Who Should direct a new star trek series
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Usually TV directors do not get as much free reign as movie directors do (unless, they are part of the creative/producer team). Trek TV directors rotated in and out (although, they did seem to go to the same pool). I would say it would make no difference who they got to direct the episodes.
Writing-wise....that can be anyone's guess. Probably a completely new team with perhaps some oversight by Abrams, Orci, and Kurtzman.
Then again, since the TV rights are owned by a different company from the movie rights, it may not be so simple.
Here are a few choices for directors, Levar Burton, Roxxane Dawson, Jonathan Frakes, Robert Duncan McNeil.
Writers, Ira Steven Behr, David Mack, Manny Coto
Writers, Ira Steven Behr, David Mack, Manny Coto
"From the team who's been crashing and burning Star Trek for 15 years"
Gotta keep a few writers and directors from then. Keep a few good ones.
TV writers nowadays usually have producer credits, so here's my short list for Executive Producer:
Dan O'Bannon (writer of Alien)
David Twohy (director of Pitch Black)
Ronald D. Moore (he'll have nothing better to do after Galactica wraps.)
I'd want whoever is chosen from among them to choose the writing staff as part of the process of guiding the overall concept. Once that's done, there's my short list of directors for the episodes:
Roxanne Dawson (i've always thought, if i ever did a new trek, i'd want her as a director.)
Anson Williams (Yes, Potsey, who's turned into a pretty decent TV action director.)
Peter DeLuise (just to see which member of his family he managed to sneak into his episodes.)
Kenneth Johnson (because he's KENNETH JOHNSON)
Dan O'Bannon (writer of Alien)
David Twohy (director of Pitch Black)
Ronald D. Moore (he'll have nothing better to do after Galactica wraps.)
I'd want whoever is chosen from among them to choose the writing staff as part of the process of guiding the overall concept. Once that's done, there's my short list of directors for the episodes:
Roxanne Dawson (i've always thought, if i ever did a new trek, i'd want her as a director.)
Anson Williams (Yes, Potsey, who's turned into a pretty decent TV action director.)
Peter DeLuise (just to see which member of his family he managed to sneak into his episodes.)
Kenneth Johnson (because he's KENNETH JOHNSON)
Good start and maybe Braga as writer as well, he had some of the best eps in trek history. And perhaps Peter David and don't forget JJ
I can't believe no-one mentioned David Livingston's name yet 
He's my favourite Trek director I think, he tries something a little different in each episode, and usually, it pays off. I'd definitely push to give him first refusal as a series director.
As for writers, yup, definitely Manny Coto. The guy obviously understood continuity and how important it is to us lowly fans. Phyllis Strong gave us some pretty solid episodes. Ira Steven Behr is a must. Maybe Robert Hewitt Wolfe too?
As for novelists-turned-TV-writers, Peter David, S.D. Perry, David Mack. They seem to really get an episode feel to their writing.
Outside of this, I'd push for bringing on a lot of fresh blood. The main problem with Enterprise (particularly with the first two seasons) was it just became 'Generic Voyager Script #4' with the occasional retro reference thrown in. The same would probably happen again if exactly the same crew were brought in.
I'm also logging a vote against Braga
He may have given us some of the more outlandish and fun concepts, but the guy clearly doesn't know how to resolve a story without a quick fix, a reset button, or some kind of sci-fi claptrap that comes out of left field. (I hate to bring it up, but point-in-case: Threshold and the abominable These Are The Voyages among others...)
I'm going to go out on a limb here and suggest Rick Berman is at least given some kind of minor consultant's role. Let's be fair to him, he did run the final seasons of TNG and is part responsible for giving us DS9 and the early seasons of Voyager. And I actually enjoy Enterprise, for all my sins... Right idea, wrong execution... I just wouldn't want the franchise to end up unrecognisable from the golden era Trek of the 90s.
I reserve judgement on Abrams until the new film comes out. As for Lost and Alias - he knows how to keep you on the edge of your seat for a season or two, but it all goes quickly downhill for me. I wouldn't want to see that same kind of fatigue affect a new Trek series.
He's my favourite Trek director I think, he tries something a little different in each episode, and usually, it pays off. I'd definitely push to give him first refusal as a series director.
As for writers, yup, definitely Manny Coto. The guy obviously understood continuity and how important it is to us lowly fans. Phyllis Strong gave us some pretty solid episodes. Ira Steven Behr is a must. Maybe Robert Hewitt Wolfe too?
As for novelists-turned-TV-writers, Peter David, S.D. Perry, David Mack. They seem to really get an episode feel to their writing.
Outside of this, I'd push for bringing on a lot of fresh blood. The main problem with Enterprise (particularly with the first two seasons) was it just became 'Generic Voyager Script #4' with the occasional retro reference thrown in. The same would probably happen again if exactly the same crew were brought in.
I'm also logging a vote against Braga
He may have given us some of the more outlandish and fun concepts, but the guy clearly doesn't know how to resolve a story without a quick fix, a reset button, or some kind of sci-fi claptrap that comes out of left field. (I hate to bring it up, but point-in-case: Threshold and the abominable These Are The Voyages among others...)I'm going to go out on a limb here and suggest Rick Berman is at least given some kind of minor consultant's role. Let's be fair to him, he did run the final seasons of TNG and is part responsible for giving us DS9 and the early seasons of Voyager. And I actually enjoy Enterprise, for all my sins... Right idea, wrong execution... I just wouldn't want the franchise to end up unrecognisable from the golden era Trek of the 90s.
I reserve judgement on Abrams until the new film comes out. As for Lost and Alias - he knows how to keep you on the edge of your seat for a season or two, but it all goes quickly downhill for me. I wouldn't want to see that same kind of fatigue affect a new Trek series.
I can't believe no-one mentioned David Livingston's name yet
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I forgot about livingston's eps some of the best in trek. Without a question he needs to be apart of the new series
I'd love to see what Kevin Smith would do with Trek. Maybe he could write and direct an episode of a future Trek series in which his flair for wacky dialogue is put to good use, sort of like "The Trouble with Tribbles" meets "Galaxy Quest".
A Klingon never goes ass-to-mouth. There is no honor in it.
Not director but showrunner. So David E. Kelley if you could get him to do it.
Bryan Fuller, after he gets done rescuing Heroes. 
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