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Title: New Trek Pitch
Post by: vyper on March 28, 2005, 02:38:27 pm: http://www.trektoday.com/news/280305_01.shtml

Um... it's got the Reeves-Stevens duo involved... that's a good sign but er... hmm.
Title: New Trek Pitch
Post by: Rictor on March 28, 2005, 02:52:21 pm: Star Trek 90210
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Post by: Unknown Target on March 28, 2005, 02:53:55 pm: This is old, yet still retarded.
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Post by: mitac on March 28, 2005, 02:52:45 pm: :lol:

S.T., California.
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Post by: Liberator on March 28, 2005, 06:57:35 pm: Okay, that would screw continuity worse than the first two seasons of Enterprise. Kirk and Spock did not go to the academy together. They didn't even know each other till Kirk took command of the Enterprise.
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Post by: Turnsky on March 28, 2005, 06:58:19 pm: words fail me.
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Post by: Annorax on March 28, 2005, 06:57:02 pm: I think it's already been rejected.
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Post by: IceFire on March 28, 2005, 07:34:16 pm: I think that it, going to the novels, will probably mean that it won't happen as a TV series. But I hear rumors of the other side too. Maybe they think the Smallville phenomenon would work for Trek. But I'm not so sure.

Star Trek is a little too well defined. The Superman myth can be played with and its almost reasonable to expect multiple takes on the Superman mythos while Star Trek is supposed to have one continunity.
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Post by: Grey Wolf on March 28, 2005, 07:43:35 pm: We could argue the alternate continuity explanation for why Enterprise deviates from established concepts from the other series to free up some room, as the possibility that it's actually the Mirror Universe timeline has been destroyed.
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Post by: Dark_4ce on March 29, 2005, 03:00:30 pm: Just you people wait... They're gonna make a Star Trek reality show. Thus the geek shall inherit the Earth...
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Post by: Sandwich on March 29, 2005, 03:52:27 pm: They should make "Vendetta" before the cast gets too old.
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Post by: Liberator on March 29, 2005, 09:30:06 pm: Agreed!
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Post by: WMCoolmon on March 29, 2005, 11:59:54 pm: I dunno...I don't think we need another angst-ridden TV show with lots of "tehe!" moments. OTOH, I would be more likely to watch it than Enterprise. The general concept just sounds a little...hell, who am I kidding, it sounds really overdone and sappy. How many times have we seen the whole guy-stands-up-to-the-school-bully thing?

[Geek]Anyway, it was clearly established in the episode with the planet that turned dreams into reality that Kirk was bullied in the academy[/Geek]
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Post by: Xelion on March 30, 2005, 04:21:33 am: Section 31 is a much better idea to work on for a film I would think
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Post by: Sandwich on March 30, 2005, 04:42:41 am: They need to let Manny Coto come up with a way to fix the Borg to what they were pre-Best of Both Worlds.... completely decentralized hive-mind creatures that simply can't be significantly hurt through conventional means. None of that Speaker to the Federation or Borg Queen crap.
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Post by: Grey Wolf on March 30, 2005, 05:09:19 pm: How would you do that, though? State that there's multiple collectives? Or maybe through something like the episode "I, Borg"?
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Post by: vyper on March 30, 2005, 05:40:59 pm: Sadly the best movie could never be made. "Federation" by the Reeves-Stevens duo is possibly the best trek novel ever, but it requires shots on the Ent-1701 during the 5-year mission.
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Post by: WMCoolmon on March 30, 2005, 05:55:33 pm: They should make a series in the style of the original Trek (green women, lizard monsters, torn shirts) except with the ECH, Quark, and Q in place of Kirk, McCoy, and Spock.

The first episode: "Getting out of spacedock".

Edit: Oh, and Sisko (demoted to ensign) can be the navigation officer. :D
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Post by: Grey Wolf on March 30, 2005, 05:57:56 pm: You know, that I'd actually watch.
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Post by: Ford Prefect on March 30, 2005, 06:00:21 pm: Only if Geordi LaForge has been made ruler of the galaxy.
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Post by: Sandwich on March 30, 2005, 06:00:24 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Grey Wolf
How would you do that, though? State that there's multiple collectives? Or maybe through something like the episode "I, Borg"?

Well, Shatner came up with a way to deal with that problem, by stating that there are multiple "branches" or "arms" of the Borg collective, just like arms of an octopus. But then he went on to ruin things even further by having Kirk and Picard go blow up the Borg "octopus head". :rolleyes:

(Ref: Star Trek: The Return, by William Shatner)

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Originally posted by vyper
Sadly the best movie could never be made. "Federation" by the Reeves-Stevens duo is possibly the best trek novel ever, but it requires shots on the Ent-1701 during the 5-year mission.

I don't recall much about that book... *places it in "reread" pile*
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Post by: Grey Wolf on March 30, 2005, 06:02:42 pm: I remember that story. I had been trying to remove those Kirk books written by Shatner from my memory...
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Post by: vyper on March 30, 2005, 06:16:52 pm: Buh?
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Post by: Grey Wolf on March 30, 2005, 06:18:31 pm: First half of Sandwich's post referenced "The Return" by William Shatner. Really not that great a novel...
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Post by: Liberator on March 30, 2005, 08:07:29 pm: But really Shatner is the bomb though.
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Post by: Knight Templar on April 01, 2005, 12:27:21 am: I think the Shat just likes to hear about the Shat so he wants more of the Shat.
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Post by: Sandwich on April 01, 2005, 01:51:28 am: Quote
Originally posted by Grey Wolf
First half o' Sandwich's post referenced "The Return" by William Shatner. Really not that great a novel...

Actually I thought individual elements of that book were quite fun in an "it's about bloody time!" way - like the commando mission to the Borg, the plot twist/tie-in to that ST movie, etc. :)
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Post by: WMCoolmon on April 01, 2005, 01:53:18 am: I liked the bit o' the book with the doctors, yarr...