Could Star Trek be Re-rebooted?

[F. King Daniel]

It is very frustrating that somebody (or somebodies converging together from multiple angles?) thought it was a good idea to call Star Trek: Discovery a literal prequel set only one decade before Star Trek: The Original Series but with a completely different aesthetic. I don't dislike the Shepard et al. classes, but they are just not believable as the contemporary older siblings to the Constitution class! Who thought that was a good idea? That's not how nostalgia franchise marketing works, petaQ!

They work fine as contemporary older siblings to the modern-look Connie, though.

 

[Dukhat]

Discovery works going from ENT to TMP.

TOS is really only the establishing framing device. I still think it can work, but TOS stands apart.

This. Between ENT, DSC, SNW, and whatever they do going forward, TOS is now the odd man out. I get it, because TOS is incredibly dated. But at the same time, the feeling I get is what they really want to do is invalidate TOS and routinely ignore it in favor of whatever story they want to tell that might contradict it (or at best pay lip service to TOS but not be too overly concerned if the continuity doesn't line up.) Again, this is all fine. It's not the way I would have done things (I would have just said that DSC/SNW is a reboot), but I'm not in charge.

 

[Enterprise1701]

They work fine as contemporary older siblings to the modern-look Connie, though.

If you say.

 

[Danja]

It's not the way I would have done things (I would have just said that DSC/SNW is a reboot)

It's already been rebooted (The Kelvin films).

 

[Dukhat]

It's already been rebooted (The Kelvin films).

So? They can't reboot a second time?

 

[Danja]

So? They can't reboot a second time?

SNW is the second reboot.

 

[Tim Walker]

A complete reboot? Only if the series goes dormant for maybe a decade. I mean COMPLETELY dormant. Note that the ST '09 reboot really isn't as it's tied to the original canon through the time travel/ alternate timeline trope. A completely clean reboot would mean a total clean break.

I would see this as akin to...the derivation of NuBSG from the original Battlestar Galactica.

During the process of stripping down the show, how do you avoid ending up with a generic sci-fi fi show with a Star Trek label? You would have to carefully determine which elements make the show distinctly Star Trek, retain those, and then build a new show around those. Ignore much of the canon historical events, ignore much of the canon intricacy.

 

[Shawnster]

SNW is the second reboot.

I'd start with Discovery, but, yeah. Soft reboot.