UGO first broke the news in our interview with Jonathan Frakes that X-Men and Superman Returns director Bryan Singer once had a TV Star Trek pitch rejected by CBS Paramount, along with William Shatner and Frakes himself.
Frakes felt that Paramount wanted to avoid franchise fatigue by having a television and movie franchise running concurrently, and thus passed on the director's ideas.
However, intrigued by the news, Herc over at Ain't It Cool News did some investigation to uncover details on Singer's pitch for a new Star Trek series, with a submission from an AICN contributor who once sat in the presence of the proposed pilot!
Check it out below:
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Many years ago I sat in a friend's office and held the script for the proposed Trek series pilot, but did not have time to read it. If memory serves me correctly, this is what I recall getting out of my friend about the series. Begin brief...
The Singer universe was written before the Abrams reboot and follows the original Trek timeline.
We are somewhere just beyond the 30th century.
The Klingons are less warrior-like and more political.
The Romulans and Vulcans completed reunification and are busy with that (obviously this doesn't take into account Romulus's destruction).
And the Federation has expanded through a huge portion of the galaxy -- so far in fact, transmissions from the frontier to Starfleet HQ takes years at subspace frequencies.
Ships sent to these distant areas of the galaxy are near autonomous, expanding the Federation while exploring new worlds and civilizations unknown to the Trek universe.
In a way, this parallels Voyager exploring the far Delta quadrant and DS9's wormhole access to the Gamma quadrant, except our hero ship is not trying to go home, yet the crew is literally on thier own to deal with whatever gets thrown in the way, while still making headway on thier mission of exploration and expansion.
I cannot comment on the principal characters or the story itself, as I did not read the script, nor do I recall where in the galaxy this takes place (i.e. what quadrant).
As I said, a few years have passed and I may be off on a couple details.
Hope this is of interest,
Solomon Short
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Interesting, no? Would you like to have seen Bryan Singer's Star Trek series brought to light, or maybe have your own ideas? give us your best pitch below!
Cyndi Jo - Thu. Apr. 14, 2011 at 05:16:16 PM
My Trek Verse
My favorite part of the TrekVerse was the story around Deep Space 9. When the Battles begun it was the best of Trek. I know we are suppose to be all geek'd out on the science and exploration. But you cut out the ship to ship views and its just a soap opera. More Sisko's please Less Picard.