This was quite interesting, especially confirming how moored the writer’s room is in the lore of Trek, going way back. But also the really wild swings they’re willing to go for:
“You know, let’s just add in a 17 year extra growth that will deeply affect two central characters’ personality profoundly from one episode to the next”. And even that isn’t such a radical departure from, say, “The inner light”.
Somehow though, this fact sticks out to me, that Gaia Violo is “the first solo credited creator of a [live action] Star Trek series since Gene Roddenberry”… 🤯 And TBH she is a complete blank sheet to me as a viewer.
Anybody familiar with Violo’s previous work? I’ve been on IMDb for facts and reviews, now I’m curious about the trekkie feedback.
I’ve watched most of the first season of Absentia. It’s intense and dark. It’s also more of a British or European style thriller in that it keeps you in the dark with genuine ‘who done it?’ rather than ‘how done it?’
Interestingly Violo was co-creator and senior writer of Absentis but didn’t get as much producer credit. Seems her talent moved her up into creative control more quickly than the WGA stepwise progression in titles allows.
This was quite interesting, especially confirming how moored the writer’s room is in the lore of Trek, going way back. But also the really wild swings they’re willing to go for:
“You know, let’s just add in a 17 year extra growth that will deeply affect two central characters’ personality profoundly from one episode to the next”. And even that isn’t such a radical departure from, say, “The inner light”.
Somehow though, this fact sticks out to me, that Gaia Violo is “the first solo credited creator of a [live action] Star Trek series since Gene Roddenberry”… 🤯 And TBH she is a complete blank sheet to me as a viewer.
Anybody familiar with Violo’s previous work? I’ve been on IMDb for facts and reviews, now I’m curious about the trekkie feedback.
I’m not really familiar with her past stuff - I think “Absentia” is probably the best-known?
What interests me is that she got that sole “created by” credit, and yet isn’t a showrunner. That seems…very unusual.
I’ve watched most of the first season of Absentia. It’s intense and dark. It’s also more of a British or European style thriller in that it keeps you in the dark with genuine ‘who done it?’ rather than ‘how done it?’
Interestingly Violo was co-creator and senior writer of Absentis but didn’t get as much producer credit. Seems her talent moved her up into creative control more quickly than the WGA stepwise progression in titles allows.