Writer and producerAkiva Goldsmithopened up toThe Hollywood Reporterin an interview about the upcoming seasons of his twoStar Trekshows – and fans are going to be pretty excited about one particular aspect that he’s incorporating into his new seriesStrange New Worlds.
“It’s unlike the other shows in that it’s really episodic. If you think back toThe Original Series, it was a tonally more liberal — I don’t mean in terms of politics, but it could sort of be more fluid,” Goldsmith toldTheHollywood Reporter. “Like sometimes Robert Bloch would write a horror episode. Or Harlan Ellison would have ‘City on the Edge of Forever,’ which is hard sci-fi. Then there would be comedic episodes, like ‘Shore Leave’ or ‘The Trouble With Tribbles.'"
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Goldsmith says that this openness to exploring other styles of genres has influenced what we can expect fromStrange New World. “So [co-showrunner] Henry Alonso Myers and myself are trying to serve that. We’ve all become very enamored, myself included, with serialized storytelling. And I’m talking to you from behind the stage where we’re shootingPicard, which is deeply serialized.” Goldsmith concludes “ButStrange New Worldsis very much adventure-of-the-week but with serialized character arcs.”
Goldsmith previously worked on projects likeFringeandA Beautiful Mind.Fringein particular dealt with the balance of serialized storytelling while having “monster-of-the-week” type episodes.Strange New Worldsis the writer’s first television pilot and the fact that the series will be taking a page fromThe Original Seriesand using an adventure-of-the-week type style is something that will probably be a welcome and different change to the reinvigoratedStar Trekworld.Star Trek: Picardis very much a serialized show, butStrange New Worldswill be representing something lighter that longtime fans have definitely been waiting to see.
In the interview, Goldsmith also shed light on the differences between the two shows aside from storytelling, saying everyone involved “wantsStrange New Worldsto be a different show.” Goldsmith states “It’s notDiscovery. There are a few more reach-backs (toThe Original Series) and the uniforms have been adjusted slightly, the sets are slightly different,” said Goldsmith. “Remember the Enterprise existed as a little piece of [the showDiscovery], but now it’s its own object. When you close your eyes and think of the key sets and situations that you think ofThe Original Series, that’s what we’re looking to do.”
WhileStar Trek: Strange New Worldsdoesn’t have a release date yet, the series will debut on the Paramount+ streaming service in the near future.
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