http://www.ew.com/article/2016/02/26/star-trek-cbs-reboot-nicholas-meyer How cool is that! My excitement level is through the roof!
This is just unreal. Bryan Fuller and Nicholas Meyer helming a new Star Trek series? Good God, I am hyped.
I'm not a fan of TUC, but I love TWOK and hope he can bring something to the party, even if just in an editorial/advisory role.
Wow, I would not have expected this. Until looking him up on Wikipedia just now, I had assumed Meyer had retired from the business long ago! My own preferences would be for new blood on Star Trek, and Meyer is definitely old school (thirty years old!).
I have to say this really illustrates the commitment CBS is making to this show, this series, and this concept of direct streaming. They want this to work.
Isn't this Old Trek? I'm not complaining but I was kinda hoping for a fresh, original take on the franchise. New people, new ideas, new direction. Something cutting edge and different. Two guys who worked on Old Trek seems like going down the road of... more of the same. I'm sure I'm worrying over nothing. I guess the new people that are brought in won't elicit much response. Anyway. Whatever.
It's kind of funny but despite being a Star Trek fan I first became aware of him through his Sherlock Holmes book "The Seven Percent Solution". One of my favorites.
"Part of the writing staff" - could mean "old guy hired on to give the whole thing some sparkle" but come on folks - they could have hired Orci.
This is kinda like the announcement for Star Wars when Lawrence Kasdan was hired as the writer for TFA. Its good publicity for Trek fans to pay for the Star Trek CBS service. Its a great move to sucker people in.
I really enjoy all three Trek movies he was involved with, as well as "Time After Time." Very happy with this news.
Who Bryan Fuller is when he wrote his last Star Trek: Voyager script, and who he is now - the ex-showrunner of Wonderfalls, Pushing Daises and Hannibal - are two rather different people, and his role on Voyager was as a fairly junior writer. He's not quite a new, fresh pair of eyes as J.J. Abrams was, but he's also relatively new as far as positions of influence go -and Nicholas Meyer is an interesting hire to me because he's actually had relatively little impact on the franchise - two movies and involvement in script for a third isn't nothing, obviously, but it's not the 'over one hundred episodes and the scripts to two movies also why not' that Brannon Braga had.