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The compications involved with a new Star Trek series

Dr Dave

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Is There Television In Star Trek's Future?

Anyone and everyone who has been talking about doing a Star Trek series has made one thing clear: Bad Robot, the production shingle of film director J.J. Abrams, would have to sign off on it.

But that has been tricky as well. When Viacom split up its film and television divisions into separate companies, that made it a bit difficult to figure out what to do with Star Trek, which has been both a television and film powerhouse for the company. What ended up happening was Paramount Pictures took the film franchise, and CBS Television took over the boob tube side, meaning technically, Star Trek is owned by two different companies.

That's one reason why Bad Robot has yet to expand its successful film franchise reboot to television as well.

"Alex [Kurtzman] and I and Bad Robot want to make sure that nothing gets in the way of the movies," Orci recently told Ask Mr. Kern. "But No. 2, Paramount controls the movies and CBS controls TV. So there is a little bit of a power struggle there in terms of what happens. I have mentioned to CBS the idea of a Star Trek seres and they are interested in it, but they would have to coordinate with Paramount and they would have to coordinate with Bad Robot. It is something we are trying to figure out."

The Viacom split has greatly complicated the Star Trek franchise, and while it might seem the split was designed to prevent more television in the near future, the reasoning behind it was likely just the opposite. Viacom split up at the beginning of 2006. At the time, it bad been several months since the cancellation of "Star Trek: Enterprise" on the now-defunct UPN, and about four years since the last film.

While Paramount had been planning a new film to serve as a prequel to "Enterprise" written by Erik Jendresen, there was absolutely nothing going on in terms of a television series, with nothing appearing to pop up in the near future as well.

Star Trek had more than 600 hours of episodic television to maintain through various media outlets, and it was a task that would be too much for a much more slimmed down Paramount, plus CBS Television had dealt with this kind of work for many years, and it made sense to move the Star Trek television rights to them.

Now, however, there has been a highly successful movie, a heavily anticipated sequel, and talk of ending Star Trek's seven-year hiatus from television. Yet, even though CBS Television could possibly move forward with a series with or without Paramount's blessing, it also doesn't want to interfere with something that is generating money for Paramount, and likely would not move forward without that blessing.

"It is something we are trying to figure out," Orci said in the interview, courtesy of TrekMovie. "If we can figure out a beautiful timing for it, it is something we would all love to do. It is tricky, with multiple chefs in that kitchen. It is something many of us are thinking about and I want to see one, too."

If there were to be a television series involving the Bad Robot crew, that doesn't necessarily mean that it will tie into the current alternate timeline universe created by the 2009 film.

"We haven't even got to that point," Orci said. "We haven't even gone in to pitch, because the rights of how to get it done are so complicated that we are sort of waiting to see what can really happen, and see where the avenues of freedom are. For all I know, maybe it would be better to make it separate, or maybe it is better to tie it into the [movie] universe. I don't know yet."

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It would be nice to have a new Star Trek series. My preference would be to have it not be in the alternate timeline universe.
 
Dr Dave said:
It would be nice to have a new Star Trek series. My preference would be to have it not be in the alternate timeline universe.
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Well not entirely anyway. Maybe they could do a few episodes set in the alternate universe(adjust your TV brightness to compensate for lens flare now!) like all those Mirror Universe episodes in those other Trek series. A time travel episode or two would nice as well.
 
A TV series in the movie universe, but actually about exploration and discovery would be good. Really tired of goodies and baddies.
 
Viacom is SHIT. Stealing my Daily Show :rwmad:

I don't care about what timeline the series is set in, srsly.
 
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A TV series in the movie universe, but actually about exploration and discovery would be good. Really tired of goodies and baddies.
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Unfortunately the only movie they did something like that is the one most people panned which is why Trek Movies have always been good vs evil. Even STIV while not obvious has the whale probe as a enemy to beat not something to explore.
 
Karl Urban joked that Cumberbatch was going to play Gareth Mitchell, and I was actually a bit disappointed when I realised he was pulling our legs. Ok, it would still mean having a bad guy who wants to take over the world/kill everyone, but it is a slightly different dynamic. Being a friend of Kirk there'd be an emotional tension there and the fight would partly be to find a way of subduing Mitchell without having to kill him, so not quite the usual good vs bad thing.
 
Fuddlemiff said:
Karl Urban joked that Cumberbatch was going to play Gareth Mitchell, and I was actually a bit disappointed when I realised he was pulling our legs. Ok, it would still mean having a bad guy who wants to take over the world/kill everyone, but it is a slightly different dynamic. Being a friend of Kirk there'd be an emotional tension there and the fight would partly be to find a way of subduing Mitchell without having to kill him, so not quite the usual good vs bad thing.
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I actually am not 100% sure he was joking as JJ apparently made him stop talking about Trek while he is doing Dredd interviews.

Even though they dealt with Mitchell in the comic prequels to the new movie I am not 100% convinced its not going to involve him.
 
Fuddlemiff said:
Karl Urban joked that Cumberbatch was going to play Gareth Mitchell, and I was actually a bit disappointed when I realised he was pulling our legs. Ok, it would still mean having a bad guy who wants to take over the world/kill everyone, but it is a slightly different dynamic. Being a friend of Kirk there'd be an emotional tension there and the fight would partly be to find a way of subduing Mitchell without having to kill him, so not quite the usual good vs bad thing.
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But in the episode Kirk did have to kill him, there was no other way.
 
Yeah, I'm sure he'd end up getting killed, but it'd still be a little different. It's about the best we can probably expect, since a story about exploration or even a nebulous enemy like V'ger, God or the whale probe are unlikely.

Falconfire said:
I actually am not 100% sure he was joking as JJ apparently made him stop talking about Trek while he is doing Dredd interviews.

Even though they dealt with Mitchell in the comic prequels to the new movie I am not 100% convinced its not going to involve him.
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It's hard to tell for sure. If it was one of the other actors (aside from Pegg maybe) I'd take it literally, but considering Karl Urban's such a big fan of Trek and we've already had the Khan rumours it seems quite likely it was a joke. The comics are written in consultation with Orci and... the other one, so it would be odd to use the same plot for the movie. Unless the comic was designed to introduce the idea of the Galactic barrier giving people superpowers, and Cumberbatch's character will be someone new with the same affliction.
 
Well, even if it's Gary Mitchell that doesn't necessarily mean that they're doing the whole galactic barrier/turning into a God/getting Kirk's name wrong thing. It could be a totally different story.
 
They did already kill Mitchell in the prequel comic as already mentioned (but maybe this will be Gary R. Mitchell.)
 
I have a theory on this:

Discovery and exploration leads to people looking at their emotions, and potentially character development. If this happens well you get truly great characters. If the writing is poor, you get Neelix.

I think the studios are not confident enough about their writing to allow characters to be developed.
 
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