Meanwhile, in Discovery news:
EXCLUSIVE: The Closer creator James Duff has joined CBS All Access’ Star Trek: Discovery as executive producer. It is part of an overall development deal he has signed with series producer CBS TV Studios.
Additionally, writer Jenny Lumet (Rachel Getting Married), who joined the series as a consulting producer at the start of Season 2, has been promoted to co-executive producer. Co-executive producer Olatunde Osunsanmi has been upped to executive producer and will serve as the series’ producer/director based on set in Toronto.
Yes, let’s bring more people in who are in no way veterans of the franchise or know what makes Trek feel like Trek.
That’s ridiculous. Only people who are Trek veterans are allowed to work on Trek? Come on.
Not necessarily, but the production crew working on Discovery don’t seem to care much about making it feel remotely like the franchise it belongs to. Hiring people already familiar with the franchise has the potential at least to help in that regard. Granted, at this point, when I see some news article about Picard maybe having a role in Discovery I just sigh and move on because the series is already pretty much DOA as far as being a quality Prime Universe Star Trek series.
I thought the Picard thing was a separate show? Nothing to do with Discovery.