the FIVE WEEK thrust

[RobertScorpio]

Do you all realize this fact? (I am sure you do). But if you watched every TREK episode, from TOS to ENTERPRISE, and every movie (TMP to NEMESIS) twenty-four hours aday...it would take you FIVE WEEKS to see it all. Isn't that amazing? Five weeks, 24 hours a day...five weeks.

I know that we all don't agree on the 'best of trek', and we love to debate aspects of TREK; But I will say this. Trek has been one incredible, living entity. Heck, it has it's own WIKI!!!...

I applaud Roddenberry, Berman and all the other producers. I also applaud the great writing we have seen from time to time. And I also tip my hat to Shatner-Stewart-Brooks-Mulgrew, and yes, Bakula, and their castmates, for taking us on this great ride...

Let us all hope the new movie brings us even more to cheer about...

This is my shout out to ...STAR TREK: The Universe.

 

[Forbin]

Yup, there's a lot of it all right!

To look at it differently, though, every once in a while someone here suggests that an all Star-Trek cable channel would be a great thing. But, as you point out, it would be out of material in only five weeks!

 

[TheSeeker]

10 weeks if you factor in the ridiculous amount of commercials they'd probably subject us to...

 

[Squiggy]

Originally posted here

Squiggyfm said:

P0sitr0nic said:
I HAVE watched everything from Broken Bow to Endgame/Nemesis, but not all in one sitting. I did it over a few weeks.

You'd have do to it over the course of several weeks considering that all canon trek is 722 hours and 4 minutes (considering episodes are 60 minutes).
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Now, if you take out the original stop sets you would get about 45 minutes of Trek an hour or 541 hours 30 minutes, adding the remaining 4 minutes from the movies and it would take 22 days 13 hours and 34 minutes to watch all Trek in order non-stop without time for sleeping and pooping (etc).

Now, if you wanna be "sane" (relatively) about it and only watch Star Trek for 12 hours a day (leaving you plenty time for sleep and food and pooping and not being a social-stigma) it would take 1 month, 15 days, 3 hours, and 4 minutes.

 

[ChristopherPike]

I'd probably go with chronological order, instead of production number. Through ENT to JJ's Trek movie, onto TOS, TNG, DS9, VOY. Punctual folks could enjoy the prequels... while we wait for the fashionably late to turn up.

 

[RobertScorpio]

Divorce

My wife would divorce me if they started a ALL TREK cable channel!

 

[EnsignRicky]

Re: Divorce

I've often thought of a Trek channel and it could work. I'm not going to get bogged down on an actual program listing but here's a few ideas. First off if you switch over to infomercials between 2:00am to 6:00am, like everyone else seems to do, your only looking a 20 hours of Trek. Then you could fill two or three hours with what I would call 'Trek Star'. Each day they could showcase a different, non Trek related movie starring the different cast members. At midnight they could air an hour of TAS for the late night crowd. Another idea could be to gather up all those documentaries, bloopers and DVD extras, and use them for the basis of a daily retrospective/news program. They could also do the afternoon theatrical movie, and possibly air the directors cut in the evening. Don't forget to throw in 2-3 hour blocks of the actual series', and we may just find that there's just not enough time in the day.

 

[starburst]

Re: Divorce

TAS should be an early morning cartoon where it can ease you into the day along with episodes of The Simpsons and Futurama which feature the cast

 

[EnsignRicky]

Re: Divorce

Plus if the the channel was a success, it could launch a new weekly series, and that would certainly add to the line up

 

[JiNX-01]

Forbin said:
Yup, there's a lot of it all right!

To look at it differently, though, every once in a while someone here suggests that an all Star-Trek cable channel would be a great thing. But, as you point out, it would be out of material in only five weeks!

Yeh, A Trek channel would get stale pretty fast. SciFi channel would do well enough tho'.

