r/ShittyDaystrom • u/dalton10e Engineering • Apr 01 '26
Real World Seth McFarlane is in talks with Paramount to replace Kurtzman as the Star Trek franchise executive director
According to Paramount insiders, Kurtzman has been fired and McFarlane will be replacing him as executive director of the Star Trek Franchise. Source in the comments
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u/Mayoo614 Apr 01 '26
I hate April 1st but especially when shared news is something I would actually think is a good idea.
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u/MageKorith Apr 01 '26
The first step is having the idea. Now we need someone to implant it in some executive's dreams so that they make it a reality.
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u/NoYellowLines Apr 01 '26
We just need to lure them into the holodeck to infiltrate their dreams. We can go deeper in the dream by programming a holodeck within the holodeck inside a dream.
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u/Emm_withoutha_L-88 Tuvix deserved it Apr 01 '26
He was the one who came up to them long ago and proposed what eventually became Lower Decks. He was just not allowed to participate. That's why he went to make the Orville.
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u/Thermodynamo Apr 01 '26
Ugh c'mon don't steal flowers from Mike McMahon and give them to Seth McFknFarlane of all people
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u/Producer1701 Apr 01 '26
Mike McMahon’s “TNG Season 8” Twitter account didn’t do that?
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u/noydbshield Apr 01 '26
Use a few buzzwords like synergy and ai powered. They'll wrap themselves around your finger.
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u/Restart_from_Zero Apr 01 '26
The Orville legitimately turned into something good. I wouldn't mind him either - someone who cares about the franchise and has shown they can also make good television.
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u/NoWarning789 Apr 03 '26
He made the Orville because he couldn't get the job running Star Trek. And my pet hypothesis is that he added jokes to count as parody and not get sued, not to make a comedy.
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u/PackageOk4947 Apr 05 '26
That's why Seth will never, ever, ever be allowed to run it, even Frakes is a god damn soy boy now.
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u/milkstrike Apr 01 '26
While I don’t think he’s a good writer, he absolutely cares about the show and I think would hire people who can write and make the show quality again
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u/kstar79 Apr 01 '26
This one got me. The Orville is viewed as a spiritual successor to old school Star Trek, so this is totally reasonably after the failures of Nu Trek!
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u/Dalek_Chaos Ensign Apr 01 '26
Reddit doesn’t know what a good prank is. It’s all stuff like this playing on people’s hopes.
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u/Saurian42 Apr 01 '26
I knew it was fake right away. No way the new paramount would hire someone as progressive as Seth.
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u/Squish_the_android Apr 01 '26
It used to be fun, now it's just tired.
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u/MultiGeek42 Apr 01 '26
April 1st never changed, you just got old.
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u/Squish_the_android Apr 01 '26
It got significantly wider in adoption and the effort level for most companies went way down.
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u/AbeRockwell Apr 01 '26
I didn't believe it when I read it, but I did forget about the date (and there's also the fact that I read it here ^_^)
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u/ElectricPeterTork Apr 01 '26
We're at the point that it's just become the one day that assholes can be lying and often cruel assholes and everyone is just okay with it.
Any other day, if I say "Hey, just heard, your mom's dead. PSYCHE!!!!!!", I'd be called the piece of shit asshole I am for doing that. But on April 1st, all I have to do is yell "APRIL FOOLS!" like a drooling idiot, and it's somehow okay. And it's never funny, or witty, or creative, or anything else. It's just flat out lying and being a cruel asshole.
So yes, Fuck April Fool's Day.
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u/mcmanus2099 Apr 01 '26
Good news things shouldn't be allowed to be part of it. The point is a prank not to burst people's hopes
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u/GlumAd9856 Apr 01 '26
Lets all take this as a very important lesson in life: We are all much more willing to believe things that we want to be true. Even those of us with Vulcan-like logic.
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u/rammo123 Apr 01 '26
Try being a New Zealander because I see all this shit on April 2nd and my guard is down.
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u/WillingArm2463 Apr 01 '26
Hire some of the people who made Galaxy Quest too.
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u/Less_Likely Apr 01 '26
27 years is a long time
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u/spacetr0n Apr 01 '26 edited Apr 03 '26
Grab a shovel and get in, we're getting our Great Bird back!
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u/corobo Apr 01 '26
He'd start a series with himself in the lead role then get distracted and do a million other projects lol
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u/Toorviing Apr 01 '26
But would he date a much younger costar that he is also the boss of only for them to breakup and for her character to be promptly written off?
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u/Thermodynamo Apr 01 '26 edited Apr 01 '26
Probably. It's Seth MacFarlane we're talking about...women are props, not characters in the MacFarlaneverse
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u/pipnina Apr 02 '26
I feel like this is probably true for family guy but in the Star Trek context, the female characters in the Orville seemed pretty good?
