime timeline, JJ-Timeline, Next Generation Era? Prequel? Thousands of years later? There's merits and drawbacks to each.
Pure speculation at this point. But fun speculation.
4. Per episode budget? It should have a high budget for effects like Agents of Shield, Daredevil and Supergirl. That puts it in the $3-4 million dollar range. These days a genre series lasts about 18-20 episodes per season. Would Star Trek work better over a long season or as a limited run serial with 12 episodes?
5. How far into multimedia will this series reach? It finally seems like CBS is actually doing something for the 50th Anniversary. A huge marketing campaign for the new show + the new film will put Star Trek back into the pop culture limelight. Will we see the expansive empire that JJ Abrams envisioned, but was disappointed to be denied when he signed on in 2008-- a vast, cohesive multimedia empire to include books, comics, animated series, video games, toys etc?
The answers will determine the fate of Star Trek for, well, the next generation.
Ideally though I'd like a story set in the TNG prime-verse. The thing was, Kurtzman had talked about string theory and how eventually the timeline will try to correct itself, and that's what I assumed would happen, that at some point the divergent JJ-verse would merge back into the prime universe. I swear he went in depth in an early interview after Star Trek 2009 premiered.
Still, Star Trek really would benefit from a Marvel Cinematic Universe approach where the TV show and movie were connected and it had a big overarching story.
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