In 2052, it's time for another reboot

[FredH]

Everybody remembers how back in 2009, J.J. Abrams' first Star Trek movie rejuvenated the franchise, leading to forty more years of sequels, new TV series and spinoffs. But now the well seems to be running dry: the two most recent of these, Star Trek: Even Farther and Star Trek: Vulcan Lives, never had more than lackluster ratings, and recently CBBS EnterNetTM finally cancelled Vulcan Lives, infuriating its dozens of fans.

But CBBS, recalling that it's worked before, has decided to rejuvenate the Trek franchise by going back to the basics of Kirk, Spock and the "original" Enterprise. Again.

It's 2052. How should CBBS proceed?


(ENT fans take note: I'm just having fun here. I liked Enterprise, right from the start.)

 

[Temis the Vorta]

By then, Star Trek will be a hologame and we will be the characters.

And it will be MADNESS! Total MADNESS!

Every day will be a reboot as we try to eradicate the shit we don't like about the hologame and other people counter by trying to eradicate the shit we do like.

Basically, it will be one big WikiWar. Death to Akiraprise and Archer/T'Pol!

 

[Hartzilla2007]

By then, Star Trek will be a hologame and we will be the characters.

And it will be MADNESS! Total MADNESS!

Every day will be a reboot as we try to eradicate the shit we don't like about the hologame and other people counter by trying to eradicate the shit we do like.

Basically, it will be one big WikiWar. Death to Akiraprise and Archer/T'Pol!

Also the redshirt death total will be astronomical, and maybe the Klingons and Romulans will have all sorts of wierd crap on their foreheads.

 

[Temis the Vorta]

The biggest holo-vendetta of all will be smooth-head Klingons vs turtlehead Klingons.

 

[JustKate]

And the Plain-Bellied Sneeches had none upon thars!

Sorry. A little Seussian episode there. I'm better now.

 

[Kelso]

The biggest holo-vendetta of all will be smooth-head Klingons vs turtlehead Klingons.

By 2052 everyone who cares about that one will have died out.


A more likely vendetta would be the humanoid borg vs. the re-vamped CGI versions that debuted during the TNG remake of 2027.

 

[urbandk]

On the 2052 reboot, they should discover a planet where the society is modeled exactly after TOS.

 

[Broccoli]

I don't care. I'm boycotting the 2052 reboot.

 

[Samurai8472]

On the 2052 reboot, they should discover a planet where the society is modeled exactly after TOS.

Pine- We're just ACTORS!

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

Star Trek will almost certainly be rebooted again long before 2052 - probably at least partially within the next ten or twelve years.

It's the first overt tear-down of continuity and backstory that breaches the "firewall" if you will. Once the property owners see that it can be at least somewhat successfully once, the threshold for a repetition of the technique whenever consumer interest flags is critically lowered.

"Superman" went on for fifty years without an explicit, acknowledged top-to-bottom rewrite of the property. In the following quarter century it's been reworked at least twice more.

 

[urbandk]

Star Trek will almost certainly be rebooted again long before 2052 - probably at least partially within the next ten or twelve years.

It's the first overt tear-down of continuity and backstory that breaches the "firewall" if you will. Once the property owners see that it can be at least somewhat successfully once, the threshold for a repetition of the technique whenever consumer interest flags is critically lowered.

"Superman" went on for fifty years without an explicit, acknowledged top-to-bottom rewrite of the property. In the following quarter century it's been reworked at least twice more.

I don't think they'll abandon this new trekverse for tv or movies, at least for a while. Haven't fan fiction, comics and trek novels explored alternate realities for a while?

I do think that DS9, VOY, and TNG won't be revisited in the same way. I am curious about how the new future will play out.

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

Star Trek will almost certainly be rebooted again long before 2052 - probably at least partially within the next ten or twelve years.

It's the first overt tear-down of continuity and backstory that breaches the "firewall" if you will. Once the property owners see that it can be at least somewhat successfully once, the threshold for a repetition of the technique whenever consumer interest flags is critically lowered.

"Superman" went on for fifty years without an explicit, acknowledged top-to-bottom rewrite of the property. In the following quarter century it's been reworked at least twice more.

I don't think they'll abandon this new trekverse for tv or movies, at least for a while. Haven't fan fiction, comics and trek novels explored alternate realities for a while?

They'll start changing it up as soon as income falters significantly again. Looking at other franchises, I'd say that the odds are good that will happen after the third or fourth film.

We're not going to get another forty years of the kind of attention to consistency - however successful or otherwise - that we've had since 1966.

 

[urbandk]

Star Trek will almost certainly be rebooted again long before 2052 - probably at least partially within the next ten or twelve years.

It's the first overt tear-down of continuity and backstory that breaches the "firewall" if you will. Once the property owners see that it can be at least somewhat successfully once, the threshold for a repetition of the technique whenever consumer interest flags is critically lowered.

"Superman" went on for fifty years without an explicit, acknowledged top-to-bottom rewrite of the property. In the following quarter century it's been reworked at least twice more.

I don't think they'll abandon this new trekverse for tv or movies, at least for a while. Haven't fan fiction, comics and trek novels explored alternate realities for a while?

They'll start changing it up as soon as income falters significantly again. Looking at other franchises, I'd say that the odds are good that will happen after the third or fourth film.

We're not going to get another forty years of the kind of attention to consistency - however successful or otherwise - that we've had since 1966.

Good point, although I don't think they'll bother with complicated explanations and origin stories. They might just call the new series "inspired by Star Trek."

 

[MicahBrack]

Screw that. It's 2052, let's bring on the third Battlestar Galactica reimagining.

 

[JustKate]

^ Why can't we have both? Surely there would be room in 2052 for two good scifi shows?

 

[c0rnedfr0g]

Everybody remembers how back in 2009, J.J. Abrams' first Star Trek movie rejuvenated the franchise, leading to forty more years of sequels, new TV series and spinoffs. But now the well seems to be running dry: the two most recent of these, Star Trek: Even Farther and Star Trek: Vulcan Lives, never had more than lackluster ratings, and recently CBBS EnterNetTM finally cancelled Vulcan Lives, infuriating its dozens of fans.

But CBBS, recalling that it's worked before, has decided to rejuvenate the Trek franchise by going back to the basics of Kirk, Spock and the "original" Enterprise. Again.

It's 2052. How should CBBS proceed?


(ENT fans take note: I'm just having fun here. I liked Enterprise, right from the start.)

Are you from the future? Are you Future Guy?

Star Trek will continually be rebooted until the actual time period exceeds the fictional time period of Trek. It will then be an historical documentary.

 

[dave_R_treker]

In 2052, I will be 75 f---ing years old. I won't probably give a crap.

 

[Temis the Vorta]

^ Why can't we have both? Surely there would be room in 2052 for two good scifi shows?

As long as we make them fight. Big ole honkin HOLO SPACE BATTLES! The quatloos are flying fast and furious now.

In 2052, I will be 75 f---ing years old. I won't probably give a crap.

Download your wizened old mind into an android body! What's the problem.

 

[Ensign_Redshirt]

In 2052, we will all be playing RPGs in the virtual reality and don't care about TV series anymore.

But the Chinese or Indian company which will hold the rights for Star Trek at that time (Paramount and/or CBS were bought out during the 20ies) is still going to make a lot of money with VR games based on Trek.

 

[FalTorPan]

Assuming I'm still alive in 2052, I'll be 76, and I'll probably be too busy trying to enjoy my remaining days/months/years to give a crap about Star Trek.