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Idea for future Star Trek TV

POSTED BY: SUCCATASH
UPDATED: Monday, March 29, 2004 22:18
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Sunday, March 7, 2004 1:48 PM

After they cancel Enterprise, I'd like a new Star Trek show set in the Klingon world.

Klingon language only, with English subtitles.

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Sunday, March 7, 2004 2:00 PM

ECGORDON

There's no place I can be since I found Serenity.

What, no Chinese?

Burn the land and boil the sea
You can't take the sky from me.

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Sunday, March 7, 2004 2:52 PM

FOURSKYS

That'd be awesome, allbeit laborious. To make it slightly more feasible, how about just a mini-series?

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Sunday, March 7, 2004 3:36 PM

AERONSTORM

Mini-series!!!! That's an AWESOME idea? Now why didn't I think of that.... ;)

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Sunday, March 7, 2004 3:58 PM

PEACE

Unfortunately, the whole Star Trek concept is just about worn-out. A Klingon-language mini-series might be interesting, but you'd have to also come up with an interesting plot, some good characters, basically good writing, and themes that engage the viewer (kinda like FF

). IMO, Star Trek has lacked all of these attributes recently, for the most part. To make Trek fundamentally interesting again (at least for me) the concept would have to be fundamentally reworked and recharged. Otherwise, a Klingon-language mini-series, or one in Elvish, for that matter, would only be a passing curiousity.

Oh, bugger! Now I have to wait for someone to wake up!

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Sunday, March 7, 2004 4:10 PM

FOURSKYS

While I agree that Star Trek has been failing of late, I still think that it has potential. You're right, there are a lot of things that it needs, becuase it has been missing interesting plots and good writing quite a bit lately. It does need to get revitalized, but I'm not so sure about reworked. It a really interesting and well developed universe, we just need someone to take the ideas and just not destroy them like they did a lot with Enterprise. I'm not saying that Enterprise is all bad, but there are some powerfully problematic elements about it...

I'd just hate the see the franchise die, they gotta get some good people at the helm.

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Sunday, March 7, 2004 4:26 PM

PEACE

For my money, to revitalize the mythos you would need to be willing to take risks with characters and situations-- something ST seems to have been afraid of doing for years. Let the Federation and Star Fleet become real human organizations, capable of both virtue and sin; let the characters be fully rounded and flawed; and put them in real danger and have them have to make hard choices. This is fundamental good story-telling, and in some ways it is something that has largely been missing from all the series since Next Gen, when Roddenberry actually decreed that there could be no conflict between the crewmembers of Enterprise. And, btw, get away from giving the crews the best and newest and most powerful warship to tool around in-- rusty rattletraps held together with baling wire and spit are so much more interesting....

Oh, bugger! Now I have to wait for someone to wake up!

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Monday, March 29, 2004 7:47 PM

SUCCATASH

Beam me up!

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Monday, March 29, 2004 9:54 PM

ARDEN

Several months (or maybe a year or so) ago, I remember there was an article in Entertainment Weekly about how to "save" the Star Trek franchise. One of their suggestions was simply to let it die for a while. Take a few years off and let the whole thing cool down, then come back with something big and bold in the way TNG showed up years later and revitalized the franchise. Either that, or keep going with movies, but make it into a director series, and pull in visionary directors to re-interpret the universe in new ways. Can you imagine Star Trek done by David Fincher? Or Ang Lee? What about Peter Weir... It could be some interesting stuff.

You got a wife? All I got is that dumbass stick sounds like it's raining.

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Monday, March 29, 2004 10:18 PM

TALONPEST

Sweet merciful crap, stop "reinventing" things. Reinventing things is a sure way to screw it up. Rarely if ever have I seen a "reinventing" or "reimagining" of anything that was as good as the original. They "reinvented" Star Trek and came up with Enterprise, which is an order of magnitutde worse than anything... oh wait, I forgot about Voyager and Generations. Let me rephrase that: they came up with Enterprise, which is on par with the worst Star Trek ever produced. And of course it managed to alienate at least 50% of the loyal fanbase by changing everything around so that it didn't fit in with the established timeline.

What Star Trek needs is new people behind the cameras. People that care about actual science fiction rather than repeating the same formula over and over, and people that care about the story enough to not screw up the continuity on a whim.

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