Why Do we Need More Trek?

[Scarpad]

As a longtime Fan I have to Ask the Question. I've Loved all Versions of Trek, Some more than others. But with All the Series and Movies Combine I be we have close to or over 700 hours of Trek. Isn't that Enough ? I ask you Opinion, as a fan, if Trek Never had another moment shot on Film or Video, isn't what we have Enough ?


I'll be interested to hear your answer.

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

I don't need another cup of coffee.

Ever.

I'm going to go get one right now.

If I had to choose between more Trek and more coffee... I'd choose coffee.

No one will ever force such a choice on me, of course.

Do I need "more Trek?"

Of course not.

Is what we have "enough?"

Any amount - including none - is "enough."

I like what we've got - about 80 to 90 percent of it, I really like. Even a good deal of DS9.

Will I enjoy more?

Yep.

Not as much as more coffee, of course.

 

[Nowhere Man]

as long as they make good , interesting episodes/movies and stick to the basic ideas of trek, you know seak out new life and civilizations and boldly go .....then i'm fine with it, but i wouldn't go too much further in time that the established timelines that have already been established. i think it would be nice if the started making seperate sections of trek like Star Trek:Academy or Star Trek: Medical or Star Trek: CSI. stuff like that, but I preferthe Ship setting.

 

[M'Sharak]

Re: Why Do we Need More Trek?

I'll be interested to hear your answer.

Here it is:

Why not?

 

[Sharr Khan]

We never needed any Star Trek ever... its not a necessity, and there are plenty of things that I enjoy just as much or more so...

But that doesn't mean no one should ever try their hand at making it again. Actually that's what I look forward most, seeing another take on it from people who are "outsiders".

Starship Polaris said it better.

Sharr

 

[PKTrekGirl]

We don't 'need' more Trek. 'Need' and 'want' are two separate things.

 

[Samuel T. Cogley]

Our lives are boring.

Also, we live in constant denial of the personal issues that we should be addressing in our lives, but most likely never will be addressed.

Star Trek XI will assist us in this denial, as the anticipation for it is already doing now.

 

[Jon1701]

Trek will be continually remade for at least the next 200 years*. There will be at least Seven remakes, three reboots, one reimagining, one puppet version and one expressed entirely through the medium of dance.

Hollywood has recycled the same formats for the last 90 years or so, and will continue to do so in the future. Trek is practically a religion now. There will be offshoots, different sects - Old Testament (pre 1986) New Testament (The Berman era) and the Nu Testament (Abrams era).

I just cannot see a scenario where they never make trek again. There might be slightly larger gaps between each attempt, but it will be back.







* I'm deadly serious.

 

[Bill Morris]

Rule of Acquisition No. 10: Greed is eternal.
Rule of Acquisition No. 97: Enough is never enough.
Rule of Acquisition No. 242. More is good; all is better.

 

[Temis the Vorta]

It's never enough.

And there will be movies and TV shows in the future. Why should none of them be Star Trek? That's not right.

 

[darkshadow0001]

As a longtime Fan I have to Ask the Question. I've Loved all Versions of Trek, Some more than others. But with All the Series and Movies Combine I be we have close to or over 700 hours of Trek. Isn't that Enough ? I ask you Opinion, as a fan, if Trek Never had another moment shot on Film or Video, isn't what we have Enough ?


I'll be interested to hear your answer.

This post should be locked and the poster should be banned for bringing up such filth! This is blasphemy!

 

[Brutal Strudel]

As a longtime Fan I have to Ask the Question. I've Loved all Versions of Trek, Some more than others. But with All the Series and Movies Combine I be we have close to or over 700 hours of Trek. Isn't that Enough ? I ask you Opinion, as a fan, if Trek Never had another moment shot on Film or Video, isn't what we have Enough ?


I'll be interested to hear your answer.

I think the real question is not so much if it is enough for us--that's a personal question and, lets face it, on a board like this, it's akin to going into The Wire's Hamsterdam and asking the fiends if they've had enough heroin--but whether it's enough for Trek. I think the well ran dry for Trek's brand of space opera a long time ago; the only consistently interesting spin-off was DS9 and that succeeeded--artistically if not popularly--precisely because it broke with the "lone starship exploring the unknown" paradigm. Other shows that traded in something like the Trek brand of SF--Babylon 5, FarScape, the Stargates and even NuBSG have all failed to grab me.

I tuned out on Voyager and Enterprise rather easily once I realized that the heroin Berman, Braga, Cotto et al. was selling was not going to do it for me. While I cannot say for certain that this new pusher maight not have a better connect, I've seen nothing--absolutely nothing--to make me think that will be the case.

 

[The Wormhole]

Because we need something new to discuss around here. Seriously, how many more "Best Helmsman" polls and discussions can we sit through?

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

Our lives are boring.

Also, we live in constant denial of the personal issues that we should be addressing in our lives, but most likely never will be addressed.

Star Trek XI will assist us in this denial, as the anticipation for it is already doing now.

Get out of my head! Get out! GET OUT!!!!

 

[Brutal Strudel]

Our lives are boring.

Also, we live in constant denial of the personal issues that we should be addressing in our lives, but most likely never will be addressed.

Star Trek XI will assist us in this denial, as the anticipation for it is already doing now.

Too true, too true...

 

[Dell Yount]

The Future... like the universe, is filled with endless possibilities.

Q: Why Do we Need More Trek?

A: Because we Humans still have valuable lessons to learn
about ourselves and others on this planet... and beyond to the stars.

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

Q: Why Do we Need More Trek?

A: Because we Humans still have valuable lessons to learn
about ourselves and others on this planet... and beyond to the stars.

First step on the journey: turn off the skiffy TV shows, step away from the Internet, go out and talk to other people.
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Nah, me neither.

 

[Who_Trek]

Trek will be continually remade for at least the next 200 years*. There will be at least Seven remakes, three reboots, one reimagining, one puppet version and one expressed entirely through the medium of dance.

Hollywood has recycled the same formats for the last 90 years or so, and will continue to do so in the future. Trek is practically a religion now. There will be offshoots, different sects - Old Testament (pre 1986) New Testament (The Berman era) and the Nu Testament (Abrams era).

I just cannot see a scenario where they never make trek again. There might be slightly larger gaps between each attempt, but it will be back.

* I'm deadly serious.

I totally agree. Star Trek is Dead! Long live Star Trek! I like to think that long after I'm dead, ST will still be around to make people happy.

 

[EnsignRicky]

I'm a life long Trek fan, but at this point I've become borderline apathetic. With each new show, I bagan to develope the same feelings I usually reserve for spectator sports; After a while it just begins to blur into the same repetetive, formulaic thing over and over again. In fact, it was my passion for Science Fiction in general that kept me coming back for more as long as I have; Even when Enterprise finally went Belly up, I didn't lose any sleep. When the new movie comes out, I'll probably go and see it, but by the same token, if they decided to halt production tomorrow, I'll have forgotten all about it long before it was supposed to have come out.

 

[gastrof]

...if they decided to halt production tomorrow, I'll have forgotten all about it long before it was supposed to have come out.

ALL about it?

Why do I suspect that's not ENTIRELY true?