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Star Trek May Be Heading Back To TV, Get The Details
By Brent McKnight, CINEMABLEND

director Bryan Singer may be involved

A lot of hardcore Star Trek fans have been critical of the rebooted film franchise, and almost every time a story drops about that, there is a minor clamor for the franchise to return to television, where it began almost 50 years ago. According to one new report, that could be closer than we think, and new series may be on the way.

Sources tell Latino Review that CBS is working to bring Star Trek back to your TV sets. They don't offer much in the way of details, but the biggest tidbit they share is that X-Men: Days of Future Past director Bryan Singer has been bandied about as an executive producer through his Bad Hat Harry Productions. We'll have to wait and see if this news pans out, but there's definite potential, and Singer is a well-known fan and has a history with the franchise.

Star Trek: Enterprise, the most recent series, went off the air in 2005, and since then there have been a couple of attempts to mount another in its wake. Bryce Zabel (Dark Skies) and Babylon 5's J. Michael Straczynski worked on a version called Star Trek: Reboot the Universe. There was also another one called Star Trek: Federation, and wouldn't you know, Singer was one of the main three involved with that project, along with Christopher McQuarrie (Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation) and Robert Burnett, with novelist Geoffrey Thorne handling the writing.

Singer is the only name specifically mentioned in LR's report. There's no concrete word on whether any of the others are still involved, but Burnett has continued dabbling in that realm, working as a producer on the fan-funded film Star Trek: Axanar, from the people behind Star Trek: Prelude to Axanar. McQuarrie is busy getting Rogue Nation in shape for its release in July, though he is working with Bad Robot on that one, and has mentioned Trek on social media as recently as last December. For his part, Singer is prepping X-Men: Apocalypse, but has sporadically talked about Star Trek over the years. If nothing else, they all still appear to have love for the franchise.

If Singer and/or any of these people are working on a new Star Trek series, it will be interesting to see if it is similar to Federation. That idea didn't reboot the universe, but instead takes place in the distant future. In this vision, the United Federation of Planets has become bloated and complacent, and Starfleet has become outdated and ineffective. Basically, it imagines a world where the Federation is a dysfunctional mess, causing many worlds to withdraw due to the ineffective way the government responds to an emerging threat called the Scourge. That's definitely fertile ground for a new series to explore.

Who the hell knows if this will actually amount to anything? Paramount is still working to get Star Trek 3 together, though there appears to be movement — Simon Pegg has been talking about the script, and Idris Elba is reportedly up for an as-yet-unnamed villain role. The Justin Lin-directed film is scheduled to hit theaters on July 6, 2016, but it would also be pretty cool to have more Star Trek on TV to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Gene Roddenberry's groundbreaking franchise.





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[larryfoster]

The only way I'll have an interest in a new Star Trek tv series... is if it shows fleets of hyperspace C-57-D Earth star-cruiser 'saucers' (w/ Robby robots aboard) as pre-Federation star-ships! Otherwise, I'll give it the same interest I gave to Star Trek: Enterprise -- zero.

Trek (and Trekers) will show due credit to the source of great Roddenberry's concept 'inspiration'... or (the hypocrites can) stick the IDIC principals where Sol don't shine.



Scenes of the C-57-D's liftoff from an Earth launch-base, followed by scenes of a fleet of such saucers (to patrol and battle the Romulans), should have been inserted between those of the last spaceshuttle (space-plane) and the launch of Zefram Cochrane's warp-rocket ("Phoenix") - (at time 1:13) in this intro video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yijcWsLda8
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Tired of waiting on NASA to adopt Flying Saucer technology! Sick of human political-representative government! I want 1970: COLOSSUS (The Forbin Project) A.I. - as World Control government! Providing flying saucer tech, "For the betterment of man."

[bulldogtrekker]

Too Bad, That Rumor About A New Star Trek TV Show Is Absolutely False
Charlie Jane Anders, I09


Star Trek Enterprise-A "Cutaway" Poster with art by David Kimble, via TrekCollective

We'd all love to see a brand new Star Trek TV series, as the show warps towards its 50th anniversary. Almost everyone agrees Trek belongs on television, where thoughtful stories and optimism can flourish. But the latest rumor about a Star Trek TV show in the works? Is absolutely 100 percent false.

Yesterday, Latino Review had an exclusive report that "CBS is looking to bring Star Trek back to TV." While we'd love to believe this — and it seems inevitable that one day, there will be another Star Trek TV show, there's no truth whatsoever to Latino Review's report.

In a nutshell, Latino Review's report revolves around a pitch from 10 years ago for a new Trek TV show called Star Trek: Federation. We wrote about this pitch in great detail here, but in a nutshell it takes place in the far future, after the Federation has become "fat and happy," and a young Alexander Kirk may be the Federation's only hope for surviving a massive new threat. Robert Meyer Burnett, director of Free Enterprise, was involved along with writer Geoffrey Thorne, and Bryan Singer was also on board.

So Latino Review claims that CBS is eager to bring Star Trek back to television, and the same people who were involved with Star Trek: Federation 10 years ago could be spearheading this new effort. Singer is involved, and Thorne actually wrote a script for Federation which CBS could use to get the project started up quickly. And meanwhile, Robert Burnett is "rumored to be working on a non-Trek project with Skydance Productions" while serving as one of the producers of a new fan movie, Star Trek: Prelude to Axanar, which Burnett "can use as an example of how producing a reasonably-budgeted TV series set in the Star Trek Universe this day and age should be a piece of cake." Also, they speculate that Chris McQuarrie could direct.

So if Axanar looks as good as everyone hopes, then "we might get a riff on Star Trek: Federation." In any case, Latino Review says, a new Trek series is on its way.

We contacted Burnett about this incredibly tantalizing rumor, and here's what he told us: