{"id":51653,"date":"2019-10-22T16:45:04","date_gmt":"2019-10-22T23:45:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/?p=51653"},"modified":"2019-10-22T16:45:31","modified_gmt":"2019-10-22T23:45:31","slug":"chabon-the-present-is-the-future-in-star-trek-picard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2019\/10\/chabon-the-present-is-the-future-in-star-trek-picard\/","title":{"rendered":"Chabon: The Present Is The Future In Star Trek: Picard"},"content":{"rendered":"

In a new interview at Star Trek.com<\/em>, Michael Chabon<\/strong> talked about working on Star Trek: Picard<\/em> and the topics ranged from being na\u00efve at the beginning to working with the cast including Sir Patrick Stewart.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Stewart’s input to the show was valuable and the actor wanted his new series to be relevant. “What was important to Patrick Stewart [was] looking around at the world we’re living in now,” said Chabon. “He very much let us know he wanted the story to resonate to our times. I think Patrick sensed correctly, or knew, that Star Trek<\/em> from the very first season, has always squarely, directly, and head-on grappled with contemporary issues.<\/p>\n

“I mean, science fiction, people think it’s about the future. It isn’t. Science fiction is about the present. It always has been. Science fiction holds a mirror up to the present…a distorting mirror up to the present. It exaggerates certain features or traits that we see in our world around us now. It extrapolates from them [and] it pushes them to their limits, and Star Trek<\/em> always fearlessly did that.<\/p>\n

“From the very beginning, it was very much part of Gene Roddenberry<\/strong>‘s modus operandi, stated in the original documents that led to the creation of Star Trek<\/em> and that’s still what Star Trek<\/em> can do today and they continue to do that over the course of subsequent shows.<\/p>\n

“One of my favorite episodes of any Star Trek<\/em> ever is the episode of Deep Space Nine, Far Beyond the Stars.<\/em>.. [It] squarely takes on the subject of race and racism in America, not in the future, in the past, in a really interesting way, but in a way that also clearly resonates on many levels with science fiction fandom as it currently exists or as it existed when that episode of Deep Space Nine<\/em> was made. You know, that’s what Star Trek<\/em>‘s for, in addition to all the other things that it may be for.<\/p>\n

“…That’s all Patrick was really reminding us to do.”<\/p>\n

See the video here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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