CBS has announed a new Star Trek series. Any idea what it could be?
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Thoughts on New Star Trek Series?
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The top three are terrible ideas and commercial failures in the making. I think the show will most likely be set, if it's specified at all, in the Abramsverse but that's not "(bad)" at all. Remember you snapped at someone in another thread for not highlighting when something was only ones opinion?
I think we will see a fresh set of characters, most likely post TNG era but possibly contemporary with the movies. I think given the people involved we can pretty much rule out continuity porn series that will mean something only to lifelong fans. This will be new.
By the way, why do you tag yourself in all your posts?
I think we will see a fresh set of characters, most likely post TNG era but possibly contemporary with the movies. I think given the people involved we can pretty much rule out continuity porn series that will mean something only to lifelong fans. This will be new.
By the way, why do you tag yourself in all your posts?
This poll is what separates the hardcore fans and the higher-ups working on this series.
A new Trek focused on a character from The Animated Series in 2017?
Let alone the Captain Riker and Captain Sulu ideas which are bad enough!
Anyway, I think it'll either be a post-TUC/pre-TNG or post-NEM series. No old characters or actors, no old uniforms or settings, believe it or not, it's gonna be something new and different!
A new Trek focused on a character from The Animated Series in 2017?
Let alone the Captain Riker and Captain Sulu ideas which are bad enough!
Anyway, I think it'll either be a post-TUC/pre-TNG or post-NEM series. No old characters or actors, no old uniforms or settings, believe it or not, it's gonna be something new and different!
If you don't like my being hypocritical, you can snap at me just the same and it is now noted, I have an opinion on the Abramverse.
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Something fresh, new and different from what we've seen before. I don't mind what time frame or reality, as long as it's good (I hope it is).
I hope it is set in the prime universe, on a starship, about two decades after Nemesis. A diverse cast of new characters, maybe some cameos from old ones (I'd love to see Stewart again as Picard, if even for briefly. He could be an Admiral who gives a mission to our new heroes.) I wouldn't oppose bringing one or two old characters as regulars, like they did with O'Brien and Worf in DS9 (Bashir and O'Brien would be my favourites for that treatment.) I'd prefer a female captain and it would be nice if the crew included either a Vulcan or an android (maybe Maddox finally has managed to unlock the secrets of positronic brains.)
Episodic format, no need for long story archs, though there could be some overarching issues and themes. Intelligent and thought provoking stories that explore interesting sci-fi concepts as well as social issues. Overall optimistic tone like in TOS and TNG. An utopian depiction of the Federation like in TNG, although people themselves do not need to be flawless; some interpersonal drama is OK, as long as it does not devolve into a soap opera.
Episodic format, no need for long story archs, though there could be some overarching issues and themes. Intelligent and thought provoking stories that explore interesting sci-fi concepts as well as social issues. Overall optimistic tone like in TOS and TNG. An utopian depiction of the Federation like in TNG, although people themselves do not need to be flawless; some interpersonal drama is OK, as long as it does not devolve into a soap opera.
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Relevant to both continuities, so set between Enterprise and either version of the 23rd Century.
My preference would be a fifth season of the show I'm most fond of. I'm least interested in anything post Nemesis.
My preference would be a fifth season of the show I'm most fond of. I'm least interested in anything post Nemesis.
You know, the whole thing about the re-imagined Battlestar Galactica was that the makers clearly liked the original, but wanted to re-tell it with a somewhat different sensibility. More to the point, they did it well. Just to give you an idea how horrible it could have gone--imagine Leslie Nielsen as Adama, Pamela Anderson as Starbuck and Taylor Lautner as Apollo (and that is just for starters).
What has this got to do with Star Trek 2017? Give a minute.
I'm a theatre critic and literally see a hundred or so plays a year. Many times I go see versions of Shakespeare. Classics! But I find myself most enjoying those productions that give the plays a new "twist" that doesn't change the play so much as make it even more itself--throwing everything into sharp relief. Last summer there was an amazing version of Romeo & Juliet simply called R&J because they had switched the gender of every single character! The familiar became suddenly achingly more vivid as we saw a gang of teenage girls try (and sometimes succeed) in killing each other with knives, while a teenage boy's birthday party is explicitly a meat market where older women size him up for deflowering. It didn't change the play, but did make it fresh in the audience's eyes. At the same time--this is crucial--they did it well. It was a good production of the play either way, with some amazing performances and startling choices along the way (just as having Julian wake immediately as Romea, having drunk the poison, kissed him).
I've also seen failures. An Othello with an all-black cast save for the title character was just...dull. Because that choice was just change for change's sake, and worse, they didn't do it well anyway.
But that is what I want for Star Trek 2017. I want to be startled, so the world of Starfleet and the Federation, of the Vulcans and Andorians and Klingons, etc. seem entirely new. How? Ideas are a dime a dozen. An experimental starship design that remains in service but isn't going to be continued, which in the wake of the Dominion War is crewed with a bunch of semi-misfits then sent deep into uncharted space. That's one. A show focusing on young officers in one way or another related to a variety of famous figures to us (Ensign Lydia Kirk, Spock's son Sarok, Geordie's grandmother, etc.) working their way up. A colony of dissidents whose planet turns out to be important for some reason and so gain a permanent Starfleet presence. Whatever...just tell good stories with good characters played by good actors. Make me care, wonder what will happen next, fear for the lives of the regulars.
What has this got to do with Star Trek 2017? Give a minute.
I'm a theatre critic and literally see a hundred or so plays a year. Many times I go see versions of Shakespeare. Classics! But I find myself most enjoying those productions that give the plays a new "twist" that doesn't change the play so much as make it even more itself--throwing everything into sharp relief. Last summer there was an amazing version of Romeo & Juliet simply called R&J because they had switched the gender of every single character! The familiar became suddenly achingly more vivid as we saw a gang of teenage girls try (and sometimes succeed) in killing each other with knives, while a teenage boy's birthday party is explicitly a meat market where older women size him up for deflowering. It didn't change the play, but did make it fresh in the audience's eyes. At the same time--this is crucial--they did it well. It was a good production of the play either way, with some amazing performances and startling choices along the way (just as having Julian wake immediately as Romea, having drunk the poison, kissed him).
I've also seen failures. An Othello with an all-black cast save for the title character was just...dull. Because that choice was just change for change's sake, and worse, they didn't do it well anyway.
But that is what I want for Star Trek 2017. I want to be startled, so the world of Starfleet and the Federation, of the Vulcans and Andorians and Klingons, etc. seem entirely new. How? Ideas are a dime a dozen. An experimental starship design that remains in service but isn't going to be continued, which in the wake of the Dominion War is crewed with a bunch of semi-misfits then sent deep into uncharted space. That's one. A show focusing on young officers in one way or another related to a variety of famous figures to us (Ensign Lydia Kirk, Spock's son Sarok, Geordie's grandmother, etc.) working their way up. A colony of dissidents whose planet turns out to be important for some reason and so gain a permanent Starfleet presence. Whatever...just tell good stories with good characters played by good actors. Make me care, wonder what will happen next, fear for the lives of the regulars.
Could a crew of semi-misfits be sent on funky assignments?
Ideally, I'd want something in the 26th-Century prime universe aboard a new Enterprise-J (as long as it isn't the pizza cutter design from that ENT episode). New characters, new situations, and no trying to "recapture" any of "the magic" from TOS or TNG with similar characters and relationships.
This is my preference also.
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