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!
How cool is that!
My excitement level is through the roof!
Nicholas Meyer to join writing staff of new series
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This is just unreal. Bryan Fuller and Nicholas Meyer helming a new Star Trek series?
Good God, I am hyped.
Good God, I am hyped.
FUCK YEAH!!!
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.
Wow...no words!
Does this mean Star Trek is going to be good again?
Does this mean Star Trek is going to be good again?
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.
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.
"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. 
The startrek.com article said writer-producer so that seems like a major role to me."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.
Yeah I can see him being a guiding hand. He certainly has the experience.
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.
Tough to "sucker" people for $6.99 a month. After Starbucks, $7 a month is a huge bargain.
You people are annoyingly negative all the time.
Lighten up, this is good news.
Lighten up, this is good 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.
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