What if it was just entitled "Star Trek," and, instead of being set specifically and faithfully in a preexisting continuity, it was more of a loose adaptation of the new movies, along the lines of "In the Heat of the Night," "M*A*S*H," "Alien Nation," or "Stargate SG-1"... but the differences were never acknowledged?
Kor
By that line of thought, you could hire any actor to play Kirk or Spock, because in-universe they would look just like the originals.
What if it was just entitled "Star Trek," and, instead of being set specifically and faithfully in a preexisting continuity, it was more of a loose adaptation of the new movies, along the lines of "In the Heat of the Night," "M*A*S*H," "Alien Nation," or "Stargate SG-1"... but the differences were never acknowledged?
Kor
Works for me.
That said, I don't think CBS is going to recast Kirk and Spock on television while Paramount is continuing to make movies featuring them.
I'll be a little surprised if the pilot doesn't include a hand-off from one or more of the movie characters to the new TV cast. Hypothetically, Pine or Quinto can appear as Kirk and Spock without automatically tipping the "canon" one direction or another, since in-universe they look exactly like Shatner and Nimoy.
What if it was just entitled "Star Trek," and, instead of being set specifically and faithfully in a preexisting continuity, it was more of a loose adaptation of the new movies, along the lines of "In the Heat of the Night," "M*A*S*H," "Alien Nation," or "Stargate SG-1"... but the differences were never acknowledged?
Kor
Works for me.
That said, I don't think CBS is going to recast Kirk and Spock on television while Paramount is continuing to make movies featuring them.
I'll be a little surprised if the pilot doesn't include a hand-off from one or more of the movie characters to the new TV cast. Hypothetically, Pine or Quinto can appear as Kirk and Spock without automatically tipping the "canon" one direction or another, since in-universe they look exactly like Shatner and Nimoy.
In my scenario, all the characters would be subtly renamed, the way the characters in the awful "The Sting II" had slightly different names than those in the brilliant "The Sting," but were somehow sort of supposed to be the same guys.
So we would get the adventures of Captain Jacob T. Kirk, Commander Spaak, Mister Chekhov, et. al.
There would be vague references to things that happened in the movies, but there would be lots of totally irreconcilable differences (including characterization) that would give anybody a headache if they tried to give this stuff too much thought.
I'm sure all the fans would love this.
Kor
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What if it was just entitled "Star Trek," and, instead of being set specifically and faithfully in a preexisting continuity, it was more of a loose adaptation of the new movies, along the lines of "In the Heat of the Night," "M*A*S*H," "Alien Nation," or "Stargate SG-1"... but the differences were never acknowledged?
Kor
Works for me.
That said, I don't think CBS is going to recast Kirk and Spock on television while Paramount is continuing to make movies featuring them.
I'll be a little surprised if the pilot doesn't include a hand-off from one or more of the movie characters to the new TV cast. Hypothetically, Pine or Quinto can appear as Kirk and Spock without automatically tipping the "canon" one direction or another, since in-universe they look exactly like Shatner and Nimoy.
In my scenario, all the characters would be subtly renamed, the way the characters in the awful "The Sting II" had slightly different names than those in the brilliant "The Sting," but were somehow sort of supposed to be the same guys.
So we would get the adventures of Captain Jacob T. Kirk, Commander Spaak, Mister Chekhov, et. al.
There would be vague references to things that happened in the movies, but there would be lots of totally irreconcilable differences (including characterization) that would give anybody a headache if they tried to give this stuff too much thought.
I'm sure all the fans would love this.
Kor
