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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

n September of 2016, Star Trek will celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of its first episode.

Launched back in 1966, the series and the property as a whole has since become a cultural institution and five spinoffs, dozens of movies and a successful reboot in 2009. However, since JJ Abrams turned Star Trek around and made into a broader appealing property, fans of the series have felt somewhat neglected. There hasn't been a Star Trek-related TV series since Enterprise - which was cancelled unceremoniously in 2005 after just four seasons. All previous spinoffs hit seven seasons.

There's been constant rumblings and rumours surrounding a supposed new series, although nothing has been made concrete as of yet. It's easy to see why in today's market. For one, Paramount is clearly backing the movies instead of a TV option. The box office takings for Star Trek and Star Trek Into Darkness reached in excess of $300,000,000 and were both received well by critics and audiences alike.

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

I was too young to know what it was about, but the first tv I ever watched was Star Trek (or so I'm told.) I've watched every series and Enterprise was my favorite.

They canceled it one show shy of syndication.

btw, the best Star Trek movie was the first one with Chris Pine. I can watch that anytime.

21 posted on 09/06/2015 6:47:37 PM PDT by Vic S
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To: who_would_fardels_bear

“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.”

That is actually not a bad idea


22 posted on 09/06/2015 6:53:35 PM PDT by Fai Mao (Genius at Large)
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To: who_would_fardels_bear

Time travel has been done to death and deus ex machina is a crime.


23 posted on 09/06/2015 6:56:03 PM PDT by EveningStar
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To: EveningStar

Prissy characters and yacky plots in “The Next Generation” ruined the franchise — a long time ago.


24 posted on 09/06/2015 6:58:47 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: Vic S

Is there a minimum number for syndication?
TOS had only 79 episodes, fewer than the usual 100.
But there are shows in syndication with fewer than 79.
Also there was at least one with more than 100 that never made it into syndication....I can’t recall what it was though.


25 posted on 09/06/2015 7:12:06 PM PDT by scrabblehack
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To: JRandomFreeper

26 posted on 09/06/2015 7:25:54 PM PDT by John 3_19-21 ("Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God." Thomas Jefferson)
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To: EveningStar

http://youtu.be/1W1_8IV8uhA

Star Trek: Axanar takes place 20 years before the original series and has a good budget.


27 posted on 09/06/2015 8:09:45 PM PDT by Snickering Hound
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To: bamahead

Potential perhaps but execution was horrible. Temporal wars etc garbage. Series was a fustercluck. Like voyager before it.

There hasn’t been a series since because enterprise was so bad it killed the franchise and burned the body...

This year marks ten years since that doc died. In another ten collective memories might be foggy enough to try anothe Star Trek series


28 posted on 09/06/2015 8:22:31 PM PDT by HamiltonJay
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To: ClearCase_guy

I agree, though post “Serenity” it would be pretty hard for Mel and the gang to stay low and continue the life they had


29 posted on 09/06/2015 8:23:30 PM PDT by HamiltonJay
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To: Fai Mao; EveningStar
A funny riff on Star Trek sequels and where I got my screen name from...

Star Trek: File This

30 posted on 09/06/2015 8:30:35 PM PDT by who_would_fardels_bear
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To: EveningStar

During the South Dakota game yesterday, the Kansas State band attempted to show the Starship Enterprise fighting a giant KU Jayhawk.
For those with an eye for such things, unfortunately it resembled a phallus that the garish, cartoon-like bird was preparing to fellate.

Apologies all around were given and next time maybe they’ll try a Firefly class spacecraft?


31 posted on 09/06/2015 8:40:33 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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To: HamiltonJay

How about a Star Trek series about a disgraced captain who now is stationed commanding a space gunboat patroling the Romunlan Netetral Zone, escorting freighters, watching for smugglers etc... Nothing happens but—Its really a special spy mission to keep control of a near lawless area and prevent war. Small crew of 35-40 going back and forth doing a bit of smuggling themselves! Young promissing Starfleet officer has an affair with an admirals daughter and is Banished to serve on the gunboat at the end of the universe as a punishment. A science Fiction McHails Navy with an awful busybody section officer who is lazy and corrupt. Something could be done with that—


32 posted on 09/06/2015 9:36:09 PM PDT by Forward the Light Brigade (Into the Jaws of H*ll Onward! Ride to the sound of the guns!)
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To: EveningStar

Yes, with the original characters.


33 posted on 09/06/2015 10:20:26 PM PDT by TBP (Obama lies, Granny dies.)
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To: EveningStar
Did Star Trek: Enterprise last that long? I don't think it did. (It was the prequel with Scott Bakula as the captain, remember?)
34 posted on 09/06/2015 10:21:30 PM PDT by TBP (Obama lies, Granny dies.)
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To: EveningStar

How did the family of Trekkers get around on their vacation?

They rented a Voyager from Enterprise.


35 posted on 09/06/2015 10:23:18 PM PDT by TBP (Obama lies, Granny dies.)
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To: Molon Labbie

Another series might be OK. It might be able to reboot the reboot.

Live long and prosper.


36 posted on 09/06/2015 10:24:25 PM PDT by TBP (Obama lies, Granny dies.)
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To: Bobalu

We were fans of TOS and Voyager.


37 posted on 09/06/2015 10:25:00 PM PDT by TBP (Obama lies, Granny dies.)
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To: John 3_19-21

Great flick that one.


38 posted on 09/06/2015 10:25:20 PM PDT by Lurker (Violence is rarely the answer. But when it is it is the only answer.)
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To: W.
Enterprise managed to give us one interesting bit of Star Trek trivia. Apparently, it was Captain Archer's father who wrote the Star Fleet mission statement (the one that began the first two series.)
39 posted on 09/06/2015 10:26:46 PM PDT by TBP (Obama lies, Granny dies.)
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To: JRandomFreeper

My kids told me to watch it, but I never have.


40 posted on 09/06/2015 10:43:09 PM PDT by NetAddicted (Just looking)
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