Bryan Fuller, who launched his career at Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and Star Trek: Voyager, is returning to the Federation. CBS hired the Hannibal executive producer as showrunner for the first new Star Trek series in over a decade.
CBS Television Studios announced the news today. It comes almost four months after the network announced the project. The first episode will debut on CBS in January 2017, with the remaining episodes only being available on CBS All Access. Alex Kurtzman was previously announced as an executive producer.
“My very first experience of ‘Star Trek’ is my oldest brother turning off all the lights in the house and flying his model of a D7 Class Klingon Battle Cruiser through the darkened halls. Before seeing a frame of the television series, the Star Trek universe lit my imagination on fire,” Fuller said in a statement. “It is without exaggeration a dream come true to be crafting a brand-new iteration of Star Trek with fellow franchise alum Alex Kurtzman and boldly going where no Star Trek series has gone before.”
CBS has yet to reveal a logline for the new show or even say when it happens in the Star Trek timeline. It will be the first Trek show since the prequel series Enterprise ended in 2005. The new show will also help mark the 50th anniversary of the debut of Star Trek: The Original Series, which first aired in 1966.
Fuller is also known for his work on Heroes, Dead Like Me, Wonderfalls and Pushing Daisies. He recently oversaw Hannibal at NBC. It’s not clear how this will affect his work on Starz’s American Gods, which is based on Neil Gaiman’s book. Fuller was going to be co-showrunner with his frequent creative partner Michael Green.