Posted on 06/19/2006 5:51:29 PM PDT by KevinDavis
In 2004, television producer Bryce Zabel (The Crow: Stairway to Heaven) and fellow producer J. Michael Straczynski (Babylon 5) had an idea to "reboot" Star Trek—an idea that ultimately never came to fruition, though it caught the attention of Trek fans. Since then, the news has emerged that Mission: Impossible III director J.J. Abrams is developing his own take on Star Trek for a proposed 11th film. And Zabel has chosen to post the 14-page treatment he and Straczynski developed on his own blog so that fans can finally get a look at the Trek that might have been.
The treatment called for a re-imagining of the original series, centering on the three main characters of Kirk, Spock and McCoy, set on the U.S.S. Enterprise on its first five-year mission. Zabel told SCI FI Wire that the show would reset the mythology to "start a new 'Universe B' which would be free to move in new directions as needed and yet allow us to work with the classic characters that all fans love and cherish. The best of all worlds, if you will."
As for the ship's mission, Zabel said the new mission would be "oriented toward discovering the truth behind an ancient life that appears to have had a hand in creating the numerous humanoid species throughout the universe. That would have been the over-mission, which would have steered the Enterprise into finding its share of new worlds and civilizations just the same."
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I wonder what he thinks is the "bad stuff"?
We wanted to use Kirk, Spock and McCoy, but show them off as you'd never seen them before."
Ah yes . . . perhaps some unusual 'bonding'.
Not a done deal I hope
I still like the old BSG...
Yea, because we all know that Tribbles, sex with green women, and "Oh look, Bizarro Spock has an eeeeevil goatee!" were paragons of serious cinema. :)
That episode was already done on Star Trek TNG.
I said the same thing about Starbuck when the new "Galactica" series was ramping up.
I'm glad they did.
Ditto....
That awful show WAS a re-imagining. They should go back to the original novel and start from there.
Most people don't even know Buck Rogers was a novel.
For others interested, Armageddon 2419 A.D. by Phil Nowlan was the Buck Rogers novel. I think he wrote at least one sequel.
I thought that was called "Stargate SG-1" and "Stargate Atlantis"...[duck & run]
I think JMS should leave Trek alone..
Well it was ok, however, they should drop the cornball storylines, drop the robot, and find some better actors!!!!
The Airlords of Han was the sequel.
America under Chinese (The Han) control.
If they do. I'll chip in on a contract. I know some people who might take it!
I liked the old BSG, but I like the new one better. The old one was too campy.
That was explained on "Enterprise" in a fairly imaginative episode.
Actually, sounds like an episode of "Next Generation", when Picard, after a visit from, and the death of, an old archaeology Professor, follows the professor's trail, and various clues with a Klingon, a Romulan and a Cardassian, to a hologram of the ancient species that "seeded" the stars with the precursors to life.
Frankly, I would love Hollywood to take a two-year sabbatical from remaking or "refurbishing" or "rethinking" ANYTHING. Call it an experiment in originality. This would include, for experimental purposes, book adaptations, too.
The good-adaptations/remakes-to-bad must be 1 to 200.
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