ORIGINAL STAR TREK to return to big screen.. by Chindi

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ORIGINAL STAR TREK to return to big screen..

POSTED BY: CHINDI
UPDATED: Saturday, April 22, 2006 05:31
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Friday, April 21, 2006 11:06 AM

So, this little snippet of news is on AOL-

"'Star Trek' Franchise Set for Revival
2008 Film to Be Directed by Man Behind 'Lost'
Reuters
LOS ANGELES (April 21) - More than three years after the last "Star Trek" movie crashed at the box office, the venerable sci-fi franchise is being revived by the director of the upcoming "Mission: Impossible" sequel, Daily Variety reported in its Friday edition. "

Note that they say the movie BOMBED at it's last outing.. this is the ORIGINAL cast, not TNG.. and yet they are making another..

dear friends.. I say this bodes WELL for Serenity/Firefly..

I think I see a trend here.. and I LIKE where it is going...

Chindi.. still holding til Mal gets back

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Friday, April 21, 2006 11:51 AM

DERANGEDMILK

What the Hell??????
A) The original crew is DONE...half of the actors are dead (god rest their souls and the other half have gone on to other things). I love the original crew but they're stories are done, they've ended MANY times.
B) I personally think the TNG crew is better, and while the last movie wasn't the greatest by any means it sure as hell didn't bomb!!! Where is our "The Search for Data?" They totally set us up for one.
Thats crap. Complete Crap.
-e

"Storms getting worse."
"We'll pass through it soon enough."

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Friday, April 21, 2006 1:58 PM

LISSA

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Originally posted by derangedmilk:

B) I personally think the TNG crew is better, and while the last movie wasn't the greatest by any means it sure as hell didn't bomb!!! Where is our "The Search for Data?" They totally set us up for one.
Thats crap. Complete Crap.

agreed! give me picard any day! the rest of the crew, too:)

~lissa, retired spwhore

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Friday, April 21, 2006 2:04 PM

DERANGEDMILK

Definitely. But I've calmed down a bit since my last rather angry post. I checked over on StarTrek.com, and it seems that the movie is going to be a prequel to even the original series. I'm still very wary of this (especially with how it will be shot and who will act in it) but I'm holding out for more information.
Also, there are rumors of a sequel to Nemesis from Rick Berman and the other big Trek producers of the last decade or so in the works as well.
-e

"Storms getting worse."
"We'll pass through it soon enough."

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Friday, April 21, 2006 2:06 PM

GINOBIFFARONI

I wouldn't mind seeing something similar to the last season of Enterprise,

Or find out what happened to the crew of Voyager

Or best of all, continue the DS9 storyline

The most screwed up thing with the Star Trek franchise is they seem to like the bad writers, give the good writers limited time and then go back to the bad ones...

Pisses many off

" Over and in, last call for sin
While everyone's lost, the battle is won
With all these things that I've done "

The Killers

http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/killers/allthesethingsthativedone.html

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Friday, April 21, 2006 2:16 PM

FILTER

No way the original crew will be in a new movie. Those still alive are in their late 60s or 70s. I would expect either the Enterprise crew or TNG. If not those, than perhaps new characters altogether. I am skeptical of any new Star Trek, since the last few movies have really been lame.

Filter

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Friday, April 21, 2006 2:19 PM

CHINDI

Here is the whole article... it is Spock and Kirk meet at the Academy....

'Star Trek' Franchise Set for Revival
2008 Film to Be Directed by Man Behind 'Lost'
Reuters
LOS ANGELES (April 21) - More than three years after the last "Star Trek" movie crashed at the box office, the venerable sci-fi franchise is being revived by the director of the upcoming "Mission: Impossible" sequel, Daily Variety reported in its Friday edition.

Time to Tune Up the Enterprise

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The as-yet-untitled "Star Trek" feature, the 11th since 1979, is aiming for a fall 2008 release through Paramount Pictures, the Viacom Inc. unit looking to restore its box-office luster under new management, the trade paper said.

The project will be directed by J.J. Abrams, whose Tom Cruise vehicle "Mission: Impossible III" will be released by Paramount on May 5. Abrams, famed for producing the TV shows "Alias" and "Lost," will also help write and produce.

