which of these Star Trek projects should have been made?
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No, Strazinski wasn't good enough. We got something better - a little Lord Fontleroy spoiled brat. Well, that's corperate mentality - save the art for a museum. Art is just being greedy. They're not greedy, they're just about making money. There's a big difference. They just turned greed into an art .
Not really - it would have been a weird spinoff. It might have worked in the 60s but not now, which is why I didn't vote for it (though I almost did just for nostalgia's sake).
Yeah, there's no point to talking about a series that dead now. But I admit, I did like the premise - a show based on a medical emergency. Imagine if you were sent to find a cure, knowing that people would start dying at any minute. Maybe they're dying right now!
Maybe I shouldn't participate in derailing my own thread.
Assignment Earth, every time.
I imagine that would have run for about three years too before fading to obscurity, then being resurrected in the nineties to compete with the X-Files and the inevitable Voyager crossover.
I still think this one has wheels. A sort of Torchwood, but with Klingons and no bum sex.
I imagine that would have run for about three years too before fading to obscurity, then being resurrected in the nineties to compete with the X-Files and the inevitable Voyager crossover.
I still think this one has wheels. A sort of Torchwood, but with Klingons and no bum sex.
Well, I've never seen Crusade, whatever it is.Tuvix? A classic episode? Really???
The one where Janeway murders a crew member
Whaaa???
She killed one to save two... sorta.
Can you name a Crusade that was anywhere near as memorable, though?
But I have seen Tuvix, and it has a very questionable ending.
But you can blame that on TPTB and the magic reset button.
And now back to our main program...
I would've loved to have seen a Romulan War TV show, with an arc and stuff similar to the dominion war arc in DS9. Possibly showing both sides, showing that neither side is the bad guy (or something like that)
What's "Star Trek: The Final Frontier"?
Wasn't there an idea to feature a selection of DS9/TNG/VOY characters in a movie? Seven and Bashir were mooted as possibly candidates if I recall.
www.zeroroomproductions.com. A cartoon web series. There's character art, the ugliest Enterprise EVER, storyboards and the script for the pilot episode.
They look like Halloween Jem'Hadar.
No, that's the premise of the show (not to mention something Crusade never actually did!). Voyager's premise, that of a lost ship journeying home, was equally as good. I'm talking about the stories of the individual episodes. "Caretaker" and "Jetrel" are miles ahead of any of Crusade's adventures.
I would like this, but with some effort to turn Romulans into believable alien characters, not just humans with pointy ears. Which precludes the idea that "neither side is the bad guy," exactly.
Here's what would work better: both sides are doing what is natural for their respective species. The Borg is an extreme example of this. We can't really say they're anything but a bad guy, from the human perspective, even though from their perspective, they're acting perfectly normal.
But since the Rommies are such cyphers, we don't know what is natural for them, there's some background work to be done before any story that casts them as central characters can be written.
PLANET OF THE TITANS, hands down, because the more I've researched it the more interesting it sounds. Kaufman wanted an Olef Stapledon "First and Last Men" approach, and I find that intriguing. Plus, Hell, he had Ken "James Bond/Dr. Strangelove set designer" Adam on as production designer. It sure as Hell would've been Star Trek unlike any other Trek we ever got!
Star Trek:Phase II -- I was disappointed when it wasn't produced. I think it would have been better than the first couple seasons of TNG, at the very least.
Assignment: Earth-- it would have been part Man From Uncle, part The Avengers, part Doctor Who (think Troughton's "The Invasion" or some of Pertwee's episodes)
The Final Frontier -- I want to take back my vote on this one. I thought it was about basing a series on Diane Carey's novel.
Assignment: Earth-- it would have been part Man From Uncle, part The Avengers, part Doctor Who (think Troughton's "The Invasion" or some of Pertwee's episodes)
The Final Frontier -- I want to take back my vote on this one. I thought it was about basing a series on Diane Carey's novel.
I voted for Phase II, and here's my reasoning (not that I think anyone will agree with me):
Going purely by the context of the Original Series, Phase II would have been the most logical step for the "franchise" (sorry, I hate that word when it's used in a Trek context) to go. I think it would have been far better than what we eventually got in TMP, although I agree that we would have lost the terrific triumvirate of STII, III, and IV.
As much as I like TNG, the fact is that the entire feel of that show was obviously meant to mimic TOS of 100 years before rather than the movies it was supposed to chronologically come after. Phase II, taking place essentially right after TOS, would have been a more logical transition in this regard. Plus, the whole concept of starting with (most of) the original cast and then segueing into a newer younger cast as eventual replacements was a terrific idea.
Of course, now that we have the nuVerse, anything's possible now
Going purely by the context of the Original Series, Phase II would have been the most logical step for the "franchise" (sorry, I hate that word when it's used in a Trek context) to go. I think it would have been far better than what we eventually got in TMP, although I agree that we would have lost the terrific triumvirate of STII, III, and IV.
As much as I like TNG, the fact is that the entire feel of that show was obviously meant to mimic TOS of 100 years before rather than the movies it was supposed to chronologically come after. Phase II, taking place essentially right after TOS, would have been a more logical transition in this regard. Plus, the whole concept of starting with (most of) the original cast and then segueing into a newer younger cast as eventual replacements was a terrific idea.
Of course, now that we have the nuVerse, anything's possible now
First of all, no one remembers Crusade but everyone remembers Voyager so it doesn't matter which series was better, because a show isn't worth shit if no one remembers it even existed.
I chose The First Adventure because it actually sounds a whole hell of a lot better than that JJ Abrams mess we actually got.
I also chose Reboot the Universe because I was honestly pulled in by the description, it sounded like what a modern Trek series should be about.
And lastly, setting Enterprise after the Romulan War does sound intriguing but it also feels like a cheat. I'm tired of hearing about the Romulan War, I want to see it!
I chose The First Adventure because it actually sounds a whole hell of a lot better than that JJ Abrams mess we actually got.
I also chose Reboot the Universe because I was honestly pulled in by the description, it sounded like what a modern Trek series should be about.
And lastly, setting Enterprise after the Romulan War does sound intriguing but it also feels like a cheat. I'm tired of hearing about the Romulan War, I want to see it!
That's what flashbacks are for
For me I think that after the war would just follow on from DS9 really well. They had a year of fighting the Klingons quickly followed by two years of fighting the Dominion, in the biggest war in decades. Then the series just finishes and you don't get to see what happens afterwards, with rebuilding, etc.
Enterprise set after the Romulan War would be continuing that kind of arc. They would be the ones facing all the hardships, etc. Plus with having the newly formed Federation and Starfleet, there is the chance for lots of tension between the crew.
But that's just how it would be in my head.
Bry
Could you folks stop the tiresome Crusade/VOY debate, please? Or least start another thread for it where it can be tangentally related to the topic?
Of the choices given, I would've most liked to have seen Planet of the Titans, Phase II, the JMS/Bryce Zabel Reboot the Universe, and the Harve Bennett Starfleet Academy prequel. I wasn't too nuts about the Shatner/Reeves-Stevens Academy book, but I wouldn't have minded them doing more.
Of the choices given, I would've most liked to have seen Planet of the Titans, Phase II, the JMS/Bryce Zabel Reboot the Universe, and the Harve Bennett Starfleet Academy prequel. I wasn't too nuts about the Shatner/Reeves-Stevens Academy book, but I wouldn't have minded them doing more.
Well, obsessive if tangental feuds do serve the salutary purpose of bumping the thread to the top.
72 votes is much better than I expected to do with this.
That Enterprise is worse than the McQuarrie designs!
