‘Star Trek: Picard’ Names Michael Chabon Showrunner

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Tom Wolper

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Jun 27, 2019, 11:45:50 PM6/27/19
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Jun 28, 2019, 12:07:01 AM6/28/19
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Looking forward to the episode in which Picard takes a trip to Future Pittsburgh!


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Jun 28, 2019, 5:22:34 AM6/28/19
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Wow! This gets me very excited. Chabon qualifies as one of America’s greatest living novelists. He is original, witty, thoughtful, capable of being both bitter and sentimental. 

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On Fri, Jun 28, 2019 at 5:22 AM PGage <pga...@gmail.com> wrote:
Wow! This gets me very excited. Chabon qualifies as one of America’s greatest living novelists. He is original, witty, thoughtful, capable of being both bitter and sentimental.

This is the part I'm not sure about. He wasn't hired to be head writer. And his strength is in the novel form and not stage/movies/TV. He could be an analog to Sorkin but without massive TV writing experience he might not get similar results. My best scenario is Chabon gets a staff of experienced Trek writers and he makes sure they don't fall into hacky habits. In other words he reviews scripts and instructs writers to do rewrites with better character development, etc. The worst case is he can't find his way as a showrunner and the series becomes another minor Trek series.

M-D November

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Jun 28, 2019, 12:03:45 PM6/28/19
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Well, analog Sorkin is richer and has a warmer tone.

(Sorry - I've been watching a LOT of MST3K lately)

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Jun 28, 2019, 8:04:58 PM6/28/19
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I hear you. Show runners no is a unique skill set. He may suck at it, but I am excited at the thought of having his vision and sensibility in this thing.

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