New Star Trek series will abandon Gene Roddenberry’s cardinal rule (arstechnica.com, Annalee Newitz):

After decades of complaints about these constraints from producers, Star Trek: Discovery showrunners Aaron Harberts and Gretchen J. Berg have decided to abandon Utopia for something they consider a little more realistic. On this streaming series, debuting on CBS All Access this September, our protagonists won’t always be nice. Their behavior won’t be worthy of emulation, and their conflicts will get out of control.

And:

“The thing we’re taking from Roddenberry is how we solve those conflicts,” Harberts told Entertainment Weekly. “So we do have our characters in conflict, we do have them struggling with each other, but it’s about how they find a solution and work through their problems.”

And finally:

There will be a seasonal arc, with character-driven plotlines.

Looks like I’ll get my wish.