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Star Trek Discovery Gets Delayed After Losing Showrunner Bryan Fuller (variety.com)
It looks like we're going to have to wait even longer for CBS's upcoming Star Trek Discovery series, as the production's showrunner, Bryan Fuller, is stepping back. He will however still remain the show's executive producer. Variety reports: The decision was made late last week to hand the day-to-day showrunning reins to "Star Trek" exec producers Gretchen Berg and Aaron Harberts as "Discovery" gears up for the start of filming next month and a May 2017 premiere date. Fuller, who will remain an executive producer, will still be involved in breaking stories, and the show will continue to follow his vision for the universe that this latest "Trek" series will inhabit. Writer-director Akiva Goldsman is also expected to join "Discovery" in a top creative role. He's envisioned as serving as producing support for Berg and Harberts, Fuller and exec producer Alex Kurtzman as they juggle the demands of the series that CBS is counting on to be the marquee selling point for subscriptions to its CBS All Access SVOD service. Sources said there had been some strain between "Star Trek" producer CBS Television Studios and Fuller over the progress of production on the show, as Fuller is also juggling the final weeks of shooting and post-production duties on Starz's upcoming drama "American Gods" and prepping a reboot of "Amazing Stories" for NBC. Fuller has penned the first two scripts for "Discovery" and has hammered out the broader story arc and mythology for the new "Trek" realm. But it became clear that he couldn't devote the amount of time needed for "Discovery" to make its premiere date and with production scheduled to start in Toronto next month.
In theory a show like this is an easy win for the network. It is then very very tempting for executives to mess with it for a wide variety of reasons. Put a GF in minor role. Get some writers who you need for another project a place to park themselves. A great place to dump losses from other shows. Basically all kinds of things that aren't good for the show.
I suspect that the director wasn't playing ball with their 20th century ways and they replaced him with someone more "controllable" let's see how that works out.
If we are lucky the show is run by people even better at avoiding such crap. If we aren't we will get a half crap show that is loaded up with acting has-beens from the last 20 years who were owed favours by various CBS executives, hack writers who weren't even good in their Full House days, and editorial urine tasting contests where executives say, "NO NO NO to much science. We need people talking about their emotions. Let's see if we can get Oprah to dress up like we got Woopie to do."
Then the few union seniors who do make the show don't want to do star dreck (that is what they will call it) but they want to make some crap 80's drama like LA Law. So they will make LA Law in space. That was their first Union gig, and they haven't changed one bit since.
So why worry
Set 10 years before the events of the original Star Trek series,[2] the series follows the crew of the USS Discovery as they discover new worlds and civilizations, while exploring the franchise's signature contemporary themes.[3][4] The season-long storyline revolves around "an incident and an event in Star Trek history that's been talked about but never been explored".[2]
Number One: A female minority character serving as a lieutenant commander aboard the Discovery. The decision to not make the character a starship captain, like previous Star Trek series' protagonists, was made "to see a character from a different perspective on the starship—one who has a different dynamic relationships with a captain, with subordinates, it gave us richer context".[2] The decision to call her 'Number One' was made in honor of the character of the same name portrayed by Majel Barrett in the original Star Trek pilot "The Cage". When the character was first pitched to CBS, she was to only be called Number One in the series, but her real name will ultimately be revealed before the end of the first season.[6]
They made their priority pushing diversity as the theme and put the science fiction in the back. If you want a tv show about freakish aliens pushing diversity point your browser at a San Francisco Web Cam, no need to subscribe to CBS.
"Sources emphasized that CBS execs have been happy with the material that Fuller has developed to date but became increasingly concerned that he had too much on his plate and there was no willingness to delay the premiere date once more."
Read that. "there was no willingness to delay the premiere date once more". Now fix the posting.
Dead.
Was so good and fun. Maybe not in that order. Even without him it still was but without him it never have been. Like me.
