Discovery is going to be about a massive Federation-Klingon War for the first season and Fuller was kicked off the show because his ideas were found to be "too complex and allegorical" for CBS's liking.
They're dropping $120 million on production for this fucking thing.
Alex Kurtzman is the only of the two creators still standing and he wrote the garbage that is Trek 09 and Into Darkness, he was missing from Beyond and it was the best Trek film since VI.
You really shouldn't talk about the glories of TOS if you really mean the movies anymore than you would if you mean TAS. The films go infinitely farther in considering the ramifications and consequences of Kirk and Spock's actions along with the expanded characterization of everyone. Barely anyone develops as a character over the series and all the aliens are as heavy-handed inferior allegories as much as those in TNG.
Which is probably why Roddenberry hated all five of the movies he didn't make and considered them to be non-canon when doing TNG. They had to lock him in a closet until they got II made because he wanted to make it about the Enterprise going back in time to kill JFK because that was real Trek.
Gene Roddenberry was a controlaholic it seems.
And I haven't been following Discovery but you just depressed me, Benji. I saw the purple Klingon (my favorite race
) on Facebook and have tuned out on the show ever since.
This sounds truly dreadful and lol at that JFK movie.
I feel like DS9 is a better product of Gene's vision than TNG. TNG was made too sterile and it never really recovered from it.
That was Gene's vision and his mandated rule for TNG. That humanity would have evolved past any kind of conflict, even personal. Starfleet would just be a bunch of altruistic all knowing stereotypes who would fly around and lecture lesser races to be better or they wouldn't be allowed in the club.
DS9 doesn't break Gene's rule either, that's why half the cast had to be made into non-Starfleet personnel.
I know all about Gene's rule and TNG suffers for it. In many ways it's a blessing that Gene's vision of Trek died with him.
I love how DS9 pokes fun at the Federation.
"Let me tell you something about Hew-mons, Nephew. They're a wonderful, friendly people, as long as their bellies are full and their holosuites are working. But take away their creature comforts, deprive them of food, sleep, sonic showers, put their lives in jeopardy over an extended period of time and those same friendly, intelligent, wonderful people... will become as nasty and as violent as the most bloodthirsty Klingon. You don't believe me? Look at those faces. Look in their eyes."
