After reading the Enterprise novels The Good That Men Do and Kobayashi Maru im convinced Enteprise should be back in production to tell the story of the events leading up to and including the Romulan War and the birth of the Federation. Star Trek could really come full circle this way.
Enterprise needs to come back!!!!
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I did not like the Enterprise post-series novels one bit. The weakest of the various Trek novel series' IMO.
But, each to their own. You might want to hunt down the final two in the series, "Beneath the Raptor's Wing" and "To Brave the Storm"
After Enterprise was cancelled, plans were underway for a Romulan War movie called "Star Trek: The Beginning" - but the Enterprise cast weren't going to be involved. It got as far as a first-draft script before being cancelled in favour of JJ Abrams' reboot.
Read about it here: www.aintitcool.com/node/34635
But, each to their own. You might want to hunt down the final two in the series, "Beneath the Raptor's Wing" and "To Brave the Storm"
After Enterprise was cancelled, plans were underway for a Romulan War movie called "Star Trek: The Beginning" - but the Enterprise cast weren't going to be involved. It got as far as a first-draft script before being cancelled in favour of JJ Abrams' reboot.
Read about it here: www.aintitcool.com/node/34635
ENT's time has passed. If we ever see the 22nd-Century onscreen again--which I think is very unlikely--it'll be as a reboot, IMO, and may not even involve the same characters, situations, and specific time in that era.
Enterprise is gone. Deal with it. I know there are a lot of fans out there who want it back (heck, if the writing is at the same level as it was for Season 4, I'm one of them). But the it was cancelled and done.
I find it odd to believe some people actually believe (competely and sincerelly) that someone at CBS/Paramount/whatever is suddenly going to stand and up and say: You know what, we should put Enterprise back on the air. It's a show who's ratings went down with each season, so it's only logical we put it back on the air after all these years.
Doesn't really make sense when you think of it that way, does it?
I find it odd to believe some people actually believe (competely and sincerelly) that someone at CBS/Paramount/whatever is suddenly going to stand and up and say: You know what, we should put Enterprise back on the air. It's a show who's ratings went down with each season, so it's only logical we put it back on the air after all these years.
Doesn't really make sense when you think of it that way, does it?
Sigh. The "events leading up to and including the Romulan War and the birth of the Federation" is what ENT should have been about all along.
But that's history now. When Trek comes back to TV, it will probably not have an overly fannish premise, such as expecting the audience to know or care that something called the Romulan War predated (and caused?) the formation of the Federation.
Nobody's going to bother with anything in Trek novels, unless they happened to have read one and liked it. I wouldn't count on that at all, any more than I'd expect JJ Abrams to start cribbing from Trek novels for movie scripts.
The new series will be on some cable channel where most of the potential audience won't know the first thing about Trek. (It could also be on Netflix, which is the same idea as a premium subscription channel, really.)
But that's history now. When Trek comes back to TV, it will probably not have an overly fannish premise, such as expecting the audience to know or care that something called the Romulan War predated (and caused?) the formation of the Federation.
Nobody's going to bother with anything in Trek novels, unless they happened to have read one and liked it. I wouldn't count on that at all, any more than I'd expect JJ Abrams to start cribbing from Trek novels for movie scripts.
The new series will be on some cable channel where most of the potential audience won't know the first thing about Trek. (It could also be on Netflix, which is the same idea as a premium subscription channel, really.)
At best, there could be a follow on series, set after the events of Enterprise (less TATV), with a different crew and ship.
In that case, having the series begin after the conclusion of the Romulan War would (imho) be better. I don't think you could have a series beginning with the Romulan War. It would be like having the Dominion War in the first season of DS9.
Starting after the War could deal with the repercussions of it, while having the series be about exploration, discovery and life (not death).
The new series would not necessarily have to under cut the events shown in TATV, just have those events be far enough in the future not to show them. Hopefully the new series would have less politics, the seemingly endless talk of "the coalition" is one of the reason I stopped watching the fourth season the first time through.
I like the idea of a show that is set up during the beginning of the Federation. The Romulan War would appear but not directly and merely as historical background. I doubt that stories set up during the first years "together" could be totally nonpolitical as the very political entity of the Federation has just begun to exist.
On a more shallow note, I'd love to see the Daedalus in action and retro designs in general.
