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Me too.
The things that were great about DS9 were TV things: complex, serialized plotlines, incremental character development, a huge cast where many of the best characters were not even in the main cast. A DS9 movie would focus on a couple characters at most, and need to be mostly action, just like Abrams' movie was. Might as well not even be DS9.
Plus, can you see Avery Brooks headlining a summer popcorn movie that some studio is putting millions behind? Or are we assuming all the roles will be recast, with Will Smith as Sisko and Christopher Waltz as Dukat?
I just read thru the whole list - DS9 is actually the best idea there!
Plus, can you see Avery Brooks headlining a summer popcorn movie that some studio is putting millions behind? Or are we assuming all the roles will be recast, with Will Smith as Sisko and Christopher Waltz as Dukat?
I just read thru the whole list - DS9 is actually the best idea there!
I agree with the writer of the article as well. A Mork & Mindy movie would really hit the spot! 
The things that were great about DS9 were TV things: complex, serialized plotlines, incremental character development, a huge cast where many of the best characters were not even in the main cast. A DS9 movie would focus on a couple characters at most, and need to be mostly action, just like Abrams' movie was. Might as well not even be DS9.
Plus, can you see Avery Brooks headlining a summer popcorn movie that some studio is putting millions behind? Or are we assuming all the roles will be recast, with Will Smith as Sisko and Christopher Waltz as Dukat?
I just read thru the whole list - DS9 is actually the best idea there!
Anything DS9 (remaining close to what it was originally) is good.
Space 1999 is intriguing.
Agree. Just can't take Dork and Mindy. Ugh
I think if there had been a live-action continuation of DS9 (I count the novels) I would have liked to have seen specials focusing on characters who had left - Martok on Qo'noS, Garak on Cardassia, O'Brien on Earth, all of which the novels have actually focused on.
Have you read the discussion about the article on the sight? It is all about Trek!
It's the internet, after all.
If they did a Mork & Mindy movie, it would probably star Lindsay Lohan and Jonah Hill.
If they did a Mork & Mindy movie, it would probably star Lindsay Lohan and Jonah Hill.
Just because a TV show is good, doesnt mean it will make a good film. I mean, lets forgot about the fact that DS9 gave the most definitive ending of any trek (hell, of most TV shows), and that it peaked way before it ended. The basic set-up of the show runs so much against what works in a movie that the idea of translation is kind of ridiculous.
Are you worried that the movie would somehow taint the series if it was written poorly? I kind of worry about that myself, because on DS9 the ending and the story was so good and how would it pick up with the novelizations? However I like to see the love for Deep Space Nine still lives on!
Actually, if done correctly and focused...it would be great.
Whose the judge of 'done correctly'? We've seen how widely divergent people's opinions of Star Trek 2009 are.
Hell, would you even have time for a plot after you spent time explaining who the Prophets are, what Bajor is, what the relationship between the two are, what Sisko's relationship between the two is, the Cardassians, the Dominion, the wormhole and Dax.
It would certainly be a nightmare of a film to write and I'm certain not a single DS9 fan would be satisfied with the outcome.
Meh. I don't warm up to most of what was proposed. There is a possibility with DS9. I could see them do a Jetsons incarnation with the look of the latest Rin Tin Tin. So, it's kind of a new fangled animation. A "real" Jetsons would suck, suck, suck.
A DS9 movie would be really tough to make, but it could be done. Obviously at this point, you can't have Sisko as captain. Colonel Kira? Perhaps. I think Visitor would be open to doing it, as might Siddig, Meaney, and Dorn. Brooks could be an admiral that is called back for some reason or makes a casual inspection visit. But the plot... I'd hate for it to have to be some conspiracy thing. With DS9, there was a strong cohesion from one episode to the next. But you wouldn't want the movie to leave too much dangling at the end of 2 hours.
The Space:1999 series stretched plausibility to the point of sheer pantyhose. A lot of science oriented people were frustrated with the outlandish ideas enacted. A multi-nuclear explosion powerful enough to push the moon out of orbit would probably break it up into smaller pieces first. Even assuming it could be pushed out of the gravitational field of Earth intact, don't you think it would eventually drift towards the sun? And what of those Eagle transporter craft that are nowhere near aerodynamic but are able to fly in a dense planetary atmosphere with ease? And the seemingly limitless number of Eagles and pilots to fly them, despite numerous destruction episode after episode?
I could not see Space:1999 made into a movie. On the other hand, I could see Gerry Anderson's UFO made into one. It has been proposed a few times, and even recently. They had Joshua Jackson earmarked for the role of Paul Foster. Even a website was created to report on the progress. But... somehow it died.
Actually, I'd like to see "Rendezvous With Rama" by Arthur C. Clarke made into a movie. It's about an alien spacecraft that drifts into our solar system, apparently on its way to another destination. It shows no signs of life on the outside. There is no communication from it. So, we send up a spacecraft from the moon to rendezvous with it and see if we can figure it out. Of course, the team manages to get inside... and the fun begins. THAT would make a great sci-fi movie, much more so than another attempt at Space:1999.
A DS9 movie would be really tough to make, but it could be done. Obviously at this point, you can't have Sisko as captain. Colonel Kira? Perhaps. I think Visitor would be open to doing it, as might Siddig, Meaney, and Dorn. Brooks could be an admiral that is called back for some reason or makes a casual inspection visit. But the plot... I'd hate for it to have to be some conspiracy thing. With DS9, there was a strong cohesion from one episode to the next. But you wouldn't want the movie to leave too much dangling at the end of 2 hours.
The Space:1999 series stretched plausibility to the point of sheer pantyhose. A lot of science oriented people were frustrated with the outlandish ideas enacted. A multi-nuclear explosion powerful enough to push the moon out of orbit would probably break it up into smaller pieces first. Even assuming it could be pushed out of the gravitational field of Earth intact, don't you think it would eventually drift towards the sun? And what of those Eagle transporter craft that are nowhere near aerodynamic but are able to fly in a dense planetary atmosphere with ease? And the seemingly limitless number of Eagles and pilots to fly them, despite numerous destruction episode after episode?
I could not see Space:1999 made into a movie. On the other hand, I could see Gerry Anderson's UFO made into one. It has been proposed a few times, and even recently. They had Joshua Jackson earmarked for the role of Paul Foster. Even a website was created to report on the progress. But... somehow it died.
Actually, I'd like to see "Rendezvous With Rama" by Arthur C. Clarke made into a movie. It's about an alien spacecraft that drifts into our solar system, apparently on its way to another destination. It shows no signs of life on the outside. There is no communication from it. So, we send up a spacecraft from the moon to rendezvous with it and see if we can figure it out. Of course, the team manages to get inside... and the fun begins. THAT would make a great sci-fi movie, much more so than another attempt at Space:1999.
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