1. Who cares what happened after NEM.
Well, considering that New Trek is at least somewhat based on the after-math of Nemesis, it would seem as though Abrams had at least some interest in it. Enough to do a graphic novel, anyway.
2. Everyone's bored of TNG.
And, yet, it's syndicated on who knows how many stations. BBC America just picked it up as well.
3. Nobody wants to see Kesley Grammar in a movie, in fact lately, nobody wants to see him in a TV show either.
This is not entirely accurate. Grammer's character in the X-Men films was extremely well received, to the extent that, much like Stewart, he was the only pick that most of the public could ever see playing the role.
His last two attempts at TV certainly didn't do well. However, there are a couple of reasons for that.
1. The writing sucked. The shows would have failed no matter who did them.
2. He was extremely successful playing the same character for 20 years. It was inevitible that any comedic leads he took on would fail due to constant comparisons to Frasier.
Grammer would definitely do well to do something more dramatic at this point. Something connected with Trek would probably do him well.
Personally, I'd scrap any thoughts of doing Khan for the next movie and find a way of signing Grammer as one of the top 2 villians of the movie.
The "we"'s you're referring to are too few in number to pay for the production of a decent movie. And before Trek XI, I wouldn't have banked much on the "we"'s who are invested in Kirk and Spock being able to do that either. Abrams caused millions of people to be invested in the characters through Trek XI. They can become uninvested through mismanagement and neglect, very easily. Such things require maintanence and care.
Well, he at least managed to get thousands to go see it several times, anyway. There's no way of knowing how many individuals actually went to see this movie. The movie still didn't do well over-seas, where there aren't many Trek fans to see it a half dozen times to boost sales.
For all the hype, it didn't even make the top 5 in sales here in the states.
Again, it made a lot of money, I'm simply saying that the broad popularity of the film might be somewhat over-stated.
That is not to be taken as a suggestion that a TNG era movie would do better, because it wouldn't.
On the other hand, if as many people who saw Nemesis once had seen it as many times as some of the people in this forum say they saw New Trek, it probably would have made nearly as much money on a budget about half as much.
I think a movie could be made about a crew other than the Enterprise. I think a successful TV show could also be made about the same. But who's going to do it, who has the ability to pull it off, and understands that the way to pull it off is not to cast a washed-up TV actor in the lead role?
Interesting. One could have said the same thing about Lost 6 years ago, or Boston Legal. Nobody was lining up to see anything from Fox or Spader when those started, let alone Shatner.
It's also worth pointing out that Nimoy was retired when he was cast in New Trek.
There is no such thing as a washed up actor. Only one that hasn't found the right role.
), especially if he's the lead. And honestly, do you really think Kelsey Grammer would commit to something like that even if he had a snowball's chance in hell of being offered the part? The guy does comedy, not serious sci-fi.
