The upcoming Star Trek: Strange New Worlds series, the Star Trek: Discovery spinoff, is set to begin shooting sometime next year. According to Star Trek showrunner Alex Kurtzman, the series will return to the classic episodic storytelling. Serialized seasons, like Discovery and other shows on television and streaming, have become the popular structure where one storyline is spread throughout the season. Star Trek: Strange New Worlds will be structured with mostly stand-alone episodes. Just like Star Trek: The Original Series.
Kurtzman also mentioned that some serialized elements like in Star Trek: Discovery will remain. “I think Strange New Worlds, under the guidance of Henry Myers and Akiva Goldsman, is going to be a return, in a way, to TOS,” Kurtzman tells Deadline. “We’re going to do stand-alone episodes. There will be emotional serialization. There will be two-parters. There will be larger plot arcs, but it really is back to the model of alien of the week, planet of the week, challenge on the ship of the week with these characters pre-Kirk’s Enterprise.
“I think what people responded so much to in all three characters is this kind of relentless optimism that they have. And that they are at the young phase of their careers. Then Pike, who has experienced this extraordinary trauma, which he’s famous for, that he knows how he’s going to die. The idea is, how does a character who knows how he’s going to die live optimistically from that point on and lead a ship? It’s a great question. I’ve never seen a show where a character knew that already. You have to have an inherent optimism in your world view in order to say, ‘I’m going to get up every morning knowing how it is going to end for me” and still lead everybody to be the best versions of themselves.”
Anson Mount (Captain Christopher Pike of the U.S.S. Enterprise) said during the Comic-Con@Home panel, “I think the biggest thing, obviously, was seeing my future, and when you see how it’s all going to end and that it’s not so pretty, what do you do with that?” He continued to say, “I think there’s a reason that we can only see our past because we’re a very neurotic species, and we wouldn’t know how to comport ourselves. And so I think ultimately the question becomes, ‘How do you move forward?’ I think he’s going to wrestle with how he can best utilize the rest of his life for the good of the world, the universe… He’s not thinking about it as a team yet because he’s wrestling with it himself, which I hope he’s going to learn to let other people help him wrestle with it.”
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds starts filming next year. Are you excited for another Star Trek show featuring the first crew of the U.S.S Enterprise?
Featured Image: CBS All Access
Source: Deadline, Comic-Con@Home
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