geeksofdoom.com — The Star Trek franchise is in reasonable need of a reboot. One production team, headed by Rick Berman, has been responsible for all “official” Star Trek output on film and television since 1992.That team no longer has a Trek series in production and creative control of the next Trek film has been given to J.J. Abrams.
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The problem with JJ Abrams doing it is that every scene will introduce a completely random, mysterious event that the writers will immediately forget about and remain unresolved.
kronos6948Aug 21, 2007
I'm with you on that one...As much as I love the Trek universe, I wasn't a fan of a lot of the TNG movies...they just didn't seem right to me.
kronos6948Aug 21, 2007
As far as I'm concerned, you can't do a Trek movie without the Enterprise. That ship (no matter what designation) was as much of a character as any of the others. The captain always has an intimate love affair with the Enterprise...if she's not in it, then I may not go to the theater.
stack3rAug 21, 2007
TNG, Deep Space 9 and Voyager - Until star trek returns to that quality of programming, they might as well close the doors.Enterprise was a large joke and made me feel dirty.Hopefully someone with a partial bit of clue will make the next movie something worth seeing.
sukimashitaAug 21, 2007
I think this was the usual way of moving this franchise forward (which was certainly the right thing) until they decided to break this scheme and recycle from the past to a degree where everything started to get boring. This series needs the originality of TNG back, combined with moving the storyline to the next generation of the expanding federation.
elwoodherringAug 21, 2007
Thank you for proving that it's "ok" to like Enterprise. I'm also a fan, currently watching the entire run again. There are some excellent episodes to be found, especially in the 3rd series. I see so much antagonism towards Enterprise, I just want to say "Give it a chance"; compared to other TV shows it's still head & shoulders above the rest even if it isn't quite as polished as TNG or Voyager. Watch "Similitude" or "Chosen Realm" for example - two of my favourites. (And yes, I know Chosen Realm has similarities with the TOS episode "Let that be your last battlefield", but it is more relevant today with the current problems we have with religious extremists and suicide bombers.)
naioAug 21, 2007
Huh... no?
manbeast01Aug 21, 2007
here's the thing, the 4th season of enterprise was actually pretty good and tied up all the loose ends of the past 3 seasons also fixed the problems that made enterprise seem wrong looking back from TOS (klingon head ridges, why are the vulcans being such jerks). and it was good because they handed the creative reins to Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens, who are great writers and huge Star Trek fans themselves. they managed to salvage continuity and make some kick ass stuff (Mirror Universe 2 parter)In order to truly save Trek, for the fans, you have to get input from the fans. Unfortunately Paramount doesn't really care about that, more about "WTF our cash cow franchise isn't making as much money as it was before, we need to update it and make it hip so we can start cashing checks again"
jensaaraiAug 22, 2007
The problem with Star Trek is that it lost its balls.Nobody who has handled that series in the past 10 years has moved it forward as a science fiction franchise. Granted, there have been some good shows and good series, but there's been a lot of good stories in relatively generic sci-fi settings outside the Star Trek Universe, so there's nothing special about that.What made Trek so exciting is that it was always at the forefront of bringing the masses examples of crazy future technology, and showing how people interact within that context. Somewhere along the line, it just stopped doing that. Has there been a commonly used Trek technology that has wowed us since the Holodeck? I can't think of any. It's like they've been afraid to move forward and bring us the next wave of mind bending predictions or go out on a limb about what sort of crazy stuff may be out there. Hell, they haven't even left the Milky way yet to see what's in the rest of the Universe.So in the end, this movie might be good or it might be a trainwreck, but unless Abrams is planning on radically retooling the technological capabilities of the characters, it won't have the cultural impact of earlier Trek series like TOS, TNG, and arguably some of DS9.