Details Revealed For Bryan Singer's Failed 'Star Trek' TV Pitch
A little while back, Star Trek: The Next Generation actor and director Jonathan Frakes revealed that director Bryan Singer (X-Men) once had a pitch for a Star Trek television show that never came to fruition. Singer is a well-known Trek fan, and thanks to some string-pulling by X-Men and Star Trek star Patrick Stewart, has even appeared in an uncredited role on Star Trek: Nemesis.
Recently, more details have come to light about Singer's failed Star Trek proposal. Read on after the jump to fantasize about what could've been.
Some details about the proposed series:
Sadly, the pitch was never actually, well, pitched. The team finished the proposal in early 2006, planning to pick the project back up later in the year after Singer completed post-production on Superman Returns. But before they could actually present it, Paramount announced J.J. Abrams' Star Trek, and Singer and his team scrapped their plans.
I've never been hugely into Star Trek, myself, so I can't say whether Singer's vision of the series would appeal to real Trek fans. As a television viewer, though, I think this sounds great — rich, interesting and smart. The proposal in some ways reminds me of Battlestar Galactica, another excellent show that juggled large-scope political allegories and vivid, fleshed-out charcters. It's a shame the proposal never actually went anywhere.
For a more in-depth look at Star Trek: Federation, check out both TrekMovie's first post, which explains how the proposal came together, and the follow-up post, which offers more specifics about the series itself.
Discuss: What do you think of the Star Trek: Federation proposal? Would you have watched it?