I am so there. Hopefully bits of her hair fall down and she blows it back up with her pretty little lips.
Voyager Reboot movies?
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Perhaps, but when the changes are leading to something bad, then it's everyone's duty to stand up against them.
There are too many changes to the bad in the world right now.
blockaderunner wrote:
I hope that I never live to see the day a NuTrek Voyager reboot will hit the screen. NuTrek is bad as it is without destroying a decent series. Besides that, the thought of Stargate Universe still makes me shiver with fear and dismay.
I wish I'd called myself "Chakotay" on these forums. He may come across often times as "wooden," but I really dig his spirituality, you know?
You mean his e-drugs.
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Any further Trek reboots I see, I want to see with a completely new cast of characters, not with an existing set.
DS9 and Voyager characters are definitively identified with 90s sensibilities. Take away 90s sensibilities, like you'd have to do to make a movie profitable now, there's no sense in calling them the same characters. And if the writers of the new Trek have some great ideas I'd hate to see them restrained by having to make them similar to seven seasons worth of prior development. New characters, no more old characters made modern!
DS9 and Voyager characters are definitively identified with 90s sensibilities. Take away 90s sensibilities, like you'd have to do to make a movie profitable now, there's no sense in calling them the same characters. And if the writers of the new Trek have some great ideas I'd hate to see them restrained by having to make them similar to seven seasons worth of prior development. New characters, no more old characters made modern!
A new series, new characters, guest starring Kate Mulgrew as Admiral Janeway.
But the entire point of reboots is to see new tellings of existing mythologies. I don't want Star Trek Voyager starring Captain Bob, I want to see new incarnations of Janeway, Seven and the Doctor.
Sherlock and Elementary are variations of "what if Sherlock Holmes was around today?"
Star Trek Into Darkness is "what if Khan crossed paths with a much younger Enterprise crew while Starfleet went off the deep end?"
Smallville is "What if a much younger, pre-Superman Clark Kent came up against all his movie and comic book foes?"
Man of Steel is pretty much, "what if Superman were born into a less ideal world?"
And so on. I think it's wonderful. It gives stories an immortality to the characters and events be told again and again in different ways.
What if they spin around horizontally like helicopter blades?
Reboots kind of work in franchises that are driven through individual characters who do not change much over time. Those characters, Superman, Sherlock Holmes are defined by their force of personality, not by their development, and thus it's easy to place that personality in any situation and call it a new interpretation of the same character. Ensemble casts defined more by their relationships with each other and their development over time in response to specific stories don't work quite the same way. It's harder to apply your own ideas and keep the essence the same.
Like, a Columbo reboot could work fantastically today, but a Lost reboot would be awful.
If you want to bring back an entire ensemble in a reboot you're constrained more to have the same development happen and give the characters the same relationships.
To me a successful Star Trek reboot would be more like a Battlestar Galactica style reboot. Don't try to make the characters have anything at all in common with the original characters. Just take the same premise and run with it, maybe name some of the characters the same even though they're completely different characters. Kirk and Spock also kind of have the 'Unchanging force of personality' quality, and consequently I think the Kirk/Spock relationship is the only major thing that works well in Abrams Trek. The rest of the crew just comes off as ridiculous because they tried to keep them sorta kinda close to the originals, which basically reduced most of them to shallow gags.
I would much rather see 'Captain Bob' than 'Captain Janeway', because to me the central thing about Star Trek is the universe, not any specific characters. The new Star Trek I want to see is one that takes the established world and lets the writers tell whatever stories they want inside it.
It doesn't even have to be Voyager--just the general idea will hold up for any ship/crew.
Well you can stay home and watch seasons 1-3, I will pay for multiple IMAX movie tickets to see the VOY reboot until they have to scrape me off the seats with the spilled coke.
Exactly what I'm gonna do. I have no intention to pay for something I know I will dislike.
As a matter of fact, I wouldn't even watch a reboot if they paid me to watch it. I don't want to see my favorite characters being even more ruined than BB&T did.
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