By Nermeen Nabil Khear 
Star Trek: Discovery, which began the streaming era of Star Trek in 2017, ended last year after five seasons. But the series we got was significantly altered from the original pitch by Hannibal creator Bryan Fuller. When Paramount announced the series in 2016, they also announced Fuller as showrunner, for what was then the first Trek series since Enterprise ended eleven years earlier. Ultimately, Fuller left the project, although he does have a screen credit as co-creator. So what was going to be different? Well, on an appearance on The D-Con Chamber Podcast, Fuller shared some details on his vision for Discovery, which you can watch him discuss below:
From the sound of it, he didn’t approve of the blue tracksuit-looking Starfleet uniforms they ultimately went with, and he rejected the Klingon redesigns they did go with. The updated Klingons were ultimately so unpopular, that Strange New Worlds (which is a Discovery spin-off) just went back to the old Klingon makeup, without any explanation. Speaking of the Klingons, he envisioned Laurence Fishburne as a Klingon character. Honestly, that would have been genius casting. Someone needs to make that happen.
Other castings that didn’t happen were Richard Armitage as Spock’s father Sarek and Gillian Anderson as a Starfleet Captain. Fuller also eyed Hannibal’s Hugh Dancy for an unspecified role. He did take credit for casting Michelle Yeoh as Georgiou, as well as pushing for Soneequa Martin-Green as Michael Burnham. These two choices certainly paid off for the series. In Fuller’s vision for Discovery, Anthony Rapp’s character was going to be a blue-skinned Andorian. We wonder if that character eventually evolved into Strange New Worlds’ Andorian Engineer Hemmer?
Will we ever see a proper Bryan Fuller Star Trek project ever come to fruition? Maybe some of those discarded ideas for Discovery can make their way into another series or film some day. Something that’s not so safe, but that doesn’t desperately try to mimic what’s popular in other sci-fi franchises. (Yes, we’re looking at you specifically, Section 31 movie.) As the franchise quickly approaches its 60th anniversary, we hope a creator with vision takes it into a new and exciting future. Or, at the very least, greenlights Star Trek: Legacy at last. Star Trek fans are still waiting patiently for that one.
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