Yikes. There’s always been an almost subliminal suggestion that his ideas were just too out there to ever (be allowed to) come to fruition. It all sounds a bit bonkers.
Posted by Guardian 2000 (Member # 743) on :
It seems unwise to me to base the entire design of your hero ship for a series on a funky one-off maneuver that might not even happen (and didn't). You can kinda get away with it for a movie (though Batman Returns with its eject-o-matic alley-friendly half-Batmobile is still silly), but not for an ongoing series.
Arguably the Galaxy Class saucer separation is similar, but at least that was intended as a constant maneuver (and that they tried to use).
Posted by Lee (Member # 393) on :
I wonder if we’ll ever know a) what his original pitch (which must have been amazing given it convinced them to start making small-screen Trek again) was; b) how much of that was then actually followed through on once production began; c) if the answer is “not much”, did that contribute to his getting fired; and, therefore, d) how much of DSC s1 is his, and how much is Berg’s & Harberts’s?
Posted by Shik (Member # 343) on :
I remember him saying that it was going to be about something mentioned in TOS but never fully explored, & then nothibg likebthat ever showed up. If it really was the mirror universe, yhen like...that's been OVERexplored.
Anyway, I'd've loved an anthology series.
Posted by Lee (Member # 393) on :
Unless it was the actual proper Klingon War though I’m not sure how much that was ever mentioned in TOS, or any of the other (TNG era) shows for that matter. And certainly not as this huge conflict with millions dead, that I can recall anyway.
And yeah, an anthology series would have been great. Especially if it had explored the eras that remain a bit of a mystery - between 2293 and 2363 obviously, that’s only very patchily sketched in with large gaps between the (few and far between) known events. Or the 2370s…
Posted by Lee (Member # 393) on :
So, Fuller’s uniforms do on the face of it have more in keeping with TOS. Though that said, he was fired quite a while after the initial concept art, and not long before the second concept art. So, who knows?