Then whats the point of this thread?
Is a modern-day big screen reboot of TNG inevitable?
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But it is. Star Trek is the adventures of James T Kirk and friends.
Picard and Data are just new iterations of Kirk and Spock.
Wishful thinking. Speculation. Having fun. Generating discussion. You know. The usual.
Bond is about James Bond.
Holmes is about Sherlock Holmes.
Superman is about superman.
Tarzan is about Tarzan
Star Trek isn't called the "Captain Kirk".
But then there's no need for it to be 'Star Trek' either.
TNG was just Phase II with different names put on it. A simple continuation of TOS.
Yet TNG was quite different from TOS. For one thing, TOS was mostly Kirk, Spock and McCoy., all the other characters played a secondary role in the stories. TNG is more balanced in that area.
Phase II would've been as well.
I must admit that I don't know much about Phase II.
TNG became the Picard, Data and sometimes Worf show. The others were tossed a bone a couple of times a season. Of course the "secondary characters" in TOS were not opening title credit characters like the TNG cast.
Roddenberry basically changed names for many of the characters.
Admiral Kirk - Aging starship commander.
Will Decker - Hot shot, up and coming first officer.
Ilia - Some kind of telepath/empath. Decker's former squeeze, that he abandoned.
Xon - Vulcan that wanted to explore human emotions.
A lot of the TNG basics are there. If you can find it for a decent price, there is a book on it.
https://www.amazon.com/Star-Trek-Ph...1470596341&sr=1-1&keywords=star+trek+phase+ii
TOS features the adventures of Kirk and friends. The majority of Star Trek doesn't have Kirk in it.
Picard and Kirk don't have much in common. They're were both captain of the Enterprise in different centuries. Data and Spock are similar characters to a degree, but they are different characters. That's why they have different names
Why wouldn't it? It would be in the same timeline. The events that took place in prior Star Trek would effect it. It would still involve Starfleet. It's just the future after kirk/Spock/Picard/Data.
Yes, TNG continued Star Trek forward. Lets keep continuing, adding, and growing.
There were Troy episodes, Riker episodes, Geordi episodes, Wesley episodes, even Pulaski episodes, in spite of the fact that she was on the show only for one short season.
All in all there were many episodes where neither, Picard, or Data or even Worf, got the main focus.
Only because there were major feature films that were profitable. Paramount has flirted with rebooting and recasting Kirk and Spock more than once.
I just have no desire for yet another crew. Probably why I'm lukewarm towards Discovery, at this point. I just think, "man, this could be more adventures of Kirk and Spock".
A rose is a rose.Picard and Kirk don't have much in common. They're were both captain of the Enterprise in different centuries. Data and Spock are similar characters to a degree, but they are different characters. That's why they have different names
Picard is the older,wiser and more experienced Kirk. (with elements of early season one Kirk as well) What Kirk would have become if Phase II had worked and closer to what GR wanted Kirk to be. Riker is the younger, action and ladies man Kirk. All they did was make Kirk two characters.
Data is a take on Spock with Questor tossed in.
Thems the bones.
"Star Trek" for me is Kirk, Spock and the Enterprise. They are the center of everything great about the franchise (for me). The other shows just feel so... disposable. Maybe they would've had a greater impact on me if Paramount had not cranked out series after series after series, one right on top of the next. It all kind of bleeds together.
I feel the opposite. I'm eager for new characters and taking a new angle on Trek.
Watching Voyager and Enterprise was really fatiguing. I felt like they were approaching ST the same way over and over again.
Fuller says they're going to tell Star Trek stories in a way that hasn't been done before, and I think that's the way it has to be if we want to move forward.
Yep, the existence of the film series precluded the use of Kirk and friends on TV.
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