Lindelof. Who yes, is one of the writers for the sequel to Abrams' Star Trek film.
Spin off or new space opera?
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Lindelof. Who yes, is one of the writers for the sequel to Abrams' Star Trek film.
Maybe I'm crazy, but shouldn't a show runner for a sci-fi series or movie have some background in sci-fi? or just a background in making money? And who decides who's best qualified for the job? Creating a sci-fi t.v, series that is. Another Rick Berman in a more expensive suite. Sort of like Animal Farm.
It's a movie, not a series. Seems sci-fi is his thing.
Incidentally, you know who had no sci-fi background before writing for Star Trek? Michael Piller.
I really don't care who writes or produces Star Trek films or TV series, so long as they're good. I think the franchise is in good hands with Abrams currently on the logic at the first film he did was very good, but that's just my two cents (I'm unfamiliar with Lindelof, for the record).
I used to like you, Kegg. What is a new movie fan doing in the Future of Trek section? 'Cowboys and Aliens' Don't make me laugh. Is that like 'Mars Attacks'?
That btw was an old Gary Larson Far Side joke that they're building a whole franchise on. And btw, don't get me started on the stupid Men in Black franchise. These are the things that give science fiction a bad name - sy-fi. Braga was also a non sci-fi guy too. I think he liked horror movies or zombies, I know, and he wasn't a good showrunner either. Someone more like Strazinski would be more desirable but even he was off so finding someone would be harder than finding the next president I would think.
That btw was an old Gary Larson Far Side joke that they're building a whole franchise on. And btw, don't get me started on the stupid Men in Black franchise. These are the things that give science fiction a bad name - sy-fi. Braga was also a non sci-fi guy too. I think he liked horror movies or zombies, I know, and he wasn't a good showrunner either. Someone more like Strazinski would be more desirable but even he was off so finding someone would be harder than finding the next president I would think.
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I've been a poster on this website for ten and a half years, basically.
Damned if I know. I don't think the showrunner for the next Star Trek series (in the event of whenever that would happen) needs to have pre-existing geek cred like Straczynski, just so long as they make something good.
But yes, a lot of the writers on Star Trek - hell, the majority - were TV writers first, genre writers second. I noted this was true of Michael Piller, but it's also true of Gene Roddenberry, for whom Star Trek was actually his first stab at at sci-fi after doing Westerns and World War II stuff.
Gene L. Coon, though, he had experience - he wrote for Wild Wild West! ...wait...
While it would be nice to have more engagement from sci-fi novelists - as the original series had - I wouldn't undersell professional TV writers. They know how to write TV, which, when you want to write TV, is a useful skill to have. There's a certain skill set there that novelists may or may not translate over well with.
Kegg, when you're always right, you're always right, but what you're saying is that the rightest one to write it could be anybody, so who gets to decide who this great anybody is or seems to be? How could anyone know? It seems that star Trek is now forever spoken for and is married to the mob, and gone legit as it were. Respectible and respectful. Isn't that a line from Total Recall? Until Quad starts the reactor and gives the people on Mars air.
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CBS is already very successful in the old way of financing TV series. That model may be slowly dying, but CBS is like a brontosaurus whose sheer size will keep its tiny brain from knowing it's dying for a long, long time.
The innovations will happen from the likes of iTunes and Netflix, but they don't have rights to Star Trek. The major holdup is that Star Trek is being sat on by the corporate entity least likely to do anything risky or innovative.
Star Trek will never get the right showrunner to reconcieve and reinvision the show because those rights are owned by that corperate entity, CBS, least likely to do anything risky or innovative anyway. Now if only Lucas would buy Trek. The showrunner for the last eighteen years was a suit, now it's the son of a suit. The spoiled brat kid with an ice cream cone and his hideaously clever cronies whipping a poor mule up a hill.
Lucas buy Trek? I can think of nothing worse...
Oh wow! Not my first choice...
George is (amazingly!) managing to stop frakking up Star Wars lately, and I'm content to let him concentrate on not frakking it up in the future. Let's not dump more work on the poor guy. I wouldn't want him to get tired out and start thinking the cosmos needs more Jar-Jar.
JJ, you son of a suit!
Temis, I think we should just ignore Xortex. He seems to only like wacky far out science fiction, and anyone who doesn't produce what he likes must be a suit.
Anyone who has read anything about JJ would know he is far from a suit.
Also, Rick Berman was not a showrunner in the modern sense of the word. Michael Piller(not a suit) was closer to the showrunner on TNG. No one involved with DS9 could be called a suit, and even on ENT where Berman was a showrunner, he was working with Braga who whatever his artistic faults is clearly a science fiction writer. In fact, Braga probably has the closet tastes to what Xortex would like.
But for all are sanities, we should just let Xortex live in his fantasy world. It's probably the only place where what he thinks of as good television will be aired.
Anyone who has read anything about JJ would know he is far from a suit.
Also, Rick Berman was not a showrunner in the modern sense of the word. Michael Piller(not a suit) was closer to the showrunner on TNG. No one involved with DS9 could be called a suit, and even on ENT where Berman was a showrunner, he was working with Braga who whatever his artistic faults is clearly a science fiction writer. In fact, Braga probably has the closet tastes to what Xortex would like.
But for all are sanities, we should just let Xortex live in his fantasy world. It's probably the only place where what he thinks of as good television will be aired.
Well GR was a suit. Get my drift? And I did like Braga. He has good sensabilities and should do Star Trek again except not be the head guy. As far as I'm concerned he was the only writer there, i.e. certainly the best. He brought alot to the table. Coto took alot away from the table. This is a future of Star Trek forum. That is what I want. A suit wears jeans these days anyway. They've sophisticated and evolved now. That way you can't tell they're a suit. Ignore away.
I only have one person on ignore in the whole BBS, for being a repetitive, predictable bore. (Not anyone here, I've never seen him in this forum.) But as long as someone is entertaining, I'll keep em live. Otherwise, I'd end up talking to myself.
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