Has this ever been attempted, aside from the retellings in the comic series? I’ve noticed the countless attempts of trying to rewrite the Star Wars prequels and it occurred to me that I have never seen a rewrite or reboot about Star Trek. I figured someone on the Internet by now would have done a total rewrite of the series and films to fit established details a bit more, such as making The Changeling and Star Trek: The Motion Picture into one story, as to avoid comparisons.
Star Trek Fan Rewrite/Reboot
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[shameless plug]My reboot series:
Star Trek: MY Way!
The first six episodes, in ascending order of awesomeness.
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2767934/1/The_God_Machine
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2997962/1/The_Cavalier_Incident
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3234024/1/The_Equatorial
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3517120/1/Missing_Man
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3615971/1/The_Heirs_Of_Proteus
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3665294/1/The_No_Win_Scenario
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Meanwhile, there have been several fanfic reboots of Star Trek. It's just a matter of lookin'.
Star Trek: MY Way!
The first six episodes, in ascending order of awesomeness.
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2767934/1/The_God_Machine
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2997962/1/The_Cavalier_Incident
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3234024/1/The_Equatorial
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3517120/1/Missing_Man
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3615971/1/The_Heirs_Of_Proteus
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3665294/1/The_No_Win_Scenario
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Meanwhile, there have been several fanfic reboots of Star Trek. It's just a matter of lookin'.
^ I'll add my endorsement to Admiral2's stories - they are excellent and a fascinating take on a reboot of the TOS era. (Though I'm still trying to figure out how Edward Jellico made it to Christopher Pike's time period. 
) Definitely worth a read.
You might try searching "reboot" on this forum and over at Ad Astra as well. There are a number of reboot stories out there, some good some, well . . .
) Definitely worth a read.You might try searching "reboot" on this forum and over at Ad Astra as well. There are a number of reboot stories out there, some good some, well . . .
There are a fair few reboots out there now other than JJ's, it would be interesting to have a list in order to compare and contrast.
The most prominent one was easily Star Trek Reborn by Jeremy Grunloh, which presented Star Trek as an occupational drama, featuring Kirk, Spock and McCoy on the Enterprise with an elder Sulu as an experienced officer with a daughter, Demora. The website is no longer there, but it certainly wasa richly devised 'virtual series' with concept designs for the uniforms, Enterprise and characters.
Another writer on a 'virtual series' board wrote Scotty as female, paid tribute to George Takei by making Sulu gay, First Officer of the Enterprise and in a covert relationship with one of his crew, made Uhura a Federation Diplomat and used Vulcan culture as an allegory for Islam and cast Omid Abtahi as Spock, a scientist on detachment from the Vulcan Science Academy.
There are so many ways to retell a story.
A few people have had a go at Voyager too. There's Bry Sinclair's version featuring Riker as Captain, aswell asa crew shake up, and Blue McGee's pitch which hopefully we'll still get to read
Any more?!
The most prominent one was easily Star Trek Reborn by Jeremy Grunloh, which presented Star Trek as an occupational drama, featuring Kirk, Spock and McCoy on the Enterprise with an elder Sulu as an experienced officer with a daughter, Demora. The website is no longer there, but it certainly wasa richly devised 'virtual series' with concept designs for the uniforms, Enterprise and characters.
Another writer on a 'virtual series' board wrote Scotty as female, paid tribute to George Takei by making Sulu gay, First Officer of the Enterprise and in a covert relationship with one of his crew, made Uhura a Federation Diplomat and used Vulcan culture as an allegory for Islam and cast Omid Abtahi as Spock, a scientist on detachment from the Vulcan Science Academy.
There are so many ways to retell a story.
A few people have had a go at Voyager too. There's Bry Sinclair's version featuring Riker as Captain, aswell asa crew shake up, and Blue McGee's pitch which hopefully we'll still get to read
Any more?!
I am going to be trying something along this line of thought.
I'm going to "novelize" a number of the scripts that were written back in the '70s for the Star Trek Phase II series that was never made. My approach will to do this as a continuation of TOS as if it was written thirty years ago. No reference to any of the later Treks at all (i.e. TNG, DSN, etc.). Though, the only story I will be specifically re-doing in the sense I think you mean, is ST:TMP. I'll be using the In Thy Image version of that story which has a few differences from what was seen in TMP (Xon, no Spock, Decker and Ilia remain on Enterprise at the end, etc.).
On another note, you might find this document of interest: http://bztv.typepad.com/newsviews/files/ST2004Reboot.pdf
Yep, I'm pretty familiar with that proposal. It's what got me excited over the possibilities of a reboot... just wasn't satisfied with what Abrams delivered.
There's just so much to do with this format, like instead of showing Kirk at a young age run a car into a canyon for no reason (unless you watch the deleted scenes), have the Kodos the Executioner incident be a defining moment in Kirk's life and a driving reason why he joins Starfleet and succeeds at such a young age. I always envisioned Spock being more of a pacifist and his display of emotion as a child would not be one of physical violence, but of angish and frustration, which would cause his human mother to comfort him, while his father would look on in disaproval. That's real drama, not using the typical "your mama's a whore" fighting words. If Christopher Pike was going to have any sort of influence on a character joining Starfleet, it should have been Spock, as he subsequently served under his command.
That's the kind of reboot I wanted to see, not the easy way out with the "dead-parent-guilt-complex" that we've seen a million times.
I disagree.
True, JMS seems to have carried over some of the concepts he used in Crusade, but the heart of this proposal is still very much Star Trek to my eye. He especially seems to get the Kirk-Spock-McCoy dynamic better than a lot of folks who have written for Star Trek.
Doesn't really line up with TOS though with
- incouraging Kirk to kill Mitchell
- Going along with offing the Salt Vampire
- How quickly he changing his stance to killing the Horta
- Incouraging Kirk and co. to go after the Romulan Bird of Prey in Blance of Terror
Not seeing the pacifism.
Still looks like Babylon 5 to me. Except for the plot which was taking a TNG episode and dragging it out for 5 years.
Yeah that's what i want for a TOS reboot trying to shove the TOS characters into TNG's mold
That was all done really early in the series when Spock's character wasn't fully developed. Not only did he raise his voice more than usual, but he was letting Mudd's women get to him and you never saw him double-fist punching people later in the series. Maybe there could have been a period in Spock's life when he was first in Starfleet where he was more open with his human side, but would revert back to his Vulcan state of mind for one reason or another. That would provide a good explanation of how he was involved with Leila Kalomi.
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Doesn't really line up with TOS though with
- incouraging Kirk to kill Mitchell
- Going along with offing the Salt Vampire
- How quickly he changing his stance to killing the Horta
- Incouraging Kirk and co. to go after the Romulan Bird of Prey in Blance of Terror
Not seeing the pacifism.
Still looks like Babylon 5 to me. Except for the plot which was taking a TNG episode and dragging it out for 5 years.
Yeah that's what i want for a TOS reboot trying to shove the TOS characters into TNG's mold
I don't see it that way. The idea of the Progenitors is a great one that TNG could have done a lot more with, and had the show been serialized, it might have. JMS's reboot would have done what TNG couldn't, tell a powerful story over a long period of time. I see only two problems, the first is that I don't like the idea of adapting old scripts, but its fine to keep elements from those scripts if you really want to, and the second is that studio executives usually can't keep their noses out of shows and are usually the primary reason that shows fail.
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