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[Danja]

P+ is not going to do anything that's going to step on Mama Paramount's feature film franchise:

Paramount committed to fourth Star Trek film

We now have three different actors playing Kirk (William Shatner, Paul Wesley, and Chris Pine)

 

[Lord Garth]

P+ is not going to do anything that's going to step on Mama Paramount's feature film franchise:

Paramount committed to fourth Star Trek film

We now have three different actors playing Kirk (William Shatner, Paul Wesley, and Chris Pine)

Hmmm. I don't think we'll get Chris Pine's Star Trek 4. I think we'll get Someone Else's Star Trek 1.

But I guess we'll see. I'm not brimming with enthusiasm either way.

 

[HotRod]

P+ is not going to do anything that's going to step on Mama Paramount's feature film franchise:

Paramount committed to fourth Star Trek film

We now have three different actors playing Kirk (William Shatner, Paul Wesley, and Chris Pine)

They've been saying that since 2016 and yet we've still got all that we've got since then. I don't think the Kelvin films have any impact on what the streaming series ultimately do.

 

[Danja]

Hmmm. I don't think we'll get Chris Pine's Star Trek 4. I think we'll get Someone Else's Star Trek 1.

But I guess we'll see. I'm not brimming with enthusiasm either way.

They've been saying that since 2016 and yet we've still got all that we've got since then. I don't think the Kelvin films have any impact on what the streaming series ultimately do.

That may be how Paramount likes it.

They can just keep endlessly rebooting films in the Kelvin universe without polluting anyone else's continuity.

 

[The Wormhole]

Imagine... you could have a YouTube hate click channel denouncing a series for following canon too much, being tonally consistent with what came before,

I don't need to imagine anything. People can and will start a "YouTube hate click channel" over anything and everything. This is not a revelation and is the well known way YouTube works.

having great Star Trek music,

Dare I ask what is "great Star Trek music"? Don't tell me there's someone who actually wants the auditory wallpaper of the 90s brought back?

maybe even someone like Ira Steven Behr comes back to write an episode,

It's extremely unlikely he'd come back to Star Trek at this point in his career, but in the event he did, he'd likely want to do something new, not milk memberberries from the 90s.

 

[Danja]

Imagine... you could have a YouTube hate click channel denouncing a series for following canon too much, being tonally consistent with what came before, having great Star Trek music, bringing back many more Berman Trek production design people, maybe even someone like Ira Steven Behr comes back to write an episode, storylines that deserve follow-ups and some serialization get covered... the horror, the horror!

 

[Lord Garth]

Cliff Eidelman and Ron Jones are the only ones I'd want back, but very specifically for PIC Season 3, because one was TUC's composer and the other was TNG's best composer. For something billed as "TNG's Star Trek VI" it would've made sense to have them back, and I would've liked to have heard what they'd do today.

Otherwise, I like who they have doing the music now.

As far as Dennis McCarthy, Jay Chattaway, and David Bell: would I want them back? Not really.

 

[Tomalak]

We now have three different actors playing Kirk (William Shatner, Paul Wesley, and Chris Pine)

Shatner hasn't played Kirk since 1994.

It's the same as Spock, Uhura and Scotty. I don't think it's great planning from Paramount/CBS to have essentially two sets of the same characters, but Paramount did nothing with the characters for a decade, so it's really their problem.

 

[Mudd]

P+ is not going to do anything that's going to step on Mama Paramount's feature film franchise:

Paramount committed to fourth Star Trek film

We now have three different actors playing Kirk (William Shatner, Paul Wesley, and Chris Pine)

Probably won't happen.

 

[Lord Garth]

Even a low-grossing Star Trek film would have a higher profile than any of the Streaming Series. It's a different league. Not that I think they should make a low-grossing film. But as far as Average Joe and John Q. Public are concerned, they're not aware of the Streaming Series at all. So if they had two versions of the same characters going on at the same time, it would go unnoticed to them. The only ones who'd notice are people like us.

 

[James Cole]

Cliff Eidelman and Ron Jones are the only ones I'd want back, but very specifically for PIC Season 3,

Ah, I was saying that I liked the music in season 3, and would like more of that from Barton and Wiedmann. Jeff Russo is... ok... but the only music he's done that stands out in my memory is the Discovery tractor beam of the prison shuttle reveal in 103, beaming Mudd off the ship with Stella, the 120+ spore jumps in 109, and the scene in "Nepenthe" when Elnor stays begins to help Hugh and Jurati says he's very brave.

Season 3? So many replays. And I'm waiting for the volume 2 Terry Matalas announced to finally come out.

Meanwhile, somewhere on YouTube is the Cliff Eidelman proposed score commissioned by Bryan Fuller...

 

[Lord Garth]

Ah, I was saying that I liked the music in season 3, and would like more of that from Barton and Wiedmann.

I was semi-countering "Who'd want the composers from '90s Trek back?", since there honestly actually are some I wouldn't mind having back.

Technically '80s Trek, but if James Horner were still alive, and his price wouldn't be outrageous, he would've been my first choice for PIC Season 3. As it is, I love the music in the season that evokes his style.

 

[Uhura's Song]

Kirk: Shatner, Pine (Kelvin), Wesley
Spock: Nimoy, Quinto (Kelvin), Peck
Uhura: Nichols, Saldana (Kelvin), Gooding
Pike: Hunter, Greenwood (Kelvin), Mount
Sarek: Lenard, Cross (Kelvin), Frain
Amanda: Wyatt, Barrett (voice in TAS), Blaise, Rider (Kelvin), Kirshner.

 

[NCC-73515]

Shatner hasn't played Kirk since 1994.

1997 (SFA)

 

[Tosk]

1997 (SFA)

2006. Star Trek Legacy, Star Trek Tactical Assault, and DirecTV commercial.

 

[Danja]

Kirk: Shatner, Pine (Kelvin), Wesley
Spock: Nimoy, Quinto (Kelvin), Peck
Uhura: Nichols, Saldana (Kelvin), Gooding
Pike: Hunter, Greenwood (Kelvin), Mount
Sarek: Lenard, Cross (Kelvin), Frain
Amanda: Wyatt, Barrett (voice in TAS), Blaise, Rider (Kelvin), Kirshner.

Scott: Doohan, Pegg (Kelvin), Martin Quinn

 

[NCC-73515]

2006. Star Trek Legacy, Star Trek Tactical Assault, and DirecTV commercial.

Legacy and TA were voice only. I guess we can add the Oscar appearance, whenever that was

 

[Tosk]

Legacy and TA were voice only.

Tomalak said "played". Never said he had to be on-screen.

 

[NCC-73515]

Well then...! Maybe secretly all by himself, he picked up a Playmates figure yesterday and played Kirk for 10 seconds!

 

[Tomalak]

Tomalak said "played". Never said he had to be on-screen.

I should have caveated for all the pedants here!