 

[EnsignRicky]

Speaking for myself, whenever I'm channel surfing and I hit a Star Wars film, which they seem to have in heavy rotation on the channels I get, I almost always leave it on 'til the end. It doesn't matter which one or how many times I've seen it, It's Star Wars, and to me, for the most part, that's better than aything else that would be on at the moment. It's like comfort food without all the calories. So I'm sure at least a few people would feel that way about Star Trek, myself included. Nothing good on? Flip to TTV.

Also, I almost forgot. With the remasterd versions, TOS has essentialy doubled in size. They could and should show both versions.

 

[Good Will Riker]

TheSeeker said:
10 weeks if you factor in the ridiculous amount of commercials they'd probably subject us to...

Is that including TAS?

 

[starburst]

Very far apart tho, and jo public would likely just want to see one version as showing the original and then the remastered would get stale (new effects same story)

 

[EnsignRicky]

starburst said:
Very far apart tho, and jo public would likely just want to see one version as showing the original and then the remastered would get stale (new effects same story)

Oh yeah, I agree with putting a little distance between them. Though AMC may not share that stratagy:

Coming up next, Red Dawn followed by Red Dawn DVD. Then stay tuned for Breaking Bad, followed by an encore presentation of Breaking Bad.

I would think the Trek Channel could be a little more inventive.

 

[SFRabid]

Wow. Never thought about it. I wonder how much time I have spent watching all of that plus reruns, then buying the DvD's and watching again. Then commentaries and deleted sceeens.

 

[Squiggy]

Re: Divorce

EnsignRicky said:
Then you could fill two or three hours with what I would call 'Trek Star'.

So, Dune, basically.

 

[EnsignRicky]

Re: Divorce

Squiggyfm said:

EnsignRicky said:
Then you could fill two or three hours with what I would call 'Trek Star'.

So, Dune, basically.

Sure, why not? Then they could show Eating Raoul (Chakotay was Raoul), Devil's Rain (Uggh), Remo Williams, and to get a bunch in one shot, the Roots Chrismas special, Where Geordie helped Sisko to escape from Janeway. Not to forget American History X with Sisko and Kes.

 

[Star Treks]

Re: Divorce

As for the TV channel thing, my guess is that the answer is more likely to lie in a Trek-On-Demand type thing instead. But I think a Trek TV channel could work but only in a very niche market; one of those channels you have to specifically ask for. But I'd certainly subscribe.

There's plenty of material - TOS, TOS remastered, TAS, TNG, DS9, VOY, ENT, the movies, various dvd extras and retrospectives. I like the idea of movies featuring Trek stars. Don't forget you could also include movies like "Trekkies" "Trekkies 2" "Free Enterprise" and other nominally "Star Trek" things.

Also.. dunno how this would work legally.. but, what about fan films? If some sort of licensing/ad rights thing could be formed between the people that make them and Viacom/Paramount/CBS or whatever, that could really expand programming.

And what about filmed versions of stage plays starring Trek stars?

And you could also have special programs about upcoming Trek stuff - movie, whatever.

Perhaps an inexpensively produced animation series as was discussed in the past.

And maybe "roots of Trek" - movies that influenced the development of Star Trek.

You could have interviews with famous Trek fans, and "special versions" of episodes (like the Trek 2.0 thing they did).

I'm sure there's lots more I am not thinking of.

but the point is if you're open-minded and allow stuff that's not exactly Trek but closely related, you could be set.

 

[EnsignRicky]

Re: Divorce

That's the spirit Star Treks. I think it could work, there's certainly no shortage of materiel. I like the fan film idea. They could maybe do something with those 'New Voyages' episodes. With an entire TV station backing them up, they could really kick that thing into high gear.

 

[RobertScorpio]

Re: Divorce

I think a TREK network might go over. They could not only have TREK, but other special events like episodes of other shows the Trek actors have been in. Spiner on Night Court, Shatner on Seaquest, Mulgrew on Ms Columbo and Terry Ferrel from Back To School...I'd watch a TREK network just as much as I watch anything else....they could to special event nights like All Vulcan Episodes from the different series(s) ect...

I think they should and will do it..someday..

Rob Scorpio