Alex Kurtzman talked about what we can expect from Star Trek: Discovery season 3 in an interview at the world premiere of Star Trek: Picard in Hollywood.
Kurtzman who is the executive producer of Star Trek: Picard and showrunner for Discovery spoke to Space.com about Discovery’s journey into the future.
“It’s a really — it’s a new world, literally. It’s a new world. “It’s 1,000 years in the future. [It’s got] things you expect from ‘Star Trek’ — enemies might be allies, former allies might now be enemies. But everything’s different. It’s still the world of ‘Star Trek,’ no question about it, but there’s a lot of huge changes in the universe,” he said.
“And it’s interesting because, as we cut it, it [still] feels very much like ‘Discovery,’ but the world is just so different … people will definitely have a minute of going, ‘Wow, I need a minute to adjust to what this is.'”
Discovery’s time jump into the future will give Kurtzman a virtually blank canvas in terms of “Star Trek” lore and what he can do with it.
“There’s no worry of canon at this point. We’re not even anywhere close to where canon has been. Everything that happened … in the past has actually planted seeds that have led to outcomes in the future. And getting to see that over the spectrum of this amazing time jump is really what’s fun about the season,” Kurtzman said.
“The only restraints are making sure that we don’t violate some Trek fundamentals. But because we’re not having to sync up with canon, we really had a different kind of freedom this year.”
In a previous interview with Holywood Reporter Kurtzman said: “We love playing within canon. It’s a delight and a privilege. It’s fun to explore nooks and crannies of the universe that people haven’t fully explored yet. That being said, we felt strongly that we wanted to give ourselves an entirely new energy for season three with a whole new set of problems. We’re farther than any Trek show has ever gone. I also had experience working on the [J.J. Abrams] films where we were stuck with canonical problems. We knew how Kirk had died, and we wondered how we could put him in jeopardy to make it feel real. That’s what led us to go with an alternate timeline; suddenly we could tell the story in a very unpredictable way. That’s the same thought process that went into jumping 950 years into the future. We’re now completely free of canon, and we have a whole new universe to explore.”
Kurtzman also gave some insight into the way forward for the Star Trek franchise.
“The intention is to have something Star Trek on the air all the time, but not necessarily on top of each other. These shows take a minimum of a year to develop, make, produce and post. We want to make sure we’re never compromising our loyalty with both our aesthetic and storytelling. We’re never going to rush anything out that isn’t ready. In order to be ready, we have to put many things into development. We have to make sure each show is unique tonally, visually and from a story perspective. What we don’t want to do is feel like, “Oh, I can just watch any one of these shows because they’re all the same.” A lot of work has been done to make sure they all feel very different from each other. And that’s really exciting.”
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