CBS Chief Says Star Trek Remains A Priority For Paramount, Answers Why ‘Legacy’ Has Not Been Greenlit
Some interesting quotes herein.
I’m just gonna say it: Is anyone else not really interested in a show about Starfleet Academy? I’ll give it a shot, and it could be phenomenal, in which case I will enjoy watching it. But on the whole, that’s just not a setting that interests me in the slightest. I want Legacy.
I’m okay with it. My problem with Disco is how high stakes breathless it is all the time, visiting the timeline with a lower stakes Academy lens could be cool. Being far future means it won’t be a TOS/TNG cameo fest (SNW’s biggest flaw) and I wouldn’t mind being able to do some actual character development on Tilly / other Disco crew if they weren’t just constantly in mortal danger.
Of course it’ll probably end up being flashy bullshit again, but I’ll give it the benefit of the doubt for now.
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@Reverendender @startrek “I’ll give it a shot” is basically where I am going into any new Trek project. We’ll see what it is.
I kinda hope that “Legacy” does get off the ground, if for no other reason than that all the folks champing at the bit for it will be confronted by the fact that once you take out the TNG cast, what you’re left with is show created by the same dude who was showrunner for season two of PIC and who thinks owning a BttF DeLorean is a personality trait, featuring the Scrappy Doo of Star Trek.
But what about all the interesting ideas they’ve pitched for Legacy? Like…the ideas that were come up with. That involved things. You know the ones.
The question mentioned “Legacy,” but the answer didn’t even reference that project indirectly.
@ValueSubtracted @startrek Yeah, just general talk of spacing out future projects. But since it’s the only potential future project we know of (I think?) it’s a straw to grab. 😂
Personally I wouldn’t be shocked if the idea dies because people move on to other projects and then if/when Paramount decided to do it you suddenly can’t get the band back together on the timeline they want.
Actually, TrekMovie makes the case that the references in the reply to the need to ‘time things out’ for the franchise was the answer. I would parse that as their having other Star Trek franchise products ahead in the queue.
The person asking really let Cheeks off the hook though with their final question being, “Is Trek still a priority for the company?”.
No matter how specific the preceding preamble was to Legacy, the question they got to was super general and let Cheeks take it wherever he wanted.