CBS’ new Star Trek show has added an Enterprise veteran to the team. Nicholas Meyer, best known to fans as the director of what is widely regarded as the greatest Star Trek film, The Wrath of Khan, has joined the series as a consulting producer and writer.

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Meyer will take his place next to executive-producers Bryan Fuller and Alex Kurtzman on the CBS Television Studios show. The new Star Trek series will premiere on CBS in early 2017, with subsequent episodes streaming on the CBS All Access service."Nicholas Meyer chased Kirk and Khan 'round the Mutara Nebula and 'round Genesis' flames, he saved the whales with the Enterprise and its crew, and waged war and peace between Klingons and the Federation. We are thrilled to announce that one of Star Trek's greatest storytellers will be boldly returning as Nicholas Meyer beams aboard the new Trek writing staff," said Fuller in a press release.Fuller of course is referring to 1982’s Wrath of Khan, which Meyer directed (and rewrote, uncredited), 1986’s Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (which he co-wrote), and 1991’s Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (which he co-wrote and directed). And you know what? They’re all great Trek movies -- among the best.While we know almost nothing about this new Trek series -- not where it’s set, or when, or even in which universe it takes place -- the addition of Meyer to the staff certainly bodes well for fans of the classic characters. Like Fuller, who will serve as showrunner and also has worked on past incarnations of Trek (Deep Space Nine and Voyager), Meyer is a guy who seems to truly get what Star Trek is all about.

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