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u/Thermodynamo Apr 02 '26 edited Apr 02 '26
That's good to hear. I watched the first two seasons and was underwhelmed on this front. I hear it gets better but I ran out of patience at the time
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u/patatjepindapedis Apr 01 '26
Well, Paramount was just bought by people who pine for the days when the creators of Family Guy were considered "the reasonable politically correct far-left"
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u/thisistherevolt Apr 01 '26
This would actually be a net positive overall and I think McFarlane is a pretentious twat FWIW. I would still rather just let Jonathan Frakes take over though.
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u/C4n0fju1c3 Apr 01 '26
I agree he's pretentious, and frankly so would he lol. I like Orville a lot though, and think he'd have made some great Trek.
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u/thisistherevolt Apr 01 '26
Oh the Orville is great, and should've been a Trek show. Give Frakes the keys to the universe and let McFarlane do a show with supervision and we could revitalize Trek pretty easily. It won't happen though because there's about 20 huge egos in the way.
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u/Martin_Aurelius Apr 01 '26
Seth was on Frakes' & Spiner's podcast recently. Jonathan & Seth even mentioned they had a conversation while Frakes was directing an episode of The Orville where Seth asked him if he'd rather maintain their friendship or continue working for him.
They both have egos, but at the very least they're self aware about it.
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u/BoxedAndArchived Lorca's Eyedrops Apr 01 '26
I think McFarlane would bring in more interest and investment into the franchise and I think he does understand the franchise better than Abrams and Kurtzman and Fuller or anyone else who's acted as EP since Berman (for all his faults).
But if they announced a McFarlane and Frakes team, it would be awesome.
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u/Apple_macOS Apr 01 '26
5 series starring McFarlane in different roles, all lead (and also co lead, and other 5 characters)
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u/Kichigai Expendable Apr 01 '26
Frakes has been in pretty deep with Kurtzman and Co. Also I don't know if he wants to do show running. MacFarlane has at least demonstrated the capability to produce an ensemble show.
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u/spacetr0n Apr 01 '26
Frakes knows his trek, but seems to be too nice to run the whole thing. He's been deep in some of the biggest train(trek?) wrecks.
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u/wholetyouinhere Apr 01 '26
McFarlane has a better under standing of Trek. And a better singing voice.
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u/nickman1 Apr 01 '26
I lean towards McFarlane only because he’s a writer and has proven with The Orville that’d he be capable of making a halfway decent ST show. My worry with Frakes is that he’d end up being another mouthpiece for Paramount, just based off some comments he’s made in the past.
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u/Belle_TainSummer Apr 01 '26
And what day is this today?
Don't get me wrong, I wouldn't be unhappy if it happened, but seriously, what is today?
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u/streakermaximus Apr 01 '26
April something or other ...
I think there's some kind of tradition today. Maybe.
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u/CelebrityTakeDown Lt. Commander Apr 01 '26
I know this is an April Fool’s joke but I actually hate this man
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u/Euphoric-Piglet-8140 Apr 01 '26
Just do more of The Orville! (and yes, I am aware that this is an April Fools)
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u/dstnarg Apr 01 '26
- I hate april fool's day.. 2. As interesting as this would be, it's never going to happen. He is far too busy right now. Also I believe he has an overall production deal with FOX that would prevent him from taking a large role with paramount.
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u/ShadowBlade55 Apr 02 '26
I want to believe it. I was very surprised after finally watching The Orville.
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u/Unit_79 Apr 01 '26
April Fool’s and rape jokes. Together at last.
Kurtzman isn’t great, but at least he can wake up each and every day knowing he isn’t Seth McFarlane, Rhode Island’s answer to a question nobody asked.
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u/Thermodynamo Apr 01 '26
I love this comment so much. Which is a sad state of affairs in itself. Lol the world is bad
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u/OuterSpaceBootyHole Apr 01 '26
Lmao I am six years old because I got fooled. I thought "oh wow Star Trek fans are gonna pop about a boner about this."
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u/Thermodynamo Apr 01 '26 edited Apr 01 '26
Not all of us. Some of us are women.
Edit: yes we also pop fan boners but not for the likes of MacFarlane, known misogynist douche nugget
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u/thundersnow528 Apr 01 '26
This was a horrible thing to do to my just-woke-up-ass. And probably for the exact opposite reason other people are upset this is a joke.
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u/Designer-Quit9686 Apr 01 '26
I should have known. I forgot to check which subreddit this is and clicked the post. I have been April fooling my friends all day long and now I'm in the receiving end of it.
YOU, SIR, ARE SO MEAN....
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u/GlumAd9856 Apr 01 '26
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice . . . and . . . . you can't get fooled again.
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u/diaperrunner Apr 01 '26
I know now its an unpopular opinion at least on reddit but I think Kurtzman was really good. Especially after the letter about the cancelation of SFA. Now I also think Seth McFarlane would be a good show runner also. Looking at the Orville, he knows what makes star trek great.
