I visited the set of CBS’ Star Trek: Discovery recently, where I sat down with executive producer and co-showrunner Aaron Harberts. (You can read excerpts from our chat about religion, war, and continuity in Star Trek: Discovery here.) And while I had him, I had to ask about reports that Discovery co-creator Bryan Fuller had originally pitched the network on the idea of the show as a seasonal anthology along the lines of American Horror Story.
AHS, for example, resets its premise and cast of characters each year. According to an August story in EW, Discovery would’ve started a “journey through the eras of Captain James T. Kirk and Captain Jean-Luc Picard, and then go beyond to a time in Trek that’s never been seen before.” Fuller eventually left the Discovery showrunner gig and Harberts and Gretchen Berg took over for him, but I wondered what remained of that original pitch for the show’s subsequent seasons.
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AHS, for example, resets its premise and cast of characters each year. According to an August story in EW, Discovery would’ve started a “journey through the eras of Captain James T. Kirk and Captain Jean-Luc Picard, and then go beyond to a time in Trek that’s never been seen before.” Fuller eventually left the Discovery showrunner gig and Harberts and Gretchen Berg took over for him, but I wondered what remained of that original pitch for the show’s subsequent seasons.
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