Films are always about the same guys
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Not on Simpsons, no, but Family Guy did do a DS9 joke once.
Well, it may not be the same, but the current "Star Trek" comic by IDW Publishing is doing just that. There is a crisis going on, and Sisko asks for the help of several people: Data, Montgomery Scott, Sato, Tom Paris, T'Lir, and Beverly Crusher.
There was nobody from the Cerritos, but I like to think that he asked Shaxs for help, and he said "Don't talk to me! I'm pissed off!"
Sounds interesting. Of course I recall them doing this before as well also in the comics. I can't recall the details but I have a vague memory of Dr Crusher meeting Odan again on DS9 and also a cross comic book story that involved the Dominion War or and Charlie X. It even had the Starfleet Cadets from that comic series coming to DS9.
Prof. Hubert Farnsworth from Futurama blew up the Deep Space 9 station in "Teenage Mutant Leela's Hurdles"
I think by the time of Enterprise, the zeitgeist stopped giving a crap about Star Trek. The movies had become too uninspired & the shows had lost anything that had mass appeal. I doubt anyone but a fan could tell you who the hell Jonathan Archer even is, but Picard & Data? Kirk & Spock? Those are the brand's marquee properties (& a few others maybe)
Frankly, when you see a nod on The Simpsons/Futurama/Family Guy etc... Those guys are nerds like us, they're pretty well inside the core fan base imho
Frankly, when you see a nod on The Simpsons/Futurama/Family Guy etc... Those guys are nerds like us, they're pretty well inside the core fan base imho
Every Star Trek movie I ever went to, there was a packed theater.... except for Nemesis.
I was in college at the time, I went to go see it with some of my Trekkie friends (all TNGers) and my brother. After First Contact, I thought the TNG Movies were really going to be something great overall. Then Insurrection ruined that. Then I stopped watching Voyager. Then Ron Moore spilled his guts. Then Enterprise came on and I tuned out almost immediately. My expectations for Nemesis were at an all-time low.
Those super-jaded fans you see now who want nothing to do with Kurtzman Trek and won't even give it a fair chance? Back in 2002, that was me. (So for all you people who are at where I was back then, I'm here to tell you: however jaded and cynical you are now, it'll pass. I know it doesn't look like it right now, but it will.)
So, anyway, the group of us, we went to go into the theater -- on opening night, mind you -- and the theater was only half full. At the end of it, I came out of the theater thinking the film was total shit. I wouldn't even look at it again for another seven years. My brother and my friends weren't too thrilled about the film either. Although one of them said, "It wasn't that bad!" That doesn't exactly mean he thought it was that good either.
And yeah. Back then, as far as I was concerned, the TNG Movies couldn't have been done fast enough.
TNG was the most popular of the Star Trek series from the Berman Era. If even TNG couldn't do well at the Box Office, forget about DS9, VOY, or ENT. So the only way they could do another Star Trek movie, after that, was to reboot TOS. Which they did. They could reboot TNG now too, now that we're distanced enough from Nemesis. Or, rather, they could do another Star Trek movie in general at all, if they could finally get their business together on the film side of things.
I was in college at the time, I went to go see it with some of my Trekkie friends (all TNGers) and my brother. After First Contact, I thought the TNG Movies were really going to be something great overall. Then Insurrection ruined that. Then I stopped watching Voyager. Then Ron Moore spilled his guts. Then Enterprise came on and I tuned out almost immediately. My expectations for Nemesis were at an all-time low.
Those super-jaded fans you see now who want nothing to do with Kurtzman Trek and won't even give it a fair chance? Back in 2002, that was me. (So for all you people who are at where I was back then, I'm here to tell you: however jaded and cynical you are now, it'll pass. I know it doesn't look like it right now, but it will.)
So, anyway, the group of us, we went to go into the theater -- on opening night, mind you -- and the theater was only half full. At the end of it, I came out of the theater thinking the film was total shit. I wouldn't even look at it again for another seven years. My brother and my friends weren't too thrilled about the film either. Although one of them said, "It wasn't that bad!" That doesn't exactly mean he thought it was that good either.
And yeah. Back then, as far as I was concerned, the TNG Movies couldn't have been done fast enough.
TNG was the most popular of the Star Trek series from the Berman Era. If even TNG couldn't do well at the Box Office, forget about DS9, VOY, or ENT. So the only way they could do another Star Trek movie, after that, was to reboot TOS. Which they did. They could reboot TNG now too, now that we're distanced enough from Nemesis. Or, rather, they could do another Star Trek movie in general at all, if they could finally get their business together on the film side of things.
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Also, I think people forget TNG didn't have competition from the other space opera juggernaut either, Star Wars was essentially dead for almost 15 years after Return of the Jedi.
Well, Voyager has an ace in the hole to lure people to the theaters: a female Star Trek captain.
How is that an ace in the hole?
Would people see a Janeway movie over a Kirk movie simply because she's female? I have my doubts.
No. A female captain wouldn't be "an ace in the hole" especially after Voyager ended it's run. It's not because Kirk's a man....at least not entirely, but because he's more of a household name than Janeway is....period.
People won't give a shit if someone tries to tell them they should see a Star Trek movie just because the Captain's a woman.
While I wouldn't call it an "ace in the hole" (mainly because I find that expression about as trite as calling a movie/show/episode a "love letter"/"valentine") a science fiction movie advertised as having a badass female lead would most certainly draw an audience. It wouldn't matter who that female lead is, but it would certainly be a draw.
Futurama's film "Bender's Game" has a demolition derby with spaceships. In one scene we had TOS's Enterprise, piloted by the head of George Tarkei, ramming against ENT's Enterprise, piloted by the head of Scott Bakula.
"Way to kill off the franchise, Bakula!"
Futurama was a lot nerdier though and made references to a lot more and more obscure Sci-fi media.
In response to the title of this thread: If we get Streaming Films, then they won't always be about the same people. 
It sounds like they actually dragged Rene Auberjonois in for that. Very distinctive voice.
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