I'm ready and willing, dogg... 
if Netfilx is!
And Leela is really chomping... 
at the bit!
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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Several fan episodes here:
http://www.startrekcontinues.com/episodes.html
They star among others Chris Doohan as engineer Scotty.
He is the son of of the original Scotty, James Doohan and looks like the spitting image. The shows also have several Star Trek original stars showing up along with Mythbusters Grant Imahara as Sulu.
There are several others doing their Star Trek episodes. Some are good and some are well....
I recognize several of these names. I wonder what they get paid or is this just because it would be a fun project for them?
Star Trek: Renegades stars Walter Koenig (reprising his role as Admiral Chekov), Adrienne Wilkinson, Sean Young, Manu Intiraymi, Gary Graham, Robert Picardo, Corin Nemec, Bruce Young, Tim Russ, Chasty Ballesteros, Edward Furlong, Courtney Peldon, Larissa Gomes, Richard Herd and Herbert Jefferson Jr.(original Battlestar Galactica) , and introducing Crystal Conway.
Grant Imahara also has a cameo.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eE2Wgop9VLM
Agreed the execution was horrible - not to put too fine a point on it, but there was no real story continuity between episodes. Each episode was more or less self-contained: what happened in the last episode was either totally “forgotten” by the characters or no longer relevant - no matter how over-ridingly important it was previously.
Worse, there was no serious theme to the whole thing: exploring for the sake of exploring may work in real life, but is boring on paper or screen. Just a travel log without the depth of most travel logs. In the end simply mindless entertainment.
All of which is why any remake holds little interest for me.
Babylon 5 is still the best Scifi TV/movie ever made and was what Star Trek could have been.
In September of 2016, Star Trek will celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of its first episode."Space, the Final Frontier. These are the voyages of the Starship, Enterprise -- its five year mission, explore new worlds, to seek out, new life, and new civilizations, to bold go where no man has gone before." Amazon Prime is running the episodes of the various series for no extra charge.
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And in the last sentence of the 7th paragraph it say why they won’t: Provided it can strike a deal with CBS, the current rights holders to television incarnations of Star Trek.
They don’t have the rights. So really the story should be about why CBS should make a new show.
I'm ready and willing, dogg... if Netfilx is!
And Leela is really chomping... at the bit!
Yeah you could do it Bender
I hear Futrama movie is still on hold they try get into movies script problems you are avaliable
will Leela play the Captain of the Enterprise! That can be... 
arranged, Kirk!
And I am also ready... 
for the Star Wars reboot on Netflix!
It was finally getting good with decent plotlines in season 4 then it got axed.
Enterprise and Voyager both could have been so much better.
was when Captain Archer exclaimed he was a super fan of water polo!
Capt Kirk you better watch it remember Leela the real lady was in Son of Anarchy
I remember the actor who played him got visibly winded after descending a flight of stairs, real great athlete.
I don't think football was ever mentioned on Star Trek. But water polo, water polo? How about some beach soccer? Jai alai? Real manly sports!
Yep. Ironically season 4 of Enterprise was the only decent season, then it got axed. If season 4 had been season 1, the show's audience wouldn't have declined the way it did. Enterprise's best decision was when they developed previously established alien races that we knew little about, like the Andorians.
Voyager was better than Enterprise, especially when it came to interesting characters (like the holographic Doctor), but it was uneven. The biggest problem with Voyager is that some individual episodes were excellent, but the show overall was a disappointment and never lived up its premise. Having them stranded on the other end of the galaxy where nothing is familiar should have made the series like the X-Files of the Star Trek franchise. Instead, they kept rehashing old stuff like the Borg.
That being said, I'm probably in the minority because I don't agree with the sentiment that "Star Trek belongs on TV". It originated on TV, and I'd like to see it come back someday in the right hands, but I don't want a repeat of the 90s when some Rick Berman-type producer is oversaturing the franchise with multiple TV series running simultaneously, and giving us a bunch of soap operaish filler episodes.
Since Paramount has ignored the animated series, that basically means the "canon" Star Trek survived from 1970-1986 WITHOUT a new TV series. It prospered in reruns and on the big screen, and then there was genuine surprise and curiosity from the public when it was totally revamped as Star Trek: The Next Generation. At the time, people thought a totally new cast and ship wouldn't work, and there was speculation that TNG would be canceled after one season.
Since a lot of fans think the JJ Abrams films (which focus on fistfights and explosions) are "not real Star Trek", I'm also going to get some flack by saying I'm fine with a new TV series being set in the Abrams universe. The "old" Trek universe was beat to death by Berman and Enterprise was the final nail in the coffin, you can't revive that. That being said, do I want Abrams producing and micromanaging a new Trek TV series? Absolutely not! Hire a real producer who "gets" Star Trek and can do it justice, and add some meat to the Abrams universe. We don't want a repeat of the 90s when Berman was micromanaging the films AND the TV series at the same time. Trek should look and feel different on the small screen.
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If they do bring Trek back to the small screen, there has to be some variation of that classic opening narration. It really sets the mood for Star Trek. I hated that Berman removed it from the franchise after TNG, and the Abrams movies have strangely included it at the end of the film rather than the opening.
So? The original Star Trek series did the same thing in the 1960s. I don't see people bashing it because there was no overall "arc" each season and the purpose of the show was "exploring for the sake of exploring". Let's get back to basics of what Star Trek is.
I'm fine with stand-alone, self-contained episodes that take place at an unspecified time after the previous episode, as long as they have a compelling, memorable story. Some of the greatest sci-fi series in history were anthology stories, like The Twilight Zone. To use a more recent example, JJ Abrams own successful sci-fi TV series, Fringe (2008-2013) was mostly "Stand alone" mystery-of-the-week stories.
Again, there is where I'd say the movies and TV version of the franchise should differ. Doing a direct followup on the big screen that furthers what happened in the last film works well. Its been 2-3 years and films are big "event" showpieces, unlike American TV where you get 22+ episodes a season. Star Trek: Insurrection and Star Trek Into Darkness would have definitely been strengthened by following up and tying into the events of their predecessor film.
Seems to me that Star Trek has gotten it backwards lately:
On television, the 60s & 80s Star Trek worked great as anthology stories, but on film, The Wrath of Khan - The Voyage Home worked great as a tight-knit trilogy that flowed seamlessly from film to film. On the other hand, "stand alone" films since the late 90s, and boring, drawn-out story arcs on TV like the "Xindi war" on Enterprise, really exasperated audiences.
They could probably do my 600 pound Star Trek life on the cheap.
The top reason for another Star Trek TV series?
Watch more red shirts get offed!
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