Bitcoin pioneer Jeff Garzik’s production company NextCypher has tapped “Star Trek’s” Jonathan Frakes to direct an adaptation of sci-fi novel “Deathlands.”

Frakes, who starred as Commander Riker on “Star Trek: The Next Generation,” is a veteran director who’s helmed TV shows including “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds,” “Star Trek: Picard,” and “Leverage: Redemption.”

“It’s absolutely amazing,” Garzik told Decrypt, adding that he was “incredibly humbled and blessed” to have Frakes join the project.

Based on a series of novels by James Axler and Jack Adrian, “Deathlands” follows a band of survivors traversing a post-apocalyptic world using teleportation technology. “It’s post-apocalyptic, Mad Max meets AI meets the monsters from ‘Tremors’ and everything in between,” Garzik said.

The TV show is a “refreshed” adaptation of the novel series, Garzik explained, noting that “the books were a post-Cold War, post-nuclear war scenario,” and that the TV show updates the setting to “post-AI driven chaos and all the fun that happens after that.”

“I know ‘Deathlands’ doesn’t scream optimism from the title,” he said. “But it’s about a group of plucky survivors that continue to persevere despite what we throw at them every week. To me, that’s optimistic—and I think that inspired Frakes.”