I want to see the Romulans (no remans !) or Tholians or Gorn
Its time for The BORG
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No Borg. Just no.
I'd love to see Kirk go up against the Borg. But ditch the rubber costumes and Uncle Fester makeup, and use CG to remove body parts and replace them with machinery. Give them a steampunk zombie look. It would he awesome.
Melkotians? Seriously? They barely have any presence in the episode they appeared in, where they took a backseat to wild west gunslingers. You think they're more deserving of a movie than the Borg?
The Borg are a race that can draw the general public in. Especially since zombies are kind of cool.
Then you're going to be disappointed. Three out of four of those are likely to be in the next movie, with one (a villain) a guarantee.
Nope. No Borg. Let's keep boldly going into this alternate timeline and explore new things. Beyond showed it's possible to do an original story and villain in this timeline without having to saddle on the baggage of what came before. (I wouldn't subscribe to the notion that the drop-off in business for STB is because it was a wholly original story. There's lots of factors going into the lackluster summer box-office season this year.)
They did that in Enterprise.
Pffft, I mean on a proper budget.
I'm still waiting for a true Romulan Movie or what about Q? Who could be a good Q that's working today. What about Aziz Azari?
That's not what I meant. I meant, exactly what story could they tell about the Borg that hasn't been told before in Trek's past?
My first reaction was "Please dear god no", but after thinking about it some it could work. Of course, it can't be a generic summer action movie. If you include the Borg then it needs to go full on sci-fi horror like Alien or The Thing. I'm not sure how that would work, but it's not my job to figure that out.
The NuBorg will be like action movie bad guys. They will move fast, but hopefully don't become comical. And speaking of comical how about Ferengi as the bad guys? If the pattern of original movies is followed then 4th movie should have comedy in it.
They wouldn't have to necessarily do a Borg story to deploy a different kind of enemy.
Some kind of A.I. adversaries could be done really well. I'm thinking something along the lines of the futuristic Sentinels in X-Men's Days of Future's Past. Those were brilliantly executed.
But the one true positive about the Borg would be their marketing potential. It's been over 20 years since general audiences last encountered the Borg and the studio could be looking for an easier and broader marketing strategy after Beyond.
Some kind of A.I. adversaries could be done really well. I'm thinking something along the lines of the futuristic Sentinels in X-Men's Days of Future's Past. Those were brilliantly executed.
But the one true positive about the Borg would be their marketing potential. It's been over 20 years since general audiences last encountered the Borg and the studio could be looking for an easier and broader marketing strategy after Beyond.
Creepy floating heads with the power to distort a character's sense of reality? Maybe mesh them with the Medusans too, so that they feel they HAVE to do that to prevent humanoids from going mad in their presence. Or maybe the big bad is single-handedly constructing a conspiracy to destroy the Federation by messing with people's heads.
True it would be a stretch to see an entire movie around them, but with so little known about the Melkotians that's just more room to create and expand upon. The result might end up more like a psychological thriller and less of an action film, but I'll still take it over the geometric space Zombies anyday.
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