On a more shallow note, I'd love to see the Daedalus in action and retro designs in general.
Temis the Vorta said:
They already did. George and Winona Kirk were characters borrowed from old novels, and there were several other little tidbits taken from them, too - like Uhura's first name and linguistic skills and Kirk's skydiving talents.
Although Bad Robot taking or adapting stories themselves from novels is extremely unlikely.
Knight Templar
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I think Enterprise would've been far, far better if the creators of it had been people who had NOT been involved in "modern Trek" (24th century) for literally hundreds of episodes.
Star Trek needs to come back on TV full stop.
A show set in the late 22nd Century dealing with the Federation's baby steps, would be choice. Open to guest and even recurring appearances from older ENT characters. A new cast, but at some point you'd see Archer as Fed President, bump into Shran, or maybe even uncover the conspiracy surrounding Trip's death. Obviously only after the series has been able to stand by itself.
Once it's set-up for year and hasn't been cancelled, go the Babylon 5 route and have a story arc that has a central figure whose history requires the occasional flashback to the Earth-Romulan War. References to Enterprise era events and prefigures whatever both 23rd Centuries have in common.
Since you could easily fit a saga between 2157 and 2233, it wouldn't really matter whether it was regarded as part of the original universe, or the new one.
Oh... and don't set it exclusively on a starship exploring deep space. Be DS9-like. Someplace fixed. Maybe spanning our solar system, or Alpha/Proxima Centauri. Have your cake and eat it, with experimental starship trials and fleet construction site nearby. The ability to credibly get back to Earth often and to outlying colonies under threat.
A show set in the late 22nd Century dealing with the Federation's baby steps, would be choice. Open to guest and even recurring appearances from older ENT characters. A new cast, but at some point you'd see Archer as Fed President, bump into Shran, or maybe even uncover the conspiracy surrounding Trip's death. Obviously only after the series has been able to stand by itself.
Once it's set-up for year and hasn't been cancelled, go the Babylon 5 route and have a story arc that has a central figure whose history requires the occasional flashback to the Earth-Romulan War. References to Enterprise era events and prefigures whatever both 23rd Centuries have in common.
Since you could easily fit a saga between 2157 and 2233, it wouldn't really matter whether it was regarded as part of the original universe, or the new one.
Oh... and don't set it exclusively on a starship exploring deep space. Be DS9-like. Someplace fixed. Maybe spanning our solar system, or Alpha/Proxima Centauri. Have your cake and eat it, with experimental starship trials and fleet construction site nearby. The ability to credibly get back to Earth often and to outlying colonies under threat.
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Knight Templar
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Not a bad idea. But I see massive problems in execution if anyone remotely like the Berman & Co. crew
Put someone like that in charge and I can see enounters with the Borg, Ferengi, Cardassians, et cetera being thrown in.
I've been wanting a series based after the dominion war (Maybe a few centuries later) since ENT went off the air. Kind of tired of Kirk and Spock.
I agree. I'd love to see a post-Nemesis continuation series that takes place in the "Prime" universe, which the movies can continue with the JJverse. That way they can both legitimately be Star Trek but without issues of continuity or conflict between the two.
I doubt it will happen time soo, though, as TPTB seem focused solely on the movies for now.
I know it will never happen, but it would be nice if CBS did a made for TV movie to depict the events of the Romulan War.
Indeed there's almost no chance it would happen, but it would be nice. I can't see the enterprise crew coming back to the screen in any other way, but I really miss them. That being said IMO, they'd have to fix Trip's death and keep him and T'pol together.
It's too bad too, it seems to me that nowadays the show gets more love than it did in its initial run, maybe if the show had come out a bit later it would have would have gotten all seven years. So sad...
It's too bad too, it seems to me that nowadays the show gets more love than it did in its initial run, maybe if the show had come out a bit later it would have would have gotten all seven years. So sad...
Come to think of it "Arrested development" is getting a new season exclusively on netflix. So an ENT comeback still is theoretically possible if they obtained the rights from CBS. Not probable but with enough support maybe.
Yeah it does but it ain't happening.
Yeah the fan's gave up on getting the show back. Personally I'm going to keep fighting for it, but I'm not gonna lie, its kind of like trying to stop a ship from sinking after it's already at the bottom of the ocean.
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