Looks like they saw an opportunity and took it... I am Beyond excited. This is awesome!
Trek Returning to TV in 2017!
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Looks like they saw an opportunity and took it... I am Beyond excited. This is awesome!
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Netflix would have been the preferable service to use for a new show.
Captain Worf will probably happen at some point, even if Michael has to find a way for the Star Trek Continues writers to put him into a script using time travel or he gets on an episode of Renegades. Nobody said Captain Worf had to be an "official" appearance.
Netflix would have been the preferable service to use for a new show.
Captain Worf will probably happen at some point, even if Michael has to find a way for the Star Trek Continues writers to put him into a script using time travel or he gets on an episode of Renegades. Nobody said Captain Worf had to be an "official" appearance.
I'm kind of enh about it. I hope the show will return to more of a Star Trek feel; the movies have been more of a Star Wars feel in my opinion.
The streaming bit bothers me too. I get the big push for streaming from people who have access, but large parts of the U.S. still have crap internet access. The AT&T guy fixing my land line just told me that the equipment enabling him to have internet in his neighborhood was condemned, and AT&T is not replacing it. All of those people were just effectively cut off from the net unless they use their spotty cell phone signal or an overpriced satellite service.
The streaming bit bothers me too. I get the big push for streaming from people who have access, but large parts of the U.S. still have crap internet access. The AT&T guy fixing my land line just told me that the equipment enabling him to have internet in his neighborhood was condemned, and AT&T is not replacing it. All of those people were just effectively cut off from the net unless they use their spotty cell phone signal or an overpriced satellite service.
It will be on TV elsewhere - as of now streaming only in the US.
Only the first episode will be on TV. All subsequent episodes will be online only.
Don't listen to the rumors. Captain Worf will be happening. Trust me.
The official notice has this comment:
I seriously doubt they would make a *third* universe for this new series.
I could see them doing what they did to relaunch Doctor Who back in 2005, a "soft reboot" of sorts, where they just started telling stories with only vague allusions to the previous TV series, until they they had solidified their story telling and then brought the old and new together.
Announcement:
http://www.startrek.com/article/new-star-trek-series-premieres-january-2017
I kinda hope that the plans change and it eventually airs on a channel over here. Some fans probably aren't too keen on the idea of paying for a streaming service they don't already have and didn't want because it offers nothing else of value.
Yes. There were all too many people here who made pronouncements that Trek wouldn't come back to TV. It couldn't work. Too expensive, etc...
I knew with a franchise like this that it was only a matter of time. However, I too am disappointed that they chickened out and just brought in a nuTrek guy to work on this.
Even with better writing, I don't like the nuTrek "look". The lens-flare, Applestore bridges with a "window" viewscreen, brewery engine-room, phasers that shoot like blasters, shaky-cam, and the crappy ship designs. It would have been better to schedule a continuity reboot or go back to prime continuity in order to get out of the prison of that aesthetic.
Kurtzman out.
Manny Coto and Ron Moore in.
Then I might watch it. Get Frakes on board as director as well.
I'm struggling to see where all these new stories are going to come from. The well ran dry after about season 2 of Voyager. My money's on it just being a rehash of what has already gone before. Next to no one will watch it, mainly due to access issues, and it will be canned after the first season.
I'd rather watch Axanar which I've not got around to seeing yet.
Manny Coto and Ron Moore in.
Then I might watch it. Get Frakes on board as director as well.
I'm struggling to see where all these new stories are going to come from. The well ran dry after about season 2 of Voyager. My money's on it just being a rehash of what has already gone before. Next to no one will watch it, mainly due to access issues, and it will be canned after the first season.
I'd rather watch Axanar which I've not got around to seeing yet.
Thank you. At least someone with brains sees it, instead of this keen jerk assumption that older fans are scum who must be wrong in the head and cast aside.
Not such a bad thing. That was a pretty poor premise.
Not unless it's a fan series.
That's very well put.
I know that people can't kill themselves stressing over how to make a new movie or show.... but couldn't Abrams, Kurtzman and Orci have navigated the currents a little better than to utterly divide the fanbase?
I'm sure Trek could have been popular AND faithful.
Just look at how this has been done with so many other properties. Did anyone truly expect that a film as nerdy as "The Martian" would ever be made, or that the "Lord of the Rings" would ever be so faithfully adapted, or that an unrepentant space western like "Guardians of the Galaxy" would break the box office, or that "The Avengers" would be so true to Marvel? Did they really have to butcher the characters as much as they did, with unprofessional arguments on the bridge, hyperactive pacing, etc? Surely both could have been satisfied, and Trek could have been done at a dignified pace like say "Interstellar"?
Large parts, but not many people live in those large parts.
When you include mobile broadband, the US is over 80% penetration.
Heh.
This news has certainly brightened up a dreary Monday for me! Let's boldly go on television (or at least a streaming service) once again!
TV in the non-internet form is an expiring concept.
If I finally buy a Roku box, it's still on my "TV."
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