TOS Prequel #4

[cooleddie74]

Sounds like some of you sorry mofos need faith of the heart.

 

[uniderth]

Sounds like some of you sorry mofos need faith of the heart.

No! Evil!

*slap*

 

[Warped9]

After thirty years of being conned the faith in TPTB is dead.

 

[Lord Garth]

^ Even though we don't agree about what Star Trek is doing right now, it's still refreshing to see a legitimate old-schooler again instead of people who just didn't like the last few projects and then suddenly decided that makes them "old school". It doesn't.

You have no idea how many times I've gotten a kick out of people who've said "Oh my God! Look at Picard! What have they done to TNG?! I want '90s Trek back!" (You have to like that, with some people, the shoe is on the other foot now. At least a little. Now they get to see what it's like. )

 

[Neopeius]

CGI recreations of Jeffrey Hunter and other cast members of "The Cage" as well as accurate reproduction of the sets, writing, and filming styles.

Basically, I want it to be like they found a bunch of episodes locked away in a vault and are just now releasing them.

That's what I want.

More Starship Exeter. That's what I want!

 

[JonnyQuest037]

I think using the term "Modern Trek" is confusing now, because people might not even be referring to the same thing:

Steve: I don't like Modern Trek.
John: I don't like Modern Trek either.
Steve: I'm glad we agree. Ever since 2009, it's sucked.
John: Wait a minute. 2009? I was talking about 1987.

Bah! Trek has gone downhill since 1991.

You spelled 1969 wrong.

...And this is a perfect illustration of how fans do not have one mind on this sort of thing.

I find much of TNG to be unwatchable some 20 years on. I loved it as it was happening, but it never had rerun value to me. And I always felt Star Trek needed that. However, a talky drama does not a return visit make. Not for me. When it was great, it was outstanding, but it wasn't great often enough.

Sums it up pretty well for me. There are only about one or two dozen episodes of TNG that I really enjoy rewatching.

 

[Neopeius]

I'm looking forward to Pike, but this tying everything into old stuff is small universe and a sign of a decadent culture like studios making just the same movie over and over and over . . .

What I loved about Starship Exeter is we finally were getting to see a DIFFERENT crew in the rich, huge TOS universe. I'm so tired of Big Three stories.

 

[cooleddie74]

Potemkin Productions(the fan production group I write for) also uses starships nobody's ever seen in canon films and episodes and sets their films in a period of Trek history that's still largely unexplored(the TOS Movie Era around the years 2299 and 2300). There are references to TOS characters from time to time but the films operate largely independent of callbacks to TOS and the TOS Movies and simply use the wider universe established by those and by FC and ENT.