{"id":44971,"date":"2016-12-05T11:28:42","date_gmt":"2016-12-05T19:28:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/?p=44971"},"modified":"2016-12-05T11:28:42","modified_gmt":"2016-12-05T19:28:42","slug":"more-on-fullers-departure-from-discovery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2016\/12\/more-on-fullers-departure-from-discovery\/","title":{"rendered":"More on Fuller&#8217;s Departure From Discovery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Bryan Fuller<\/strong> gave a little more insight into why he chose <em>American Gods<\/em> over<em> Star Trek: Discovery<\/em> and the departure wasn&#8217;t just because he was too busy to do both shows.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Part of [why I left] was [down to] my responsibilities to <em>American Gods<\/em>, which I&#8217;m very dedicated to, and so it was unfortunate to take a step back away from that show,&#8221; he said. &#8220;And mainly because of the opportunity that I believe that <em>Star Trek<\/em> provides &#8211; for a conversation about progress, for humanity and the planet, and being able to tap into that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But the chance to talk about relevant issues of today via his show is important to Fuller and <em>American Gods<\/em> offered that opportunity while <em>Star Trek: Discovery<\/em> did not.<em> Star Trek<\/em> is a &#8220;religion-free show,&#8221; said Fuller. &#8220;Religion on the planet has kind of gone extinct in a way [in <em>Star Trek<\/em>] and right now religion is feeding a lot of issues in many different ways. 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