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Why? Star Trek XI A F-Ing Prequel...

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Why are they doing this to us? Unless they are bringing Kirk, Spock and Picard and Crew from the future... Who from the future is going to save Earth in 2010?

God I really hate prequels, unless it is crews from the Original Series, The Next Generation and DS9... screw it give us Voyager and Enterprise characters... have a damn balls to the walls time travel with everyone...

http://trekweb.com/articles/2005/07/22/42e1880605171.shtml
 
Well, it's not like the movies are getting any better. The only reason I like Nemesis is because I was that desperate for something - anything - involving the Romulans.

A prequel? Hey, couldn't hurt.
 
Hey Paramount, fire Berman and do this:
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Boogie and his ninjas are going to go on a mission.

A mission to eliminate every last person who has contributed to Star Trek sucking for the better part of the last 10 years.

Rick Berman, Brannon Braga: I'd sleep with one eye open from now on, if I were you.
 
The next Star Trek movie should involve serious input from fanfic writers who make the entire cast into furries. Engage hilarity.
 
aoi tsuki said:
The next Star Trek movie should involve serious input from fanfic writers who make the entire cast into furries. Engage hilarity.
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Where Kirk is an ocelot or something?

(God, I miss brunching.com.)
 
A prequel? Ugh, didn't Paramount figure out after Enterprise and Star Wars: Episodes 1,2, and 3 that prequels suck?

LOL and in the article they say the story will be set across 2 movies. After Nemesis they're assuming a new Star Trek movie will do well enough to warrant a sequel? Come on Paramount, seriously.
 
Synth_floyd said:
A prequel? Ugh, didn't Paramount figure out after Enterprise and Star Wars: Episodes 1,2, and 3 that prequels suck?

LOL and in the article they say the story will be set across 2 movies. After Nemesis they're assuming a new Star Trek movie will do well enough to warrant a sequel? Come on Paramount, seriously.
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So first you whine about Paramount drastically shaking up the setting, then you complain about how Paramount could think a new movie would have any chance of success. Doesn't it make sense to you that they're changing the setting in the hopes of making the movie more successful? I'll be there opening weekend anyhow.
 
What they'd do with Star Trek XI is secondary to this question: why won't Paramount executives stop the very idea of Star Trek XI before it gains some perverted traction?
 
it is like they are set on destroying star trek...how paramount has not fired berman and braga is beyond me after they have produced faiure after failure.
 
Synth_floyd said:
A prequel? Ugh, didn't Paramount figure out after Enterprise and Star Wars: Episodes 1,2, and 3 that prequels suck?
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There are roughly:

2,362,863,852 reasons why they would say that Star Wars didn't suck.


LOL and in the article they say the story will be set across 2 movies. After Nemesis they're assuming a new Star Trek movie will do well enough to warrant a sequel? Come on Paramount, seriously.
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If the story is good, that may be the smartest thing they have ever done. As opposed to these 'out of the box' stories where people just try and look cool in front of the camera they might have a good chance of getting people into theaters. And lets face it, the old series universe is far more interesting than where the series is heading :)
 
Synth_floyd said:
A prequel? Ugh, didn't Paramount figure out after Enterprise and Star Wars: Episodes 1,2, and 3 that prequels suck?
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Any sucking has fifty times more to do with the people making the thing than whether or not it's a prequel.
 
I'm ridiculing Paramount for doing a 2 part movie because it's very arrogant on their part to assume the first part will do well enough to warrant a second part. The Trek franchise is in shambles now. The last 2 movies sucked and didn't do that well at the box office and same with the last 2 series. I don't know what company owns Paramount but with a track record like that I don't see how they couold approve 2 movies at the same time. I guess they could do it LOTR style and film them both at once. That would save a lot of money. But they better come up with a damn good plot and characters after all the other recent turds that have been coming out of the franchise.

I think the concept of a prequel is just played out already. They did a series that was a prequel already and it wasn't any good. Plus with the Star Wars prequels being done already it comes off as too "me too"-ish.
 
I guess I currently think of Trek as a franchise that currently has no present time. If there's actually a decent idea for the 21st, 22nd, 23rd, 24th, 25th, 30th century... I'm open.

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Plus with the Star Wars prequels being done already it comes off as too "me too"-ish.
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I don't think people would have such thoughts, unless it was a prequel in the sense that we see a 10-20 year old Jim Kirk or something.
 
Don't a lot of ST movies feature time-travel to the past? Well, a couple at least.

Why not time travel to the future? :P
 
Sennik on TrekWeb said:
Don't get your warp core in a bunch
By: Sennik (Odo's file, contact) @ 18:02:27 on Jul 22, 2005

This movie will not be filmed. It was a Rick Berman idea, with Paramount giving him the goahead (and some money) to assemble a writer, producers, and most likely setting up shooting locations. The information regarding filming in Australia showed up a while back, and since then, Rick Berman himself has said that Paramount has put the idea on the backburner. It's dead, Jim. All we're getting now is a rehash of information some months out of date. I do find it interesting that the plot points that are being bandied about involve time travel, Spock, and possibly mixing and matching crews from different shows. That tracks quite nicely with the idea that we heard a while back about a "Justice League" type idea with different Star Trek crews joining up to face a common threat. That, most likely, is what this idea is. It is also extremely likely this idea will never see production. I wouldn't worry about this, or start proclaiming RIP Star Trek because this idea, and filming locations and all that, were all bandied about months ago. Since then Berman's pretty much said the idea is dead, as is his career with Star Trek.

After hearing what the idea was, I'm sort of happy this isn't going to be the next film. If this is what Berman was going to come up with, THANK GOD the man is most likely out of a job come 2007.
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In other words, the rumor mill and various quips from Berman, et al, seems to have established that:

A) Berman is out of Trek;
B) Braga is most likely out of Trek;
C) This idea is dead;
and D) Paramount's new-ish management is taking a serious look at how to revive the cash cow.
 
If Manny Coto isn't the head of the next Trek series or movie (well, maybe not movie.. not sure what kind of experience he has in that regard) I'll do something like.... sink California into the ocean to get rid of Paramount studios.
 
Lhadatt said:
In other words, the rumor mill and various quips from Berman, et al, seems to have established that:

A) Berman is out of Trek;
B) Braga is most likely out of Trek;
C) This idea is dead;
and D) Paramount's new-ish management is taking a serious look at how to revive the cash cow.
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Basically that's true. Viacom has split Paramount into TV and Film divisions. Berman is not out YET. However Viacom is still deciding who gets control of Trek. Brad Gray is in charge of the Film division and really wants to fix Trek. He has made comments along the lines of needing to clean house, which means if the film division gets control of Trek Berman is gone instantly.

Braga is already gone and is running CBS's Threshold.
 
No more Berman and Braga? Wow, at least someone in Paramount is listening to the fans (or more likely paying attention to the bottom line). Maybe the franchise does have a future afterall.
 
About time, Star Trek needs to go back to the glory days of DS9.

The last time they came close was the pilot episode of Enterprise. From that point on it was all a downwards spiral.
 
Cold-Steel said:
About time, Star Trek needs to go back to the glory days of DS9.

The last time they came close was the pilot episode of Enterprise. From that point on it was all a downwards spiral.
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You never saw the fourth season of Enterprise...
 
Cold-Steel said:
About time, Star Trek needs to go back to the glory days of DS9.

The last time they came close was the pilot episode of Enterprise. From that point on it was all a downwards spiral.
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Enterprise season 4 was really good. Not suprisingly Berman and Braga weren't in charge for the last season, except for the final episode...suprise, it sucked!
 
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