A fascinating project..IDW "reimagines" TOS episodes, writing by Orci

[RAMA]

http://trekmovie.com/2011/06/17/sta...september-to-reenvision-classic-tos-episodes/

The new ongoing "Star Trek" comic series promises to continue the adventures of the new USS Enterprise with the new crew as they "embark on missions that re-imagine the stories from the original television series, along with new threats and characters never seen before." Issue #1 due in September will kick things off with a new vision of the original Star Trek series second pilot “Where No Man Has Gone Before.”

This'll really get the purists up in arms! Get the death threats ready guys.

How does he have time for this?

RAMA

 

[BillJ]

Re: A fascinating project..IDW "reimagines" TOS episodes, writing by O

Already planning on buying these. Interesting if their going to try to tell the stories earlier than they occurred in the prime timeline or if they're going to fast forward to the 2260's. The writing is being done by Mike Johnson who is working with Orci.

Star Trek Monthly

I do think I would've preferred that they tell new stories in alternate timeline.

 

[RAMA]

Re: A fascinating project..IDW "reimagines" TOS episodes, writing by O

Already planning on buying these. Interesting if their going to try to tell the stories earlier than they occurred in the prime timeline or if they're going to fast forward to the 2260's. The writing is being done by Mike Johnson who is working with Orci.

Star Trek Monthly

I do think I would've preferred that they tell new stories in alternate timeline.

What is curious, is how they will fit the "original" elements into the old stories. Hopefully they don't ruin the good ones, and they actually improve on stuff like Spock's Brain...wow this could be very interesting.

RAMA

 

[Bob Karo]

Re: A fascinating project..IDW "reimagines" TOS episodes, writing by O

This seems pointless.

 

[Warped9]

Re: A fascinating project..IDW "reimagines" TOS episodes, writing by O

It goes without saying (even though I'm saying it) that I won't be bothering with these. The film was shit and anything derived of it will still smell just as bad.

 

[Botany Bay]

Re: A fascinating project..IDW "reimagines" TOS episodes, writing by O

Talk about mixed news.

Terrific to see Star Trek as a regular comic again, but how creatively bankrupt are these people?

What is the point of this?

This is a new universe - familiar characters, but a clean slate to tell whatever stories they like, and they're just going to "re-interpret" TOS?

This is savvy marketing - throwing the carrot of old characters and stories out to TOS fans, but don't the fans of the "new" Trek deserve better than this?

IDW have been more miss than hit in the past. My expectations are minimal to be honest, but good luck to them, I'll wait a few issues and see what happens before I think about jumping in.

 

[Sir Rhosis]

Re: A fascinating project..IDW "reimagines" TOS episodes, writing by O

As I echoed another poster in the other version of this thread -- if they take the basic stories and build new twists, new directions, new points of view from these "new" characters, it might be interesting. If they play off the fact that this Kirk is a very very very different character than the Prime Kirk I could see many of the stories going quite different to what we originally saw.

So, hoping for the best. Will give it a look.

Sir Rhosis

 

[Warped9]

Re: A fascinating project..IDW "reimagines" TOS episodes, writing by O

From what I've seen of Trek from IDW if it isn't written by John Byrne then it isn't worth bothering with.

 

[Skellington]

Re: A fascinating project..IDW "reimagines" TOS episodes, writing by O

Sounds like an excellent idea. I'm wondering what length the typical adaptation would be - two issue per episode, maybe? As for the setting, I doubt very much that they'll jump forward eight years. That's a huge leap in terms of the characters' ages and relationships etc. It seems more likely that they'll cherry-pick the stories, doing them out of order and mixing with original tales.

 

[ToddPence]

Re: A fascinating project..IDW "reimagines" TOS episodes, writing by O

Orci says comic books have an "unlimited budget"? I'm sure comic book publishers all over the world will be surprised to hear this.

 

[FalTorPan]

Re: A fascinating project..IDW "reimagines" TOS episodes, writing by O

Will the original series' writers get royalty payments for the use of their work? If not then I can think of at least one writer, from the edge of forever, who would be happy to remind them of their obligations.

