Who would you want to write for Star Trek?
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Everybody seems to suggest Joss Whedon. I love Joss Whedon. I think much of his work is brilliant. But I also don't want him getting anywhere near Trek. He's not right for it. He tries to shoehorn everything he does into the same style and, frankly, the same message and agenda. Witness his inability to come up with a Wonder Woman movie acceptable to the studio and the levels he sank the Alien franchise to in Alien Resurrection.
Buffy, Angel, Firefly, and anything that he creates from the beginning, great! But anything established that he would be coming into and putting his stamp on, no way.
Good Will Riker
Admiral
I agree with you.
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I don't.
Joss Whedon has given the sci-fi and fantasy genre three TV shows (and Serenity) that are still cultural touch stones. I don't think those criticisms are even remotely fair.
Oh... and Tom Clancy can't write. He's unreadable. Read John Le Carre is you want the real thing.
I don't.
Joss Whedon has given the sci-fi and fantasy genre three TV shows (and Serenity) that are still cultural touch stones. I don't think those criticisms are even remotely fair.
Oh... and Tom Clancy can't write. He's unreadable. Read John Le Carre is you want the real thing.
He already has, a graphic novel put out by DC comics entitled Star Trek: Debt of Honor .
Debt of Honor
Here's a little proposal for an exercise in humor: If Quentin Tarantino wrote for Star Trek, what exactly would the dialogue be like? 
Yes, he has. And all three of those shows were excellent, and he was perfect for them because he created them from the ground up to reflect his style and vision. But despite their differences in setting, they are all done in the same Joss Whedon trademark style. He has not, to the best of my knowledge, ever demonstrated an ability to write anything outside of that style and has, on more than one occassion, shown that he tries to force projects into that style even when it doesn't fit. And while Buffy is excellent, the Buffy style would not work for Trek.
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Three? There's Buffy, and then he created two shows that were quickly cancelled, and a movie that flopped.
Some Stanislaw Lem stories are amazingly Trek-like in setting, and even in characters. I think that adapting one of them into a shallow Hollywood blockbuster Trek movie would be a fitting way to get him to spin in his grave.
GodThingFormerly
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You consider 'Angel' which ran for 110 episodes over 5 seasons, a show that was quickly canceled?
It's worth checking out. Adam Hughes and Karl Kesel's art is fantastic! The story is interesting and spans every era of TOS to just after TFF.
Yep... and did you notice the not-so-subtle implication that Kirk has yet another illegitimate kid (this time a half-Romulan daughter) running around? ;-)
^Ah, T'Kir... I wonder who your daddy could be?
Michael Crichton
Paul Haggis
Charlie Kaufman
Stephen King
George Lucas *ducks and runs*
Paul Haggis
Charlie Kaufman
Stephen King
George Lucas *ducks and runs*
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