Is a modern-day big screen reboot of TNG inevitable?
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Personally, I think DS9, Voyager and even Enterprise are better fits for rebooting on the big screen than Next Gen. Next Gen was basically more TOS but with (IMO) less interesting characters.
Because people quit watching. Hollywood isn't going to toss money down a hole to spare some fans from the truth of the situation.
God, I hope they don't reboot TNG on the big screen!! Star Trek doe NOT translate well on the big screen because it is an episodic series. In the movies the plots have to be too huge (which boil down to earth or the Enterprise being destroyed) not to mention the 3-4 years between them. In the current reboot we have had enough time pass to follow Kirk from before he entered the Academy until after the original 5 year mission. For me I wish they would can all Trek movies and get it back on TV where it can thrive.
I'm the opposite. I'm more than happy with the movies, reunions with old friends every couple of years. I'm a bit concerned new TV Trek is going to keep me interested enough to tune in, week after week. I had completely tuned out during the tail end of the Berman years.
Affleck doesn't want to reboot Batman. He wants (and I believe has been greenlit) to make a new solo Batman movie that will take place in the BvS universe.
This is VERY limiting thinking. Are you saying that only people who were alive when TOS was new appreciate it? I was born in 1991, and I love the show. Taking it to other movies and shows. If you are saying that people have to have been alive when something was new to appreciate it, then why are new generations continuing to discover and fall and love with movies from the 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, etc.? Why are people still watching The Wizard of Oz every year? Of course there will be future generations who defend and love TOS. Just like there were people who didn't like it when it was new. There will always be people who love and hate it. Great movies, great television, great stories live on. If they're really great, it won't (for the most part) matter how old they are.
If I totally misunderstood what you were saying, then I'm sorry. This was just how I interpreted your comments.
I can't imagine any more TNG movies being made. They had their chance and played out their string. Also, it would cost a fortune to get Stewart.
Yeah, but we're talking reboot/remake here like the new Star Trek movies. Not continuing to make TNG movies with the old cast. So they wouldn't have to get Stewart.
It just doesn't have the nostalgia factor TOS has.
I think it may in another ten years. Lots of people grew up with TNG, like I grew up with TOS.
True, but as BillJ said lots of people grew up with TNG. It might not be as iconic as TOS but nostalgia varies from person to person. TNG is more iconic and probably has more nostalgic fans than a lot of the properties that have been rebooted or remade over the years. It's hard to say if they will or won't. Star Trek has 2 things going for it: They have a very iconic cast of TOS characters they can continue with or reboot again if they want. And secondly it's a big universe that they can keep expanding on. Like they did when they initially came up with TNG and the spinoffs or the new series. If the new show proves to be popular then we might see more original shows/films. If not then they may decide to focus on proven/popular characters. If they do that then I could see a TNG reboot at some point.
Sure. Never say never.
They don't need Stewart for TNG reboot. If I were to choose the new Picard, my pick would be James McAvoy (I'm pretty sure everyone's thought of him).
I'd shoot for Tom Hardy.
Great choice as wellI'd shoot for Tom Hardy.
Hard to choose from these two, I guess it would have to be a Mirror Universe story with McAvoy as the good Picard and Hardy as the evil one 
There will be a contingent that will always honor TOS (I hope) and not feel it is archaic and out of touch.
But future generations of "general" audience will get the most "press" any time any new Star Trek project appears on the horizon.
And that will remain in the forefront, pushing TOS farther and farther back in the collective memory.
CBS/Paramount has a property for feature films: STAR TREK. Feature films must appeal to a broad, general audience to make gobs of money.
The broad, general audience knows STAR TREK as a few elements of TOS that have been in cultural existence for fifty years and readily pop into a general audience's thinking.
A "pointy-eared" fellow; spaceship firing weapons; "beaming" people to and fro; action-adventure (as TV GUIDE used to describe the series).
That's all it means to them. Nothing more substantial.
An excuse to get away from the world and their issues for a few hours and eat popcorn and candy.
STAR TREK fans are more "vested".
Exactly. And once some of those fans end up running studios . ...
I was a TOS kid myself, but I grant that there are younger generations who imprinted on TNG or even one of the later shows instead. They deserve to have their own childhoods "ruined" by a reboot.
"They call that new loser Picard? That's not the real Picard!"
They are already talking about a fourth one, so I don't think they are going to be done anytime soon.
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