I see we agree on yet another idea.
Great minds...
On another note, welcome back,
TGT.
The God Cult patiently awaits for your orders.
Must you even ask, my loyal minion? Tribute is to be paid in the form of cash (€ and ¥ only please), comely women and heretofore undiscovered
TOS/
TGT/
Phase II/
TMP scripts, production documentation and artwork. Now go, and let nothing and nobody stand in your way! Oh, unfortunately I am going to have to trim your cut of the proceeds from 2% to 1.5% due to the present economic situation. I am sure you understand.
May I say to "The God Thing" that while I may differ with you on some points in this thread, your intention to "keep the flame" of TOS burning in the purist form is to be greatly admired.
Thanky!
Seeing this devotion to Gene's legacy in so many fans has surely helped keep JJ and co. honest. I hope we will all be pleasantly surprised next May.
They have consistently failed since 1982 AFAIAC, so the chances of Abrams
et al succeeding in my eyes are absolutely non-existent.
Allow me to add that this element probably came from the mind of one of the many SF writers or aerospace experts GR consulted as he shaped the concept. One problem I have with Modern Trek and much of what passes for media science fiction these days (like, say, Transformers) is how divorced ir is from literary SF and science itself.
Which is why I so deeply regret the loss of a Gene Roddenberry-produced
Phase II, particularly as a direct followup to
TMP. Considering the crap that was being unloaded on an unsuspecting public circa 1980 (
Galactica: 1980 and
Buck Rogers in the 25th Century being two notable examples
), the very thought that we could have instead been basking in the GR-focused light of heavyweight LitSF and mainstream writers on the order of Norman Spinrad, Theodore Sturgeon, Jerome Bixby and Richard Bach drives me to tears. But nooooooo, we had to get Harve "
The Powers of Matthew Starr" Bennett instead...
Well, there are fans of the show, and then there are people who buy Star Trek technical bibles. Not everyone is interested in the pseudo-science of the future. It doesn't mean they aren't fans of the show if they are not also obsessed with How The Tech Works. Star Trek is not defined by its behind-the-scenes commentary.
Sure, and for those who don't care about the imaginary tech it doesn't make the slightest difference as to how the Enterprise is assembled and launched so why not stick to GR's intentions as a throw-away gesture to the few of us who
do care?
Yeah. Because amongst Warp-drive, matter-to-energy-to-matter transportation, food-replicators, artificial gravity... building a starship on the Earth is the most impossible of all.
No, but Earth's orbital infrastructure would have been built up over centuries like a "Cosmic Coral Reef" (JvP) to support Solar System exploration and colonization when anti-gravity technology didn't exist or was still confined to the laboratory (indeeds, Probert's drydock structure was supposed to be at least a hundred years old by the time of
TMP), so what would possibly give Starfleet cause to suddenly ignore such a literally astronomical technological capital investment in the 23rd century? BTW, kindly recall that GR conceived of 23rd century Earth as an idyllic, clothing-optional ecological reserve where people live in
Paolo Soleri-inspired "
Subterra Cities" in order to maximize the transcendent societal stimulus of the "Urban Effect" while also minimizing negative impact upon on the biosphere. I mean, seriously, why ruin it with a dirty and dangerous starship manufacturing industry?
TGT
