Howabout a new edition of the Concordance?

[DimesDan]

So Christopher, have you actually watched any Family Guy, American Dad or the Cleveland Show apart from a few minutes in the Star Wars parodies, or do you just don't like the man, making your opinion pretty bias against him as your comments strike me as ill-informed at best and pretty bigoted at worst.

If Seth MacFarlene, Bryan Singer or anyother producer wants to bring back Trek to the small screen, more power to them, I personally would give the new show a shot regardless of their previous production credits.

 

[BillJ]

I'd give McFarlane a shot as long as he brought David A. Goodman along with him.

 

[Trek Survivor]

Frankly, every idea I've ever heard from Fuller sounded depressing as all hell, so I wouldn't go with him in any case.

Whereas Mr. MacFarlane....

“I don’t know who would give me the keys to that car,” he jokes, acknowledging that the films have been so profitable for Paramount that he isn’t so sure they have a lot of interest in getting back into the TV business. “But I’d love to see that franchise revived for television in the way that it was in the 1990s: very thoughtful, smartly written stories that transcend the science fiction audience.”

Now, THAT'S the kind of pitch I wanna hear from a prospective Star Trek producer!

Never really heard of this MacFarlane guy, but I sure do like his comment here. Much more what I want to see than what Singer was suggesting.

 

[Tribble Herder]

A note from over the wall....

Captain Robert April reports:

Work continues on the Concordance, with a tentative deadline of 2016, in time for the fiftieth anniversary of the original show.

Suggestions are still welcome, kids. I may not be able to chime in, but I'm still lurking in the shadows.

 

[BillJ]

A note from over the wall....

Captain Robert April reports:

Work continues on the Concordance, with a tentative deadline of 2016, in time for the fiftieth anniversary of the original show.

Suggestions are still welcome, kids. I may not be able to chime in, but I'm still lurking in the shadows.

2016?

It's taking him longer to compile the book than it took Roddenberry and Company to make the show.

 

[RandyS]

Not to bad mouth the Concordance, but I'd rather see an updated version of the Chronology. We haven't had that updated since 1996.

 

[RPJOB]

I think he's got more in his bag of tricks than we've seen.

It would be difficult to have less.

You may want to keep an open mind on this.

‘Family Guy’ Creator Part of ‘Cosmos’ Update
Published: August 5, 2011

On Friday the Fox network is to announce that it has ordered a 13-episode series, “Cosmos: A Space-Time Odyssey,” expected to be broadcast in 2013. As part of a creative team that includes Ann Druyan, Sagan’s widow and a collaborator on the original “Cosmos,” one of the executive producers is Seth MacFarlane, the creator, producer, co-star and animating spirit of “Family Guy,” the bawdy and irreverent Fox cartoon sitcom.

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“We’re obsessed with angels and vampires and whatnot,” Mr. MacFarlane, 37, said in a telephone interview, “when there are many more exciting and very real and much more spectacular things to be excited about, that are right in our own planetary backyard.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/05/arts/television/fox-plans-new-cosmos-with-seth-macfarlane-as-a-producer.html

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Not to bad mouth the Concordance, but I'd rather see an updated version of the Chronology. We haven't had that updated since 1996.

When we have wikis such as Memory Alpha and Beta, who needs the Chronology?

Printed reference works can be obsolete in a second. Wikis, by definition, never are.

 

[F. King Daniel]

Wikis, however, are at the mercy of opinionated and often clueless fanboys.

 

[BillJ]

Wikis, however, are at the mercy of opinionated and often clueless fanboys.

I take it you've never read some of Captain Robert April's posts?

 

[DimesDan]

Wikis, however, are at the mercy of opinionated and often clueless fanboys.

And electricity and internet connections.

 

[Skywalker]

Is a new Concordance really necessary in the internet age?

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Wikis, however, are at the mercy of opinionated and often clueless fanboys.

Most wikis are, in some fashion, moderated, are they not? If not by actual moderators, then by the general knowledge of the public. You vandalize a wiki, it'll get noticed PDQ.

 

[RandyS]

Not to bad mouth the Concordance, but I'd rather see an updated version of the Chronology. We haven't had that updated since 1996.

When we have wikis such as Memory Alpha and Beta, who needs the Chronology?

Printed reference works can be obsolete in a second. Wikis, by definition, never are.

True enough, but I still prefer the printed form.

 

[Psi'a Meese]

Wikis, however, are at the mercy of opinionated and often clueless fanboys.

And electricity and internet connections.

Precisely. Not to mention that I don't want to lose access to my catalogs of Trek minutia due to built-in obsolescence of hand-held devices. There is something to be said for merely striding to ones bookcase and opening my earlier editions of the Concordance to a random page.

 

[Sci]

The only thing I'd like t contribute is this:

Seth McFarlane is only unoriginal or a "Simpsons rip-off" insofar as the television family sitcom genre is itself a "rip-off" of The Honeymooners. McFarlane's work certainly varies in quality -- some episodes of Family Guy, et al, are smart and innovative and deeply moving; others are boring and re-hash old tropes. And I have no idea how his creative sensibility would work in the live-action drama format. But to say that he's not creative is just false.

 

[EliyahuQeoni]

Is a new Concordance really necessary in the internet age?

No, not really.

 

[Ian Keldon]

Wikis, however, are at the mercy of opinionated and often clueless fanboys.

Poorly run ones can be. MA isn't poorly run. It has a very strong Moderating/Admin team and tight control of it's canon policy: screen = canon, and "official" docs are background only.