Akiva Goldsman On How ‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ Will End With Kirk In Command
Akiva Goldsman On How ‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ Will End With Kirk In Command
The executive producer also talked about his pitch for a follow-up show.
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“Unfortunately Discovery’s loss was our gain. So they basically said, ‘Look, we think we’re done after four seasons.’ And we said, ‘Hey, what about our whole ‘Let’s get the fans to the TOS era,’ because what happens to all these people, and how does this person will come up?’ And they were like, ‘No, that’s fair. That’s true.’ And they said, ‘What do you need to get there?’ And we said, ‘Six episodes’ and they said okay.”
“The good news was, when I say ‘they,’ really the folks who make this show wanted this to happen too, but there are fiscal constraints that are real. You know what’s going on with Paramount. So to move things forward in that environment was a challenge, but everybody—CBS, Paramount, Strange New Worlds, and [Alex Kurtzman’s production company] Secret Hideout were all pulling in the same direction. And that’s how we ended up getting six episodes. So it was a wasn’t really a negotiation, but it was a heavy lift for pretty much everybody, because everybody wanted not to have another Discovery circumstance where it felt abrogated in a way that wasn’t thorough.”
Surprisingly candid stuff. I'm glad that some of the CBS pencil-pushers are creative-minded enough to make this happen.
They don't even need to be creative minded just not short sighted fiscally. If they leave the shower in a good place people will tend to watch it more than once. That means buying more copies of it or staying subscribed to a steaming service that caries it and that means licensing rights pay day down the line.
not short sighted fiscally
Talk about a big ask...
Yep and just proves my point that most media is no longer made for it's audience but for its to speculative investors.