What would a post-VOY show do but suck as much as VOY? The 24th Century is all mined out, folks. Frankly, unless they mixed up the content somehow (ala Andromeda) for a "future" show, they'd be stuck.
Pre-TOS is good! It shakes up the formula.
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And Continuity will go down the drain because of it.
Knowing Brannon "who gives a fuck's sake about continuity?" Braga
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24th century mined out for stories? That's like saying the 20th century is mined out for stories.
The only thing mined out is the creativity of the Berman-Braga team.
We're only going to have a pre-TOS Voyager quality series, folks.
The cast list already shows a lack of innovation and full of derivation. It's your generic Starfleet cast---white male captain, a vulcan, an asian, other white males, blah blah blah. Aw geez, the first episode which already has two or three continuity violations and gets to meet the Klingons (boring and creatively bankrupt race already), then flies to Quo'nos in a jiffy on leaky warp 4 and under starship. The casting already reflects a lack of creativity and is trying to compensate by the usual means---star power (Bakula) and boobs (Joleh whatever). It's easy to predict how many minutes in the show before Sam Becket, not Jonathan Archer, takes over the Enterprise.
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NOOOOOOOOO!!!! DEAR GOD NO!!!!!!! PARAMOUNT!! I HATE YOU!!!!! I WISH ALL YOUR SOUND STAGES WOULD BLOW UP AT THE SAME TIME!!!!! AHHHHHHHHHHHHH *starts banging head against the wall*
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You get a lot better flashes if you bang your head against the CORNER of the wall...
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Ugh... I thought when they announced this we'd finally stop hearing people clinging to their fruitless hopes of a non-prequel series. Instead, we just get to listen to everyone complain!
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TSN's right, people. If you're going to complain, at least wait until a few episodes have been shown before you pass judgement.
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99.9% of the criticism seems to be swirling around "they'll muck up continuity" and yet we have absolutely no evidence yet that this will happen. It would seem everyone is pre-judging Braga, and yet he has no worse a record than anyone else for smashing apart major pieces of the Trek mythos than anybody else, Roddenberry included.
Might there have been more opportunities in the 24th century? Maybe. But if, as the suits clearly indicated, Series V was required to return to the fundamentals of TOS and TNG, then a 24th century show would be pretty boring. Are there possibilities for a 24th century series that abandons the ship-on-a-general-purpose-mission model? Certainly. But it won't fly in the current television climate.
And need I repeat why, IMO, a 25th-century-plus show would blow ass?
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For my entire saty here at Flare, I never could figure out what IMO means. Would someone answer my stupid question?
I'm neutral on this new series because they're using that Quantum Leap guy as the captain, the QP wasn't a bad show so... He would be almost a major star compared to the rest of the Trek. Also I'm crossing my fingers that this new Enterprise will have a DIFFERENT registry that's all. For the rest I really don't care if they meet the Klingons or fight the Borg in the second, it will only be a show. Unless they start producing it into a comedy or whatever then I'll stop watching.
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