SFF Media is reporting that Brian Fuller (of Pushing Daisies fame) is interested in bringing Star Trek back to television. While he has been involved with previous versions of Star Trek (he wrote a couple of DS9 episodes, and over 20 Voyager episodes), I am not too jazzed about this for the following reasons:
1. I thought that Mr. Fuller’s most recent work, Pushing Daisies, while well-written, had little mass-market appeal, and I’m afraid he’ll be bringing this sensibility to the show.
2. He wants to bring it back to the older years, which didn’t work when they did Enterprise, and I see no reason why it would work now. Star Trek should be ever-forward…no looking back. Sure, I see the reasoning behind this…the new movie is a throwback, so why not just reboot everything and start over, right? Well, mainly because it is lazy.
3. Third, I think it is too soon for Star Trek to be back on television. It has only been four years since Enterprise went off the air. Give people time to forget how disappointing that program was before you bring back Star Trek. The public only has so much tolerance for this franchise. Baby steps, people. Let’s make sure the movie doesn’t stink before we start pre-production.
