Depends a lot on who had the power in the making of JJ Trek, Producer or Director or someone else pulling the strings from the studio ...
The way it mostly works in movies/TV is a production company pitches the idea to a studio which then pays for it. (With ST 2009 Paramount actually approached Orci & Kurtzman which then brought in Bad Robot) A studio might muck about with notes and marketing, but Paramount seem to give JJ's company pretty much free reign; he could have opted to not direct (but obviously wanted, at least to build his resume for
Wars) and Paramount probably bought Bad Robot's pitch
with JJ as director since his MI:3 made a buttload of $$, and it paid off for Paramount since JJ Trek has made close to a billion $$. (That's what they learned from JJ Trek, and why they don't really care what real ST fans thought)
Now, based on his TV track record (4 shows on now) and his involvement with the afore-mentioned near-billion $$, Kurtzman's Secret Hideout production company sold a pitch to CBS for ST:TV 2017. So, it's not a Bad Robot production (yay, no JJ) but Kutzman was a part of that, and now has his own production company (and Kutzman has called himself a casual fan of ST, so, more cause for alarm).
I just want to disabuse any notion that Paramount (owner of the rights for films) and CBS (owners of the brand
Star Trek) are anything at all like, say, Marvel Studios, with an overarching interest in managing the various stories in the franchise. They don't have a creative
Star Trek office, just marketing - CBS is in it for the money ultimately. Creatively it's in the hands of Kurtzman. CBS has a very vested interest - their powers-that-be might just be overall: "Make it like
Quantico or
Supergirl"; or they might get into the nitty gritty: "Lose the guy with the ears", but it's going to be him and his company making it.
We'll just have to see what details are as they come out. Admittedly, after being burnt by JJ Trek, I'll be super-skeptical. I don't know his other shows really; never watched
Alias or
Fringe, gave up on
Sleepy Hollow because of the premise, heard good things about
Scorpion but haven't bothered yet, but my wife and daughter used to watch the reboot of
Hawaii 5-0 just to laugh at it.
I like your season idea Adam; 10 years ago I had a fantasy of a
Star Trek anthology - shorter season, like 13-16, and each week being a different
Trek; DS9, TNG, TOS, maybe something fresh, but I knew that was just a fantasy. If Kurtzman has any sense, they'll set this ST in the 26th century, way past any [i[Trek[/i] and avoid any direct entanglements to the past.
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