I’m grateful it isn’t going to be legacy characters. There has been a certain fetish for recasting the TOS crew as nauseam, and I’m optimistic that it won’t be more of that.
Still, after the Section 31
showTV movie, I’m not too confident that it isn’t going to be about a bunch of “lovable” space pirates doing un-Starfleet-like things because that seemed to work for Star Wars and the DCEU…Lower Decks movie please!
I’m down for an entire new crew. I’m super curious what they mean by “further in the timeline”, though. Further than Voyager or Discovery/Academy?
We kinda see post Voyager in the TNG films, since we see Admiral Janeway. We also get a 20 year jump in the Picard series. So you could be set in that gap, or after Picard.
I think Discovery/Academy era is the most interesting. You get to tell a “start of the Federation” type story, which we haven’t seen yet. We’ve seen similar with Enterprise giving us the forming of the Federation, so this would be what’s next. Plus you can pull in all the legacy aliens whenever you want.
it’s a story Star Trek Enterprise should have gotten to tell in full
So that’s a can of worms I completely agree with, but I suspect even if it hadn’t been cancelled it still would have avoided.
I think we would have gotten more details, but I don’t think Enterprise was ever ready to declare the Federation starting, and then really go forward.
I give Discovery a lot of props for taking the series in a wild new direction.
I guess technically the Federation doesn’t really reinvent the galaxy overnight, but even such a tentpole moment is a season finale and then some.
Section 31 goes back… to the future!
Happy to see another stab at it. I liked the Kelvin timeline films… but I still long for the days of TNG, DS9, Voyager. After that, everything did not feel like “real” Star Trek. I guess that could be just because they were more in my formative years but I don’t think many people who would say any of the subsequent shows were better than any of those three…
I don’t think anything will ever top DS9 for me, but I’d put several of the newer shows above Voyager.
