![]() ![]() At the helm of the production is what one might call a dream team of Akiva Goldsman, Michael Chabon, Alex Kurtzman and Kirsten Beyer (an Oscar winner, a Pulitzer Prize winner, an adroit media power player, and a battle-hardened Star Trek aficionado), all with serious writing chops, and all die-hard fans of the franchise. It is building on more than 50 years of trekking history. It is the eighth series in the Star Trek franchise – with more apparently in the works – since the first launched in 1966, with William Shatner as James T Kirk. Trekkies may now bow their heads and pray to Roddenberry, for another new Star Trek series, Star Trek: Picard, launches today on CBS All Access in the US and Amazon Prime around the rest of the world. ![]() TV’s new Dracula is like an evil James Bond As Kevin Lyons of the British Film Institute, says in his history of trekking, “Star Trek was the first of the media-led fandoms, the ‘mother fandom’ from which all similar followings sprang.” Although I’ve only ever dressed up as Spock, once.) In a sense, Trekkies were the original geek superfans, turning up en masse for conventions and meetings, and hotly debating minutiae of the scripts of the original Gene Roddenberry series (1966-9) as if they were far more pressing than reality itself. (I count myself among the most rabid of them. ![]() Fans of Star Trek, or 'Trekkies', are notorious for their zeal. ![]()
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