I have only seen a couple mentions lately about the television project, Boldy Going Nowhere by Charley Day, Rob McElhenney and their fellow It’s Always Sunny in Philadephia crew.  (Hi Glenn)

Announced last year, Boldly Going Nowhere is  a sci-fi show set on a  spaceship and, according to Variety, is a “high-concept comedy set in the future and focused on the mundane world of a spaceship captain when he’s not on a mission.”  But according to Comic Mix,  “McElhenny, Day and Howerton do not consider the series as science fiction, but rather a unique twist on the workplace sitcom.”

David Hornsby, who Sunny fans know as Rickety Cricket, stars in the show along with Arrested Development’s Tony Hale (who plays a character named Robot).

I would just like to say…for the record…that this project sounds a lot like a project idea I submitted to Paramount during a Star Trek screenwriting contest a few years back.  I called it Star Trek: The Night Crew, which is a half hour sci-fi comedy about the “Second Stringer” crew that works the helm of the Enterprise when the primary characters are off duty.  Instead of fighting the Klingons they have to deal with mundane everyday problems like the ship’s toilets getting backed up or the Captain’s chair getting a stain on it.  The last thing they want to do is ever have to call a RED ALERT and wake up the Captain and the first string crew.

As for Boldly Going Nowhere, apparently a pilot was made and they weren’t all too thrilled so Fox ordered a second pilot and brought in heavyweight Larry Charles (Borat, Bruno, Seinfeld, Curb Your Enthusiasm) to presumably make it better (and possibly more Sci-Fi-ey).

Where is it now?   Unfortunately according to io9, Glenn Howerton, doesn’t really know if this “pet project” will ever see the light of day.   Hey guys…if you’re stuck…I have a few ideas

Boldly Going Nowhere 2009 TV.