Daily Variety said the action would center on the early days of "Star Trek" characters James T. Kirk and Mr. Spock, including their first meeting at Starfleet Academy and first outer-space mission.

The paper described "Star Trek" as Hollywood's most durable performer after James Bond, spawning 10 features that have grossed more than $1 billion and 726 TV episodes from six series.

The 10th film, "Star Trek: Nemesis," bombed at the box office on its December 2002 release, earning just $43 million in North America. Last year, Viacom-owned broadcast network UPN pulled the plug on the low-rated series "Star Trek: Enterprise" following a four-season run.

Chindi

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Saturday, April 22, 2006 5:31 AM

CYBERSNARK

I was a little wary of J.J. Abrams being involved, but with RHW's vote of confidence over on Ex Isle ( http://www.exisle.net/mb/index.php?s=ae68e7990889afcaac24818fece87692&
showtopic=37682&st=0 for reference), I'm feeling better about it.

I agree with the general tone over there though, that this really isn't a story I'm interested in.

I mean, they're talking about re-casting Kirk and Spock, which is a bad idea to begin with.

Kirk and Spock at the Academy can only be done two ways; trying to shoehorn it into continuity (sixties-retro style) or as the beginnings of a complete reboot (a la Battlestar Galactica).

Plus, there's the trap every "when they were young" story falls into: it turns into a fannish celebration of "gee, how many references to the original version can we squeeze in?" See Smallville (with Lex Luthor! and Lois Lane! and Metropolis! and Perry White! and the Fortress of Solitude! and Aquaman & the Flash!!! --this isn't abou Clark Kent, it's about "I was a teenaged Superman")

You can bet that, if it involves a young Kirk and Spock, there'll be young Scotty, Uhura, McCoy, Sulu, and Chekhov, and they'll probably end up on the Enterprise (or another ship that they "randomly" decide to name "Enterprise")

Kirk and Spock are too iconic for this; there's no escaping the narrative baggage they each carry.

KRAD (over on Ex Isle) is right:

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Star Trek has been at its most successful when it moves forward. The movies worked because we saw the characters moving on from where we saw them on TV. TNG and DS9 continued that forward motion, and while DS9 was less successful than TNG in terms of ratings, it was still successful, and is also very well-regarded by those who did watch it. Voyager started out with a premise that would've been something different, and might have moved the franchise forward, but they chose not to embrace their premise, all but abandoning it by the second episode, and did seven years of plots that felt like warmed-over TNG episodes. Enterprise then went backwards, and was the first Trek TV show to fail in the marketplace.

Especially considering the post-DS9 state of the Alpha Quadrant: the collapse of the Cardassian Union, the morally ambiguous Cardassian reconstruction (the Federation is helping to rebuild a civilization that just tried to kill us), Bajor's joining of the UFP (and the resulting upheaval in the Bajoran militia as it gets assimilated into Starfleet), Political upheavals on Ferenginar, the Dominion's internal strife in the wake of their only significant defeat in history, Chancellor Martok's reshuffling of Klingon hierarchy and policy, Voyager's return, the Enterprise crew getting ripped apart, new, untried crews being put onto fresh-out-of-the-factory ships to replace all the experienced crews that died in the war, the first post-war curriculum at the Academy, the looming extinction of the Andorians, the disintegration of the Trill Symbiosis Commission, the political shake-up of the Romulan Empire (as seen in Nemesis, where the entire Senate and the Praetor were taken out), the Reman rebellion and the Klingon/Reman alliance (there's now a Klingon protectorate in the heart of Romulan space). . .

Plus the New Frontiers, S.C.E., I.K.S. Koloth, and Titan novel series.

There's a dozen movies worth of stuff there already!

Heck, just give us a movie set on the Titan, with Captain Riker and his mostly non-humanoid crew (all the non-humanoid aliens that a TV budget won't let you show).

Or even go back and do a post-Enterprise movie, focussing on the Romulan War, and revealing Trip's true fate.

Select to view spoiler:

Historical records say that he died on Enterprise, but this is a falsehood: his death was faked, allowing him to operate undercover as a Starfleet Intelligence agent. Question is, what's he protecting?

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