So CBS All Access released the first trailer for the new Star Trek animated show premiering in August…
I remain unconvinced that spending money on CBS All Access makes any kind of sense. Sure, *finally* CBS made a Star Trek show that looks like the designers have actually seen an episode or two of Star Trek before… the ships and shuttles and tech all look like they’d fit into the TNG timeframe. But CBS does not yet seem to have figured out how to *write* Star Trek. This is a trailer, so it should contain some of the best stuff… and since the show is supposed to be a comedy, the trailer should be funny. But yet…
Pass.
Sigh. Used to be a time when “This new Star Trek Movie or show looks not good” would fill me with righteous indignation that the franchise was being degraded and squandered. Now it just fills me with a gray nothingness.
Cancel all the Trek. Collect all the rights back into one place, let Trek sit fallow for three to five years… then give it to Seth Macfarlane. It’s the only way to be sure.