Each bridge is presented in the timeline as a 1:1 scale 'in-universe' 360 recreation. That said, conflict will always be part of human life.Today's release allows fans to see the many dozens of evolutionary iterations of the famous Starship Enterprise bridge, across every epoch of Star Trek's history. Plenty of science fiction franchises already deal in gritty realism, and it's possible that audiences won't take to the idea that Star Trek is now one of them. There's risk in doing this, because one of Star Trek's main lures has always been its relentless optimism even when things go pretty dark ( see, for example, Deep Space Nine). You can expect something like The Expanse or Battlestar Galactica, in which multiple plots play out over the entire season, rather than self-contained adventures each week. Instead, there will be a seasonal arc, with character-driven plotlines. Harberts and Berg are also chucking the 'planet/alien/giant space object of the week' format that's long been a staple of Star Trek storytelling. 'So we do have our characters in conflict, we do have them struggling with each other, but it's about how they find a solution and work through their problems.'

'The thing we're taking from Roddenberry is how we solve those conflicts,” Harberts told Entertainment Weekly. Their behavior won't be worthy of emulation, and their conflicts will get out of control. On this streaming series, debuting on CBS All Access this September, our protagonists won't always be nice. Berg have decided to abandon Utopia for something they consider a little more realistic. (This helps explain why our heroes are always being possessed or hopping over to the Mirror Universe.)Īfter decades of complaints about these constraints from producers, Star Trek: Discovery showrunners Aaron Harberts and Gretchen J. Aliens or non-crew members could be as awful as the writers wanted, as could protagonists whose minds were being controlled by outside forces.

Writers for the various series also weren't allowed to show characters being malevolent or cruel. Further Reading What Deep Space Nine does that no other Star Trek series can So he made a rule, which endured long after his death, that main characters were not allowed to mistreat each other or have conflicts that weren’t quickly resolved.

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