Hailing Fequencies Open For a New Star Trek Series?
Could Star Trek return to the small screen?
Rumours started to fly about the interwebs yesterday that a new Star Trek TV series may be on the way after Bryan Fuller announced he was leaving Heroes… again.
Fuller was an executive producer and writer on the 1st season of Heroes, but left to pursue other projects (including the brilliantly original Pushing Daisies). He returned to Heroes during the 3rd season after signing a 2yr development deal with NBC Universal Media. After planning out some of the major story arcs for the 4th season of Heroes, Fuller was finding himself stretched a bit too thinly – “Development was really starting to heat up, And it appears like I may be writing multiple pilots for NBC so that wasn’t leaving a ton of room for ‘Heroes,’ unfortunately. We crafted some really great arcs for the season that I’m excited to see come to fruition. I love that cast dearly and am sad to go, but the plate – she was over-flowing.” Fuller told AICN.
Fuller has another year and half pilot and pitch writing for NBC Universal, however the bit that has got most of us sci fi geeks excited though, was that Fuller expressed a desire to help create a new series for Paramount set in J.J. Abrams’ Star Trek universe. Fuller is no stranger to Trek, having had 22 episode writing credits on both Star Trek: Voyager and – my personal favorite of the next gen Trek – Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.
I’d love to see Abrams and Fuller get a chance to bring Star Trek back to the small screen. I can’t see it being with the Enterprise crew necessarily, but maybe you set it on one of the other starfleet ships. I’m sure Kirk, Spock & Co weren’t the one to have interesting adventures going where no one had gone before!
Star Trek – Super Bowl Ad
Yeh yeh, i know i’m hideously late posting this, but it’s still worth posting. This movie looks more and more awesome with every trailer!
Old Spock in New Trek!
AICN have been given a little exclusive from JJ’s new Star Trek movie. It’s the trailer with a few things switched, and the addition of old Spock! You can download the version of the Star Trek Trailer in lovely high def Quicktime by clicking one of the following:
Podcast: Play in new window | Download
Leaked Star Trek Trailer!
Get it while you can, as i suspect the paramount lawyers will have it pulled soon.
UPDATED: They actually went the opposite way, and released the high quality trailer instead. Clicky here!
It’s the Enterprise Jim, But Not As We Know It!
USS Enterprise from JJ Abrams' Star Trek movie
Entertainment Weekly has posted a shot of the USS Enterprise from JJ Abrams‘ new Star Trek film. They’ve added a few more curves here and there, but i’d still say it’s recognisable as the Enterprise we know and love. I really like the tapered look to the nacelles.
Beam over to Entertainment Weekly for more info.
New Star Trek Photos!
A whole bunch of new images from JJ Abrams’ Star Trek have emerged onto the interwebs this morning!
The crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise looking awesome in their shiny new uniforms!
(left to right)
Anton Yelchin as Chekov.
Chris Pine as James T. Kirk.
Simon Pegg as Lt. Montgomery ‘Scotty’ Scott.
Karl Urban as Dr. McCoy.
John Cho as Sulu.
Zoe Saldana as Uhura.
This is apparently the bridge of the revamped U.S.S. Enterprise! “Abrams was insistent that every piece of equipment on the bridge serve a legitimate purpose — that they all have “functionality.†According to Lindelof, the maps we see in the background near the top of the communications desk were based on the generally accepted layout of the Star Trek universe.” (source)
Zachary Quinto acting a bit more Syler than Spock in this pic!
This is apparently the USS Kelvin, and it doesn’t look like it’s going to be boldly going for too much longer.
Kirk being very Kirk-like!
“This is right around the midpoint of the movie,” he said. “One of the things that’s at the heart of the Trek universe… is the idea of the away team. The idea that it’s not just about people shooting around in a starship, but they also go down to these planets.” (source)
This is the villian of the show, Nero, played by Eric Bana. They aren’t saying officially, but he’s believed to be Romulan… (source)
If your into your Star Trek, check out some of the awesome Star Trek Replicas Forbidden Planet have going on at their site!
