What if ST XI came out 10 years ago?

[therealfoxbat]

Chris Pine would have been 18 and Zachary Quinto would have been 21...

Nero's evil plan would have been to time travel to the end of the 20th Century and make certain Earth's civilization was destroyed by the Y2K Bug...

 

[ichab]

Here's the scenario: after Insurrection, Paramount tells Rick Berman, "We think you're a great TV guy but we're giving the movies to someone else", and they hand it over to a red hot director/producer of the time. Whoever this is still decides it's going to be a reboot and decides to use the TOS characters, but how would it be different?

I imagine more militaristic-looking uniforms and gross-out humor.

Reboots weren't being done that much ten years ago so who knows? The only one I can think of from that far back was the Psycho remake and that was horrible because it was the same movie with different actors. A remake of Wrath of Khan would have been horrible.

 

[Lord Garth]

^ Lost in Space was also reboot, in 1998.

During the '90s they made movies out of The Brady Bunch, Car 54 Where Are You?, Beverly Hillbillies, Wild, Wild West, The Fugitive, and Mission: Impossible.

So there were reboots, they were just of variable quality and most of them didn't continue. The only one that lasted as a rebooted movie series was Mission: Impossible which was altered beyond recognition.

 

[SPCTRE]

Ten years ago Paul Verhoeven would still be fresh off Starship Troopers (.. or maybe in this alternate universe that movie was never made). He makes the Federation a cold militaristic fascist dystopia. And to be topical, the plot's villain is a genocidal dictator modelled after Slobodan Milosevic. To capitalize on The Matrix, the starfleet uniforms are made of black leather and rubber. With Good Will Hunting just a couple years ago, its stars Matt Damon and Ben Affleck play Kirk and Spock. Because its Verhoeven, there's lots of political satire, violence, and gore, as well as nude scenes and a co-ed shower.

Mirroring the behind-the-scenes shitstorm of 1995's Waterworld and 2000's Supernova (starring Angela Basset and James Spader) Verhoeven goes way over budget and refuses to change the film to meet executive demands. He is fired and the more studio friendly Brett Ratner is brought in to completly reshoot the film. He casts Jackie Chan as Sulu who takes center stage over the rest of the cast despite being barley able to speak english, and a 'cute' CGI alien is added to the main cast ala that annoying furrball in Lost in Space or Jar Jar Binks.

The movie is a medium success at the box office but doesn't make back its enormous budget. Several books and magazine articles are written about the backstage drama and it kills Star Trek on the big screen for good.

FOR. THE. WIN.

FTW indeed

 

[BillJ]

Ten years ago Paul Verhoeven would still be fresh off Starship Troopers (.. or maybe in this alternate universe that movie was never made). He makes the Federation a cold militaristic fascist dystopia. And to be topical, the plot's villain is a genocidal dictator modelled after Slobodan Milosevic. To capitalize on The Matrix, the starfleet uniforms are made of black leather and rubber. With Good Will Hunting just a couple years ago, its stars Matt Damon and Ben Affleck play Kirk and Spock. Because its Verhoeven, there's lots of political satire, violence, and gore, as well as nude scenes and a co-ed shower.

Mirroring the behind-the-scenes shitstorm of 1995's Waterworld and 2000's Supernova (starring Angela Basset and James Spader) Verhoeven goes way over budget and refuses to change the film to meet executive demands. He is fired and the more studio friendly Brett Ratner is brought in to completly reshoot the film. He casts Jackie Chan as Sulu who takes center stage over the rest of the cast despite being barley able to speak english, and a 'cute' CGI alien is added to the main cast ala that annoying furrball in Lost in Space or Jar Jar Binks.

The movie is a medium success at the box office but doesn't make back its enormous budget. Several books and magazine articles are written about the backstage drama and it kills Star Trek on the big screen for good.

This.

If they're going to make Star Trek a dumb-ass action flick... I'd better get to see Uhura's tits.