i’d love if they skipped ahead of TOS and did a show set in or after the movie era. bring on the monster maroons!
I’m personally not in love with simply doing more TOS. Feels like a show, once done, should stand for itself. Plus, I’m okay with Paul Wesley as younger Kirk, but he wasn’t a great fit when he debuted as mature Kirk.
I’d be more excited about something running parallel. Number One as the captain of her own ship (with the occasional 1701 team up, of course) would be more appealing to me.
I think Goldsman’s actual statement is pretty vague - he could easily mean a spinoff with the non-TOS cast. Just redress the sets and you’re off to the races.
He could also mean a movie, or…some third thing.
And in any case, he’s moving on with his career.
It’s cool that they’re excited about possibilities, but I remain very skeptical that there’s any actual traction there.
Hey—I got an idea for that third thing—how about we start a new spin-off from SNW, with another crew and a different ship, and then maybe at the end of say, season 2, they jump like 900 years into the future, which would give the producers a sort of clean slate but with a solid foundation, and then, start other spin off from tha… oh wait
Jump 900 years into the 'past* and do a period costume drama.
That would be hilarious. Wolf Hall but technically in the Star Trek universe. 10 normal episodes per season, but once it twice a time traveler randomly shows up.
TAS is the 4th season of TOS - with some of the scripts adapted from the prep for a live-action TOS season 4 that never happened. (Yes, TAS IS canon!)
Now, we know that Arex and M’Ress are difficult to bring to live action, but who’s to say that their rotations on Enterprise aren’t done, and Chekov isn’t back, as year 5 begins?
I always figured TAS was the final two years of the five-year mission…
At 22 episodes total, and only 6 in TAS second season, it could go either way.
I am willing to concede so that those who don’t love TAS much as I do can get their proper closure to the 5 year mission.
And then there’s part of me that very much wants Vanguard to be the new, darker station-based serialized ensemble show to fill the DS9 niche we haven’t quite had in this era.
