The writer partially responsible for bringing Patrick Stewart back to Trek is now officially the showrunner of Star Trek: Picard.
Earlier this year, we learned that Sir Patrick Stewart will be reprising his role as Jean-Luc Picard in Star Trek: Picard, and now, Kavalier & Clay author (and Short Trek writer) Michael Chabon has been announced as showrunner.
“Star Trek has been an important part of my way of thinking about the world, the future, human nature, storytelling and myself since I was ten years old,” the Pulitzer Prize-winning author told Deadline, in an exclusive. “I come to work every day in a state of joy and awe at having been entrusted with the character and the world of Jean-Luc Picard, with this vibrant strand of the rich, intricate and complex tapestry that is Trek.”
So far, they’ve kept the storylines tightly under wraps, but we do know that the 10-episode series will come to CBS All Access some time this year, and Deadline reports the plot will follow Picard, post-Next Generation, during “the next chapter of his life.” (We have some ideas about that.)
This isn’t the first time Chabon has written for Star Trek. He made his Star Trek debut last year with the short “Calypso,” and it looks like he’ll be back for another Star Trek: Short Trek, possibly starring Number One (Rebecca Romijn) and Spock (Ethan Peck).
Meanwhile, those of us who are curious about the tone of Star Trek: Picard may do well to brush up on our…seaQuest DSV?
Emily, what the fuck.
I thought the SeaQuest thing was funny. I’m really looking forward to the new show I want it to be hopeful and not to sad.
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This actually makes me a bit nervous; Chabon is certainly a talented writer, but “showrunner” is much more than a writing job, and historically, prose novelists who’ve tried to break into the TV series business have done so with somewhat mixed results — particularly when they’ve been too quickly put in management roles. One hopes that Chabon has had enough of an apprenticeship on the Discovery set to be aware of the demands and dimensions of the showrunner’s job to do well on his first time in the role.
This actually worries me.
Chabon was one of the writers who removed many of the fun, adventurous aspects of John Carter for the ill-fated Disney movie and made Earth’s great warrior, who loved his calling, into an anti-war, gloom and doom guy.
I wonder how Chabon is going to change Picard to make HIM more in line with the Chabon vision of Trek.
@@.-@ – “This actually makes me a bit nervous; Chabon is certainly a talented writer, but “showrunner” is much more than a writing job,…etc”
The exact same thought occurred to me. I hope he does well but going by what I’ve seen with other writers turning to movies or TV without enough experience I am not too optimistic.