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

[Christopher]

Why would P+ allow the same people who can't hold on to their current audience do another show?

After Jaws and Close Encounters, Steven Spielberg had a massive flop with 1941. But he followed up that failure with Raiders of the Lost Ark and E.T. The first four shows Dick Wolf created were all short-lived failures, but the fifth one was Law & Order.

Nobody bats a thousand. It's a competitive industry, and failure is always more likely than success, so if everyone who had one failure was blacklisted, there'd quickly be nobody left in the industry. There are a lot of reasons why a show or movie might fail that have nothing to do with the ability of the creators. Failure is a learning experience, and experience is always valuable.

 

[Danja]

After Jaws and Close Encounters, Steven Spielberg had a massive flop with 1941. But he followed up that failure with Raiders of the Lost Ark and E.T. The first four shows Dick Wolf created were all short-lived failures, but the fifth one was Law & Order.

Nobody bats a thousand. It's a competitive industry, and failure is always more likely than success, so if everyone who had one failure was blacklisted, there'd quickly be nobody left in the industry. There are a lot of reasons why a show or movie might fail that have nothing to do with the ability of the creators. Failure is a learning experience, and experience is always valuable.

It's also true that memories are short-lived.

TOS has already been rebooted twice. Why do it a third time? (Especially when Paramount Pictures is going to want to hold on to TOS crew for themselves, seeing as how it's a known draw.)

 

[Firebird]

It's also true that memories are short-lived.

TOS has already been rebooted twice. Why do it a third time? (Especially when Paramount Pictures is going to want to hold on to TOS crew for themselves, seeing as how it's a known draw.)

Why are projects remade? MONEY.

The Maltese Falcon was adapted into film three times between 1931 to 1941.

Ben-Hur has had six different versions put to film from 1907 to 2016.

Howard Hawks remade Rio Bravo twice within a decade of its release.

We had three different versions of Spider-Man between 2007-2017.

 

[Christopher]

TOS has already been rebooted twice. Why do it a third time?

It's been rebooted once.

(Especially when Paramount Pictures is going to want to hold on to TOS crew for themselves, seeing as how it's a known draw.)

Paramount Pictures is no longer a separate company from CBS Studios as it was when the Kelvin films were made. It's all under one roof again. And even when they weren't, Paramount only held the film rights to Trek, while the TV rights remained with CBS. Nothing would've prevented CBS from using the TOS characters on TV; the only things Paramount and Bad Robot controlled exclusively were the original elements introduced in the Kelvin movies (and I believe those are back with CBS after the re-merger, which is why Discovery was able to reference the Kelvin timeline in season 3).

 

[Danja]

Paramount Pictures is no longer a separate company from CBS Studios as it was when the Kelvin films were made. It's all under one roof again. And even when they weren't, Paramount only held the film rights to Trek, while the TV rights remained with CBS. Nothing would've prevented CBS from using the TOS characters on TV; the only things Paramount and Bad Robot controlled exclusively were the original elements introduced in the Kelvin movies (and I believe those are back with CBS after the re-merger, which is why Discovery was able to reference the Kelvin timeline in season 3).

Rights, mergers ... Ugh, it's giving me a headache.

We had three different versions of Spider-Man between 2007-2017.

Played by three different actors.

 

[Firebird]

Played by three different actors.

That's why I said three different versions.

 

[Boo-khat!]

Yeah, in lieu of coming up with anything actually original*, I can see them rebooting TOS yet a third time. I just wish they wouldn't.

* I get that at this point, with almost 60 years of Star Trek on screen, it's very hard to actually come up with an original idea. And even when that happens, it's even harder to stick to its premise (cough cough stranded on the other side of the galaxy, formation of the Federation, cough cough.)

 

[Outcast91]

You have nothing to worry about, because the show's not happening. But expect to hear about 20 more 'pitches' from various people over the next year, which will also go nowhere.

Here's my pitch, Star Trek: Luna Shipyards.
It's a comedy starrring an elderly Mile's O'brien training young engineers, and despising them.

 

[Christopher]

Yeah, in lieu of coming up with anything actually original*, I can see them rebooting TOS yet a third time. I just wish they wouldn't.

It's not really "they," though; it seems to me that it's mainly Akiva Goldsman who's behind the push for nostalgia. And just because he's pushing for a "TOS Year One" series doesn't mean it'll happen, any more than Terry Matalas pushing for Star Trek Legacy made it happen.