David Foster Preparing to Pitch New ‘Star Trek’ Series

[Relayer1]

http://www.lcarscom.net/rdm1000118.htm

Having read the fascinating (and damning) interview with the great Ron Moore re the problems with Voyager and his vision of how to do Trek I can't help but wonder what would happen if JJ called him up and asked him to do a Trek TV series in the JJverse !

 

[Borgminister]

It would not happen anyway for reasons of ego.

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

I think the characterisation was more memorable than say Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Space 1999, Lost in Space, the original BSG etc...
I've never actually seen Gilligan's Island...

Did you watch anything other than "sci-fi?"

 

[Dukhat]

http://www.lcarscom.net/rdm1000118.htm

Having read the fascinating (and damning) interview with the great Ron Moore re the problems with Voyager and his vision of how to do Trek I can't help but wonder what would happen if JJ called him up and asked him to do a Trek TV series in the JJverse !

To my knowledge, JJ Abrams doesn't have the authority to select anyone to do a Star Trek TV series, since he doesn't own the property. If anything, CBS would hire him.

 

[plynch]

Nope.

The writing of Abrams's movie was good, certainly for a Star Trek movie. But that alone is not what revived Trek.

The willingness and authority to throw out absolutely anything they didn't like or think worked about Star Trek, combined with the vision and talents to know what to put in instead to make a really broadly appealing movie, is what brought it back from the brink.

"What does it profit you if you gain the whole world but lose your soul in the bargain?"

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

Nope.

The writing of Abrams's movie was good, certainly for a Star Trek movie. But that alone is not what revived Trek.

The willingness and authority to throw out absolutely anything they didn't like or think worked about Star Trek, combined with the vision and talents to know what to put in instead to make a really broadly appealing movie, is what brought it back from the brink.

"What does it profit you if you gain the whole world but lose your soul in the bargain?"

An irrelevant and foolish question to pose in this context, despite having a certain pompous rhetorical flourish that might pass for profundity...unless you think about it for more than three-tenths of a second.

More appropriate would be "What does it profit you to please and entertain most of the people who watch your movie while pissing off a few narrow-minded fanboys?"

The answer being "quite a lot, really."

 

[Captain Robert April]

Howzabout "What does it profit a franchise to gain the world but lose its integrity?"

 

[Broccoli]

Howzabout "What does it profit a franchise to gain the world but lose its integrity?"

Beats the hell outta me. Good thing that didn't happen to Star Trek.

 

[xortex]

Nope.

The writing of Abrams's movie was good, certainly for a Star Trek movie. But that alone is not what revived Trek.

The willingness and authority to throw out absolutely anything they didn't like or think worked about Star Trek, combined with the vision and talents to know what to put in instead to make a really broadly appealing movie, is what brought it back from the brink.

"What does it profit you if you gain the whole world but lose your soul in the bargain?"

An irrelevant and foolish question to pose in this context, despite having a certain pompous rhetorical flourish that might pass for profundity...unless you think about it for more than three-tenths of a second.

More appropriate would be "What does it profit you to please and entertain most of the people who watch your movie while pissing off a few narrow-minded fanboys?"

The answer being "quite a lot, really."

Yea, narrow minded fan boys like Gene Rodenberry.

Of course Star Trek is all about making money and pleasing everyone all of the time. Their little piece of everything for everyone was a lot of nothing to noone.

Are you JJ Abrams accountant?

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

Yep. And more to come.

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

Yep. And more to come.

 

[Broccoli]

Yea, narrow minded fan boys like Gene Rodenberry.

Didn't Roddenberry once say that if he listened to the fans, Star Trek would be shit? He is likely right.

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

Yea, narrow minded fan boys like Gene Rodenberry.

Didn't Roddenberry once say that if he listened to the fans, Star Trek would be shit? He is likely right.

Yep, it was at a Las Vegas Creation Con in 1988, about a year after the premiere of TNG.

 

[Captain Robert April]

In sit-down interviews, he was a bit more clear: He said that if he let the fans decide what happened, Star Trek would be shit, but he also said that he always listened to the fans and their concerns; the decision would always be his. At the LA con in '88, when the debate was going on over Gates McFadden being ousted in favor of Diana Mulduar, he put it to a vote, "all those in favor of keeping Dr. Crusher, vote aye. I vote nay. The nay's have it."

But he was never as dismissive of the fans as some would have us believe. Quite the contrary, he knew that without the fans, he would've still been a freelancer pitching scripts to cop shows.

 

[xortex]

He didn't listen to the suits either who are listenenig to the fans.

 

[Relayer1]

The nerdy Trek fans like me had no idea how to act around them, girls, so it was kind of like a us vs them kind of thing going on.

Girls are people too, even the attractive ones (although they MIGHT be a little shallow). Talk to them...

I do remember seeing Nemesis with my mom and dad and the only people in that theater were people who looked like the guy who owns the comic book store on the Simpsons. Unless nerdy Trek fans like us can hook up with people of the opposite sex and start pushing out new generations of fans, trek will die a slow death. Kind of like Charlie Sheen but more prolonged.

I look a little like the guy who owns the comic book store on the Simpsons. In fact I used to work in a comic shop while I was at university ! I am married and have produced a high IQ Star Trek loving offspring.

I might also point out both of your parents seem to be Trek fans and they had you.

We may not be an endangered species just yet...

 

[xortex]

Unfortunately, Trek, like Charlie is worse than dead.

 

[Dukhat]

Unfortunately, Trek, like Charlie is worse than dead.

The returns department at Paramount studios would disagree with you. And they'd be right.

 

[xortex]

Are you interested in how much money the studio makes or that they portray Trek in the best light. No not the lens flares. So the more money a movie makes, the better it is. Right?

 

[Broccoli]

Define "the best light"? According to RT, the newest Trek movie has received the highest critical review of the series.

Profitable at BO + Critically Well Received = Overall Success

Wouldn't that be "the best light"?

Unless, of course, by "the best light" you really mean "what I want". This is, of course, an entirely different matter.