Fans Want To See TNG Cast One More Time

[T'Cal]

I don't think anyone really wants to see the NG crew ever again.

Speak for yourself, my friend. It was the most successful series to date. It has a huge fanbase. I would love to see TNG and its sibs return in some form on TV. Leave the movies to TOS under JJA and give me the 24th/25th century under J. Frakes and L. Burton as a live action or animated TV series or miniseries.

 

[Tralah]

Heck, TNG isn't even my second favorite Trek series (that goes to TOS and DS9) and I'd still enjoy seeing the NextGen cast for one last good adventure.

 

[destroyer1138]

LeVar Burton on STXI and TNG crew-

"At the end of the day I’m pretty certain that a lot of the fan base would like to see the Next Generation cast do one more turn around the galaxy, and I guess the performance of this next movie will have a lot to do with whether that comes to pass. It will make people see whether there’s an appetite for Star Trek again. So I have really mixed emotions. I haven’t quite decided how I feel about this new picture. My life is going to go on and Star Trek will always be an important part of it. Whether we do another movie or not is not in my control and the most important thing to me is that I have lasting friendships and memories from the seven years I spend on the show. And that’s better than the price of Latinum"

http://trekmovie.com/2008/06/23/levar-burton-fans-want-to-see-tng-cast-one-more-time/

Wow...and here I always thought he was one of the more in-touch-with-reality TNG cast members who hadn't overinflated their importance beyond all reason.

Guess I was wrong about that.


Let's review, shall we?

Generations - pretty much sucked. The TOS crew were the best part.

First Contact - decent flick, but nowhere near as good as TWOK or TSFS.

Insurrection - sucked pretty hard and, as an added bonus, illustrated how utterly irrelevant the flagship crew was to the Dominion War effort.

Nemesis - sucked so hard that I still hear it sucking, 6 years after the fact, and firmly believe that if earth ever gets sucked into a black hole, that black hole will have been created via the theatrical release of Nemesis.

Oh yeah...I just can't WAIT for the next TNG film.

Besides, after Nemesis, didn't Patrick Stewart try to put as much distance as possible between himself and even the possibility of another TNG film? If he's out, and Brent Spiner is out...then who does LeVar think is gonna carry this movie? Frankes and Sirtis?

Oh wait...they couldn't even carry the ENT finale without pissing off...well....pretty much every Trek fan in the universe who was actually still watching.

Wow...just wow. Beautifully said. I think TNG was really onto something after All Good Things, but then Generations pretty much ripped the heart and soul out of Trek, and its been going downhill ever since. Sort of a bad karma thing really, but also seems to be soley the fault of Berman. He tried to make Trek his own imo, by killing the Ent-D and Kirk in Generations. The new ship design and the direction TNG took after Generations adhered to Berman's "vision" of what Trek Should be. I like First Contact, but I agree with you too that its no ST:2,ST:3,or ST:6. Generations is symbolically (to me anyway) the death of Roddenberry Trek and the begining of dule Berman drudge Trek. I think Generations eventually came back to bite him in the ass (Thank God).

If Levar has any hope of a TNG movie again, this movie will definitely have to re-establish Roddenberry Trek as the primary direction for the franchise. Making TOS the primary focus has to occur for there ever to be another TNG movie again. Once thats done, maybe they can bring back the ENT-D some how. As far as Enterprise is concern, I hated the 1st 3 seasons and fell in love with the crew in the 4th season. The tie-ins to TOS were awesome and it made the show what it was truly capable of. While I didn't watch the saeson finale, I stll heard about the abomination on the net. I think I wanted to go and piss on Bermans front lawn after that. He he

 

[Therin of Andor]

give me the 24th/25th century under J. Frakes and L. Burton as a live action or animated TV series or miniseries.

As I said earlier, once you put those two in place as producer/directors, who is left in the cast who'd be willing to return onscreen?

Marina Sirtis and - . (Sound of crickets...)

TOS films worked because we had a TV cast returning to their characters after ten years of convention appearances and reruns, and audiences were swept up in nostalgia - but it became increasingly obvious that an aging cast playing heroics was becoming strained, nigh ridiculous, to all still be together by ST VI.

Had TNG waited ten years to make any movies, we'd probably still be having them. But we got four movies out of them, and for about the time frame the TOS cast were absent from ST. There was little TNG nostalgia for the cast on the big screen for "Generations" since they'd barely recovered from wrapping up seven years on TV. We got our share of TNG on the silver screen. We just got it earlier.

 

[Therin of Andor]

I think I wanted to go and piss on Bermans front lawn after that. He he

You reveal more about yourself than Berman here...