Star Trek There is in some uncertain place now, as the shows that have created its streaming explosion have spent the last few years or arriving at their end or announcing that they are preparing that – and that even leaves that Paramount itself is controversially coming under new management. Past two and a half more seasons of Strange new worlds and at least two seasons of Starfleet Academywhere Star Trek Comes later is unknown. But it is also a situation in which one Trek Alum sees an opportunity for a major return.
That aluminum is Michael Sussman, a writer and producer who worked both Star Trek: Travel and, more significantly, Star Trek: Enterprise. Speaking to Trekmovie Prior to appearance at the ongoing STLV: Trek to Vegas -Congress this weekend, Sussman has revealed that in recent years he has worked with Enterprise Star Scott Bakula (who also makes a rare congress appearance at STLV) on a pitch for a successor series inspired by an idea, which Sussman sowed the seeds for in the last episode of Enterprise He wrote, “In a mirror, dark, 2nd part.”
Inserted in the mirror universeThe season four two -part saw Bakula play the double role of both the main captain Archer and his mirror universe. This -last, accessing the USS computer systems Challenginga ship from a future point in the Trek timeline (but not That USS Challenging), who has achieved the alternative reality, attracts Prime Archer’s personal file – where both mirror Archer and the audience learn that he is destined for one day to become the president of the birth of the United Federation of Planets.
“It happened to me that someone in the editorial staff, not the art department, needs to write this graphics. Someone needed to think about it, right? Trekmovie. “Holy shit, I actually have an idea for a series, returning to that visual graph, which I planted all those years before.”
This idea-who, according to Sussman, was born of Bakula expressing interest to return to an Archer-focus show inspired by the success of the then-ongoing Star Trek: Picard. It joined in pitch and Bakula worked on called Star Trek: UnitedWho would have circled around older Jonathan Archer navigating the diplomatic and political nuances of leadership of the federation in his early years and took a more mature tone. “It’s a political thriller and family drama set up in those oticota, formative years of the federation … One of my aspirations would be for the series to do for Star TrekWhat Andor made for Star Wars“Sussman continued.” It’s a show where you can tell stories about adults about adults and tell them in a very based, realistic way. ”
However according to Sussman, the pitch for UnitedWhile in the very early stages of discussion, it did not go far. The producer took what he described as a “high -level supervision” for the secret hideout series, the production company of Alex Kurtzman, who works with Paramount in all contemporary Star Trek. Although the meeting was positive and Sussman developed a deeper pitch, he was later told that a secret hiding place and the largest will not be advanced in development, in the midst of a wider cut of the streaming expense studio, and due to possible similarity overlap with the already in development. Starfleet Academywhich, though fixed Thousands of thousands of years After the duration of UnitedIt would also be erected mainly on the ground.
Things actually change at Paramount, with the $ 8 billion deal For Skydance to take possession of the studio Closed this week. Paramount’s new Director General David Ellison has already discussed Renewed Focus on Premium streaming -content. To Sussman, that indicates potential that – especially after the amount of streaming Star Trek contracted in the past years – he could take the United Pitch, set enough to relieve previous concerns about overlap, back to the studio for a new evaluation.
“The hope is that Paramount plans to invest more in Star Trek On television, “Sussman finished Trekmovie“And they were very clear about how they want to make Paramount+ a real player in the streaming space.”
Time will say if the possibility is still on the cards. After all, even if Strange new worlds And Starfleet Academy are currently the only two Star Trek Series in production at the moment, we have heard many rumors of plans to try to recreate the franchise in a movie, whether it’s Patrick Stewart’s own hopes new Picard Moviethe porch speech of fourth entry In the “Kelvin Timeline” series started by JJ Abrams’ 2009 Star Trek movie, or – perhaps most interesting in the case of the United pitch – a movie set in The early days of Starfleet and the early steps of humanity after making first contact with the volcanoes and other alien species, land already covered in part by Star Trek: Enterprise.
Enough to say it will take a long way to get any indication of Star TrekThere is a future in this new normal. Whether captain (or president) Archer will be part of that future remains visible.
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