Roberto Orci Meeting With CBS For New STAR TREK TV Show

With this summer's Star Trek Into Darkness now available on home video, and director J.J. Abrams hopping asteroid fields to take on Star Wars: Episode VII, there remains a bit of uncertainty for the future of Trekkies. But in place of Star Trek 3, Could we be seeing a TV Show in the Future?

By r3negade - Oct 12, 2013 04:10 AM EST

Filed Under: Star Trek

In a joyous tweet for Star Trek fans by Sky News reporter Joe Michalczuk shared word that Roberto Orci told him he’s met with CBS to talk about bringing Star Trek back to the small screen.

Bob Orci just told me they've had a meeting with CBS to revive @StarTrek on TV...This made me v excited
— Joe Michalczuk (@joemichalczuk) October 8, 2013

With Orci taking meetings – or inquiring about the rights - that would suggest that a new Star Trek TV series – if greenlit – would be in the same timeline as the film franchise, when the Enterprise begins its 5-year mission. An series in the rebooted Trek universe would allow CBS to pull a Disney and have a television show based in the same cinematic universe as the films, a la Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.

Orci is, however, loyal to his brands, evidenced by his work on the Transformers Prime animated series which is not in the same universe as Michael Bay’s movies – which he and writing partner Alex Kurtzman left after two installments. Orci and Kurtzman are busy producers/writers, with Sleepy Hollow starting strong on Fox, Ender’s Game preparing for its theatrical release, and development beginning on a new Van Helsing and a Mummy reboot, not to mention work on the Amazing Spider-Man sequels.

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13 Comments

Abary - 10/12/2013, 4:56 AM

LOL Beat me to it

r3negade - 10/12/2013, 4:57 AM

Abary Oops, Sorry.

ndwwrestler2 - 10/12/2013, 5:05 AM

I think the writers would do better with a TV show than they did with the movies, and I loved the movies.

I think it would be great if they could get the cast from the movies and get them to do a TV series. That would blow my mind.

LEEE777 - 10/12/2013, 5:07 AM

<<<< Still waiting for the LIVE ACTION Star Wars series ugh

Trek's had too much series already ; D

Saying that, if we get Borg or Q I'm there :p

UrichLeeds - 10/12/2013, 5:15 AM

I would like to see a new "Next Generation" series set in the new timeline.

Or is it too soon to get into that? :P

r3negade - 10/12/2013, 5:29 AM

DudeGuyMan I don't really know. It was kinda weird.

Invictor - 10/12/2013, 5:50 AM

I can actually believe they'll do another Star Trek television series based on their long list of television appearances. That's where Star Trek originated from.

r3negade - 10/12/2013, 7:36 AM

Please hit the red glove if you like this article!

luffycapri - 10/12/2013, 8:00 AM

So much for freedom of speech on this site, I guess the owner of this sites British :)

Bread - 10/13/2013, 9:09 AM

I like the Abrams movies, but keep it out of that universe and stay in the REAL trek universe.

EastcoastAvenger - 10/13/2013, 1:52 PM

Will someone please have Q grab Picard again in order to patch up the whole screwed timeline thing somehow. I'm really put off that hundreds of hours of great Trek is essentially wiped away. What a wast. As interesting as the new movies have been it really is a big F you to a loyal fan base.

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