Reimagined?
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Enterprise already was the reimagined past of Star Trek. And I say that as a fan who loved the show (well.... most of it)
From TNG's "First Contact"....
PICARD: Centuries ago, disasterous contact with the Klingons led to decades of war, and it was decided then, that we would do surveillance before making first contact.
Now watch "Broken Bow". None of those things happened. They introduced the Temporal Cold War as a handwavium "things might be a little different to how they originally were" type thing - to excuse their blatant rewrites.
From TNG's "First Contact"....
PICARD: Centuries ago, disasterous contact with the Klingons led to decades of war, and it was decided then, that we would do surveillance before making first contact.
Now watch "Broken Bow". None of those things happened. They introduced the Temporal Cold War as a handwavium "things might be a little different to how they originally were" type thing - to excuse their blatant rewrites.
Now? Yes. In 40 years? No.
No, because it would be bypassed with some alternate universe bullshit.
"People" might be upset, but I sure wouldn't, at least not necessarily. I think something reimagined between the ENT era and the Kelvin era in the rebooted version of the original timeline could be really exciting. Simply present it as if things are leading up to the Kelvin (easy enough since we know almost nothing about the Kelvin), ditch ENT, and don't worry about leading into The Cage or holding onto any other baggage from the "original timeline".
And to think how quicky some people discard the alternate timeline theory (The whole ENT taking place in the alternate timeline created by the Borg incursion in First Contact)...
In 40 years I might well be dead. This reboot better happen a lot quicker than that because I do not want to miss anything.
It was meant as a hyperbole.
As long as the original cast is fit enough to parade around in their underwear, I don't want any replacements.
Wasn't that ENT's actual tagline?As long as the original cast is fit enough to parade around in their underwear, who the hell cares about canon?
Don't you mean less is more?
Well, if that were the case, "In a Mirror, Darkly" and "These Are the Voyages" wouldn't have been able to directly link to "The Tholian Web" and "The Pegasus" as they did. I think we're supposed to just... pretend the discontinuities don't exist.
To be honest, I would. Things would get even more confusing than they are now. I think a better idea would be for them to continue what they started in pre-TATV season 4. That's what I'd really love to see.
Well, we all know the Captain at least is.
Would people be upset? Yes.
But I think the Temporal Cold War could allow for such a thing to happen, with the caveat that the events in ENT still happened, but in a separate timeline. Heck, the pilot episode could even show footage from "Broken Bow."
But if such a series was intended to be (or be a part of) a total reboot of Trek anyway, it wouldn't even matter.
But I think the Temporal Cold War could allow for such a thing to happen, with the caveat that the events in ENT still happened, but in a separate timeline. Heck, the pilot episode could even show footage from "Broken Bow."
But if such a series was intended to be (or be a part of) a total reboot of Trek anyway, it wouldn't even matter.
"As they did"?
TATV wouldn't fit into Pegasus even if you tried to drive it in with sledgehammer.
That "link" you speak of is barely even noticeable. And IaMD IS set in an ENTIRELY different reality/universe from the one seen in other episodes (MU), so your argument doesn't really make much sense to me. The only link with it and TTW is the Defiant and that computer terminal that gave us very little info about the "original" timeline. Much too little to make any conclusions.
Its a throw away line that's vague on details. Who really knows what happened and who exactly it refers to. Could be first contact beween the Klingons and the Vulcans. By Picard's time "we" doesn't mean human.
If the guy who wrote the line ( Dennis Bailey aka My Name Is Legion) thinks it works fine with Broken Bow, I don't see a real problem. Hell, even if he didn't I don't.
If you play the continuity error = different universe game, every other episode of TOS would be in a different universe.
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Besides, Picard could have always been referring to that whole period of 2151-2155. A first contact leading to the Klingons nearly being wiped out by a human virus, forcing them to deface their own bodies in order to cure it, could be considered a pretty disastrous situation that led to decades of war.Its a throw away line that's vague on details. Who really knows what happened and who exactly it refers to. Could be first contact beween the Klingons and the Vulcans. By Picard's time "we" doesn't mean human.
If the guy who wrote the line ( Dennis Bailey aka My Name Is Legion) thinks it works fine with Broken Bow, I don't see a real problem. Hell, even if he didn't I don't.
If you play the continuity error = different universe game, every other episode of TOS would be in a different universe.
While I'd prefer a Season 5... clearly CBS won't permit anything even resembling that to happen. I'd be sorely tempted if a Star Trek prequel series went the "alternate universe" route too, and had an original cast member or two appearing occasionally. Kept Archer, Trip, T'Pol and so on, exclusive to the actors who could still feasibly play them, living out different lives with different career progressions.
They don't permit it, because it would be a financial disaster. Funny how companies don't permit investments they can determine to be foolish. That's why ENT was canceled in the first place.
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