Star Trek: Unusual New Worlds govt producer and co-showrunner, Henry Alonso Myers, dropped an enormous replace on Star Trek: 12 months One, their proposed spinoff about Captain James T. Kirk (Paul Wesley) and the Starship Enterprise. Star Trek: Unusual New Worlds wrapped its fifth and ultimate season final Christmas, and they’re at present in post-production.
In the course of the promotion for Star Trek: Unusual New Worlds season 3, govt producers and co-showrunners Akiva Goldsman and Henry Alonso Myers revealed that they have been actively pursuing a Paul Wesley-led spinoff about James Kirk’s first yr as Captain of the Enterprise. Nonetheless, as manufacturing of Star Trek: Unusual New Worlds season 5 mounted within the fall, information about Star Trek: 12 months One fell by the wayside.
TrekMovie‘s Anthony Pascale caught up with Henry Alonso Myers on the purple carpet of the 53rd annual Saturn Awards, the place Star Trek was honored with the Corridor of Fame Award. Myers confirmed that he and Goldsman have formally pitched Star Trek: 12 months One to Paramount+. Whereas it is “of their fingers proper now,” Henry assures us that “there’s numerous love” for Unusual New Worlds and for Star Trek on the studio:
Henry Alonso Myers: Yeah, we we’ve introduced them quite a bit. We’ve finished quite a bit to present to them. It’s of their fingers proper now. They’re looking at it, attempting to resolve it. I imply, there’s numerous love for our present over there, and clearly numerous love for Star Trek.
We expect it could be an amazing [show], it’s the subsequent factor for Star Trek, we expect, within the story that we’ve been telling. But it surely’s out of our fingers… We expect it could be an amazing [show], it’s the subsequent factor for Star Trek, we expect, within the story that we’ve been telling. But it surely’s out of our fingers.”
One encouraging tidbit Henry Alonso Myers reveals to TrekMovie is that Star Trek: Unusual New Worlds’ units are nonetheless standing. Star Trek: Unusual New Worlds filmed at CBS Phases Canada in Mississauga, exterior of Toronto. It is a optimistic signal that Paul Wesley’s Captain Kirk may take over the Starship Enterprise bridge from Anson Mount’s Captain Christopher Pike:
Henry Alonso Myers: “Properly, our units haven’t been destroyed but. That’s what I can say… That makes this the large choice for them, as a result of it’s about, do you maintain on to the units, at present? As I mentioned, they haven’t been destroyed, so we’re ready to search out out what they wish to do.”
Henry Alonso Myers additionally addressed TrekMovie‘s query of whether or not Paramount+ is ready to see how Star Trek: Unusual New Worlds season 4 performs this yr earlier than making a choice about greenlighting Star Trek: 12 months One. It appears like a lot hinges on Akiva Goldsman’s prowess at negotiating with the studio:
Henry Alonso Myers: “I don’t know. The best way I have a tendency to have a look at it, my job is to get [post-production on season 4 and 5] finished, to complete the present. I attempt not to consider what our companions on the studio should do as a result of that’s a complete different world. Akiva 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.”
Lastly, relating to TrekMovie‘s question about whether or not Henry Alonso Myers thinks the truth that there’s at present no new Star Trek in manufacturing or greenlit for the primary time in a decade is a “pivot level” for Star Trek, Henry says his precedence is finishing the post-production means of Star Trek: Unusual New Worlds:
Henry Alonso Myers: “No, as a result of, for me to learn that… I’m actually working each day on [Strange New Worlds] and I’m like, nothing has modified. We’ve 16 episodes that you just haven’t seen. We’ve two entire seasons that we’re nonetheless engaged on, and we’ll be engaged on for fairly a while. And [Starfleet] Academy is going on on the similar time, and so they simply wrapped their season, like, actually, like per week or two in the past… However, look, these items take a very long time to do and do effectively. I imply, I wish to say it’s in all probability like an 18-month course of.”
Akiva Goldsman and Henry Alonso Myers beforehand revealed that Star Trek: 12 months One can be new tales about Captain Kirk’s first yr aboard the USS Enterprise set earlier than Star Trek: The Authentic Sequence‘ second pilot episode, “The place No Man Has Gone Earlier than.” Star Trek: 12 months One would not recreate episodes of Star Trek that have been made 60 years in the past.
Directed by Valerie Weiss and written by David Reed and Invoice Wolkoff, Star Trek: Unusual New Worlds season 3, episode 6, “The Sehlat Who Ate Its Tail,” tells the foundational story of Lt. Commander Kirk’s first time as performing Captain of the USS Farragut.
It wasn’t a coincidence that Kirk’s first time within the Captain’s chair discovered him surrounded by his future USS Enterprise crew, Lt. Spock (Ethan Peck), Scotty (Martin Quinn), Ensign Nyota Uhura (Celia Rose Gooding), and Nurse Christine Chapel (Jess Bush), all of whom would logically return for Star Trek: 12 months One.
Star Trek: Unusual New Worlds season 3, episode 6 was so well-received that it alleviated quite a lot of skepticism a couple of Paul Wesley-led Captain Kirk spinoff. “The Sehlat Who Ate Its Tail” was successfully a proof of idea that Star Trek: 12 months One would work, and Star Trek: Unusual New Worlds season 3 continued to construct the bromance between Wesley’s Kirk and Ethan Peck’s Spock.
Paramount+’s announcement that Thomas Jane was forged as Dr. Leonard “Bones” McCoy, together with Kai Murakami as Hikaru Sulu, and that the duo would seem in Star Trek: Unusual New Worlds‘ collection finale additionally added gas to the Star Trek: 12 months One hearth. In any case, why forged an actor as high-profile as Thomas Jane to play Bones McCoy for a one-episode look, except it was groundwork for a possible spinoff?
For now, the wait continues for Star Trek: Unusual New Worlds season 4 to premiere on Paramount+, possible throughout the summer time. The way forward for Star Trek is a big query mark as Paramount Skydance decides on what route to take Gene Roddenberry’s 60-year-old sci-fi franchise. Hopefully, it would embrace new voyages for Paul Wesley’s Captain Kirk and Ethan Peck’s Mr. Spock in Star Trek: 12 months One.
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Could 5, 2022
- Community
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Paramount+
- Showrunner
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Henry Alonso Myers, Akiva Goldsman
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Dan Liu, Amanda Row, Maja Vrvilo, Akiva Goldsman, Dermott Downs, Eduardo Sánchez, Jeffrey W. Byrd, Jonathan Frakes, Jordan Canning, Leslie Hope, Valerie Weiss, Sydney Freeland, Christopher J. Byrne, Rachel Leiterman
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Onitra Johnson