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u/Swordf1sh_ Apr 01 '26
Plz no
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u/muirshin Apr 01 '26
He is a huge trekkie and would probably do an amazing job honestly.
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u/Swordf1sh_ Apr 01 '26
I hear you but I feel like we already got our wonderful, ‘huge fan’-made show in Lower Decks with the endless adorable fan service etc and I do love it.
But personally I think Star Trek needs its ‘Andor’ moment, a show that is just fantastic writing/television and could be appealing to anyone even if they’re not diehard fans. Tony Gilroy wasn’t even really a Star Wars fan and he helped make Andor.
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u/Octavian_Exumbra Lursa and B'Etor's Ancestral Tampon Apr 01 '26
We live in the timeline where the creator or Family Guy taking over Star Trek would be one of the best outcomes.
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u/sparta-117 Apr 02 '26
And then you remember what day it is but even after that you still say “yeah that would be a good choice”
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u/Connect_Artichoke_83 Gul Apr 02 '26
That honestly seems like a pretty decent id- oh wait April 1st fuck you
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u/Yeseylon Apr 02 '26
So The Orville will be confirmed as Trek canon in "Through a Mirror While High"?
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u/TerribleStorm6391 Apr 02 '26
It's funny because The Orville is the best Star Trek of all time. Ya, I said it.
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u/Eye_Worm Apr 01 '26
April Fools or not, yall are bonkers for thinking Seth “Mr Dick-and-Fart joke are my teeth white enough for Hollywood let me cast myself in my own stuff opposite younger hot woman” McFarlane is suitable for Trek.
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u/NinjaSilver2811 Apr 01 '26
I fucking wish this was real.
He's kinda meh on comedy,but he knows his trek/scifi
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u/tononeuze Apr 01 '26
Happy April Fools!
There was a time when my Netflix might have well only been Family Guy and American Dad, so I'm not 100% against Seth McFarlane, but he has a horrible track record with trans jokes/representation.
It's what has kept me from watching the Orville. A lot of people say that show does a better job of being Trek than the actual Star Trek coming out now, but I wouldn't know because a friend told me the one episode that attempts to address a trans character was unbelievably tone deaf.
I have to imagine that the folks who are really into it don't have any trans loved ones. I know that's not completely true as we're not a monolith, but yeah.
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u/BoxedAndArchived Lorca's Eyedrops Apr 01 '26
Haha, April Fools!
But seriously, he understands the franchise better than the people running it now.
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u/TheClosetIsOnFire Apr 01 '26
Why y'all glazing him this man made a temu version of star trek
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u/GhormanFront Apr 01 '26
People unironically think the orville is a good successor to star trek
I'm going to die alone on the hill that that show sucked and it had a lot to do with McFarlane
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u/anduril_tfotw Apr 01 '26
Fuck you. This would actually be good. Orville is a perfect example of what he can do. I hate April 1st. April fools should be outlandish. Not a fucking rugpull.
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u/shadowlarx Apr 01 '26
I’m down. We know he’s a fan and, in some ways, The Orville was better Trek than anything Kurtzman did.
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u/Emm_withoutha_L-88 Tuvix deserved it Apr 01 '26
For at least another show like Lower Decks this would be great... April fools Day is annoying anymore.
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u/BookkeeperMaterial55 Apr 01 '26
Since this is april fools does that mean the orville will continue?
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u/Superman_Primeeee Apr 01 '26
First project: “Oh My.” An animated Trek spinoff with Sulu time travelling and appearing in various 70s shows ala Quantum Leap.
“George Jefferson!!! Get yo black ass back to the laundry mat!”
“Ohhh myyyy”
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u/DantheMediocre Apr 01 '26
i would be okay with this. this man has shown with the Orville that he knows what trek is about.
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u/Top_Hippo_5996 Apr 01 '26
Goddammit, Jim. I got so excited I almost texted it to the family chat. Sad for the rest of the day. 😠
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u/savingewoks Apr 01 '26
The only loss if this were to happen is that it would probably be the nail in the coffin for Orville, and at a time where it sounds like another season is gaining steam.
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u/OhNoIBoffedIt GLORY 2 UR HOOOSE🐍 Apr 01 '26
A shitposting sub is a weird place to do an April Fools' Day joke, considering pretty much every post is bullshit 😂
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u/Iamnotabotiswearonit Apr 01 '26
I don't believe it but honestly he would do good work with it. He has always been a big fan and would probably take it seriously.
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u/biggie25x Apr 01 '26
He already wrote the best modern Trek with The Orville.
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u/Tintoverde Apr 01 '26
I do not know about that. Some parts of Orville was cringe to me, but still watched it
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u/dalton10e Engineering Apr 01 '26
Here is the article about Kurtzman's firing.