It could still be a brilliant TV series. I just don't know. Right now, it just feels like more of the same that got cancelled due to dwindling viewership. No rumor I've heard so far excites me.
Rumor: the show takes place between TOS movies and TNG
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It could still be a brilliant TV series. I just don't know. Right now, it just feels like more of the same that got cancelled due to dwindling viewership. No rumor I've heard so far excites me.
I'm not sure we can truly say that it "feels like more of the same" since we actually have no idea what it's about or when it's set.
All we know for certain are the identities of some of the talent involved. Everything else is just hot air.
I know it's dangerous, but I'm cautiously optimistic.
As for the critique that gen audiences wouldn't care, so what? The format is specifically designed for the initiated. It's for Trekkies who are willing to pay.
The prime-verse seems like the natural setting for such a venture, and there's an enormous unexplored gap between 2293-2364 that has been intentionally left vague. Incredible space for exploration, novel ideas and conflicts, and connections between TOS and TNG. Familiarity blended with a fresh newness -- makes sense for a series designed for the initiated choir.
Don't buy the anthology angle though. Might work in some genres but it's too expensive for Trek.
As for the critique that gen audiences wouldn't care, so what? The format is specifically designed for the initiated. It's for Trekkies who are willing to pay.
The prime-verse seems like the natural setting for such a venture, and there's an enormous unexplored gap between 2293-2364 that has been intentionally left vague. Incredible space for exploration, novel ideas and conflicts, and connections between TOS and TNG. Familiarity blended with a fresh newness -- makes sense for a series designed for the initiated choir.
Don't buy the anthology angle though. Might work in some genres but it's too expensive for Trek.
If true, I like this idea A LOT. It's like rather than it being one series, it's as many series' as they want it to be, folded into one. They have total freedom to jump around.
Then lucky for you that I'm not really interested in whether you like my posts or not.
Having a show that takes place after TUC and then at different points in time from then on is just all kinds of stupid. Nobody except hardcore Trekkies gives a shit about what happened after TUC. That is not the way to gain a new, large, and committed audience.
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The last episode will be a two-parter that ties all the previous anthologies together like Pulp Fiction or an episode of Seinfeld.
I'm sure you are as confident in your opinion as anyone else... It must be true.
Is that good or bad? I mean, I know Faraci's track record isn't great…
Why don't we wait and see if this gets confirmed before proceeding all the way to butthurt?
I'm only going to say this once. I don't like you, your tone, or your bullshit signature. Please by all means continue to be a productive member of this forum, but don't expect me to reply to any more of your posts quoting me.
"Butthurt" is in the eye of the beholder. I stand by what I wrote.
I laughed out loud at that and I'm not going to do the cheap acronym, just so you know I really did.
The putative time period doesn't actually tell us anything about the series. The inclination of fans is to assume that a story set in a time period where they once saw a couple of other stories set will resemble those stories and connect up with them in some way. Although that's easy to understand given the history of Trek and of Trek fandom, it ain't necessarily so.
I would tend to agree.
Someone in another topic mentioned that they thought CBS wasn't going to reveal any information about the new show until after Star Trek Beyond was out, in order not to steal their thunder. I'm inclined to agree. So we'll probably be hearing actual confirmed CBS-affiliated information sometime this summer. And then we'll know what the real story is.
Exactly. At this point, we might as well be arguing the merits of "Captain Worf" or whatever.
I am in agreement with this Trekcore article. This rumor is highly suspect.
http://trekcore.com/blog/2016/04/so-about-those-new-star-trek-2017-rumors/
http://trekcore.com/blog/2016/04/so-about-those-new-star-trek-2017-rumors/
At last! A voice of sanity in the wilderness . . . .
I agree the anthology seems odd, but setting it after TUC isn't a problem. Expecting it to be set there to fill in holes is. Bryan Fuller wants to tell a story that will connect with viewers, the setting is the means of telling that story. If the story Fuller wants to tell fits in well in that timeframe, then great. But if the timeframe is picked to fill in holes, then there will be problems. Personally I'm willing to trust Fuller picked the timeframe for the right reason.
