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Radical Format Update

You must not have been watching TV in the 60s. Trek was part of a trend, not on the cutting edge. Other shows had non whites and non Americans as co-stars, not just as supporting players. So even in this Trek comes up a bit short.

No.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uvbht-ZBpcE

(Video provided by TrekBBS user Todd Pence).

What's your point? Route 66 preceded Star Trek, obviously.

Point is, I can post videos here and you apparently haven't figured it out yet. AND you had to have me spell it out for you.
 
They can use any technology they want to go to any galaxy they want and it won't change the show one bit.

Saying that you're a billion light years away doesn't mean that writers are going to go there and discover something new. They'll be sitting in front of the same keyboards facing the same story and budget demands that they always have with the same kinds of imaginations and biases.

I suppose CBS can do what NBC did with Trek... not realize the gold mine it has.

You are right, Dennis, for the reasons you mentioned it will still be Star Trek but with new shows and a fresher broader scope / format. But you caught me, reinventing the wheel it's still a wheel.
 

What's your point? Route 66 preceded Star Trek, obviously.

Point is, I can post videos here and you apparently haven't figured it out yet. AND you had to have me spell it out for you.

So in other words, rather than admit that he's right and you're wrong about your original assertion - the "first cursing" nonsense - you looked around for a trivial way to one-up him.

'Kay...
 
What's your point? Route 66 preceded Star Trek, obviously.

Point is, I can post videos here and you apparently haven't figured it out yet. AND you had to have me spell it out for you.

So in other words, rather than admit that he's right and you're wrong about your original assertion - the "first cursing" nonsense - you looked around for a trivial way to one-up him.

'Kay...

Um, no. Actually it is a way of driving knit-picky fussbudgets up the wall the way they drive us up the wall with their knit-picky fussbudgetness.

My original statement could have been altered to say "one of the first" rather than "the first." Only knit-pick artists would make a federal case of it.

But I'll try to refrain myself the next time either he or you speaks of sunset or sunrise because in fact the earth rotates and the sun neither sets nor rises.

'nnnkay?
 
You could have written that, but you didn't. Unfortunately, the fact that Trek was just 'one of' the first defeats your entire 'cutting edge' example. In that area, it was just part of a growing trend.

To put it bluntly - Harvey's nitpicking actually countered your argument. Your not-even nitpicking was an attempt at a personal jab.
 
My original statement could have been altered to say "one of the first" rather than "the first." Only knit-pick artists would make a federal case of it.

One Christmas Day, I was sitting at my parents' house watching TV with my mom, it was after presents were opened but before making the meal, and we're watching some movie brought over. She's sitting there knitting a quilt or something and then she makes a disgusted groan/noise and mutters something to herself as she begins undoing the last few rows she had just knitted, saying she had done them wrong.

I said she was a knit-picker.
 
So, basically, the original statement could have been a true statement if it was a different statement.

Well...yeah. :lol:
 
No matter how isolated and unknown the situation may be, how much of a sense of jeopardy can there possibly be when we know the stars will be back in the next episode?

So, basically, Game of Thrones the shit out of it.
That'd be one way, or at least get rid of the bloody reset button!

How's this for a radical new format: an admiral who isn't crazy/evil. :lol:
 
I can't say I ever watched Star Trek with the hope any of the main characters would die (apart from Neelix). I watch it for the stories. Shock deaths do nothing for me. As Trek is episodical all we would end up with is the loss of beloved characters as there wouldn't likely be much aftermath since the crew would move onto the next mission. Tasha Yar's death wasn't referenced for the remainder of Season 1 and only got a mention half way through Season 2. Losing Jadzia Dax at such a late stage in DS9's life stuck out like a sore thumb. Sure, they got a new character out of it but it was the last season anyway.
 
I can't say I ever watched Star Trek with the hope any of the main characters would die (apart from Neelix). I watch it for the stories. Shock deaths do nothing for me. As Trek is episodical all we would end up with is the loss of beloved characters as there wouldn't likely be much aftermath since the crew would move onto the next mission. Tasha Yar's death wasn't referenced for the remainder of Season 1 and only got a mention half way through Season 2. Losing Jadzia Dax at such a late stage in DS9's life stuck out like a sore thumb. Sure, they got a new character out of it but it was the last season anyway.

I like when they kill anybody in film, but I don`t like when the new characters that come are not so cool like previous..:borg:
 
Moviephone's interview with Bryan Fuller:
Moviephone: People got excited about the word "crews," plural, in the teaser trailer.

Bryan Fuller: Yeah.

Does that have a specific meaning? Or was that sort of a word that was used?

No, I think we will be seeing lots of crews in the story. One of the things that is exciting for me is that we are telling a "Star Trek" story in a modern way. We're telling a 13-chapter story in this first season. It's nice to be able to dig deep into things that would have been breezed passed if we were doing episodic and had to contain a story to an episode.
http://www.moviefone.com/2016/06/23/bryan-fuller-star-trek-interview/

No matter how isolated and unknown the situation may be, how much of a sense of jeopardy can there possibly be when we know the stars will be back in the next episode?

So, basically, Game of Thrones the shit out of it.
I think I called it with "Game of Thrones the shit out of it" where the story rules and character development is organic; anything can happen. It's exciting to think they'll be using the unbounded streaming model of storytelling.
 
Star Trek : Special Victims Unit
Set in the 25th century, centers on a group of university students who occasionally have to hear the opinions and ideas of people who have different social and political viewpoints.
 
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