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Here's why Netflix should make another Star Trek television series
entertainment.ie ^ | September 6, 2015 | Brian Lloyd

Posted on 09/06/2015 5:55:42 PM PDT by EveningStar

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"All previous spinoffs hit seven seasons."

Technically, he's wrong. The first spinoff, Star Trek: The Animated Series, lasted only two seasons.

1 posted on 09/06/2015 5:55:42 PM PDT by EveningStar
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To: Borges; DollyCali; Perdogg

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2 posted on 09/06/2015 5:56:23 PM PDT by EveningStar
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To: EveningStar

I would be up for this. There are some pretty good fan films out there as well, like Prelude to Axenar, which has some Star Trek and BSG alumnus in different roles (with and without make up).


3 posted on 09/06/2015 6:01:04 PM PDT by Molon Labbie (Prep. Now. Live Healthy, take your Shooting Iron daily.)
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To: EveningStar

And ‘Enterprise’ lasted only three seasons. Which wasn’t near enough. That show had untapped potential.


4 posted on 09/06/2015 6:01:29 PM PDT by bamahead (Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master. -- Sallust)
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To: EveningStar

I’d prefer “Firefly”.


5 posted on 09/06/2015 6:03:32 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (Cruz is still my #1, but Trump is impressing the hell out of me.)
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To: EveningStar

I liked the “Enterprise” series.

They are all up on the net now for watching.

And the missing seasons of the original series are in production... I saw the first few and they are really good!
The production values are better than the original seasons.

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=star+trek+continues


6 posted on 09/06/2015 6:03:43 PM PDT by Bobalu (See my freep page for political images.)
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To: Bobalu

“The White Iris” behind-the-scenes bloopers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_2Sk4I1vw4


7 posted on 09/06/2015 6:07:35 PM PDT by Bobalu (See my freep page for political images.)
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To: EveningStar

I recall that, before Enterprise bowed, the buzz was that a new series would take up in the ST-NG timeline, and be focused on Star Fleet Academy. Didn’t happen, of course, which was too bad. IMHO Enterprise started interesting, but grew increasingly gimmicky and desperate by its last season.


8 posted on 09/06/2015 6:09:53 PM PDT by Demiurge2 (Define your terms!)
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To: EveningStar

They don’t want a new Star Trek series.

I was in California last week pitching a new Star Trek series to NBC.

It’s called NAKED MIDGET SINGING AND DANCING STAR TREK NIS.

They said to try selling it to ABC.


9 posted on 09/06/2015 6:11:13 PM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: Bobalu

Have you seen Star Trek New Voyages “Mindsifter”. I remember reading it in a book back in the seventies


10 posted on 09/06/2015 6:15:46 PM PDT by Sybeck1
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I would pay cash money for an extension of 'Firefly'

I was a big fan of Star Trek from day 1, young whipersnapper that I was, but I really loved 'Firefly'

/johnny

11 posted on 09/06/2015 6:16:34 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (gone Galt)
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To: EveningStar
I, too, enjoyed Enterprise. Yes, it needed a bit of polish, but it was fun. It checked out too early.
12 posted on 09/06/2015 6:22:55 PM PDT by W. (Get a rope. Now.)
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To: bamahead

Four seasons.


13 posted on 09/06/2015 6:26:23 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Demiurge2
Yes, Enterprise was under-utilized. I thought the academy series concept was the wrong direction for a follow-up, it sounded like a way to cheap out on the sets. Besides, the Romulan War plot line would've been a lot more interesting.
14 posted on 09/06/2015 6:27:15 PM PDT by Charles Martel (Endeavor to persevere...)
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To: blueunicorn6

So basically Game of Thrones in Space....


15 posted on 09/06/2015 6:27:16 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: EveningStar
How about a Star Trek before replicators or transporters?

How about a Star Trek that correctly represents the demographics in the year 2100+, i.e. mostly African?

How about a Star Trek that assumes there will be a singularity between now and 2100+, i.e. all or most of the cast are AI robots?

How about a Star Trek in the far distant future where run-of-the-mill characters accidentally create star systems by just burping?

Or even better, how about a Star Trek that features a group of colonists on a planet that due to some monstrous event have lost much of their technology. They have to combat occasional visitors while attempting to develop their technology to a point where they can leave the planet or at least send an SOS probe toward Earth. Sort of like Star Trek meets Gilligan's Island.

Whatever happens: PLEASE NO TIME TRAVEL, PLEASE NO TACHYON BEAMS, PLEASE NO DEUS EX MACHINA of any sort.

16 posted on 09/06/2015 6:30:06 PM PDT by who_would_fardels_bear
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To: Charles Martel

Anybody remember they try do take on Eungeic war for Enterprise like season 2 or 3 remember


17 posted on 09/06/2015 6:30:19 PM PDT by SevenofNine (We are Freepers, all your media bases belong to us ,resistance is futile)
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To: Charles Martel

I don’t know... the Academy concept could have let them go with lots of “the young and the intergalactic” teen angst plotlines.


18 posted on 09/06/2015 6:31:37 PM PDT by Demiurge2 (Define your terms!)
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I saw those, they’re very good! Like they picked up from the end of TOS with the sets and props, etc. Amazingly recreated.


19 posted on 09/06/2015 6:35:53 PM PDT by W. (Get a rope. Now.)
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To: bamahead

They killed it with the time war arc.


20 posted on 09/06/2015 6:36:42 PM PDT by tbw2
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