How Paramount should handle Star Trek now that Star Wars is BACK!
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I have to say I'm one of those not too impressed with Axanar either. On the other hand, I found Aurora quite interesting.
Since Beyond is "out there" but largely set on a planet (as far as we can tell), hopefully 4 will be all about the travails of space travel - battles, strategy, mysterious and dangerous phenomena.
Yeah, but Star Wars was returning after a somewhat long hiatus (10 years), but with the mythologized sequel trilogy to the original films (32 years ago), and with new oversight and a new start via Disney.
Star Trek is coming back with the third film in seven years from the same studio with the same cast. Admittedly, a new director and team behind-the-scenes, but nothing really to justify itself as something exciting and revolutionary to the audience-at-large.
CBS and/or Paramount also have legal snafus with regards to marketing that Disney does not seem to have. I doubt that I'll run across any Star Trek cereal or cute Kraal dolls anytime soon.
The difficulty with bringing back Star Trek is we KNOW of no one who understands the franchise. Berman trashed it. Abrams just rehashed the same elements.
You need someone who truly understands what Star Trek is all about and so far the only person who does is its creator. But that is not unusual. Virtually all TV series/franchises die without the creator at the helm.
Star Wars is a much different beast than Star Trek. Wars is about an internal struggle between good and evil. Period. Trek takes cultural issues and presents them in a different light so they can evaluated and hopefully solved. Trek had a sense of compassion and humanity that Wars lacks...not because one is better than the other, it is just a different story that each writer chose to tell.
Is there anyone out there who had the compassion and optimism about humanity the way that Roddenberry did, I don't know. All I can tell you is that usually when an artist dies he/she takes the gift with them...that gift unique to them, is unfortunately never heard from again.
I have always said to give Rod a shot at this. There is no guarantee that the kid possess the talent his father did, but he is the closest we have right now to the real thing.
You need someone who truly understands what Star Trek is all about and so far the only person who does is its creator. But that is not unusual. Virtually all TV series/franchises die without the creator at the helm.
Star Wars is a much different beast than Star Trek. Wars is about an internal struggle between good and evil. Period. Trek takes cultural issues and presents them in a different light so they can evaluated and hopefully solved. Trek had a sense of compassion and humanity that Wars lacks...not because one is better than the other, it is just a different story that each writer chose to tell.
Is there anyone out there who had the compassion and optimism about humanity the way that Roddenberry did, I don't know. All I can tell you is that usually when an artist dies he/she takes the gift with them...that gift unique to them, is unfortunately never heard from again.
I have always said to give Rod a shot at this. There is no guarantee that the kid possess the talent his father did, but he is the closest we have right now to the real thing.
I never see Star Trek to has light saber and Jedi in it. So they haven't try to be Star Wars so far.
No matter who it is, everyone else can do it better.
I liked Prelude, but I agree about the single scene.
Excluding yourself and like-minded fans, of course.
Don`t think should compare these two giants - Star Trek and Star Wars. They are not connected to each other at all as for me. If star wars is much close to the Feature Film rolled wide all over the world, the Star Trek as for me is available for real fans of the space and fantastic films..
