Andy Weir has fallen on his sword over remarks he made about Star Trek.
Weir, the author of Project Hail Mary, told Star Trek EP Alex Kurtzman in a just-posted open letter: “I was trying to be funny, but in retrospect it comes off as disrespectful and mean.”
He said his quotes made on the Critical Drinker pod were “taken out of context as salacioius sound bytes” and he “was trying to be self-deprecating.”
Weir on the pod made a series of statements about Paramount‘s handling of the Star Trek universe and claimed he had a pitch turned down by Trek EP Kurtzman.
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“And here’s another thing: I pitched a Star Trek show to Paramount and I was on Zoom with the showrunners with all the shows and spent a lot of time talking to [Kurtzman],” Weir said on the pod. “He, as a
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