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[QUOTE]Originally posted by OnToMars: [QB] I don't consider a reboot to be that big of a deal. If you consider that Star Trek is one of the great stories, mythos if you prefer, or our time, one of the great works of art or literature or whatever you want to call it, than different interpretations that are mutually exclusive aren't such a big deal. Art history is littered with the same few collection of stories told over and over again in different ways. Nobody ever said, "Well, gee, I'd really like to paint the Annunciation or Christ on the Cross or such and such instance from Greek mythology, but son of a bitch, Michelangelo, David, Caravaggio, or whoever already beat me to it." That being said, what I'd like to see is what "Enterprise" was sort of supposed to show us, though perhaps, a little earlier. What I would like to see, and I'd imagine a miniseries anthology would be the best format, is Earth's actual recovery from World War III. Begin in a world that is more or less our own (plus a Sanctuary District or two) that undergoes a massive , devastating conflict as a result of the social ills that currently plague us and then witness - truly and rightly see - the horrors of attempting to live in a post-apocolyptic age: trying to survive in small communes, becoming nomadic in order to find enough resources to live, fighting in tremendously primitive ways over what scarce value still remains. From there we can go to the first warp flight, James Cromwell or not, and subsequently see this shell of humanity try to regain its dignity by trying to fill the shoes of its former civilization while also attempting to live with the guilt of all of its previous ills. Troi's line is something like, "War, poverty, disease; within fifty years those will all be gone" and Enterprise more or less picks up at the fifty year mark, skipping out on Earth's actual Reconstruction Era. And it's not that I picture hourly episodes in which an Arab and an Isreali fight over the same old same old and by the end some kindly North American show them the virtue of getting along, or alternatively that the kindly North American very dramatically tells them that they HAVE to get along to survive. My conception is that with World War III, history and conflict would be reset in the eyes of civilization and all nations and peoples would be reduced to the same level of existence. The Isrealis are as disenfranchised from their power as the Saudis and the United States, nobody has a hold over anybody anymore, and nobody can worry about past grudges affecting today's survival anymore. It is at this point that humanity's theme becomes that of, "Let me help." As we watch humanity recover, we see the return of institutions, of rule of law, of the infrastructure of society and culture, and eventually, the return to space exploration and development. And I [i]suppose[/i] a good finishing point would be the launching of a new deep space ship tasked with true and peaceful exploration of the galaxy. Though I'll be damned if my miniseries is going to end with Scott Bakula on the bridge of the [i]Akiraprize[/i]. That's what I would like to see, though I'm the kind of person that watches [i]Lost[/i] each week hoping that they'll explore political and economic philosophy by how they organize their island society. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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