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Well, if they're gonna do a new series, the prequel is the one I would've voted for.
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1.Everyone will just go 'eh they're just trying to pull a Phantom Menace'
2.If they can't get simple continuity right now, what hope have we got for a PREQUAL show.
3. They will ruin TOS - TOS is TOS - you can't hope to 'recreate' it.
4. Either they'll try the 60's look (expensive) - or they won't - which will be a really shit cop-out.
5. NO NEW TREK! - not for at least 5 years - and then not until they have a good idea. Sheesh.
Lets hope this is more rumour mongering - cause - I'm a frekin' big Trek fan - and If I'm not happy - 99% of other Trek fans won't be - and the general viewing audience will go 'what the fuck is this' and turn off.
Give up Paramount/Viacom - we've got enough Trek to watch already. repeat all of TOS, TAS, TNG, DS9 and Voyager before even thinking about any new TV series
that is at least 79+22+178+176+140 episodes = 595+ episodes. of TREK alone...
Then we have in a similar vein, 110 Babylon 5 episode, 13 Crusade episodes, 66 Stargate episodes, 60 Earth: FC episodes, 35 Farscape episodes... etc. etc. etc.
160 episodes of The X-Files, 56 episodes of Millenium... 22 episodes of Space: above and Beyond, 22 episodes of Earth 2, on and on and on and on...
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quote:If they can't get simple continuity right now, what hope have we got for a PREQUAL show.
Actually, Voyager does a great job with simple continuity (case in point: comments in "Virtuoso", "Collective", "Tsunkatse"...). It's character (and plot, to a lesser degree) continuity that people seem to want more of, while Voyager does character continuity in the vein of the non-DS9 Treks, IMO.
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No. This has got to be more rumormongering. It just HAS to.
I simply don't trust them to be able to do a prequel within the bounds of established continuity well enough to make it watchable.
Who will they use for villains? Back to Klingons again? Old flathead, or new ridgehead?
The Romulans, who continuity claims nobody'd ever seen?
The Orions? Space Pirates, really? Slave girls, in this day and age?
Some never-seen-before, but somehow never-mentioned-again species?
How can you create dramatic tension, when you already know how the future turns out? I mean, if something threatens the Federation, you KNOW it's going to lose, because the Federation's still there in the future.
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I think a prequel show set right after first contact with the vulcans would have real promise. The sets wouldn;t be like the TOS ones, but instead like those of present day spacecraft, like the space shuttle or the International Space Station. We would get to see humantiy's first steps into the cosmos after a devastating nuclear war. The romulan war and the federation's founding wouldn; be for a century, so we'd get to see how earth went out into the cosmos alone, meeting the andorians, tellarites, orions, and other species for the first time. Parts of the show could take place on Earth, where survivors of World War 3 would be trying to survive and create a better world. I would like this show very much, and I think it would appeal to the general American adience as well. Star trek is kind of confusing sometimes, because it takes place 400 years in the future, dealing with issues that often times aren;t very important to the general viewer (e.g., borg invasion). I think an show taking place in the mid- to late- 21st century would be appealing in that it would deal with a world that the general viewer can understand and relate to.
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If you ask me, a prequel set in between TOS and TNG is going to very confusing. I think a prequel set before TOS is probably going to work better.
But if I could choose a new series idea, I'd go for the 'Alpha Squad' idea...
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Altair: A prequel set before TOS is the one that I hate. A TOS-movie-era series I would like to see. However, there'd be so many continuity messes that it wouldn't be worth it, really.
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Not another series, TV is too saturated with star trek. I don't want another series with recycled Generations stories. Star wars only comes out in twenty year intervals and has gross the same amount of cash as trek and has a better nostalgia with the fans
Somebody get me the tar, feathers, boa constrictor, and cattle prod!!!
j/k.
Of course you know, the REAL reason all the Star Wars sequels didn't come out right after each other is because... *drum roll* Lucas wanted better FX for his movies.
(and of course, BUILDING the massive nostalgia -- which a lot of people consider to have been very much LET DOWN by the most recent movie -- had a little to do with it.)
This is why (surprise, surprise) the latest three are being churned out all at once, now that CGI is catching up to imagination.
Anyway, the Trek Prequel idea is horrid, in my opinion, as there's no room for drastic possibilities. Oh, it might be interesting from a simply curious and trek-historical standpoint, but that's not all that much to base a dramatic television series around. They'd be better off letting someone write a series of books (Like the new, Post ST:TMP, Pre ST:TWOK multibook series coming out this summer) about the history of the Federation, and declaring them Canon, or creating an OFFICIAL Federation History book (maybe write it like a school History textbook.)
Well, I'd buy it.
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