That's not the same thing as doing Star Trek as an "anthology series" at all.
Rumor: the show takes place between TOS movies and TNG
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That's not the same thing as doing Star Trek as an "anthology series" at all.
I think the anthology series has about as much chance of being made as Captain Sulu. It's one of the parts of this 'rumour' news that makes the article suspect. Building a new science fiction show from scratch each season would be extremely expensive (this isn't like a modern day drama or horror series, everything has to be designed and custom made) and I don't get what you gain creatively from doing so. Wish fulfillment for niche fan groups? CBS couldn't care less about that.
It's the story of the Starship Galaxy of the Universe class which gets taken over, either by force or by agreement, by a different crew and/or race each season, or multiple ships in the same class as part of an exploratory group sent to a neighboring galaxy. Simply redress the sets slightly.
The point being that no matter what your objections, there are always ways to shape a story to the practical concerns about logistics and budget.
The point being that no matter what your objections, there are always ways to shape a story to the practical concerns about logistics and budget.
Cited source for this?
Anthology with a different setting each episode and anthology with a different setting each year are two separate things. The latter can accommodate the "adventures of a particular crew for a sustained period of time". Maybe not as sustained as you'd like, but a much different feel from a one-off episode.
Bringing Rod Roddenberry and Nick Meyer on board would imply that CBS cares a great deal about hardcore Trek fans. Also, they've already referred to the new show as the "jewel in the crown", so it doesn't sound like they're going about this with a penny-pinching mentality.
This post! So much.
That's what I want from a new Trek series: a stylistic reboot, suitable to modern times and current audiences .
But a continuation of the prime universe in terms of history, past events and characters. I really don't want to be introduced to the "new" Borg a third (fourth?) time!
So please, let this rumor just be a rumor. No more reboots, retellings, prequels, inbetween-quels or other "untold stories" of events that have already been told once and again!
Of course we don't know this is true, but if should prove to be so, I'm happy with it.
I can easily imagine a compelling story in between TOS and TNG, providing we care about the characters and what happens to them.
We're talking several decades right? At least five? Without anything as huge as the Dominion War or the Battle of Wolf 359--in other words akin to our own history between 1946 and 1996. Consider our own history. Vietnam and Korea. The opening up of China. Founding of Israel. The temporary United Arab Republic. The Iranian Revolution. The end of the Cold War. China going communist. The Hungarian Uprising. The Troubles in Northern Ireland. Creation of Pakistan, then Bangladesh. France leaving Vietnam, then Libya. AIDS. Gay Rights Movement. Civil Rights Movement.
Yeah, plenty of background to explore. First contact with the Cardassians, whatever made the Romulans go away for all those years, new starship designs being tried out (including the Ambassador class), etc.
I can easily imagine a compelling story in between TOS and TNG, providing we care about the characters and what happens to them.
We're talking several decades right? At least five? Without anything as huge as the Dominion War or the Battle of Wolf 359--in other words akin to our own history between 1946 and 1996. Consider our own history. Vietnam and Korea. The opening up of China. Founding of Israel. The temporary United Arab Republic. The Iranian Revolution. The end of the Cold War. China going communist. The Hungarian Uprising. The Troubles in Northern Ireland. Creation of Pakistan, then Bangladesh. France leaving Vietnam, then Libya. AIDS. Gay Rights Movement. Civil Rights Movement.
Yeah, plenty of background to explore. First contact with the Cardassians, whatever made the Romulans go away for all those years, new starship designs being tried out (including the Ambassador class), etc.
This week, the Enterprise crew spend three weeks discussing the viability of continued aid to Cardassian worlds when the MacGuffin sector suffers a galactic draught. Next week, the senate debates over Romulan succession rights for occupied worlds continues!
And don't forget season 2, were every episode will highlight the Ferengi Commerce Authority foreclosing on Alpha Quadrant families hit hard by the Federation Recession (even though we totally don't have money!) in "So You Thought it was a Great Idea to Live in Paradise!"
I'm not saying CBS don't care about existing fans, I'm saying they don't care about making every individual group of fans personal wishes for the new show come true. A fan wish fulfillment show would be doomed from day one.
And the expense of an anthology sci fi series isn't about 'penny pinching' it's about the financial viability of the enterprise (no pun intended). Shows that are set in the future on spaceships where everything from the largest set to the smallest piece of costume has to be designed and made and almost nothing comes off the rack are very expensive to set up. That cost is viable if it can be spread over the budgets of a great many episodes, but if they have to fork out again every season or every 10 episodes, it really would start to hurt the bottom line and at the very least drastically increase the sort of ratings/return on investment they would expect. And as I said, a big burden for very little creative benefit.
Regarding anthology shows, I believe that many Twilight Zone and Outer Limits episodes were set on Earth in (what was then) the present. Yes, these series did a few episodes set in space, but were these affordable because of the episodes that weren't?
First I've heard of this. It's never been mentioned in any interview or book I've seen or read. We've heard of plenty of things that were seriously considered - such as crashing the saucer in the season six finale, and replacing Will Riker with Tom. Are you confusing this with tentative plans to continue with Riker as captain if Patrick Stewart decided to move on? Even this wasn't very likely, as he had a six year contract. It was more the speculation over the summer after the cliffhanger, which Piller hadn't a clue how to resolve. I'd be astonished if any thought was given to having alternating ships and crews each week.
Twilight Zone in particular raided old props (especially from Forbidden Planet). They'd even recycle the same recycled props from episode to episode. None of that detracted from the quality of the episodes, but then again, each episode in TZ wasn't really meant to be part of a larger singular continuity. They were kind of their own individual one-off continuities.
Now that I think of it, it's unfortunate that all the old props were auctioned off. They might have been able to utilize all that stuff (assuming they weren't too threadbare) for something like this.
Now that I think of it, it's unfortunate that all the old props were auctioned off. They might have been able to utilize all that stuff (assuming they weren't too threadbare) for something like this.
If they do, I couldn't bear to watch a TV show following the NCC-1701-C. We should all know how the USS Enterprise C fell to the Romulans during the Battle of Narenda. I wouldn't know how events would unfold after Captain James T. Kirk gets taken by the Nexus and up to the Encounter at Farpoint episode.
The fact that you can't produce any data whatever to support your assertions and have to resort to that kind of a comeback tells me...pretty much what I already knew from your previous posts.
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Except, of course, that we have no idea if any of these "rumors" are true.
Let's not jump the gun here.
