Remake This!
- Thread starter Technobuilder
- Start date
A few people have mentioned Crusade, but I was wondering something: not being familiar with the series, is there any way that it could be rebooted as an original, stand-alone property?
Of course it can, but it would require too much work to make it financially viable in the short term.
For example, instead of knowing who launched the virus attack against Earth, we don't and a prototype new class of starship is launched with an experienced, battle-hardened and eclectic crew to explore the direction in which the enemy came from. Along the way we learn more about that species and why they attacked Earth. The crew is joined by a mysterious stranger with strange powers and he knows far more than he ever lets on. Eventually we find the aliens, learn the truth, get the antidote and return home, either making a friend in the process of blowing them to hell.
I'd like to see that. And by then, Lost would be over so Daniel Dae Kim could return. I also liked Gary Cole. As for the rest, recasting seems fine.
Thanks for the replies about the viability of Crusade being its own entity. I actually came up with some ideas that keep some of the backstory, like telepaths and a civil war, but change certain other things. Here's a basic rundown of what I'd thought of:
* It's some time in our future, and is 5 years removed from a civil war between 'normal' humans and humans who possessed telepathic and telekenetic abilities; the telepaths rose up after prolonged discrimination, and almost wiped out the entirety of humankind in the process. Although the war ended with the surrender of the telepaths, the leader of Earth's unified government was able to successfully broker a 'reconstruction' in which telepaths were, for the most part, successfully re-integrated into human culture.
* The civil war halted humanity's expansion into the stars, a process that had seen the establishment of many different human colonies, as well as the cultivation of peaceful relations with a variety of different alien cultures, but humanity has once again begun to travel the cosmos in the pursuit of knowledge and exploration; Earth's unified government - and its unified space exploration arm - has just completed construction of a new ship designed for both exploration and defense (most of the other ships which had traveled the stars previous to the civil war were either designed primarily for exploration, or primarily for military purposes, or were civilian craft which were oftentimes poorly equipped for the purpose).
* The ship, the 'Excalibur', is scheduled to launch on its maiden voyage when a biological plague strikes Earth; although suspicion is immediately directed towards telepaths (due to the fact that there have been several sporadic terrorist acts attributed to various disgruntled telepath factions), the plague's origin is revealed to be extra-terrestrial, and the Excalibur's mission is changed. Instead of simply exploring, they must now search for a cure to the plague.
* It's some time in our future, and is 5 years removed from a civil war between 'normal' humans and humans who possessed telepathic and telekenetic abilities; the telepaths rose up after prolonged discrimination, and almost wiped out the entirety of humankind in the process. Although the war ended with the surrender of the telepaths, the leader of Earth's unified government was able to successfully broker a 'reconstruction' in which telepaths were, for the most part, successfully re-integrated into human culture.
* The civil war halted humanity's expansion into the stars, a process that had seen the establishment of many different human colonies, as well as the cultivation of peaceful relations with a variety of different alien cultures, but humanity has once again begun to travel the cosmos in the pursuit of knowledge and exploration; Earth's unified government - and its unified space exploration arm - has just completed construction of a new ship designed for both exploration and defense (most of the other ships which had traveled the stars previous to the civil war were either designed primarily for exploration, or primarily for military purposes, or were civilian craft which were oftentimes poorly equipped for the purpose).
* The ship, the 'Excalibur', is scheduled to launch on its maiden voyage when a biological plague strikes Earth; although suspicion is immediately directed towards telepaths (due to the fact that there have been several sporadic terrorist acts attributed to various disgruntled telepath factions), the plague's origin is revealed to be extra-terrestrial, and the Excalibur's mission is changed. Instead of simply exploring, they must now search for a cure to the plague.
If you have the telepath war as a backstory, why let the telepaths entirely off the hook? Otherwise, how do you integrate them into the story?
No, I think 24 is one of the few shows that absolutely need their main character in order to be viable. There aren't many of those. Dexter's another one. Prison Break, too.
I don't know if you've read the DS9 Mission Gamma books, but the first novel, Twilight, contains within its pages a perfect example of what clearing the general telepathic community of suspicion contributes to the story of 'Crusade' as I've 'reimagined' it. Despite Odo having vouched for Taran'atar, Nog can't get over his hatred towards the Jem Hadar as a species; even with the telepathic community in general being cleared of suspicion, not every non-telepath is going to accept that, or be accepting of telepaths in general for various different reasons. When I first started thinking about ways to retool Crusade as its own original entity, I had it in mind that lingering prejudices and hatreds towards and against telepaths would underly the ongoing narrative, especially with suspicion having immediately been cast on the telepathic community when the plague struck; despite the plague's origin being revealed as extra-terrestrial, I figured that there'd be tensions amongst the ship's crew between telepaths and non-telepaths, which would've existed anyway but which would be enhanced by the fact that suspicion was immediately leveled at the telepathic community the moment that the plague struck.
Yeah, it was called Star Blazers (Space Battleship Yamato).