 

[Forbin]

Re: A fascinating project..IDW "reimagines" TOS episodes, writing by O

Orci says comic books have an "unlimited budget"? I'm sure comic book publishers all over the world will be surprised to hear this.

Well, in terms of "movie budget" - special effects, high-profile guest stars, massive space battles, varied locations, crowds of thousands...

 

[JonnyQuest037]

Re: A fascinating project..IDW "reimagines" TOS episodes, writing by O

Could be interesting, but it could also quickly become tiresome. Might be worth a flip through. If they're going in this direction in the comics, then it probably means they're going more for original stories in the movies. Which is good news from where I'm sitting.

 

[Christopher]

Re: A fascinating project..IDW "reimagines" TOS episodes, writing by O

Orci says comic books have an "unlimited budget"? I'm sure comic book publishers all over the world will be surprised to hear this.

Well, in terms of "movie budget" - special effects, high-profile guest stars, massive space battles, varied locations, crowds of thousands...

Exactly. It's a metaphorically unlimited budget. In the same way that TAS had very low-budget, limited animation, but still had the unlimited freedom to depict nonhumanoid aliens and fantastic, sweeping landscapes that would've been prohibitively expensive to achieve in live action.

 

[Temis the Vorta]

Re: A fascinating project..IDW "reimagines" TOS episodes, writing by O

I'd rather see them take some of the original ideas and combine them with others, plus new ideas, and extrapolate from there. What if Harry Mudd and Cyrano Jones were business partners, enemies, a little of both? What if Romulans realized that tribbles could be used as a biological weapon? What if Kirk of the Mirror Universe figured out how to use transporter tech to invade a whole new reality, but the chronometer was off and he ended up tangling with KHAAAAN during the Eugenics Wars?

Okay that last one is likely to be a godawful mess. But that's the idea. And put this stuff on TV, not in a comic book. An animated series is certainly a possibility.

 

[Warped9]

Re: A fascinating project..IDW "reimagines" TOS episodes, writing by O

Them reimagining the original stories just comes off as cheap and lazy thinking. And so it's perfectly in sync with the film it's derived from.

 

[RAMA]

Re: A fascinating project..IDW "reimagines" TOS episodes, writing by O

Them reimagining the original stories just comes off as cheap and lazy thinking. And so it's perfectly in sync with the film it's derived from.

I think its a neat "what if" idea...how a parallel history might have gone based on the new movie. Sounds kind of cool. I'm happy the movies will tell new stories, but this should also be of interest.

RAMA

 

[Lord Garth]

Re: A fascinating project..IDW "reimagines" TOS episodes, writing by O

On the one hand, it's nice to see IDW pick a time-frame/reality and sticking to it, instead of always jumping around.

OTOH, it's hard to believe the new version of the crew will have the same adventures as the originals.

The key difference between TOS and the new movies is that, as a TV series, TOS was bound to a status quo that had to be maintained. The movies are bound to no status quo. I'd be more surprised if things weren't shaken up in the sequels than if they were. Most of what happened Prime Universe could be null and void in the New Universe.

Part of the appeal of comics is finding out what happens next. With tie-in comics, they have to be filler or inconsequential stories by design so they don't interfere with the TV show or movies driving the main story forward. What happens next doesn't matter.

So, it would be interesting to reinterpret some of the adventures but all 79? We're talking about six-and-a-half years at least, assuming they were all one-shots. I can't see most people still being interested for that long.

 

[Kelso]

Re: A fascinating project..IDW "reimagines" TOS episodes, writing by O

So, it's... What if the original adventures had featured the new crew?

Sounds like fun. I'll check it out.

 

[Warped9]

Re: A fascinating project..IDW "reimagines" TOS episodes, writing by O

Candidly why do the comics have to tie-in to the film? Back in the '70s we had comics and novels that had nothing to do with each other and/or weren't strictly tied to the series. No reason they couldn't do that again and just write stories folks can enjoy.