It’s a pretty small update - the project is still in the very early stages:
And last week at the premiere when pressed on their progress, Kurtzman confirmed he had “not yet” seen scripts, noting “They’re just breaking story.” The executive producer also said he speaks to them about the project regularly, adding “I mean, I adore both of them so much, they’re so fantastic, and I trust them a lot.”
I just realized. They say they’re broadcasting to the entire quadrant - but which quadrant?
Chances are they’ll do something normal and boring like the Alpha Quadrant and create a bunch of canon confusion, but it would be kind of awesome if took place in the Gamma Quadrant and looked at life in the Dominion (or post-Dominion planets) after the war.
Tawny Newsome is awesome, so I’m sure this will be good, but there seems to be a fundamental tension between Kurtzman saying Trek can broaden, while Paramount seems to be trying to contract it.
Just send Tawny and her costar back to Strange New Worlds and leave it at that. Their guest appearance was great.
I’ve heard Tawny Newsome talk about this show on a podcast, and in this particular case, it’s the opposite - Paramount+ wanted a live-action comedy, Kurtzman wasn’t sure it would work, and Newsome had to talk him into it.
That said, the industry as a whole has been in a state of contraction, and the big Paramount merger is imminent, so who the hell knows what will happen?
What I want from Trek:
✅️ A sensible tone, mostly serious and sometimes silly. Like real life. ✅️ An exploration of morals, ethics and the human condition, aligned with the mostly utopian future depicted by 80s and 90s Trek. ✅️ An episodic plot that is not overrun by a season arc but not devoid of character development. ✅️ Occasional fun episodes with dress up and jokes. ✅️ Full orchestral score. ❌️ Too many action scenes and explosions. ❌️ Too much budget on CGI. ❌️ Over the top cheesy fan service. ❌️ Rewriting cannon. ❌️ Excessively American oriented script. ❌️ Lazy storytelling. ❌️ Reusing plot devices.
I’m 50/50 on the episodic plots. I think that DS9 hit a good balance there: The plots were mostly episodic but usually connected to an overarching metaplot. That felt pretty good; not too loose and not too tight.
Same here. While the arcs at the end of the series were a little too serialized for my taste, most of the time the overarching continuity was really good.
Spot on.
SNW is good but I don’t think we’ll ever see a return to the old TV format of 20+ episode seasons. You can’t do random episodic stories all that well in 6-12 episodes. Short seasons have no room to breathe.
Even Futurama has this problem with the two new Hulu seasons, and that’s without the burden of an overarching plot to keep moving forward.
Federation outsiders serving a gleaming resort planet find out their day-to-day exploits are being broadcast to the entire quadran
Ok not bad, Acapulco is a funny show about working in a resort so I can sorta imagine it in space. Not as sure about the Punkd angle, but I’m remaining optimistic.
From a structural standpoint, it seems like a good way to have a rotating cast of guest stars while still having an ongoing mystery for the leads to explore.
