In case you hadn’t heard, CBS has finally pulled the trigger
on a new Star Trek TV show with a
premiere date slotted for 2017. It’s
a pretty major deal as this will be the first Star Trek show on the air in over 10 years since the end of Star Trek: Enterprise in 2005. This also means the show will have to
contend with the very odd place Star Trek
has come to hold in the pop cultural pantheon after nearly a decade of
disappointments like Enterprise and Nemesis before J.J. Abrams films
slouched into a position of mild popularity.
Personally I’m pretty excited, I’m a pretty huge Star Trek fan so the prospect of being
able to watch new Star Trek in my
life time is incredibly exciting and after CBS’ recent excellent handling of Supergirl my faith in that network has
gone way, way up. What’s more, now
is the time for a new Star Trek
show. Star Trek was one of the first and most influential blendings of
speculative fiction and space opera that embodied an incredibly pro-tech
futurism and an infectious optimism that has been in far too short supply
lately. However, the announcement,
which was basically just “we’re making a new Trek show,” has left everyone with
a lot of questions that I’m going to go over here.
