OT: Star Trek 11 (?) news...

[Randallw]

The DNA thing isn't too original. In about the only NG episode I haven't seen they uncover evidence that the first ever aliens seeded various planets with their own DNA. This is why all the aliens are basically huamoids with slight differences.

[Atrocities]

I read that DATA survived the explosion of the Romulan ship but was so badly damaged that he had to be reconstructed and no longer looks like DATA. This will alow a new younger actor to play DATA.

Ya, that will work out just fine.

[dogscoff]

I read that DATA survived the explosion of the Romulan ship but was so badly damaged that he had to be reconstructed and no longer looks like DATA. This will alow a new younger actor to play DATA.

Ya, that will work out just fine.

Worked fine for Kryten.

[Ragnarok]

No one can play Data like Brent Spiner...and no one will be able to play Spock like Leonard Nimoy.

However, I will keep an open mind if they should being these characters back.

[Atrocities]

I wouldn't mind it if they decided to redo TOS with an all new cast and technology set. Given the advancements in technology since the 60's I am sure they could update the bridge and ship controls to look more in flow with our technology curve than they are currently in TOS.

Enterprise did a nice job, but was executed poorly over all with dull, conflicting, and unispiring stories that did not play well or lend themselves overall to the established pre-TOS time line. While I did like the Andorian and Tellorite episodes, I was left feeling as though I was cheated out of what could have become one of the best Star Trek series of all time. Mainly thanks too the lack of interest in writing solid logicially flowing episodes that used established trek history over the "hey lets do this, history be damned" method that was employeed in Enterprise.

Prior to TOS there were no practical invisiblity or cloaking screens. It was something comepletely new to the Federation. Yet by episode six or seven of Enterprise they encountered a race that had STNG hologram technology and a cloaking device. WTF!

It was established in TOS that the Romulans did not have cloaking technology, nor ship to ship visual capablity, or warp drive, yet in ENT they re-wrote history and gave the Romulans these capabilities. They pissed away any chance for a Romulan war and while I generally like what they did with the Klingons in ENT, they could have done more.

So here we are now. We have no where to go with the Star Trek franchise but back. Back to TOS and hopefully a well scripted movie and a solid cast that can live up to the tradition and expectations of a starving fan base.

I personally woudn't mind seeing a new TOS series, hell even a complete redo of TOS would be ok with me. It would be an omoge (sp) to the original series, hated by many, but accepted by most. The cast of the New Voyages interent videos have proven that people will accept a new cast playing Kirk and Crew so long as the stories are good, the action is solid, and the technology is believable. Hell our cell phones of today are smaller than the communicators of TOS. My calculator has more computing power than the Enterprises Computer, and floppy disks have all but gone extinct in the face of DVD's and memory cards.

TOS would benefit from a re-invigortion. Update the technology to look more in flow with our technology progression and five us a new TOS series that while not the old TOS is the new TOS complete with solid scripts, inventive casting, and dedicated acting.

I want a new Star Trek series that is tranditional and does not [censored] on the star trek time line like Enterprise did. One that is not a reset to zero series, but is a part of the greater universe that is Star Trek.

[Caduceus]

They would do better to walk away from the brand for five to ten years, then come back and launch a series that takes place AFTER all this other stuff.

I'm kind of sick of "re-imaginings" and "prequels". Can we not jump another 50-100 years into the future of the Trek universe?

[narf poit chez BOOM]

I suggest we all boycott Star Trek shows till they come up with something good.

[Strategia_In_Ultima]

Paramount Studios Official Press Release

Paramount Studios is pleased to announce that it has hired a new writer/co-director, who will inject the planned new Star Trek movie with a generous dosage of life and emotion, and who will contribute many new ideas; George Lucas. We hope he will stay with us to make at least two follow-up films.

[Black_Knyght]

Strategia_In_Ultima said:

R O T F L M A O !!!


Man, wouldn't THAT cause AT to have a serious stroke !!!

[Azselendor]

boycotting TV shows doesn't work on the long term. Basically it tells the studios, "No one likes this stuff anymore, not even the fan base so why spend on any future development?"

In reality, the best way to make a tv show better is to actually get into the production studios or teams and make it better.

Take, for example, star trek's artists and designers. Most of them grew up as the dweeb in the side of the classroom (they coudn't get in the back because all the cool kids were there) doodling starships.

Besides, I always thought a neat series for trek to do would be a ship that followed enterprise around trying to fix all the civilizations Kirk messed up.

Sigma Iota anyone?