Source: Syfy
Star Trek: Discovery literally hired writers to fact-check new stories against Trek canon
Producer Alex Kurtzman said they have a few Trek fact-checkers in the writers' room to ensure that any story or episode ideas don't step on the toes of established facts and stories within the universe. Check out an excerpt from his comments below:
“If you are a fan of Trek you are going to see a lot of things which hearken back to the original series and elements of the original series…I’m not just talking plot, but the spirit of what that show was. We are going to be revisiting a couple of things on Star Trek: Discovery that I think people are going to find familiar. Without spoiling anything we are adhering to a timeline and sticking to the rules, but also I think finding some new areas and avenues that have only been alluded to, but never fully explored.
You’ve got a roomful of people with very different and very devoted relationships to Star Trek in that writers room. And that carries on a pretty proud tradition of Trek being written by fans. You have to respect canon as it’s being written. You can’t say, ‘That never happened.’ No, no no, you can’t do that, they would kill you. Star Trek fans would kill you. No, you have to respect canon. You have to understand the timelines and what the different timelines were and what the different universes were and how they all worked together. You have to keep very meticulous track of who, what, where, when and why. And we have people in the writer’s room whose sole job is to say, ‘Nope, can’t do that!’”
This fills my heart with more hope. But; regardless of the good news, the comments is going to look something like this.
"Oh my god!!! How dare they (insert act here)?!! I will not be watching this show because (insert mad reason here). This show will be the worst show ever because (insert another mad reason here). (Insert a fitting end statement to a crazy rant, preferably in the form of a terrible joke deriding the creators of the show, here)."
