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CBS has appear that the upcoming Star Trek TV testify volition be helmed by Brian Fuller, creator of Wonderfalls, Pushing Daisies, and Hannibal. Earlier he created these shows, Fuller was a author on both Star Expedition: Deep Space Ix and Voyager, and has talked about the idea of bringing the serial dorsum to tv for nearly a decade.

Fuller, who has been a Star Trek fan since he was a child, has pitched multiple ideas effectually a new series since 2008, when he told IF Magazine: "I would love to render to the spirit of the onetime series with the colors and mental attitude. I loved Voyager and Deep Space Nine, but they seem to have lost the '60s fun and I would love to take it back to its origin."

More recently, Fuller has speculated about setting a Star Trek Tv set show on the USS Reliant rather than the USS Enterprise, or rebooting the TNG universe within the Abrams timeline rather than returning to the original timeline in which all of the previous television shows took place.

Watching Brian Fuller

I'm not familiar with Fuller's afterwards television shows, but it just so happens that I've been re-watching all of the Star Expedition spin-offs. Fuller wrote just two DS9 episodes, "The Darkness and the Low-cal," and "Empok Nor." Both are solid, though I'd argue "Empok Nor" is the better of the two.

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Bryan Fuller. I have no explanation for the fox.

His Voyager repertoire is more extensive, at 20 episodes. My initial opinion of Voyager when it aired wasn't very positive, but I've really warmed to the show more than now that I'm watching it again. Information technology's still my third-favorite behind DS9 and TNG, but it deserved more credit than I initially gave it. At present that I've seen which episodes Fuller wrote, I think some of that credit belongs to him.

The vast majority of Fuller's work on Voyager is on episodes that focus on character development through adversity. Voyager's later seasons were often criticized for focusing almost exclusively on Seven of Nine, the Doctor, and Captain Janeway. Fuller was often the exception to that trend. Not all of his stories work ("Retrospect," which focuses on sexual assault, is downright painful to watch), but he oft pushes the envelope in interesting ways, even if the last effort doesn't gel completely.

"Mortal Coil" was i of a handful of episodes that gave Ethan Phillips (Neelix) something to practice besides act ingratiatingly cheerful. "Gravity" delved into Tuvok's childhood and how Vulcan's experience emotion. "Clomp of the Dead" examined Klingon behavior about the afterlife.

Many of Fuller's episodes take issues that go along them from landing on Voyager's Top ten list, but nearly all of them show a willingness to grapple with hard questions and the nature of humanity that'due south been sorely defective in the JJ Abrams reboot.

The Abrams trap

I absolutely agree with Fuller that the later Star Trek spin-offs weren't as lighthearted as the classic prove. On DS9, that was intentional; the show's decision to focus on a war and to tell that story more honestly than Star Trek's previous sunny disposition would allow was a deliberate choice. Voyager, in contrast, is oft weighed downwards past techno-blubbering and prophylactic plot decisions. Had Voyager jumped a few years into the future and taken some queues from Battlestar Galactica, it would accept been a better evidence.

With that said, I dearly hope that Fuller avoids the temptation to but reboot previous storylines or characters. JJ Abrams' first movie worked because it told an entirely new story with a fresh cast. Star Trek Into Darkness started to autumn autonomously as before long as it began relentlessly aping The Wrath of Khan. Star Trek Beyond's first trailer appears gear up to keep this tendency, though Simon Pegg, co-writer of the script, besides criticized the trailer as inaccurately portraying the moving-picture show.

Star Trek: Lt Commander Data

The original Data. No substitutes accustomed

It fabricated sense to reboot classic Star Trek, peculiarly now that Leonard Nimoy has passed and even George Takei is 78. It makes much less sense to do the same in the TNG era. I don't desire to watch a revamped TNG crew take on sometime plots; I'd much rather see new ones.

The CBS All Access Ballast

Currently, CBS intends to broadcast the new Star Trek just via CBS All-Access, which currently costs $6 a month. Since I'm not paying $72 a year for a single tv show when Netflix exists, all of this is somewhat academic. While I don't recommend people pirate content, CBS is blowing their ain human foot off with this 1. Fuller seems like a solid choice to captain the revamped show; hopefully CBS won't destroy its chances by tying it to their graveyard content service.