Star Trek EP Says He Hopes Gene Roddenbery Would Be Proud Of The New Shows

While Star Trek: Picardcertainly wasn’t perfect, I appreciated that the heart of the show was a thorny ethical quandary. At its most basic level, Picard was about Romulans totally convinced that synthetics would bring about the destruction of all organic life versus the victimized synths struggling to find a place to call their own. Picard was stuck in the middle, trying to resolve the situation without unnecessary conflict. Something like this could feasibly have happened in The Original Series of Star Trek, which seems to be what executive producer Alex Kurtzman was hoping for.

Kurtzman is the current brains behind all of Star Trek at CBS. He began his involvement in J.J. Abrams’ Kelvinverse movies, before co-creating Star Trek: Discoveryand is now responsible for the rapidly expanding collection of shows on CBS All Access. He reflected on the weight of the expectations that come with being in charge of Star Trek in the new book Star Trek: Picard – Official Collector’s Edition. Here, he opened up on what it’s like to run one of the biggest science fiction franchises in the world, saying:

He went on to specifically talk about what he thought Gene Roddenberry would think of modern Star Trek if he were alive to see it, stating:

It’s true that Roddenberry was very strict about his ‘rules’ for Star Trek, which he wanted to remain as a Utopia. Some of the more difficult ones to work around were that there be no unresolved interpersonal conflict between members of a Star Trek crew, that crew members aren’t permitted to mistreat one another and that even the show’s villains can’t be extremely cruel. Slightly stranger is his insistence that both male and female officers be called ‘Sir’ and that, under no circumstances, can you have ‘space pirates.’

Based on that, I suspect he’d have major issues with the way Picard shows a corrupt Federation that has abandoned many of its principles and the onboard drama of Discovery. But perhaps he’d eventually recognize that the spirit of Star Trek is still present. And, after all, the franchise has to adapt to the times to survive.

Source: TrekMovie.com

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