These rumours have no basis. Source???
If JJ Abrams reboots TNG...
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I wouldn't want it to happen. I'd sooner there be all-new Star Trek characters and not just new faces wearing old names. But there is something inevitable about the idea... given how low on ideas Hollywood is and their need for new entries in formerly successful franchises. Studios just have to play a waiting game, and allow more water to flow under the bridge. More potential fans to be born and more committed ones to pass through the gates at the crematorium...
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That stemmed from Frakes supposedly pitching the idea to CBS post-nemesis. They Declined.
Not sure where you heard that, but it isn't true.
The same thing was said about Shatner being the only one who could play Kirk, or Nimoy being the only one to play Spock, as well as recasting the rest of the TOS crew being impossible. Yet they were.
Agreed.
I would prefer a Titan miniseries over a TNG reboot, too, but neither will happen at this point. I haven't heard anything legit about Abrams wanting to reboot TNG at all, and the time to do anything with the USS Titan has long since past. The time was immediately after Nemesis. This December, it will be 10 years (I know, hard to believe)! That is as long a time as it was between when TOS went off the air in 1969 and Star Trek TMP debuted in 1979!
Also, they are only one movie into a TOS reboot, currently working on a second TOS alternate universe movie, and CBS, owner of the Trek TV rights, has no plans for a Trek series any time soon. But if there were a "reboot" of the TNG era, I would like to see a show about a young Picard aboard the Stargazer, and how he rose through the ranks to become its captain,, in the Alternate Timeline.
I find that unlikely. We are 10 years past Nemesis right now. It remains to be seen, but the TOS reboot movies will likely be at least a trilogy, and if Trek 12 is released on time, that is going to be 2013. Which if Abrams keeps the same schedule, you are looking at 2016-2017 for a release of the third movie. By then, people will be like "Umm, Star Trek Titan?" Huh?
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I wouldn't have a problem with revisiting the TNG Era, but, I don't want to see a reboot with a ship called The Enterprise and a Captain named Jean Luc Picard, etc. Redoing something new in that era is fine, and wouldn't even have to be canonical with the Prime Universe, since it could always claim itself to be in the JJVerse.
If the era is used for a new Series, don't tread down the same path or use the same characters that TNG did
If the era is used for a new Series, don't tread down the same path or use the same characters that TNG did
I always thought of TNG exactly the same way. It was completely obvious to me that this is what it was, from the very first episode.
Remaking The Naked Time only underscored my perception of TNG as a TOS reboot.
I woud like to see Trek 24th Century rebooted, but as the aliens within the series are so well developed (such as the Klingons, Vulcans, etc) these races could warrant spin off series in their own rights - observing Starfleet & the federation from an outside perspective would be interesting.
Or longer! 
I am 100% certain that TNG will be rebooted!! Its going to happen! I doubt Abrams can be convinced to do a 4th TOS-era movie and they will also have to re-negotiate all the contracts as the actors signed for 3 movies. I think they will move on to a new team making the TNG reboots for 3 movies. Its the logical step and probably the right one.
Either that or CBS strike a deal to save TNG for a TV reboot instead, leaving Paramount to perhaps try making a new original Trek movie? (New crew?)
Its so going to happen. As for the original actors, they will not return unless playing their characters from the future....
Remake of All Good Things using the original actors for the future portions? Remake of Future Imperfect? etc etc :P
Either that or CBS strike a deal to save TNG for a TV reboot instead, leaving Paramount to perhaps try making a new original Trek movie? (New crew?)
Its so going to happen. As for the original actors, they will not return unless playing their characters from the future....
Remake of All Good Things using the original actors for the future portions? Remake of Future Imperfect? etc etc :P
100%, huh? You must have inside knowledge.
I'm not as sure but see it as likely if JJA's movies continue to be successful. If they peter out, we'll have another lull before some new Trek comes along.
I wouldn't mind a TNG in the JJ-verse. I'd rather see a GR 24th century-era miniseries that acknowledges that the events in TNG, DS9, and VOY occurred. That is, it wouldn't just be about Picard & Co.
I wouldn't mind a TNG in the JJ-verse. I'd rather see a GR 24th century-era miniseries that acknowledges that the events in TNG, DS9, and VOY occurred. That is, it wouldn't just be about Picard & Co.
Yes I feel 100% certain it will be rebooted eventually and I don't need inside knowledge to think that :P
Yeah, ditto.
Sorry to disabuse you all but TNG cannot be rebooted.
TNG is mainly about ideals of character and intelligence. Each episode's challenge is resolved through loyalty, or courage, or some other character trait; typically assisted with intelligence. That's the theme of the show.
That just doesn't work in the current environment. It's not how films are created. There are no characters like Picard any more, or like Data, who know their jobs and are "steadfast, loyal, and true" as the saying goes.
So, TNG won't be rebooted. If it is, it would be some action hero type playing Picard.
A good example is, say, the new Sherlock Holmes series with Robert Downey. The original was cerebral and calm. The movie was just another idiotic action movie. A similar dynamic would happen to a TNG reboot. You'd lose everything that made TNG what TNG is.
TNG is mainly about ideals of character and intelligence. Each episode's challenge is resolved through loyalty, or courage, or some other character trait; typically assisted with intelligence. That's the theme of the show.
That just doesn't work in the current environment. It's not how films are created. There are no characters like Picard any more, or like Data, who know their jobs and are "steadfast, loyal, and true" as the saying goes.
So, TNG won't be rebooted. If it is, it would be some action hero type playing Picard.
A good example is, say, the new Sherlock Holmes series with Robert Downey. The original was cerebral and calm. The movie was just another idiotic action movie. A similar dynamic would happen to a TNG reboot. You'd lose everything that made TNG what TNG is.
I don't think TNG will be rebooted. It would be great to see a Titan series, but I think the best we'll get in that regard are the books. The Abrams films are driving Trek right now in the public mind and I don't see CBS-Paramount moving on Trek until after those films are done, and I'm guessing we'll get at least a third film. After that, I could see them moving on from where the films leave off. In the Future Trek thread, there was speculation of a Sulu spin off and I would like to see that.
As for Prime Universe Trek we got the novels, but I wish that the powers that be would put out some straight to video/blu ray Trek movies featuring the casts from the TOS-ENT. I think there's an audience out there, and since they are straight to video, the standards and expectations among the fanbase won't be so high, so they won't have to get every cast member back (Patrick Stewart, cough, cough) and could make the films relatively cheaply.
As for Prime Universe Trek we got the novels, but I wish that the powers that be would put out some straight to video/blu ray Trek movies featuring the casts from the TOS-ENT. I think there's an audience out there, and since they are straight to video, the standards and expectations among the fanbase won't be so high, so they won't have to get every cast member back (Patrick Stewart, cough, cough) and could make the films relatively cheaply.
TOS-ENT?
It will be rebooted and tweaked to become appealing to the same people that went to watch Abrams Trek. Action packed and near zero technobabble. Picard will be the same action hero he became in FC onward.
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