The story of the manufacture of “Star Trek: Discovery” is well known to trekkies with a handful of knowledge inside basball. Bryan Fuller was invited to create a new “Star Trek” series by CBS superiors, and he was impatient to do so. He loved “Star Trek”, having written scripts for “Star Trek: Deep Space Nine” and “Star Trek: Voyager”. He and Alex Kurtzman began to assemble a new series, because CBS did not yet have an idea of what they wanted. Fuller had a new idea: a series of anthology “Star Trek”. He considered a series of several seasons of 10 episodes, each taking place at a different moment in the future history of “Star Trek”. The first season would take place shortly before the events of the original “Star Trek”, the second would take place simultaneously with the original “Star Trek”, the third at the time of “Star Trek: The Next Generation”, and thus Following, ending in the distant and distant future.
The expectations were high and many CBS Muckety-Mucks wanted to put their fingers in the pie. Fuller kept the bottled heads with CBS. It was a hard concert. In addition, Fuller was slim, also serving as a showrunner on “American Gods”, so it was tough everywhere. Finally, Fuller brought some co-shows shortly before being invited to leave. Other showrunners have finally entered the scene and “Discovery” was developed without its contribution. Only part of what Fuller invented entered the final show.
Part of what was left is detailed below, but a recent interview with the podcast The D-Con Chamber, easily transcribed by reverserevealed many more original ideas to Fuller for the first time. He even revealed certain members of the distribution he had watched.
Captain Gillian Anderson and Klingon Laurence Fishburne were on the file
It seems that the cast is still in progress when Fuller has been removed from the “Discovery” project. He revealed that Sarek, Spock’s father, had to play a role much earlier in the series and that he wanted actor Richard Armitage to play the character. We could know him like Thorin “Hobbit” films by Peter Jackson, although he had a fairly prolific career. Sarek, of course, ended up appearing in the second season of “Discovery”, and was played by James Frain.
More exciting, Fuller revealed two giant stars for which he had fired. “Gillian Anderson was going to play a starfleet captain,” he said. In addition, he wanted “Laurence Fishburne as Klingon”. Anderson, of course, is known to science fiction fans of the 1990s as Dana Scully of “The X-Files”, giving her a credibility of the Nerd, but she also gained a lot of renown for her roles on “L ‘Sex education “and, more recently,” The Crown “. She also worked with Fuller in her television series “Hannibal”, just like Fishburne. There was every reason to believe that he would be able to convince them to play on “Star Trek: Discovery”. This news probably makes Trekkies to wiggle with disappointment in the face of missed opportunities.
He also commented that the cooperative engineer Paul Stams was originally played by Wilson Cruz, while Stames husband, Dr. Hugh Culber, was going to be played by Anthony Rapp. In the final version of the show, the roles were reversed. Oh yes, and culbering was initially envisaged as an Andorian species, with blue skin and white hair with antennas.
It is difficult to say why these casting ideas have not been implemented, although we can theorize that Fishburne and Anderson would have been expensive hires.
Fuller hated uniforms and klingons with which the discovery went with
The cast of Michelle Yeoh, it seems, was the idea of Fuller. She played Captain Georgiou, later killer and replaced by an evil Socledgänger of a parallel universe. Diaboli Empress Georgiou recently appeared in the “Star Trek: section 31.” TV movie. It was not well received. Fuller does not accept the blame for some of the most controversial elements of “Star Trek: Discovery”, saying “during my last week, I approved the Starfleet uniforms, which they threw and rejected the Klingons, that They kept. ”
The uniforms on “Discovery” were, unlike the more recognizable Starfleet uniforms, complete blue combinations garnished with gold, silver or bronze, according to the department of the officer. They were uniforms in the air, but they did not shout “Star Trek”. More broadly hated was an infamous overhaul of the Klingons. The species has received new disproportionate heads, large monster claws and foreign nostrils. In addition, they had no hair, and their skin went from a more natural human tone to a jet black, a sickly gray or white. Klingon’s design was so much hated that the new “Discovery” showrunners began to run away in the second season. At the time of “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds”, the Klingons looked much more like what they did in the 1990s.
“Discovery” is not as appreciated as many other “Star Trek” shows, and he clearly suffers from having far too many producers in the room (each episode attributes at least 20). After five seasons, he ended, and the spectacle in a way – Kiiind de – remained with the concept of anthology of Fuller by jumping in time at the start of his third season. The fact that “Discovery” is a series of violent action with regular murders is more like what Kurtzman has.
