Good to know. Thank you.
Year One ain't happening.
I can't seem to find the original source for the SNW set teardown anywhere. There's been no (non ai) pictures unlike the SFA dismantled set. General consensus seems to be dismantled but not destroyed. Year One may be in the coffin but they haven't nailed the lid on yet.
Given that TPTB haven't set specific direction for Paramount+ content development yet, the studio may judge that there's enough near future potential utility to those assets to hold some of them for awhile, whether for use on Year One or some other as-yet-to-be-decided project.
"Year One" is such a weird concept of a show for me. So, set in a year where Kirk is only 32, Paul Wesley is expected to keep playing that exact age for several seasons until he reaches 50? I'd be far more intrigued if they went with a PHASE II era setting. There's a long stretch between TMP and TWOK that they could easily do the second five year mission with Kirk, and Wesley would look very age appropriate as Admiral Kirk. It's practically a blank slate, and the only thing they'd need to tie up in the end is that the Enterprise is eventually turned into a trainee vessel for cadets and junior officers.
Much like Matalas with Legacy, I think Goldsman’s idea came more out of desperation to keep his job than anything else. I don’t think there was much more to the thought process than that.
Goldsman was definitely desperate to keep his job (What can Year One accomplish that TOS, TAS, six feature films, the Kelvin trilogy, and SNW have not?)
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It is one of the few minor quibbles I have with SNW Scotty and Kirk look like they've had their ages reversed. Alcohol will ruin Scotty's life.
10 episodes a season is a mini series (IMO)
Well (and I'm happy this decision was ultimately changed), the original plan to end the Strange New Words streaming series was with a two hour streaming film - which the Proders and Writers said wasn't enough time and got Paramount to agree to a 6 episode 5th season instead.
Then the merger/buyout and the end of Kurtzman's contract *which could still be renewed but I doubt it*.
Just saying it the streaming film idea wasn't 'killed' due to Section 31 per se. And in fact, unless P+ and Showtime are kying - while many hardcore Trek fans were dissatisfied/disappointed (myself among them), the viewership numbers on both those outlets were considered good - and Showtime still shows it on their cable pay channel from time to time.
I'm surprised Section 31 didn't kill off movies in general.
Not entirely considering the originally pitched plan was a TV movie wrap up for SNW so they were clearly still willing to entertain that format.
That is never the question.
At least people like TOS and SNW.
There's no worthwhile future in the Roddenberry/Berman era to speak of; it was an elaboration of TOS and therefore dependent on it.. Let it go.
They were only entertaining it because they wanted the end the show as quickly as possible. It had nothing whatsoever to do with them wanting to continue the tv movie format post-S31.
I didn’t say it was not nothing. I said that Section 31 killed the tv movie format for P+. Other people brought up SNW and the original plan to end the show with a two hour movie which had nothing to do with them wanting to continue that format.
Tell that to the people who are currently wetting themselves over the prospect of going back to the TNG era (By all means, let's bring the action to a screeching halt so Picard can make a speech.
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If 31 had killed the format so completely then surely it would not have been entertained as an option, no?
It does not make sense to say we will never do one of these again but let's do one again.
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