Escape Goat
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maharg said:
Okay. I don't see how that counters my statement. A book exists into the mythology until its denied by movies or another official piece.
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Okay. I don't see how that counters my statement. A book exists into the mythology until its denied by movies or another official piece.
JoshuaJSlone
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He was talking about the live action show for yeeeears, but I think the latest word is that it just wasn't looking feasible on a TV budget and was thus shelved indefinitely.jaxword said:
DrForester
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jaxword said:Lucas is reportedly making one now, but there've been...others that tend to be forgotten.
jaxword said:
They won't do another TV series for Trek until there's a regime change at CBS. They had the option of doing a new series or movies, and the current head of CBS feels that Trek works better as movies so he has no desire to allow a new TV series as long as he's in charge.
industrian
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Morn said:
A bigger question I have is what the hell would the new TV series be doing? Would it be a reboot? Or a continuation of the "Romulans are destroyed" timeline or the new movie timeline? I used to be a massive Star Trek fan but I really don't know what direction a TV series would take.
Mama Robotnik
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industrian said:
I'd set it a few hundred years after TNG, just as that show set a large period of time between itself and TOS.
They should look to Doctor Who for inspiration - a distant continuation that isn't mired in continuity but nonetheless pays homage to it. Its accessible for new audiences but rewarding for the fans when nods to the past come up. No complex pilot episode with big political space shit going on, just instantly jump to the adventures of one ship. We can cover any story megatons about what happened between the past series and the new present as the show goes on.
Anyone who touched Voyager must not be allowed to go near it in any capacity, with the exceptions of Bob Picardo and Dwight Shultz.
ErasureAcer
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They should do a mirror universe Star Trek series where everything is f'ed up.
Mama Robotnik
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ErasureAcer said:
Unless its a miniseries we'd get bored quick. There's only so much scenery chewing and cheesy villiany we can put up with until it wears out its welcome.
DS9 had it right, a quick glance into the evil universe every season or so and done. It didn't overstay its welcome that way.
Escape Goat
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jaxword said:
Of course. It got you to forget how bland and uninteresting the regular Enterprise crew was.
BattleMonkey
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industrian said:
The best thing for them to do is to wait some more years and basically "reboot" the franchise in a similar manner than TNG did. Set it in the Prime universe but wait some time, set it further into the future and aim for bringing in a new generation of fans along with having the nostalgia factor.
MrBig said:
No. Back when Episode III came out, Lucas announced plans to make a 100 episode live-action tv series based around secondary characters from the Star Wars universe that would take place between Episodes III and IV. The project is dead though. It never got beyond the writing phase. Lucas says the scripts are finished, but it would be too expensive to make.
B_Rik_Schitthaus
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Agreed, but they could also do a cartoon set in the 2009 Verse and retelling TOS story's.BattleMonkey said:
benjipwns
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It's been discussed in here recently, but Conspiracy is actually pretty amusing as an episode within the context of the whole season.
It got a setup in a prior episode. (And tried to make one for a later episode and I can see it as a pretty awesome "OMG WHAT IS COMING" ending if I was back in 1988.) It could be seen as a fairly suspenseful episode before you understand the ruse since it's Starfleet/humans (same thing?) acting weird. The part where the other captains come in under the parasites influence is pretty well done for the first season, probably most seasons. They eat worms/bugs, and they shoot a bunch of people and blow a guys face/chest off with phasers. The fake out with Riker is also done well, you don't know about it and it's plausible he could be "taken" and saved later.
First season TNG disclaimers as always.
Actually. Symbiosis, Conspiracy and The Neutral Zone are a pretty good finish to the season. It'd be interesting to see how they'd have been done in the third or fourth seasons. Although, they probably wouldn't have been.
Second season starts Friday in the Syndication Runs, can't wait for Pulaski! From Mem-Alpha:
Confession: I like The Royale.
It got a setup in a prior episode. (And tried to make one for a later episode and I can see it as a pretty awesome "OMG WHAT IS COMING" ending if I was back in 1988.) It could be seen as a fairly suspenseful episode before you understand the ruse since it's Starfleet/humans (same thing?) acting weird. The part where the other captains come in under the parasites influence is pretty well done for the first season, probably most seasons. They eat worms/bugs, and they shoot a bunch of people and blow a guys face/chest off with phasers. The fake out with Riker is also done well, you don't know about it and it's plausible he could be "taken" and saved later.
First season TNG disclaimers as always.
