This is the 10th entry in a surprisingly long series of posts about Star Trek’s future and its fandom called Crisis of Infinite Star Treks. I’m happy this entry is much less in the crisis column and more in the infinite Star Treks column
Last last night, I caught this article on The Mary Sue being shared among social media: the new Star Trek show will be an anthology series akin to True Detective and others, where each season is a self-contained narrative arc.
The seasons will take place at different points across the main continuity timeline. So we might have a TOS-era season, a TNG-era season, even a post-Nemesis season (which would address “what happens next” for many fans).
Importantly –for some fans– there are not plans to set any season in the “JJ-verse.” I’m relatively indifferent on this point, but I understand how many fans don’t want connections to that. In any case, I can understand an argument that this helps give the TV series its own identify.
Not only that, but apparently the first season will take place after Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country and before TNG. Perhaps this was one of the reasons Nicholas Meyer signed on.
Talk about having your cake and eating it too.
For long-time Crisis of Infinite Star Trek readers (of which I believe there are seven), this is great news.
Really, the only thing that would make this better is if Snoopy were in a Starfleet uniform. If someone on the Internets wants to make it happen, I’m down with that.
Okay, maybe some of this excitment is premature, but I hope not Lucy-level premature
I certainly want this to be confirmed by additional sources. And I’m hoping there will be some Bryan Fuller interviews I can link to in the future, but hey, we might just be looking at a hopeful future like Roddenberry imagined it.