Project Hail Mary Author Andy Weir Did Not Hold Back About Star Trek's New Shows

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It mightiness not astonishment you to study that "Project Hail Mary" writer Andy Weir is simply a "Star Trek" fan. After all, nan story's lovable alien technologist Rocky is from nan aforesaid star strategy arsenic Mr. Spock. In fact, Weir is specified a large instrumentality that he moreover had nan opportunity to transportation his ain "Star Trek" bid to Paramount, and it was ... rejected.

On the aforesaid podcast wherever Weir revealed this factoid, he besides said "I don't for illustration a batch of nan caller 'Trek'" and moreover went truthful acold to opportunity "those shows are s**t." That said, this much-quoted information of nan podcast was mostly steered by big Will "Critical Drinker" Jordan, who based on that Paramount should "kill each of nan modern 'Star Trek' and decanonize each of it... Everything from 'Enterprise' onwards." Weir himself really pushed backmost against this harsh return and spotlighted a fewer modern "Trek" shows that he thinks are keepers:

"You're a small much terrible than I americium ... I for illustration 'Strange New Worlds,' I deliberation it's beautiful bully ... I didn't dislike 'Enterprise. I thought it was benignant of weird ... 'Lower Decks' I thought was entertaining and fun. All nan others, they tin go."

"All nan others" includes Paramount+'s first large revival series, "Star Trek: Discovery," arsenic good arsenic nan "Next Generation" sequel bid "Star Trek: Picard" and nan astir caller live-action series, "Starfleet Academy," which is group to extremity aft conscionable 2 seasons.

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Although Andy Weir would intelligibly beryllium happy to return connected a "Star Trek" project, he besides mused that there's a downside to tackling a huge, established franchise:

"For nan awesome properties for illustration 'Star Trek,' 'Star Wars,' you're ever going to get workplace interference. And 1 point that I person to opportunity connected ['Project Hail Mary] ... Amazon is caller to nan [movie production] game, and ... I mean, they gave america notes connected nan cuts and worldly for illustration that, but they weren't up successful our faces pushing america around. And you cognize that's happening successful nan 'Star Wars' films and worldly for illustration that. 

"So, I deliberation portion of nan logic why ['Project Hail Mary'] ended up being specified a bully movie [...] is because nan workplace conscionable fto nan creator group do their job. They fto Phil Lord and Chris Miller beryllium board and person control. And they didn't travel successful and get successful nan measurement and say, 'No, alteration this, no, do that,' because it's not immoderate 50-year-old bequest franchise that they want to do things with."

It's surely existent that location was a batch of unit connected "Star Trek: Discovery" to beryllium a flagship show for Paramount+ amid nan frenzy of nan streaming wars. Some fans person based on that "Star Trek" has suffered from oversaturation, pinch 5 shows moving concurrently astatine 1 constituent ("Discovery," "Picard," Lower Decks," "Strange New Worlds," and "Prodigy"). 

Perhaps Paramount came to nan aforesaid conclusion, arsenic nan accumulation frenzy has now coiled down. The last seasons of "Strange New Worlds" and "Starfleet Academy" person already wrapped, and location are presently nary different "Trek" projects presently successful nan useful (that we cognize of). But possibly we'll get to spot Weir's return connected "Trek" connected day.