They've tried that and split the fan base, a hard reboot is all that's left.
Star Trek origins story
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Robert Justman.
This is something I read in The Making of Star Trek (the book by Stephen E. Whitfield, published in 1968).
That never happens.
Tell that to Hollywood.
Yes, I'm pretty sure they did. And what does that have to do with reboots?
A reboot and a rehash are two totally different things.
Having gone back and forth over the years, at one point even okay with reimagining ENT, I would keep it as is. The only disappointment for me that lasts, is not continuing the show on from Season 4 - with that same, more colourful TOS prequel style. So if I want anything, it's still basically Season 5 leading into the Romulan War and whatever form this many years later changes it to.
Beyond that, the only origin series I'd perhaps do, would be a Zefram Cochrane biopic. Go from having built the Phoenix, being a drunk, uninterested in travel to relocating to Alpha Centauri. A band of colonists - with Cochrane along for the ride - explore the planet, and are among the first humans to ever travel there. They find an alien race on the verge of extinction and there's Vulcan interference via one of the settlers being a spy for them. Get Jeffrey Dean Morgan to be the third actor to play Cochrane.
Beyond that, the only origin series I'd perhaps do, would be a Zefram Cochrane biopic. Go from having built the Phoenix, being a drunk, uninterested in travel to relocating to Alpha Centauri. A band of colonists - with Cochrane along for the ride - explore the planet, and are among the first humans to ever travel there. They find an alien race on the verge of extinction and there's Vulcan interference via one of the settlers being a spy for them. Get Jeffrey Dean Morgan to be the third actor to play Cochrane.
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Not in Star Trek they're not.
Explain.
Just like with Star Wars and Disco, a rehash is a universe without a story or theme or a redux of the same story or theme over and over again without the introduction of another story and or new material to replace it.
A reboot is the same thing as that just upside down, backwards and in reverse. It's a retreading of the same story with a different universe or a reimaging of the same story and characters in a different setting.
A reboot is the same thing as that just upside down, backwards and in reverse. It's a retreading of the same story with a different universe or a reimaging of the same story and characters in a different setting.
That's not what a reboot is. A reboot is not necessarily a retreading of the same story, and not all of the characters are necessarily the same. Cased and point is Ron Moore's Battlestar Galactica (nuBSG), which had an important character not in the original, namely Number Six, and other new characters besides, and which did not replicate the story of the original either, while nevertheless sharing a lot that was in broad strokes in common with the original.
Some thematic underpinnings were clearly not in common. nuBSG was created post-9/11, and presumed to explore depraved behavior in people relevant to that reality. The original all but avoided the treatment of war crimes committed by Colonials, and in fact I can't recall the subject ever coming up. Across the board, the Colonial characters in nuBSG were far less (for lack of a better word) virtuous than the characters from the original. And the nature of the Cylons was utterly different.
Anyway, thematic underpinnings do not a story make.
Anyway, thematic underpinnings do not a story make.
The premise of BSG was a lone group of survivors being chased by adversaries who want to destroy them.
The premise of Star Trek is a crew on a spaceship having adventures every week.
So the premise of BSG and nuBSG are the same, just like the premise of TOS and DSC are the same. The execution is diferent, but the premise isn't.
Also, The Force Awakens was clearly a remake of A New Hope. But The Last Jedi was not a remake of The Empire Strikes Back. So your mileage varies.
The premise of Star Trek is a crew on a spaceship having adventures every week.
So the premise of BSG and nuBSG are the same, just like the premise of TOS and DSC are the same. The execution is diferent, but the premise isn't.
Also, The Force Awakens was clearly a remake of A New Hope. But The Last Jedi was not a remake of The Empire Strikes Back. So your mileage varies.
Not really, TOS did have some military adventurism as part of the overall mix, and a single episode mostly set in the mirror universe.
But DIS is lacking TOS' multiple exploraton episodes, and encountering multiple previously unknown (unknown to Starfleet) species. Multiple episodes involving civilians are also lacking.
DIS has very few themes during it time so far.
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