Star Trek XI

[AndrewLyles]

Anybody else see that the announcement from Comic-Con this week? Leonard Nimoy and some other kid are on board to play Spock in the 2008 Star Trek movie coming up. Something to look forward to.

http://www.startrek.com/startrek/view/series/MOV/011/casts/index.html

Yeah, I'm a Trekkie...live with it.

 

[Dolby CP-200]

Now that is spooky or should I say Spocky now which one do you think is Tom Cruise because he looks like Spock if you added the eyebrows and ears.

I’m also a Trekkie thou I’ve never dressed up for it I’ve attended the Star Trek SF Ball here in my home town Bournemouth 2003 and was it out of this world first ever convention I’ve been to. Go again you bet I hope to buy a ticket for the 2008 SF Ball at the same location.

Live long and prosper.

 

[mtrycrafts]

Anybody else see that the announcement from Comic-Con this week? Leonard Nimoy and some other kid are on board to play Spock in the 2008 Star Trek movie coming up. Something to look forward to.

http://www.startrek.com/startrek/view/series/MOV/011/casts/index.html

Yeah, I'm a Trekkie...live with it.

That other kid is a bad guy Siler in Heroes

I wonder what time period this story is supposed to be. Except for Spock who could be 200+ years old, the others are way too old for any script.

 

[mike c]

i'm guessing the old spock would be in a narrating mode, or at least this movie is his "flashback"

without makeup, sylar already looks the part I'm a next gen trekkie myself, but I can sometimes watch the original series. for example, I liked the Voyage Home.

 

[mtrycrafts]

i'm guessing the old spock would be in a narrating mode, or at least this movie is his "flashback"

without makeup, sylar already looks the part I'm a next gen trekkie myself, but I can sometimes watch the original series. for example, I liked the Voyage Home.

Ah, that is how you write Sylar

I thought that a flashback is what he would be used for but perhaps he will be most of the film? Even Kirk was mentioned but again, he is too old and if Spock is closer to his lifespan than Kirk, Kirk would be dead.
I guess I just have to wait and see. I have seen all of the shows. Each had their time.

 

[no. 5]

Last I heard (some time ago) the new movie is a 'Kirk and Spock's adventures at Starfleet Academy'.

Personally, I would have preferred if the new movie was about new characters... but that's just me.

 

[AndrewLyles]

Ah, that is how you write Sylar

I thought that a flashback is what he would be used for but perhaps he will be most of the film? Even Kirk was mentioned but again, he is too old and if Spock is closer to his lifespan than Kirk, Kirk would be dead.
I guess I just have to wait and see. I have seen all of the shows. Each had their time.

I could see the flah back thing working. I had heard a rumor that it would be after "Enterprise" but before TOS so that could definately be interesting.

TNG got me hooked, that's my age, it's what I grew up with. I respect TOS, DS9 was great once they got to the war, Voyager as actually pretty intesting...more space battles per episode than anyother series I think, and Enterprise...well I couldn't watch it when it first came out but since they've been re-running it lately I'll give it credit. It's different, but pretty enjoyable...less perfect universe than the rest.

Has anybody gotten into the Fan Film stuff? New Voyages I think is amazing! Given what it is, they I have enjoyed all of them. I've only watched the last season of New Frontier but once you get past some of it's production faults the story can be pretty interesting. IF only they would go high def!

 

[Audioholics]

Star Trek New Voyages (the fan film series) is absolutely incredible. Considering they got both George Takei and Walter Koenig to sign on the two of their films you know they're doing something amazing.

Took me watching through the first film before I forgot I wasn't watching the original actors 9the guy who plays McCoy took the longest but now I like him). I wish Paramount would ease up and let them make these movies with enough profit to pay for the production and some salaries... Right now it's all the guy who plays Kirk fronting the money and fans get about an episode every 8 months to a year.

http://www.startreknewvoyages.com/

 

[adk highlander]

The studio that they create the New Voyages is in a town just down the road from me. When you drive by you can't believe that it is a studio. I think the building was a car dealership. I hope it looks better on the inside than the outside. The whole thing has been kind of a joke up here. Once in a while there is something in the news paper about it but there has never been any real coverage.

I've never watched them so I cannot comment on their quality but it is nice to see that some appreciate what they are doing.

 

[Dolby CP-200]

I would sooner see the films realised in cinemas for a limited engagement only brand new 35mm Dolby digital print transfers taken from the originals that where made for “Road Show” 70mm six-track Dolby magnetic. If they showed them at the Empire I’d be there at WARP SPEED! See the STAR TREK films with 56KW THX sound you bet.

Paramount are take a huge gamble with this venture a huge one I hope the executives like it and I hope the previews look as great as STAR TREK II and many more otherwise it would really mark the end of the journey that started 40 years ago with a bitter end, maybe?

 

[AndrewLyles]

I would sooner see the films realised in cinemas for a limited engagement only brand new 35mm Dolby digital print transfers taken from the originals that where made for “Road Show” 70mm six-track Dolby magnetic. If they showed them at the Empire I’d be there at WARP SPEED! See the STAR TREK films with 56KW THX sound you bet.

Paramount are take a huge gamble with this venture a huge one I hope the executives like it and I hope the previews look as great as STAR TREK II and many more otherwise it would really mark the end of the journey that started 40 years ago with a bitter end, maybe?

I do agree they have to be careful. The last few movies did the the series in...don't get me wrong, I personally enjoyed them just because they were Trek, but they failed miserably. Enterprise never took off I thought, it never quite had the following...you might blame the fact that it was on UPN and that had something to do with it, but it was well written, just never caught.

People keep saying they need some kind of catch, a new formula. Hell I don't know, a lot of the old TNG writers now work for Battlestar and that's one incredible series. I think you just have to get the talent in the right places, which may be difficult because Trek isn't fresh anymore so it's probably not as big a draw for some of the seasoned writing crowd.

 

[Dolby CP-200]

I do agree they have to be careful. The last few movies did the the series in...don't get me wrong, I personally enjoyed them just because they were Trek, but they failed miserably. Enterprise never took off I thought, it never quite had the following...you might blame the fact that it was on UPN and that had something to do with it, but it was well written, just never caught.

People keep saying they need some kind of catch, a new formula. Hell I don't know, a lot of the old TNG writers now work for Battlestar and that's one incredible series. I think you just have to get the talent in the right places, which may be difficult because Trek isn't fresh anymore so it's probably not as big a draw for some of the seasoned writing crowd.

I think they’ve just about now, exhausted just about ever single idea in the Star Trek original shows The Next-Generation Voyage Deep Space 9 Enterprise and the films…

We’ve had time travel ones to really scare the imagination and they managed to get out of the scrape or to put back what went wrong, (city on the edge of forever) damn good show and Star Trek IV wow! Where else is there to go now?

We’ve seen heard and felt the best in Star Trek space battles from Star Trek (II Fire!!) (III V not as much) (VI Fire!!!) (First Contact not as much, but still the story was good) (Insurrection Fire!!) and lastly (Nemesis Fire!!! But didn’t do too well which resulted in Laforge switching to impulse power and the show came to a pitiful full stop, end, fin!)

 

[Audioholics]

One thing is for sure, Shatner should never Direct or write any screenplays or books... ever. He destroyed V.

 

[Joe Schmoe]

Being a Star Trek movie is sufficient for me to want to see it.

 

[AndrewLyles]

Being a Star Trek movie is sufficient for me to want to see it.

Agreed...though I agree with Clint above...shatner needed to stay in front of the camera, and in the gym...though he did get jollier the larger he became. Much like myself.

 

[gene]

I do agree they have to be careful. The last few movies did the the series in...don't get me wrong, I personally enjoyed them just because they were Trek, but they failed miserably. Enterprise never took off I thought, it never quite had the following...you might blame the fact that it was on UPN and that had something to do with it, but it was well written, just never caught.

IMO Enterprise failed for the following reasons:
1. The theme song wasn't appropriate
2. They tried too hard to invoke sex in it that it didn't seem natural
3. Diehard fans whined too much that it didn't stick to original story line
4. It came out in an era where reality tv shows dominate
5. The acting in the first season was terrible - almost as bad as many of the non Trek Sci Fi shows currently out there

The 3rd season was absolutely brilliant. Than half way into the 4th season when they pulled the plug, the show got sloppy and had the WORST ending to any star trek series in the history of the franchise. As a Star Trek fan, I was embarrassed and ashamed of that episode and the associated cameo actors Riker/Troi. Pathetic.

I hope they don't bring in old actors in the new movie just to get people to come and see it. It has to be natural or it won't work.

About the new movie
The way they can pull the new movie off would be for Spock to reminisce about the past and narrate the story about the period between the academy days and the 5yr mission. Though I don't think that will happen since I don't believe Kirk ever met Spock until TOS. I guess we will have to wait and see.

My Idea for a new series:
A Star Trek show from the Klingon perspective. Think of how cool that would be since most diehard trekkies favorite characters are Klingon. There is so much potential for new story arcs if you did them outside of the human perspective.

 

[stratman]

IMO Enterprise failed for the following reasons:
1. The theme song wasn't appropriate
2. They tried too hard to invoke sex in it that it didn't seem natural
3. Diehard fans whined too much that it didn't stick to original story line
4. It came out in an era where reality tv shows dominate
5. The acting in the first season was terrible - almost as bad as many of the non Trek Sci Fi shows currently out there

The 3rd season was absolutely brilliant. Than half way into the 4th season when they pulled the plug, the show got sloppy and had the WORST ending to any star trek series in the history of the franchise. As a Star Trek fan, I was embarrassed and ashamed of that episode and the associated cameo actors Riker/Troi. Pathetic.

I hope they don't bring in old actors in the new movie just to get people to come and see it. It has to be natural or it won't work.

About the new movie
The way they can pull the new movie off would be for Spock to reminisce about the past and narrate the story about the period between the academy days and the 5yr mission. Though I don't think that will happen since I don't believe Kirk ever met Spock until TOS. I guess we will have to wait and see.

My Idea for a new series:
A Star Trek show from the Klingon perspective. Think of how cool that would be since most diehard trekkies favorite characters are Klingon. There is so much potential for new story arcs if you did them outside of the human perspective.

Damn it Gene! I'm not a doctor, but that's a great idea, a show from the Klingon perspective can be fresh and very interesting, odds are that the old producers won't go for it, the whole franchise would need new blood everywhere, people that are willing to take risks, IMO TNG was a cross between psycho-babble and new age stupidity wrapped in ship that looked like a corporate office (plush carpeting, wall paper, fish tanks, come on! On a spaceship?). The charm of TOS is it's crudeness, the fact that it didn't take itself too seriously and it was scandolous for it's time. You're spot on Enterprise, that whole vulcan and Trip thing was weird. And the ending stunk.

 

[gene]

Damn it Gene! I'm not a doctor, but that's a great idea, a show from the Klingon perspective can be fresh and very interesting, odds are that the old producers won't go for it, the whole franchise would need new blood everywhere, people that are willing to take risks, IMO TNG was a cross between psycho-babble and new age stupidity wrapped in ship that looked like a corporate office (plush carpeting, wall paper, fish tanks, come on! On a spaceship?). The charm of TOS is it's crudeness, the fact that it didn't take itself too seriously and it was scandolous for it's time. You're spot on Enterprise, that whole vulcan and Trip thing was weird. And the ending stunk.

The best Star Trek Series was DS9 IMO. It took risks, it was bloody and full of action. The only annoyances was the religious stuff at times but I learned to live with it. Sisko rocked, Worf rocked and the Defiant was one tough little ship.

I also really liked Voyager after 6 of 9 showed up

TNG had a handful of good episodes, the rest was an indulgence of political correctness gone too far.

 

[no. 5]

...and the Defiant was one tough little ship.

Now to me, that is one of the top interests of any Star Trek episode, or series; the technology.

In my opinion the best episodes have almost always been the ones where the tech has had a prominent part, sure big ethical questions are interesting (i.e. "The City on the Edge of Forever"), but were not DS9 and Voyager's last episodes far more enjoyable to watch?

 

[mike c]

I also really liked Voyager after 6 of 9 showed up

6 of 9 would be some insignificant borg alien somewhere in borg space.

now, 7 of 9 ... rarrr.

fyi: last episode of season 3 is the first appearance of 7 of 9. Scorpion part 1.