As far as I know, the first episode of Class is Peter Capaldi's only appearance as the Doctor I've never bothered to watch.
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As far as I know, the first episode of Class is Peter Capaldi's only appearance as the Doctor I've never bothered to watch.
I think it's a mistake to just assume that SFA implies your average teen soap in space pajamas. I actually think there's a lot of outside of the box potential there.
I've always been interested in the more nefarious side of "Gene's Vision." And I think the perspective of youngers would be a great way to explore this.
One angle would be to start with a basic premise along the lines of 13 Reasons but put in a world where everything is perfect and everyone is "happy" could really be something.
Or I think this could be a great way to take the tired, old military argument beyond the digital confines of aging web forums. Imagine your typical socially awkward, impuissant, over-achieving nerds forced into live fire exercises with phase compression rifles they can barely hold, let alone fire accurately. All along there because they want to do the new life/strange worlds thing.
Also, High Castle works because Nazis. A cartoony super villain from a 40-year-old cult skiffy film is a giant leap from Nazis.
I've always been interested in the more nefarious side of "Gene's Vision." And I think the perspective of youngers would be a great way to explore this.
One angle would be to start with a basic premise along the lines of 13 Reasons but put in a world where everything is perfect and everyone is "happy" could really be something.
Or I think this could be a great way to take the tired, old military argument beyond the digital confines of aging web forums. Imagine your typical socially awkward, impuissant, over-achieving nerds forced into live fire exercises with phase compression rifles they can barely hold, let alone fire accurately. All along there because they want to do the new life/strange worlds thing.
Also, High Castle works because Nazis. A cartoony super villain from a 40-year-old cult skiffy film is a giant leap from Nazis.
As a young socially awkward nerd who's trying to get her act together and likes Tilly I agree that we don't need more of those on Trek.
Star Trek seems perfect for its own Arrowverse.
In fact we’ve had multiple crossovers already - the one with Julian breaking into the Enterprise D sickbay then electrocuting Data, and the one where captain Sisko met Captain Kirk. Not to mention where Janeway met Sulu and all kinds of canon errors cropped up (Valtane lives! Three days between the excelsior detecting the praxis explosion and Kirk’s trial etc etc).
But, I love supergirl, the flash, and legends (never watched arrow bizarrely but what you gonna do) and I like when they do crossovers (when Barry met Kara I nearly died of fangirl squee-ing - it was awesome).
I’m not saying that Star Trek is heading for its own arrowverse, but given that Hawaii five 0 has done at least one crossover with NCIS I think it was (someone correct me if I’m wrong it was ages ago before I stopped watching HF0) so it could be that we’re looking at separate Trek shows that do crossovers regularly like the CW shows.
The only thing that gives me pause about this whole enterprise (pun intended) is that Hawaii 5-0 got awfully formulaic awfully quickly - that is, they were always off duty when crime happened, they always had to secure a house (or building and one time a boat), and they always wrapped things up in the last 5 minutes (member voyager?) and there was always something shady about the main guy’s past or something. It was ok for a bit then somewhat predictable after that. And the actress who was in BsG as an 8 was miles better in battlestar imho.
So I’m cautiously optimistic - which is now my catchphrase when discussing all post-DSC Star Trek.
Maybe they should get Simon Pegg to write for the new serieses? I thought Beyond was awesome.
TPTB (whoever they have been) have kept coming back to Starfleet Academy as a premise since the TOS movies were being wrapped up.
Do it and move on already...
There is a series that was done before that that was set in both TOS era and TNG era. I don't think it is YA adult though and it's been a long time since I read it.
I'm mildly surprised to find that I'm O.K. with that idea.
I hated Beyond, but some of that is probably due to my own high expectations. Although I thought he was badly cast as Scotty, I like Pegg and much of his work. I was pretty confident that if anyone could pull off big screen Trek it was him.
Sadly we got a third movie stylistically indistinguishable from the previous two which no more captured Trek than the others. Having said that, he was no doubt under major studio pressure to stay within fairly tight constraints, which might be somewhat looser (or at least different) on an on going series, and with a much lower budget per story.
Yeah, let him have a go...
Yeah, IIRC it also had three Voyager installments. I'm fairly sure it was YA too. Then again I never read them (even though I planned on reading the Peter David ones, because, y'know, Peter David)
Starfleet Troopers.
I'd love a Smallville Trek, where cadets save the universe between classes. I'd love it even more if it was packed with early 20s versions of the TOS crew.
You know how Smallville was the first hour of Superman: The Movie rebooted and spread out over 10 years? This would be the same for Star Trek (2009).
You know how Smallville was the first hour of Superman: The Movie rebooted and spread out over 10 years? This would be the same for Star Trek (2009).
Without wanting to start an argument I have to disagree there - I thought “beyond” was the only one of the 3 that felt like a Star Trek film and I attributed a lot of that to pegg’s input.
But I know a lot of people didn’t like STB for various reasons and I can see how beyond uses many of the same tropes of previous Trek films (bad guy wants revenge, big black ship - well a swarm in this case - we all have to work together as a family and so on), but I really did enjoy beyond in a way that I didn’t enjoy the previous two. I vehemently dislike Into Darkness (I don’t rate Wrath of Khan that highly to be honest so I didn’t feel it needed to be remade, particularly as badly as it was), but I enjoyed the 2009 one for the most part so the Kelvin films have been a mixed bag for me.
I think beyond worked for me because my favourite original series film is The Search for Spock and beyond hit many of the same notes as STIII did for me (I’m gonna get so much crap for that! Haha!). Ok I wasn’t anything like as emotional when the Church Enterprise got blown up as I was when the Jeffries Probert Enterprise was destroyed in STIII but I liked the story of Beyond overall.
I feel like I had a point when I started this post - oh yes, overall I agree that Pegg should be given a shot at writing for Star Trek. I think he’d do a good job
I thought Beyond was the weakest of the three. Pretty much ditching so many hanging threads from Into Darkness.
Fair point - I didn’t mind ditching the threads from STID though - because I can’t stand into darkness, but i can’t deny that it did better at the box office than beyond so it’s a good job they’re not making films based on what I like
It is my second favorite Star Trek movie behind TMP. There was a lot to build a sequel off of, and Paramount got cold feet over a hundred fans voting it the worst Trek movie. Per usual, Paramount is its own worst enemy when it comes to Star Trek.
It doesn't really matter. I don't particularly like it (or JJ Trek), other people do. I like Discovery, other people don't.
They're only opinions.
They ditched a significant amount of coherence, as well.
I never felt it was the worst of the films, it just left me flat.
I like Beyond (first 4K UHD movie I bought), but it was disappointing to not get a follow-up to Into Darkness.
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