{"id":48582,"date":"2018-06-15T12:00:29","date_gmt":"2018-06-15T19:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/?p=48582"},"modified":"2018-06-15T12:00:29","modified_gmt":"2018-06-15T19:00:29","slug":"star-trek-discovery-showrunner-shakeup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2018\/06\/star-trek-discovery-showrunner-shakeup\/","title":{"rendered":"Star Trek: Discovery Showrunner Shakeup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Once again, there is a showrunner change at<em> Star Trek: Discovery<\/em> as <strong>Gretchen Berg<\/strong> and <strong>Aaron Harberts<\/strong> are departing the show. The first showrunner to leave was <strong>Bryan Fuller,<\/strong>\u00a0 who left<em> Discovery<\/em> several months before its premiere when the show was in pre-production.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement from <em>CBS Television Studios, CBS<\/em> said, &#8220;We&#8217;ve made some producer changes at <em>Star Trek: Discovery<\/em>. The series continues under the creative vision and leadership of executive producer and co-creator <strong>Alex Kurtzman<\/strong>. <em>Discovery<\/em> remains on course for season two in 2019 with new and continuing stories that build on its successful premiere season.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The decision to let the duo go was based on &#8220;leadership and operational&#8221; issues; which included going over budget and alleged harassment of the writing staff to the point where the writers were &#8220;said to have been uncomfortable working on the series and had threatened to file a complaint with human resources or quit the series altogether before informing Kurtzman of the issues surrounding Berg and Harberts.&#8221; To add insult to injury, &#8220;after hearing rumors of HR complaints, Harberts is said to have made imposing remarks to the staff to keep concerns with the production an internal matter.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Berg and Harberts will depart after the fifth episode of Season Two, after which there is to be a &#8220;planned production hiatus.&#8221; The change should not affect production on the show.<\/p>\n<p>Executive Producer <strong>Akiva Goldsman<\/strong> will also be leaving. 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