Star Trek Showrunners Finally Just Admitted Most Hated Trek Show Was A Failure
With its premiere just over two months away, Star Trek fans can’t help but wonder what the upcoming Starfleet Academy show will be like. We know surprisingly few details, but co-showrunner Noga Landau recently clarified to Entertainment Weekly that it would have the kind of “mission of the week” format that helped make shows like
That may seem like a no-brainer for a Star Trek show, but Landau’s very welcome announcement also serves as a quiet admission that
The Problem With Star Trek: Discovery
Unlike traditional Star Trek shows, which had 26 episodes per season,
This approach drove fans away for many reasons. Chief among them was the fact that even when the mystery was pretty cool (why is warp drive suddenly impossible?), the answer (in this case, an alien had a temper tantrum) was often wildly disappointing.
After Discovery, Picard followed the same formula, leading to its own major failure. Sure, everyone liked seeing the TNG crew get back together in Season 3, but the stupidity of Season 1’s mystery (what’s the deal with Data’s daughter?) was eclipsed only by the idiocy of Season 2’s mystery (why is Q back on his bullsh*t?). Negative fan reception to these season-long mystery arcs was presumably a large reason why
Star Trek Returns To a Winning Formula
Now, co-showrunner Noga Landau has confirmed that Starfleet Academy
The answer is as simple as it is cynical. As Star Trek made the shift to streaming, the creative powers that be wanted to give the franchise the kind of prestigious storytelling typically only found in award-winning cable shows like
If the Warp Drive Ain’t Broke, Don’t Fix It
Obviously, the traditional Star Trek storytelling formula isn’t perfect, and we’ve gotten some major stinker episodes over the years (looking at you, “Code of Honor”). On the whole, though, this particular brand of television writing has kept the franchise alive for over half a century. It was a major risk to change things up with
Fortunately, Starfleet Academy is ditching the season-long mystery arcs that made
Cory Wharton Says Daughter Maya’s Open-Heart Procedure Has Inspired Him to Give Back to Families in Need
Cory Wharton says his three-year-old daughter Maya’s latest open-heart surgery has inspired him to give back to other children and families, noting that his charitable efforts are “a far cry from MTV.”
As The Ashley previously told you, Cory and ex-girlfriend Taylor Selfridge’s daughter Maya, who was born with a rare form of heart disease called tricuspid atresia, recently underwent her final open-heart surgery called the Fontan. Two weeks after the surgery, Taylor– who also shares daughter Mila with Cory– told fans that the procedure had improved Maya’s oxygenation levels, as well as her overall coloring.
(According to the Cleveland Clinic website, a Fontan procedure “improves circulation in people who have only one working heart ventricle. This problem happens because of one of several congenital heart diseases. The Fontan procedure lets oxygen-poor blood from the lower part of your body go straight to your pulmonary artery– and then lungs– for oxygen instead of going through your heart first.”)
Cory revealed to TMZ this week that, while Maya’s surgery was successful and she was ultimately discharged from Children’s Hospital Los Angeles after a two-week recovery, he realizes that some families aren’t as fortunate.
“I was just happy that we were able to leave the Children’s Hospital, because there’s a lot of families there that they’re not gonna leave, they’re waiting a year or two for a heart transplant,” he said. “ … It’s sad man, walking around there, but there were people in that building that found a way to smile and … just by talking to them over time, I was just like, these people are staying positive when they’re at their lowest and it was crazy for me to see and experience.”
Cory went on to say that the recent experience has inspired him to find ways to help those in need.
“I’m just so thankful to God that we made it out of the hospital, my daughter’s fine and now the biggest thing for me is, like, I’m trying to give back,” he said. “I wanna do whatever I can to try to help out [at] Children’s Hospital or [with] young ones that are in need.
“I wanna give back a little bit … it’s a far cry from MTV, but I wanna try to do something positive with what I got going now,” he added.
As you may remember, Cory and Taylor previously shared that they learned about Maya’s heart condition when Taylor was about 22 weeks pregnant, at which point they were told that Maya would need a series of procedures due to the condition. At just six days old, Maya had a stent put in place; later that year, Maya– then seven-months-old– underwent her first open-heart surgery, during which she suffered some complications.
Taylor shared this month that Maya should not need any more open-heart surgeries in her lifetime; and if she does, it would not be until adulthood.