I love Dead Like Me and Pushing Daisies. But Voyager was a mess. He has enormous creativity and great visual style, but Fuller's work never gave me the sense that continuity was his strong suit.
I wonder what a showrunner is. Since I'm not involved in the production of TVs or Movies in any way, I don't have the first clue. Maybe TFS would explain this term before using it?
I'll keep in mind, in my future job at Slashdot, to remember to use obscure terms of art from my own field of chip design and cryptography. People will appreciate it I'm sure.
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That's more interesting than reheated Star Trek
We all know the executives are going to ruin this show.
While they continue to fumble to get a new show out, we should keep the heat on them to allow better things to get made like Axanar.
Prelude to Axanar
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
It has Rod Roddenberry as an Executive Producer, reason enough to boycott it. He's almost as big an IP douche as Christopher Tolkien, only whereas the former has at least put some work into compilations and research and such, Rod was mostly been a whiney bitch in regards to his late father's work.
Just go look at his wikipedia picture.
Enterprise could have and should have been the ultimate Star Trek prequel, and other than the stupid temporal cold war and Xindi things, I quite enjoyed the show. It was quite fascinating to see how new technologies and discoveries were dealt with by the crew.
Another series ripe for a reboot is Stargate. It is such a shame that its writers so jumped the shark with SGU. Members of forums I frequented quite loudly told them how the direction they were taking was destroying the franchise, but of course they knew better than Stargate fans what Stargate fans wanted to watch.
Time is what keeps everything from happening all at once.
This is such a sad situation, as corporations are cashing in on the legacy of Gene Roddenberry.
Since his death, the echoes of his influence have faded. Resulting in a "Star Trek in name only" sci-fi universe. It's sad, but predictable. Personally, I'd be gratified if the show never made it out of the gate. The reboot movies were marginal at best, and we cannot expect much better from the series.
The re-imagined Battlestar Galactica was a psychodrama in space- do we want to see that aboard the Enterprise?
Another consultant who stuck it out.
"We are the Priests, of the Temples of Syrinx..."
"Im otta here!"
My favorite one is "gaffer". I haven't looked it up because I like to imagine that the gaffer is either someone responsible for the "gaffes" from the start, or some sort of honorary title given at the end to the cast member with the most gaffes.
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Yeah you've never actually watched TOS or you'd know that Kirk was only interested in his ship. He didn't "woo" anyone.
Not true at all. The ship is his long term relationship, but he woos women constantly and loves them for a very short term. This has diplomatic advantages in influencing their behavior during first contact.
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The delay came first. Star Trek Discovery was delayed until May 2017 way back in September 2016.Here's the link.
Fuller reduced his duties just this week (late October 2016).
After MacGyver my trust in CBS to warm up any old series is below zero. Every geek's favourite smart, gun hating, extra-legal, teetotaler, loner, semi-vegetarian pacifist who actually understood how things worked has turned into an idiotic gun loving, face punching, government employee always accompanied by a sidekick that just wants to drink beers around the world's fakest campfire.
The reboot movies were marginal at best, and we cannot expect much better from the series.
The reboot movies were, at best, "movies". And we cannot expect much better from the series.
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Janeway?
Nay - a Jew!
Buy stock in Sherwin-Williams. I'm expecting a massive rush of people wanting to watch it dry.
Green scarf or purple scarf?
They can't make a series about exploration or discovery. As a society we've stopped looking up and out. So, instead, we have this incessant navel gazing.
Will probably be full of SJW stuff and
1) Canceled after 3 months
2) Continue, but no one will watch it
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How exactly has the show been "further delayed" after the transition of Bryan Fuller? The May 2017 premier date was announced long before Fuller left. This headline clearly made it sound like an *additional* delay. Click-bait.
It's a sash. And a completely different show.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Less typecast, and more finding her character lacking character. She hated it.
She barely had any role in the scripts, and rather than fight for stories, she decided to leave.