Star Trek: Discovery EP Asks for Patience with Continuity Changes
In an
interview with CBR ahead of the series’ debut, co-showrunner and executive producer Aaron Harberts explained why fans should be patient with the brand-new
Trek show.
Asked whether the series will address these crafty deviations from the main continuity, Harberts responded, “Absolutely. I wish we could watch it with them on the couch. When something looks like it is wildly divergent from what people know to be canon, I always want to say, ‘Hold on a second! Just wait — we
know,’” the EP said.
He added, “Nine times out of 10, we know that we’re violating canon. We also know that two or three episodes later, we’re going to turn it. If people are patient, and sort of don’t have a knee-jerk reaction to what they’re seeing, the delight has been resolving it, tying it up, showing everybody that we’re in on it.”
So, even if
Discovery does seem to change things you know and love from the world of
Star Trek, you should keep watching as it may not be it as first appears.
The writers and producers on the show think it adds something to the series. “That’s something that we really are excited about in terms of the storytelling,” Harberts continued, “So maybe the fans go a little bit crazy on the couch for a second, but either an act later, a scene later, or two episodes later, we hope that they’ll say, ‘Oh, I get it. I get what they were doing. Oh, they didn’t violate it. They weren’t wrong. They called it out and we move on.'”
