Posted on 04/21/2006 4:44:09 AM PDT by KevinDavis
Tongiht's Sci-Fi Listing:
9/8 - Dr Who The Long Game: A journey to Earth's distant future pits the doctor against a sinister manipulator known as the Editor
Ron whats-his-name, the black guy....he was the black DJ on "WKRP in Cincinatti"
Ron Glass - Harris from "Barney Miller" - played Book.
Tim Reid was Venus Flytrap on "WKRP".
You're right...thanks.....
Venus Flytrap
My tastes lean toward Kaylee. 8^)
Yeah, her too. I actually sat thru a Lifetime movie once cuz she was in it.
You, my friend, have it bad. 8^)
In a way, Yes. The problem I feel is this: Stop going retro, And start moving towards the future.
Did Tony Nelson and Doug Phillips ever make it 'home' to 1968?
We're both giving away our ages!
04.21.2006 BREAKING NEWS: J.J. Abrams to Produce "Trek XI" J.J. Abrams, producer of hit shows Lost and Alias, as well as director of the upcoming Paramount film "Mission: Impossible III," is slated to produce the next Star Trek feature, according to today's Daily Variety. Although the official Paramount press release should follow shortly, word about the Abrams project surfaced this morning in the daily trade paper. He will be writing the script with Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci who penned "MI: III." Although Abrams is not yet confirmed to direct the project, he isn't ruling it out either. The proposed story will focus on the early days of James T. Kirk and Spock, including their first meeting at Starfleet Academy and their first mission in space. Although it's not confirmed, Abrams' producing partners from Lost, Damon Lindelof and Bryan Burk are cited as being producers on the untitled "Trek XI" feature. (This project is separate from the previously rumored script developed by Eric Jendersen and overseen by Rick Berman.) This new film is currently targeted for a 2008 release. We will be publishing the official Paramount press release once it is available.
Still picking at the corpse, I see.
Two fan groups, Starship Exeter and New Voyages, are making Original Series-style fan episodes on a shoestring budget. New Voyages is even getting original series actors and writers to work on their episodes. Also, Deep Space 9 and Enterprise had episodes with the crew dressed in original series uniforms. So what I want to know is what Paramount is waiting for. Why can't they make some 1960s-style butt-kicking Kirk-style Original Series Star Trek? Yes, I know they botched their licensing agreement with Franz Joseph so they don't have total control over the Original Series designs, but these fan shows demonstrate that it's possible to make new Original Series style Star Trek now.
(Yes, I know those fan films are going to horrify some Star Trek fans. I'm not claiming they are perfect, though I do think they are pretty impressive for what they are -- amateur fan films. What I'd like to see is Paramount take a stab at doing the same sort of thing professionally without injecting Next Generationisms into it like they did with Enterprise.)
Another option would be for Paramount to take the soundtracks from the animated Star Trek series and reanimate them with modern (possibly computer generated) animation. The soundtracks include decent sound effects and music along with the voices of most of the original crew but the animation is horrible.
Basically, what I want is more Original Series Trek.
The Original Star Trek series wasn't quite socialist tripe. If you notice, even the space hippied episode had the space hippies die at the end from their foolish and impatient idealism. It had episodes that were pro-Vietnam intervention, pro-life, anti-collectivism, and so on. It's anti-racism episode showed the racism as a two-sided problem and at least two episodes had themes that children require adult supervision, which is quite far from the clever kid themes so common now. Basically, the still-conservative values of the mid-1960s moderated the show quite a bit and it was actually pretty conservative.
Compare this to a show like Babylon 5 which had less "great" episodes, but which was consistantly "good". (I can't think of a B5 ep which was a true stinker).
If you really want to see some socialist tripe, see the first season Babylon 5 episode, "By Any Means Necessary", a love letter to organized labor. Yes, the "Rush Act" is meant to mock Rush Limbaugh. To top it off, it's badly written with a straw-man villain and laughingly heroic labor union workers. There were some other awful first season episodes, like "TKO". And let's be honest, the fifth season wasn't necessary. I do think Babylon 5 was consistently good, but it wasn't stinker free.
Just what we need. Another movie ignoring things established in the Original Series. It's bad enough what they did to Zefram Cochrane of Alpha Centauri, the discoverer of warp drive. Now we'll have a movie mangling the relationship between Kirk and Spock and likely ignoring Captain Pike and so on. I can only imagine what they are going to do with Finnegan...
Yeah....I been told...I can't wait until the Alzheimers kicks in fully; all of my DVDs will be brand new 'first releases!'
I was always hoping they would do something like the Wrath of Khan again, but I don't even think Rodenberry liked the Wrath of Khan because it was too "militaristic". Horatio Hornblower in space was really what Trek was meant to be, not bald French UN diplomats in starships or insufferable, preachy know-it-alls like Janeway.
Yeah. They didn't know if there was going to be a 5th season, so they had to end season 4 in such a way that it could be the end of the series. Season 5 tried to spin things up again and it didn't really work. Still, "Severed Dreams" is probably the best sci-fi episode I've ever seen. I get all tingly when Mira arrives with the cavalry.
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