The Creators of ‘Unusual New Worlds’ Certain Hope Paramount Loves Their ‘Star Trek: 12 months One’ Pitch

We’re at the moment in a spot the place there’s no lively Star Trek present in manufacturing, however that doesn’t imply that folks aren’t making an attempt. Whereas we nonetheless watch for a bit extra of Trek‘s future, the group behind a kind of remaining TV reveals, Unusual New Worlds, nonetheless has some hope there is perhaps a solution to preserve the collection’ premise (and its units) going.

That concept is Star Trek: 12 months One, a long-discussed pitch that may decide up the place Unusual New Worlds is predicted to leave off, overlaying the very earliest days of Captain Kirk’s command of the USS Enterprise. We already know that the final episode of Unusual New Worlds‘ fifth and last season has forged a brand new Physician McCoy and Sulu to affix the loads of acquainted faces now we have in Unusual New Worlds‘ forged, so it actually looks as if the collection will finish in a spot the place a spin-off present might decide up immediately.

However beforehand, 12 months One was only a hope of Unusual New Worlds‘ creators. Now, it’s an precise challenge they’ve pitched to Paramount.

“We expect it will be an ideal [show], it’s the subsequent factor for Star Trek, we expect, within the story that we’ve been telling,” Unusual New Worlds producer and co-showrunner Henry Alonso Meyers just lately advised TrekMovie in regards to the potential for the present. “However it’s out of our palms… Yeah, we’ve introduced them quite a bit. We’ve completed quite a bit to provide to them. It’s of their palms proper now. They’re having a look at it, making an attempt to resolve it. I imply, there’s loads of love for our present over there, and clearly loads of love for Star Trek.”

Whereas Unusual New Worlds has wrapped filming each its fourth and fifth seasons, post-production continues to be effectively underway on the present, so it’s nonetheless very a lot an ongoing concern whilst Paramount itself undergoes its own vast changes and tries to chart a brand new future for what Star Trek may be. Whereas no new reveals have been confirmed—simply two extra seasons of Unusual New Worlds and not less than yet another season of Starfleet Academy—the studio has not less than begun work on a brand new Star Trek movie project with the Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Amongst Thieves duo John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein.

However curiously, in line with Alonso, Unusual New Worlds‘ units are at the moment nonetheless standing on the CBS phases in Mississauga, Ontario. “Properly, our units haven’t been destroyed but. That’s what I can say,” Meyers continued. “That makes this the massive choice for them, as a result of, it’s about, do you maintain on to the units, at the moment? As I stated, they haven’t been destroyed, so we’re ready to search out out what they wish to do.”

Units or in any other case, solely time will inform at this level if the pitch for 12 months One goes ahead. In any case, the forged and crew of Picard pushed laborious for a continuation called Legacy when it concluded, and seemingly nothing got here of it. However Meyers stays optimistic—in any case, the sixtieth anniversary yr for Trek looks as if a good time to announce what is actually a redo of the unique collection.

“The best way I have a tendency to have a look at it, my job is to get [Strange New Worlds season 4 and 5] completed, to complete the present,” Meyers concluded. “I attempt not to consider what our companions on the studio must do, as a result of, that’s a complete different world. Akiva [Goldsman, Strange New Worlds‘ co-showrunner] likes to go in and actually push laborious, and I’m in all probability extra of a softer push on that, however my coronary heart is the place Akiva is.”

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