And yet Sherlock on BBC is the very definition of a "reboot" and is every bit cerebral and calm. And very, very good.
If JJ Abrams reboots TNG...
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And yet Sherlock on BBC is the very definition of a "reboot" and is every bit cerebral and calm. And very, very good.
Hadn't thought of that. It mirrors the 2009 movie.
Sounds like Firefly. I can't see anyone watching a show with a crew that's too alien though.
People always lawyer the term "reboot", but this is very correct. The whole point of TNG was to create a show with a very different attitude than TOS. And it was set so far into the future, 'continuity' played almost no role in the plots.
The idea of a conventional TOS reboot actually predates TNG ("Starfleet Academy"). They also strongly considered doing a direct TOS movie spin-off show (e.g. Captain Sulu or something like Phase II.)
I've said this elsewhere, but TNG was very much a product of the Soviet Detente & collapse era. A rebooted TNG wouldn't just have younger actors, the entire mentality of the show would be completely different.
And the new movies are better described as Iron Man in Victorian England than anything related to Sherlock Holmes. Clearly the answer is to let the BBC produce a new Star Trek series.
To the same degree that BBC should handle every reboot from here on out, even of franchises not intrinsically of the British culture. Seriously, being of British origin gives BBC a leg up on rebooting Sherlock Holmes. There's no evidence BBC could handle Star Trek.
Yes, JJ Abrams would have 500,000 lens flares every scene with spotlights all around every single conceivable place on the bridge to blind the crew, while making the viewscreen a real window to space (stinks if a meteor hits that and cracks it...), and then has Picard start Starfleet Academy in his late 50s and get the command of the flagship, the Enterprise D, just after graduating the academy and being skipped up to Captain over all those people who dedicated their lives to Starfleet and moving up the ranks. Picard makes passes at Troi while they're both in the academy at the same time despite the age differences, and Troi and Riker still have a thing going on, while Yar is played by Amazon Eve and is Orion. The Enterprise itself, instead of being about 642.5m, will be 1285m in length, a saucer twice as big, a crew of 2000, and a huge brewery, er, engineering, with lots of pipes and no warp core to speak of, and plenty of LCD panels strewn about for no apparent reason. The engines have curved cowlings on them and the engineering looks about 1/3 the size it should be, while holding the brewery, er, engineering, that is 5x too big for such a small engineering deck and has obvious concrete floors, and we get shuttlebays that hold 20+ shuttles along the sides like bees in pods and are too big for the neck-section. That's JJ-TNG.
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Nah. I wouldn't mind a reboot TOS that's more true to the original though. The original design of the ship, like deg3D or Vektor did (can't find the original threads), original uniforms, update the bridge itself so that it has original controls, perhaps more buttons on helm/nav, bigger viewscreen, some touchscreens along the walls, better hallways that aren't so huge. Then give some good stories like Doomsday Machine, something with Captain Robert April, Captain Pike, a mirror universe episode, and show a few different TOS-era ship designs to show other vessels and crews every so often. Near the end of the show's run, have the last episode be the ship going in for refit and Kirk getting promoted to Admiral. Show more aliens amongst the crew - Andorians, Orions, Tellarites, etc.
Sherlock was not an American network production intended to air and be produced for U.S. television, which is run by Star Trek haters (see my other post on Who Murdered TNG). And the British have other problems with science fiction - they can be sometimes be great in the acting and characters (sometimes not) but relatively sloppy in the technology and distractingly poor in special effects. Still, it would be a better chance.
Oh, and to the person who compared this to the TOS reboot: the TOS didn't change the essential character of TOS, because TOS was a fun, action-oriented series. A TNG reboot nowadays (OK, maybe except in England) would change the essential character of TNG, so it would not be TNG any more.
Those are some wide assumptions there. So if TNG reboot would be done by an American studio today, it would automatically be a mindless action movie? Are you forgetting that TNG was an American production to begin with? Surely the direction depends on the individuals in charge of making the series/movie and what they decide to do with it.
Correct, I like my TNG as it is.
Don't want more Michael Bay/JJ action popcorn stories.
I think I want to puke, now.
Well put, friend.
you forgot the cinder block walls, though, and the hypos that hurt like hell when used. And because of he whole chage in this universe....Picard's probably gonna be watching old action films instead of reading, listening to some sort of AC/DC music and chugging beer instead of a good cup of Earl Grey.
So tired of them.....
No more reboots from JJ today, thank you. Leave the classics where they are and as they are.
I'm was in the "leave TNG alone" camp until I heard the Wentworth Miller to play Picard idea. That has my full attention as I think he's one of the few who can pull it off.
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