He’s popped up on trekmovie a couple times recently to wish Kurtzman good luck. Maybe he (Kurtzman) will see it there and then he (Orci) will get a job on new Star Trek?
Alex Kurtzman Gets New Deal With CBS, Will Expand 'Star Trek' TV
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He’s popped up on trekmovie a couple times recently to wish Kurtzman good luck. Maybe he (Kurtzman) will see it there and then he (Orci) will get a job on new Star Trek?
ST 2009 kind of took the place of an Academy series for me, and that was enough. I cant help but think it would just be a soap opera.
A lot of Trek kinda is anyway.
TrekBBS team would have to beef up the server(s) where the site runs. Imagine STD times 5, no server would be able to handle the load
But that was "Young Kirk and Spock idea", this might presumbly be show with completely new cadet characters. They pitched something like that after Voyager. There were supposed to be changing captains, Vulcan woman who finds emotion and love and Changeling masquarading as Klingon.
Yes and it would be glorious.
Episode #15: Kirk gets dumped by Carol, goes through an emo phase and joins a bunch of space pirates.
Episode #16: Kirk saves the world, and is accepted back into Starfleet Academy without question.
My guess is he pissed off somebody who shouldn't have been pissed off. Maybe it was one of his final tweets, from before deleting his Twitter, suggesting that Sandy Hook was a flase flag, maybe it was some internal Hollywood thing. But it sure looks like something happened. He went from one of the most successful blockbuster screenwriters to basically a nobody overnight.
Germany is a sensible place. Like most of continental Europe, it seems to have sensibly hovered in a nineties sensibility. Full of good Trek fans, and gave the world Franka Potente.
For good Tomb Raider fans you need Southern Europe, particularly Portugal.
If my government had put me in charge of the remain campaign, there would have been a landslide.
It's a great episode and would have been a fitting end, but it wasn't the end.
Regardless, you're missing the point.
It's interesting as a counterpoint to the TNG movies, because it's basically feature length. As I said, Trek works better on the small screen, and a big part of this is because the Trek format works much better when there aren't "villains." All Good Things... had conflict and suspense, but no bad guy. All 3.75 of the TNG movies, in contrast, insisted on having bad guys. The latter three made it something of a personal conflict between Picard and the main baddy, turning him into a shallow action hero character.
Which is really the struggle of the TNG films overall. They keep trying to capture some aspect of TWOK in order to make the film work, but it doesn't work and doesn't play off of the chemistry of the TNG crew.
So, as for fitting ends, yes "All Good Things" is the most fitting end of the TNG crew.
Yikes, that's baffling. (Where do you live?) Granted it's really not clear exactly who the show was intended to be marketed to, but it's not as if it wasn't marketed at all.
Intransigent bees. I love it, that's perfect! And they've come across space seeking revenge for the bee die-offs we caused on Earth 400 years earlier... (Seriously, it's scary how much that sounds like an actual Trek plot.)
It's funny, because aside from TWOK, the TOS movies didn't fall into this:
TMP - Antagonist was just a misunderstood, hyper-evolved computer probe.
STIII- Kruge existed as a baddy, but IMHO this was really something of a "B plot" of the movie, which was really about the bonds of friendship, not defeating the bad guy.
STIV - Light comedy. Existential threat to Earth in the background, but it was a "V'Ger" like unwitting threat.
STV - Sucked, but Sybok, while an antagonist, was not a bad guy.
STVI - Chang was a villain, it is true, but he was just one part of a wider conspiracy among elements in the Federation and Klingon government. Thus I always saw this more about the crew defeating the fear of change within the Federation and the Klingon Empire. Chang was not the problem, but a symptom of the problem.
And of course, since the reboot, we've gotten three movies in a row where it all comes down to Kirk and/or Spock battling the bad guys until they're good and dead.
**sigh**
Aw man I’ve inadvertently ripped off Star Trek IV...
I would love to have a Trek movie that wasn't based on defeating a bad guy. I miss it. It really surprises me how rare it became after the success of STIV. But I suppose that it is easier to write a moustache twirling bad guy than a clever puzzle to solve or a nuanced drama. Easier to sell to the general public too they would probably argue (although again STIV's returns would suggest otherwise).
For some reason these news leave me completely cold. After a disappointing first season of Discovery, I have little trust that these people will be able to produce a show that is worth anyone‘s time for year two, let alone five (!) parallel Trek shows. Please fix Discovery, before you venture into obscure ideas like a show about Picard (?), Kahn (?) or Starfleet cadets. 
Just imagine a movie about the Kelvin-TOS crew going back in time to fight climate change in the early 21st century. The half of America that voted for Donald "global warming was created by and for the Chinese" Trump would not be that enticed, I imagine. So, what I'm saying is I'm not opposed to the idea of that movie
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Yep. My thoughts exactly.For some reason these news leave me completely cold. After a disappointing first season of Discovery, I have little trust that these people will be able to produce a show that is worth anyone‘s time for year two, let alone five (!) parallel Trek shows. Please fix Discovery, before you venture into obscure ideas like a show about Picard (?), Kahn (?) or Starfleet cadets.
They are already working on Discovery and many of the show runners (Berg, Haberts, Goldsmith) are gone, with Kurtzman at the helm now.For some reason these news leave me completely cold. After a disappointing first season of Discovery, I have little trust that these people will be able to produce a show that is worth anyone‘s time for year two, let alone five (!) parallel Trek shows. Please fix Discovery, before you venture into obscure ideas like a show about Picard (?), Kahn (?) or Starfleet cadets.
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