Star Trek Returning to Television?

[Marco Dane]

http://www.latino-review.com/news/star-trek-exclusive-trek-is-going-to-return-to-tv

[DRW50]

Is this beyond a rumor?

[Vee]

No, which the OP would have known had he read the article. But I think it may happen eventually.

I know Bryan Fuller had wanted to do it a few years ago with Angela Bassett as a starship captain, which I would have loved.

[YRBB]

LOL

[Khan]

That DOES sound good.

[wingwalker]

While I would love a new Star Trek TV series, but there is (or was) a big feud going on behind the scenes for the franchise. So unless CBS and Paramount are getting along better now, I don't expect one.

When Old Viacom split into New Viacom and CBS Corp, the Star Trek rights got split as well. Paramount owns the movies, CBS the tv shows. At first it wasn't a big deal, because after Nemesis bombed and Enterprise got canceled, both decided to rest the franchise, but when the first JJ Abrams movie came out, that's when the marriage became strained.

Paramount wanted CBS to stop marketing merchandise for classic series, so Paramount could focus on the new movie merchandise, CBS making too much money, had no financial incentive to play along, didn't. This then spilled over into tv shows. After the first JJ Trek was a success, some execs on CBS wanted to make a Trek tv series, but they wanted it to be set in the main timeline, not the JJ one. Paramount, didn't want a tv show yet and only wanted "one team at a time" and any tv series to be set in the JJ timeline. CBS, only gets paid a licensing free from Paramount, so they resist any idea making a JJ timeline tv show.

[Vee]

And of course, at the moment ST3 is under fire - they've had to re-think the whole thing from the ground up with most of the Bad Robot crew mercifully gone, and Paramount brought in Justin Lin, who made a lot of fun hits with the F&F films, and they got Simon Pegg to start reworking the story after Kurtzman & Orci's team collapsed. Hopefully Pegg will come up with something decent. Idris Elba, I'm hearing, may play the villain.

I had no problem with the first ST reboot film, and thought it was a great cast and mostly a really good effort despite the usual JJ Abrams schtick. My problem came with Into Darkness, where the limits of Abrams, Bad Robot and co. once again reared their heads for me - cheap nostalgia, cynical viral marketing and a void of new story. But they have a wonderful cast and a lot of opportunities.

That being said? I am fine with going back to the prime universe and telling new stories with a more cutting-edge aesthetic a la the films, as opposed to the dry rot of the Berman/Braga years.

[DRW50]

The central problem of the Abrams movies is the huge lack of chemistry between miscast Quinto and miscast Pine, which, along with the need to remind us what big lady-loving studs they both are, meant there was no believable relationship between Kirk and Spock. No one wants to go see a movie about the love story of manly man Spock and insecure nagging Uhura.

[Vee]

I actually loved the Spock/Uhura relationship - I thought it deepened both characters. And I think Pine and Quinto work well together.

[Cheap21]

WHY THE CAPS THOUGH?

[DRW50]

All I remember of Uhura was arguing with or about her man - I guess it was their idea of giving her more to do, but I preferred what Nichols had to do, even if it was technically a more supporting role.

[quartermainefan]

I thought both, along with McCoy and Chekov were well cast.

That was all so wrong. Everyone knows that the person that loves Mr Spock is Nurse Chapel. I don't see why they feel that had to change something which worked just fine on the show. The same holds true for Capt Pike. Every Trekker worth their ears knows that Pike was mute and in a wheelchair and is part of the reason why the only death penalty on the federation books exists.

[Vee]

I never liked Chapel so I don't care.