Actually. Symbiosis, Conspiracy and The Neutral Zone are a pretty good finish to the season. It'd be interesting to see how they'd have been done in the third or fourth seasons. Although, they probably wouldn't have been.
Second season starts Friday in the Syndication Runs, can't wait for Pulaski! From Mem-Alpha:
Confession: I like The Royale.
BattleMonkey
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B_Rik_Schitthaus said:
I figured doing a new series on the new style in the reboot universe would be a good idea. I really don't know if they would ever attempt to go back to the Prime universe especially if they will want to get in a new generation of viewers. The reboot movie largely worked because of nostalgia factor that was very open to all viewers and not just fans, not sure how well a TV show with different cast would do though truthfully.
BattleMonkey said:
They already considered this:
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=415157
(I wouldn't bump that thread.)
BattleMonkey
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jaxword said:
Thats not the same idea. I doubt anyone would have taken a webseries seriously either or it would have helped build any type of franchise continuation.
Davey Cakes
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I've really been enjoying Season 6 of DS9. Maybe more than Season 5. "Far Beyond the Stars" is just a beastly episode. It's fun yet powerful.
BattleMonkey
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Rash said:
One of the best episodes
JoshuaJSlone
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Not to make a specific recommendation, but pretty much anything before the late 90s is going to be a one-off adventure. Once they got into the movies and had less official content to conflict with, the books started becoming more self-referential. Most of the first 50-ish numbered ones would seem pretty safe.Petrie said:
Though to make at least one specific recommendation, if you're digging I, Q maybe you'd like Q-Squared. I haven't read I, Q, but it's co-authored by de Lancie and Peter David--David alone wrote Q-Squared, and he's one of my favorite Trek authors anyway.
The Ewok tv films were okay for the most part. Not the greatest thing but passable. The girl was even included in one or two of the novels as a minor character (she was an adult by then). The Special on the other hand... Well there is a reason why it's not possible to find any video footage of it. It's as if Lucasfilm scrubbed or is trying to scrub the world clean of it.DrForester said:
BattleMonkey
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Anyone have any of the Diamond Select Enterprise models? Was interested in picking up one the Enterprise-E versions but was wondering if they are pretty sturdy feeling ships and stand well on their base. Seen the playmates ships and many of them besides looking overly plastic are very light and wobble a lot on their bases.
DrForester
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Simon Pegg is awesome. his enthusiasm of being part of Star Trek is fantastic.
From recent interviews.
From recent interviews.
Gary Whitta
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He was great running around in that brewery!B.K. said:
DrForester
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DrForester
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Veidt said:
Fair warning. You won't find many friends here with talk like that...
I will say that if you've seen all of Voyager that you have no real clue who Q is. He was really neutered for the Voyager episodes. He can be much much more menacing (though never quite as much as that first TNG episode)
Really? And why is that? I know it's incredibly serial, with some episodes that don't really mean anything. But I can tolerate that. And as much as people don't like Janeway's way of speaking, I love it. It reminds me of those old films, Casablanca and such.DrForester said:
TNG just oozes awesome though. I honestly loved the first episode.
"TASHA: I must! Because I grew up on a world that allowed things like this court. And it was people like these that saved me from it. This so-called court should get down on its knees to what Starfleet is, what it represents. "
So good.
Zenith said:
I could have sworn the tech explanation also explains the entire general structure of nearly all Federation ships, that is the secondary and primary hulls with some sort of saucer or sphere in the front. It was probably in the TNG Technical Manual (that I've got somewhere at my mom's house) or something. Had something to do with the inherent shape of a warp field.
Of course, that doesn't really explain other species' differently shaped ships, unless the "inherent" shape has to do with the fact that Fed ships generally use dual nacelle designs.
DrForester
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Veidt said:
Here's the great Mama Robotnik Rant.
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=19384328&postcount=135
As for myself, I thought it was a missed opportunity. They totally ignored half their cast, making them little more than background characters. Chakotay in particular was a huge missed opportunity. The only characters teh writers seemed to care abotu were Janeway, The Doctor, and Seven.
The stories were weak. They relied too much on old TNG stuff, and by the very nature of the story it was supposed to be new. Most the villains were recycled TNG villains with new names (though I will give them credit for the Videans, who I think are one of the greatest aliens ever created in Trek).
I will also argue that Voyager had one or two episodes that stand up with the best episodes of TOS and TNG. The problem was all the terrible episodes in between. TOS, TNG, and DS9 all had their share of stinkers, but with Voyager it was par for the course to have a stupid episode.
The Librarian
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I always disliked Tasha.Veidt said: