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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We all know who is going to die, but we want to know how and why!
Do not care for those types of stories on TV. You can have it. Continuity is everything in a good theme. Else it is disjointed and disposable - watch once and forget. Didn’t much like the original as was the same thing - only was unique then. Later versions just continued the bad writing.
My favorite...Enterprise.....lasted but 4 years. The worst was Voyager with the exception of Seven of Nine.
why a second one when the first one was so childish and stupid.
Actually, it would be the seventh one. :) Link
I agree 100% That's a cool looking founding race of the Federation, and they'd hardly ever been on screen at all. The beginnings of the Federation and the war with the Romulans (they could also make a movie of that war, as was considered, who doesn't want to see that?) should have been the focus of the series from the beginning. Instead they dicked around the first 2 years and then fought a war on terra' with a previously unknown race. And there was some messy time travel BS. They also criminally underused the supporting characters, and don't get me started on the theme SONG which I fast forwarded though. They had a beautiful instrumental theme they ended up using for the closing credits instead.
Voyager, what a waste, it had a GREAT premise but a lot of the episodes could have passed for bad TGN episodes you'd never know weren't set on a normal ship an hour away from Earth, and it way overdid the Borg to the point of ending any mystique with them.
The Doctor was a great character, and Seven of Nine, but A lot of the characters were boring, Chocolateday? A former rebel forced to be first officer? That could have been an awesome role. Instead he's as boring as a block of wood and a complete lackey to Janeway. Speaking of Janeway, she was written so inconsistently that mental illness was the only plausible explanation for her behavior. And a pissy latina Klingon? Who the hell thought of that? Could have used a different race for that role. Poor Harry Kim was Meg Griffin in space.
Add in silliness like unlimited use of the holodeck but not enough power to replicate food (unless it was on the holodeck, or a shuttle) so they had to get diarrhea from letting a homeless drifter cook for them. Oy.
"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."
Season 1 was balls, that's why it was almost canceled.
I don't know about a new show set in the Abrams verse, it could give an opportunity to explore the period of time between TOS and TGN like a Sulu Excelsior series would have. Some people want to do a reboot of TGN, they should be shot. If they stick with the regular universe it could work, just jump ahead a century or so. A proposed cartoon series did just that, the premise was that the Federation was crumbing, like the Eastern bloc ;p, and that warp travel had been F'ed up by major use of weapons that f up the fabric of space.
Whatever it is, Berman, Braga, and Abrams, should not be involved.
I saw it, and liked it very much. I also remember reading the story years and years ago in the book “Star Trek Lives!”
As an aside, one of the authors of that book was Joan Winston. When I was a kid, my Daddy knew her through his work at ABC, and she gave us tickets to the VERY FIRST Star Trek Convention ever. I thought I’d died and gone to heaven.
Regards,
The baseball game was my favorite episode. And, how can you leave out RUGBY, for heaven’s sake??
Check out Star Trek Axanar.
It was a great adaptation of that book.
The reboot movies would be okay as sci-fi, had they not tried to turn them into Star Trek movies. They look like every other movie being made, the characters are, uh, they aren’t, and they don’t fit, at all. But whatever turns a buck for them I guess.
If there’s to be another series, I’m not sure what kind of new ground they could go over. While TOS and TNG were both “Wagon Train In Space”, and Voyager was “Gilligan’s Island in Space”, DS9 actually thrived (when they finally got going) on the characters’ relationships, when they weren’t letting one more group slip into the station undetected and kidnap someone or take over the whole place. Having the Wormhole right there meant they could go somewhere else, but ultimately Star Trek just consists of a small ensemble cast doing the same kinds of things every week in the same room, just like any other TV show. :’)
I’ve never seen an episode of “Enterprise”, just some YT clips.
You obviously didn't watch past the first season. After that, it was all one long story arc, a-la B5.
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