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What would you think about TOS ”redone”?
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I’ve made my peace with that eventuality. I’ll keep watching, whatever, unless it’s simply not very good.
I wouldn't waste any time at all thinking about it, since it's never gonna happen.
^^This.
That CGI clip of the original, timeless actors with the CGI backgrounds was one heck of a technological masterpiece from where I was sitting. That would be cool. Seeing yet another regurgitation, at the most base level... I don't think it would work, so might others, and others would like the notion and others would love it.
And there's nothing against expanding the universe, rather then falling into the same old trap of "closed universe" where it's all a bunch of empty calorie hollow callbacks that, too often, aren't even doing in a copacetic way but those are usually meant for us to feel all warm and fuzzy and then to congratulate for the purported brilliance of the callback. VOY was not perfect but it expanded the universe. ENT was a prequel and it didn't quite fit. DSC isn't that much different, though Tilly's my favorite character. Even despite the one apocryphal moment where she jubilantly says the F-word, which seems out of place in a grown-up franchise like Star Trek but makes narrative perfect sense if working to flip burgers in a McDonalds. (yes, that one scene is suitably jarring... spoiler alert.)
Still a few gaps to fill.
I'm good, thanks. 
no i'd rather they move ahead another 100 years
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Different strokes etc. But I always found the "genetically modified flu virus suddenly dissolves everyone's brow ridges" to be the very epitome of silliness.
What better way to understand your enemy (and infiltrate them) than to become (even if partially) them?
And TFR Klingons, need to find something for all their scientists to do, when not inventing Dilithium MAM and the Transporter before the Feds did.
I don't understand how this is a serious question.
You can remake the original series in a new show with new actors and new stories (maybe partially inspired by old ones and with a few actual direct remakes in there, perhaps).
Or you can remaster/edit the existing show to make it look more modern.
But you cannot possibly ever make a new show with new actors that tells exclusively the exact same stories of the old show. That's not how tv works.
You can remake the original series in a new show with new actors and new stories (maybe partially inspired by old ones and with a few actual direct remakes in there, perhaps).
Or you can remaster/edit the existing show to make it look more modern.
But you cannot possibly ever make a new show with new actors that tells exclusively the exact same stories of the old show. That's not how tv works.
No I'm referring to how they regained their Klingon bumps and lumps! Not how they became humanoid as such! Was there a scientist who gave them back their true appearance or did the Augment virus just sort of wear off after some seventy years?
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They'll say it's a thematic and plotline reboot as well as a visual one, but will insist to the death it's the same universe as TOS
Today the television production mindset is too stupid to do anything to match the original concept and story themes. Any attempt to remake TOS would further decay the Trek universe and we don't need that; they are already doing a very good job at that now.
Don't get me wrong, I watch all incarnations of Trek but some of it is just absurd (Discovery's ship spinning into spore drive, an entire multi episode Mirror universe arc that is pointless, etc.). The problem is these days most of the writers, directors and producers are from a different era that confuses a lot of good action and effects with a good story; the former taking precedent over the story which many times seems an afterthought and cobbled together to make sure we can see incredible visual effects. Unfortunately, I hold out little hope of any new Trek series being anything but the same old flash/bang that we are getting now. I long for thought-provoking stories that make me contemplate what I just watched; hopefully, someday we can get back to a story first mind-set.
Don't get me wrong, I watch all incarnations of Trek but some of it is just absurd (Discovery's ship spinning into spore drive, an entire multi episode Mirror universe arc that is pointless, etc.). The problem is these days most of the writers, directors and producers are from a different era that confuses a lot of good action and effects with a good story; the former taking precedent over the story which many times seems an afterthought and cobbled together to make sure we can see incredible visual effects. Unfortunately, I hold out little hope of any new Trek series being anything but the same old flash/bang that we are getting now. I long for thought-provoking stories that make me contemplate what I just watched; hopefully, someday we can get back to a story first mind-set.
Yup, I think you nailed it, particularly about Discovery.
Here's the thing that I don't get, though - this is the golden age of television drama. There are great writers all over and an astonishingly talented pool of good actors (including many on Discovery). You would think, in the midst of that setting, that someone could get a Star Trek series right.
Oh, well. I'll wait for the Picard series.
I thought that already happened in 2009 when Nero went back in time and destroyed the timeline.
It created a new timeline.
Watch "Parallels" from TNG. It is essentially the basis for what they did.
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