Tobar said:

BREAKING: Nicholas Meyer Working on Khan Limited TV Series

Writer-director Nicholas Meyer became a Star Trek icon in 1982 when he directed (and for the most part wrote) Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, the low-budget follow-up to the first Star Trek movie from 1979, which was a box office hit but which cost so much to make that Paramount elected to follow it up with a smaller picture produced by their television division.

Khan had everything 1979’s Star Trek: The Motion Picture lacked: action, acting histrionics, and the warm and often amusing character interplay between Kirk (William Shatner), Spock (Leonard Nimoy) and McCoy (Deforest Kelley). The sequel earned about what the first movie had, on approximately a quarter of its budget, setting the template for further Star Trek movies. Meyer returned to co-write the most popular entry in the series, Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, and he directed and co-wrote the final movie featuring the original series cast, Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country.

More recently, Meyer has been involved as a writer on the new Star Trek series for CBS All Access, Star Trek Discovery. But according to two separate sources, Meyer is moving on from that position for a new Star Trek project, something he has hinted at in recent interviews. According to the sources, Meyer’s new project takes him back to Khan Noonien Singh, the “genetically superior” villain played by Ricardo Montalban in the original series episode “Space Seed” and in The Wrath of Khan, and by Benedict Cumberbatch in the J.J. Abrams-helmed Star Trek Into Darkness. Meyer will reportedly be developing a prequel miniseries, or limited series that would take place on Ceti Alpha V and chronicle Khan and his followers struggling to survive in the years between when Kirk dropped him off on the planet at the end of “Space Seed” and when the crew of the U.S.S. Reliant finds them early in The Wrath of Khan.

Hmm. I wonder who would play him?

Weren’t they always planning on Discovery being a one season thing? I think they wanted to do a series of standalone seasons, kind of like American Crime Story is doing.

They weren’t planning on that, but I love the idea.

They may not have planned that initially, but that’s been the stance for a while now.

SilverWook said:

If there’s no middle finger pic, I will be disappointed.

moviefreakedmind said:

chyron8472 said:

moviefreakedmind said:

Remember the Dr. Pulaski aging makeup in that Next Generation episode? That looked so terrible.

or Wesley Crusher in Hide and Q (when Riker gets Q powers.)

I think that was an older, muscly actor that just looked really silly in Wesley’s sweater.

Yes, but case in point. It looked so terrible.

SilverWook said:

Does being Q zapped into an adult mean you can skip Starfleet Academy?

No. The Academy is basically school for officers. Skipping the Academy means enlisting and becoming an ordinary crewman (like Chief Petty Officer Miles O’Brien did). It was unclear how old the Benzite and the Vulcan were in “Coming of Age”, the episode where Wesley tried to apply for the Academy but failed. Also, I’m not sure how old Nog was when he went to the Academy–he just said he was an adult at that age by Ferengi tradition. So I don’t think age has much to do with it.

pittrek said:

I didn’t think I could love Shatner any more, but I think it just happened 😃
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-07-31/sjws-stand-inequality-and-misandry-shatner-claims-fiery-twitter-rant

Gotta love some good “twitter drama”

I hate twitter drama, but one of the people he was responding to is a total asshole. Implying that Shatner is mad that a “more diverse” cast is getting the limelight instead of him is absurd.

chyron8472 said:

SilverWook said:

Does being Q zapped into an adult mean you can skip Starfleet Academy?

No. The Academy is basically school for officers. Skipping the Academy means enlisting and becoming an ordinary crewman (like Chief Petty Officer Miles O’Brien did). It was unclear how old the Benzite and the Vulcan were in “Coming of Age”, the episode where Wesley tried to apply for the Academy but failed. Also, I’m not sure how old Nog was when he went to the Academy–he just said he was an adult at that age by Ferengi tradition. So I don’t think age has much to do with it.

Nog was probably about Jake’s age. I know Aron Eisenberg was at least 25, but since Nog and Jake were basically in the same grade level in school in season 1 it’s safe to say they’re the same age.