ping
I'll bet it tanks.
Sulu still wants to go where no man has gone before.
Oh please no. I love Star Trek but the franchise needs to stay dead for a decade or so. Let generation of writers that grew up watching TNG, DS9, and Voyager come of age before trying to bring it back.
as long as its not the brokenback dreck created by overweight left wing female no life trekie fanatics.
otherwise
Sounds promising.
G4 mucked up a good thing by concocting this insipid new way of showing the original campy Star Trek series with Star Trek 2.0.
It's dead, Jim
They Just Won't Let It Die PING
Filming to commence immediately?
Brannon Braga has taken the brunt of much of the criticism directed at the last movie and "Enterprise" series which ended up a "miserable failure" despite the last two season becoming progressively better. That, with exception of the "Enterprise" finale, which had the distinction of being the only trek episode where fans actively promoted a "death penalty" for the writer. He will most likely not be part of this effort, which could have a major impact on the quality of the production, although, I won't forward if that will be for better or worse until
Anyway, I have no idea if Abrams has actually ever seen an episode of "Star Trek". Let's hope he at least surrounds himself with people who are acquainted with Rodenberry's original vision. Trek is compatible with the "wild frontier where men are men" mentality. Adventure, terror and battle drive the series, not polite negotiations with sap-sucking aliens.
"Enterprise" died for me when they attempted the damnable idiocy of an episode that was basically a political commentary on AIDS. I never tuned into show after that seeing as how the Braga was intent on defining us all as total idiots and insulted our collective intelligence. That may seem like a petty point, but it angered me to think of all the soft brained idiots who wouldn't pick up on the commentary and possibly have their judgment altered by this subtle propaganda. In the end, I didn't care how the vulcan got her disease, so long as they could resolve it by having her rub herself down with decontaminant gel in a 15 minute unedited session in the decon chamber. That should have been it, then they could have wasted some sap-suckers.
But no, they have to embrace the dreaded "political commentary episode. Result: Enterprise died.
Anyways, it deserved it for those dorks attempting to hijack a perfectly good SciFi series as a platform for political protest. Yet the fans deserved better. I suspect that even with this pending movie, a clueless Hollywood that has hit the bottom with Star Trek afficionados will continue to dig.
With Abrams running the show?! Cool! Now THAT is someone I can get behind. Just keep Rick Berman and Brannon Braga as far from it as humanly possible.
ugh. let it rest.
Nooooooo!!!!!
For Pete's sake - STOP BRINGING BACK THAT ACCURSED STAR FLEET ACADEMY IDEA!
Look, you keep proposing it every few years, and it keeps getting shot down. Again and again. By many different sets of studio executives. Do you get the picture? It's not a good idea. The suits don't like it. The fans don't like it. (Good lord, don't get them started on the continuity errors that this would cause.) The general public seems luke warm on it. Just do something else. Anything else. Hell, give Peter David a few bucks and have him write something. But leave this idea on the wate heap.
BTW, for those saying "Great! JJ Abrams is writing it." Abrams is also the person who wrote a Superman script that had Krypton not exploding, Superman doing kungfu (because "it looks cool") and Luthor as a Kryptonian. He doesn't seem to play well with other folks' creations.