She was asked at a red carpet event. She said she was flattered but is too busy to do it.
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He said that in an interview like 5 years ago or something.
Angela Basset said she's too busy a few months ago.
Honestly the differences are fairly minor except to true believer trek fans, which are an extreme minority of the target audience for this new show. The franchise has been effectively rebooted with Abrams, with very few people working on the movie or tv productions have prior trek experience. I can't really envision them 'continuing' the prime universe when they have the blockbuster version readily available to provide an anchor for tie-ins.
My brain is filled with too much hyperbole in the news. sorry
That doesn't necessarily mean that old villains will be excluded from the show. Just that the show will feature new villains. Which is actually pretty obvious!
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I'm not sure that's actually a factor in the real world. As far as I know, early opposition from diehard TOS fans had no effect on TNG's ratings. And, no matter what you may think of them, the new movies are succeeding at the box office despite any on-line squabbles. Bringing peace to fandom is probably not a top priority here.
Trust me, the same sort of feuding goes on in any popular fandom, be it Doctor Who, comic books, Buffy, Godzilla, Ghostbusters, you name it. It's not necessarily a problem to be solved; it just comes with the territory.
Heck, there are still people who think that DS9 is too dark to be a proper STAR TREK show . . .
Those words to start a sentence do not have a good track record.
Just saying, I've deal with a lots of fandoms and there are always factions and feuds and generational conflicts. The Star Trek "civil war" is just more of the same, IMHO.
Want to start a fight? Go to a Buffy board and ask someone if they're Team Angel or Team Spike.
All this theorizing hubbub over what, if you take away the logo and voice-over, amounts to 50 seconds of arbitrary videogame footage.
Just joking about "Trust me..." I know you know your stuff and I've seen what you say. Trust me.Just saying, I've deal with a lots of fandoms and there are always factions and feuds and generational conflicts. The Star Trek "civil war" is just more of the same, IMHO.
Want to start a fight? Go to a Buffy board and ask someone if they're Team Angel or Team Spike.
I do, I do!
Meh.
Yes it's loaded with them. I seen what look like a young Captain Kirk, a alien that ufo people call greys, Data, A starship that look like the Enterprise D, but it is more compac, A alien that look like a Cytherian, A bold headed person that could be either Picard or Sisko, Captain Rachel Gerrett. A alien that look like a insect, like either s bee or a ant. The delta shield also has picture of characters drew on it, I saw a Klingon, a alien from Star Trek Renegade. Each half has the drawing of a character on it and the full delta has a character on it, that is in his 70's or 80's.Normally I might agree with you, except for this:
"New villains." I see. Where the original had antagonists, this is going to have "villains". Because it is made for or by unsophisticated children. Pass.
Uh...yeah.
Uh...yeah.
Less sophisticated than the kids in 1966 who liked TOS so much? Not bloodly likely.
The Klingons and Romulans have been called "villains" in Trek publicity hundreds of times - the time for that sort of complaint passed decades ago.
Trek has had 'villains' since The Cage. Half of TOS is about beating the bad guys.
Errrm... nooo? This factually absolutely not true. Your view of TOS seems to be heavily tainted by the JJ-movies (THOSE were about beating the badguys). Almost all of TOS is in fact the exact opposite of that!
When was TOS about beating badguys? The closest that comes to mind would be "Balance of Terror", although that resembles much more a classic war movie. With antagonists. Not badguys. "Errand of Mercy"? Where the whole point was the needless conflict?
Kirk beats a whole lot of mad computers ("A taste of armageddon", "Doomsday Machine", ...). I give you that.
But if you insist TOS "is about beating the badguys" it simply implies you have either not seen or not understood TOS. Hell, tell me how "the badguys" from "the cage" have been "beaten"?
To be fair, there were some traditional villains on TOS: the mad scientist in "Dagger of the Mind," some of the more treacherous Klingons, the sadistic Platonians in "Plato's Stepchildren," the guy who possessed Spock in "Return to Tomorrow," the glowing red pinwheel in "Day of the Dove," some genuine Nazis, and, er, Jack the Ripper.
Plus, the word "villains" does not just refer to two-dimensional mustache-twirlers. Star Trek has plenty of villains with deeper characterizations than that: The Squire of Gothos, Lenore Karidian, crazy Captain Garth, the super-speed kidnappers in "Wink of an Eye," Khan, etc. I'd call them villains, but not unsophisticated ones.
Plus, the word "villains" does not just refer to two-dimensional mustache-twirlers. Star Trek has plenty of villains with deeper characterizations than that: The Squire of Gothos, Lenore Karidian, crazy Captain Garth, the super-speed kidnappers in "Wink of an Eye," Khan, etc. I'd call them villains, but not unsophisticated ones.
To be fair: I have nothing against villains. They enrich the setting. I just want to make clear that none of the classic TOS episodes were structured around a badguy, and the episode being resolved by defeating the badguy. Those easy "defeat the badguy"-plots started to creep into Trek with DS9, and have stayed there since. Nowadays basically every action-blockbuster, superhero movie or anything "nerdy" is usually structured atound the single goal of defeating the badguy.
But in both TOS and TNG any villains were usually only part of a larger tapestry, and just one element of a larger plot they appeared in. Not the main plot.
Give me some good old scifi-concept plots! And I will gladly accept villains in them. That's why I have no problems witch the notion of "new villains", even though I surely would have prefered something like "new adventures" or "new discoveries" or "new lifeforms" or "new civilizations" instead.
But in both TOS and TNG any villains were usually only part of a larger tapestry, and just one element of a larger plot they appeared in. Not the main plot.
Give me some good old scifi-concept plots! And I will gladly accept villains in them. That's why I have no problems witch the notion of "new villains", even though I surely would have prefered something like "new adventures" or "new discoveries" or "new lifeforms" or "new civilizations" instead.
