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Star Trek is not meant to be pure comedy (nor a musical, nor anything
other than sci-fi). Why do these telentless fools in Hollyweird insist
on butchering someone else's franchises to suit their own perverse
ideas of what it "should have been"?? :-(


'Star Trek' Live-Action Comedy Seriesáin Developmentá
From Tawny Newsome and Justin Simien
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"Star Trek" is preparing to beam up some laughter.

Actor-writer Tawny Newsome ("Star Trek: Lower Decks") and
writer-director Justin Simien ("Dear White People,"
"Haunted Mansion") are developing a new live-action comedy
set in the world of the storied sci-fi franchise.

The show will be set in the 25th century. According to an
official logline, it will follow "Federation outsiders
serving a gleaming resort planet find out their day-to-day
exploits are being broadcast to the entire quadrant."

Newsome and Simien announced the project, along with fellow
executive producer Alex Kurtzman, during the "Star Trek"
Universe panel at San Diego Comic-Con, which Simien
moderated. Newsome was there with the cast of "Lower Decks"
to discuss the fifth and final season of the animated
comedy, in which Newsome voices Beckett Mariner, one of the
junior officers on the USS Cerritos.

Simien, Newsome and Kurtzman will also write on the show.
Aaron Baiers, Rod Roddenberry and Trevor Roth will executive
produce.

Newsome did not specify whether she would act on the series
as well, but she's already worked as one of the writers on
the next live-action "Star Trek" series, "Starfleet Academy."
She also played Mariner as a live-action character in a
crossover episode with "Star Trek: Strange New Worlds." Her
other acting credits in include "Physical," "Space Force" and
"Brockmire."

This would be Simien's second TV series, following Netflix's
"Dear White People," which was based on the 2014 feature film
written and directed by Simien. He also wrote and directed
2020's satirical horror film "Bad Hair" and directed 2023's
horror comedy "Haunted Mansion" for Disney.


<https://variety.com/2024/tv/news/star-trek-comedy-tawny-newsome-justin-simien-1236087415/>

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