I agree, that’s the pattern they’ve established, and it seems like that’s where they’re going to continue to go with it.
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I agree, that’s the pattern they’ve established, and it seems like that’s where they’re going to continue to go with it.
Unless one already subscribes to the notion that DSC and SNW are already (p)remakes of TOS, regardless of how one describes the ‘prime’ universe.
And that’s fine with me. Because as much as I love TOS, it’s a product of its time and dated as hell in multiple respects.
And that’s fine with me. Because as much as I love TOS, it’s a product of its time and dated as hell in multiple respects.
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Strange New Worlds is about as close as you can get to a TOS reboot without actually pressing the button - it's the Enterprise, it's Spock, Uhura, one or two other TOS characters.
But like others have said - that iconic Kirk, Spock, McCoy formula is one hell of a thing to be sitting on. They've all been recast once in cinema with reasonable success. Certainly a TOS reboot within television is on the table.
But like others have said - that iconic Kirk, Spock, McCoy formula is one hell of a thing to be sitting on. They've all been recast once in cinema with reasonable success. Certainly a TOS reboot within television is on the table.
Well, by the time SNW premieres, it’ll be like, what, only 5 years before TOS starts? And Kirk is already in command of the ship in WNMHGB. So you better believe there will be overlap.
Agreed.
Who said anything about a remake?
I'd imagine someone did at some point in the thread - you'd probably need to have a check back to pinpoint the precise moment.
Serveaux, IIRC.
There’s a difference between ‘remake’ and ‘reboot.’ The former implies that the original story will be more or less followed, while the latter implies that the setting and characters will be the same but the production values and stories will be different. I don’t think anyone was implying that we’re going to see updated versions of “City on the Edge of Forever” and “Spock’s Brain.”
Po-tay-to, po-tah-to...
That's splitting hairs at best.
No.
The sentence you quote was a response to (and quoted) this statement:
In other words, I was suggesting that when we see Kirk and Spock on their missions a few years from now, the visual design and continuity details of TOS will be replaced by those they've been establishing for Trek ever since the premiere of Enterprise and throughout STD and, shortly. SNW.
They won't bother explaining it. Does anyone remember how they showed clips from "The Cage" at the beginning of that STD episode, and then when they got to Talos nothing looked like it did in the opening clips?*
I haven't said a damned thing about a "remake" and I don't give a fuck whether someone calls it a reboot or a potato.
They'll do episodes and I assume a series set aboard the Enterprise during the time period of the original Star Trek, with Kirk as captain and Spock as first officer and, one would expect, McCoy and Scotty too.
That's not a "remake" unless they retell stories from the original series. I have no opinion or guess, one way or the other, on how likely that is with respect to a particular story. I suppose it's not hard to imagine them doing a series of mostly new stories and once in a while dipping into the events from one of the original episodes. For example, they could certainly easily frame an episode by placing it just after one of the TOS stories. Certainly they could sequelize one or more of those stories.
*Myself, I'd at least have cast women as the Talosian Magistrate and entourage, and fiddled with their voices a bit. I dunno, maybe they were looking to the Malachi Throne version.
In other words, I was suggesting that when we see Kirk and Spock on their missions a few years from now, the visual design and continuity details of TOS will be replaced by those they've been establishing for Trek ever since the premiere of Enterprise and throughout STD and, shortly. SNW.
They won't bother explaining it. Does anyone remember how they showed clips from "The Cage" at the beginning of that STD episode, and then when they got to Talos nothing looked like it did in the opening clips?*
I haven't said a damned thing about a "remake" and I don't give a fuck whether someone calls it a reboot or a potato.
They'll do episodes and I assume a series set aboard the Enterprise during the time period of the original Star Trek, with Kirk as captain and Spock as first officer and, one would expect, McCoy and Scotty too.
That's not a "remake" unless they retell stories from the original series. I have no opinion or guess, one way or the other, on how likely that is with respect to a particular story. I suppose it's not hard to imagine them doing a series of mostly new stories and once in a while dipping into the events from one of the original episodes. For example, they could certainly easily frame an episode by placing it just after one of the TOS stories. Certainly they could sequelize one or more of those stories.
*Myself, I'd at least have cast women as the Talosian Magistrate and entourage, and fiddled with their voices a bit. I dunno, maybe they were looking to the Malachi Throne version.
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Potayto or potahto?
They have zero reason too, and none of their current behaviour regarding new shows has suggested such.
This is speculation that has like no backing.
I can't agree with that. A series can be remade without being an episode-by-episode retelling of the original. It happens all the time.
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