Who the hell is writer Bryan Fuller? And why do we care about this quote from sffmedia.com?:

“I told my agent and told the people of J.J. Abrams’ team I want to create another Star Trek series and have an idea that I’m kicking around. I would love to return to the spirit of the old series with the colours and attitude. I loved Voyager and Deep Space Nine, but they seem to have lost the ‘60s fun and I would love to take it back to its origin.”
– New Star Trek TV show by John Howell

Fuller is the creator of Pushing Up Daisies – a show I thought about watching, but was cancelled before I could thereby justifying my gutteral perception of suckage – and a writer for nineteen episodes of Voyager, as well as producer of that show’s last season (not giving me a boost of confidence). Although Voyager is the death knell of the franchise and my least loved series, he did have the resume to make a pitch for a new show before Abrams’ Trek was released. With the clear success of the new movie, it may be a go, but is the vision right? Is a more “fun” Trek what we want?

Da Dominion (us, not the Changelings) is one that recognizes the class of Picard over the brash of Kirk. Although most would want to be JTK cause he got more green pussy, Jean-Luc – as French as he was – is who’d you’d favor for a captain, especially if your shirt was red. A big appeal for The Next Generation was a more serious treatment of the stories that (presumably) matched the maturation of the audience. The Enterprise-D faced far more high-minded conflicts than the 60’s version, which often encountered “alien” cultures based on what the studio had leftover costumes for.

Fuller does vindicate himself with the following: “Deep Space Nine was the best of the modern ones, because it was so emotionally complicated.” Exactly, DS9 was fun at times but there was a fuck’in war going on for half the series (many know it as the good half). Gravitas and drama have captured this current generation of Trek fan; are we so certain we want to regress to diamond bazookas taking out obviously rubber-suited Gorn now that we’ve seen real threats like the Borg or Jem’Hadar?

Abrams’ Trek was visually stimulating (maybe not as much as Sex Trek), cool and action-packed without overdoing the silliness. Scotty’s little alien pal was nearing the Jar-Jar line, but he knew to shut him the hell up. 2009’s movie also included a good deal of severity with the death of Spock’s mom and Kirk’s father (it’s not a spoiler if you should’ve seen it by now!) although it still lacked the strong human themetic presence of concepts like the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few, or the one, and have characters exemplify the principle.

Truth: Camp is funny unless that’s clearly what you’re aiming for.

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