Strange New Worlds' showrunners advise fans to write to Skydance and Paramount if they're interested in a "Year One" Kirk sequel series

[Danja]

I don't think that's the reason. If it were, they wouldn't have picked it up for a fifth season at all.

They only gave it a shortened fifth season (six episodes -- just enough to tie up loose plot threads).

 

[The Wormhole]

My point is, they wouldn't have done even that much if they were really displeased with the direction of the show. Hell, if they were really against the direction the show was taking, they'd pull a Zaslav and shelve the show for a tax write-off.

 

[Jedi Marso]

How about a series with Pike as captain, and new characters from his tenure as captain of the Enterprise?

Okay, sarcasm aside . . . .

I have to say that after S3 of SNW, a Year one series is about the LAST place I want to see Trek go next. Just give us a 25th Century, post-TNG series with all new characters and no callbacks to TNG/DS9/VOY. Let the past be in the past and move it on forward. Set it about 2450 or so, a good 90 years post TNG. 16 Episode seasons, and without musicals, animated crossovers, muppets, and so on.

 

[Danja]

I have to say that after S3 of SNW, a Year one series is about the LAST place I want to see Trek go next. Just give us a 25th Century, post-TNG series with all new characters and no callbacks to TNG/DS9/VOY. Let the past be in the past and move it on forward. Set it about 2450 or so, a good 90 years post TNG. 16 Episode seasons, and without musicals, animated crossovers, muppets, and so on.

I could buy the animated crossover far more than the musical and Muppet episodes.

 

[Firebird]

They only gave it a shortened fifth season (six episodes -- just enough to tie up loose plot threads).

The studio was prepared to either A) not do anything, or B) give them a final two-hour movie.

If Paramount were really displeased about SNW, a six-episode pickup would've been unheard of. You might have issues with the musical and Muppet episodes, but clearly the folks in charge at Paramount don't.

 

[Danja]

There are plenty of writers who have succeeded at both prose and TV/film -- Richard Matheson, Stephen J. Cannell, Joan Didion, David Gerrold, Diane Duane, William Goldman, Michael Crichton, George R.R. Martin, Neil Gaiman, even going back to the early days of Hollywood when novelists like William Faulkner, Raymond Chandler, and Dashiel Hammett wrote for the screen. Of course, Kirsten Beyer started out as a Star Trek novelist and has gone on to become quite a successful writer-producer on multiple Trek shows.

James Swallow wrote "One" for Voyager.