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But, doesn't the Trek movie thing sorta follow the "death is going to bring in money" approach. In each film, someone was about to die, from the whole planet to Kirk falling off the mountian in ST5.
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Well, I heard on a Trek news thing that the writer is the same guy that wrote Gladiator. That makes me think that it might be a little 'action packed'.
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OK, it can have action, but it can't neglect characters...
It can have characterisation, that's not an invitation for comedy.
It has to have drama
It has to have an 'epic' feel.
It has to be quintessentially Star Trek
It has to have a decent plot.
It can't retread old ideas.
I don't think Brannon Braga should be involved.
It SHOULDN'T involve any characters from other Treks.
It should have good effects, I think they might need ILM back.
It shouldn't be an effects fest.
It has to have more CRUSHER (Beverly)
I will be upset if they neglect her AGAIN. Just look at her fantabulous episodes... "Remember Me" "The High Ground" "The Arsenal of Freedom" "Suspicions" - even "Sub Rosa" as crap as it was was... good. MORE BEVERLY!
We have to see old Starship classes again - not NEW designs but old ones 'spruced up' like the Nebbie again.
but the last point isn't exactly a 'has to be'.
Andrew
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Actually, I was thinking that they could end Voyager with a cliff-hanger (the very last ep) then conclude the plot in the ST:X. Not only would you drive ticket sales just to see what happens, you'd give Voyager a distinction that would make up for the recent seasons poor writing.
There are many possible scenarios. We could have Voyager find another caretaker/wormhole/drive-of-the-week and be coming towards the Alpha Quadrant a la Timeless, with maybe a fleet of Borg cubes following. Then, in the movie, the MIDAS device might recieve a message from Voyager saying they were coming home. When the Enterprise greets them, out pops Voyager with the Borg behind them.
Or we could have an Elite Forceish idea where Voyager is caught in some imovable void or field, and then in the movie the Enterprise has to come and rescue them ... Then again Voyager could end the series with everything hunckey-dory, about to arrive at the Alpha Quadrant, when it is discovered in the movie that everyone on Voyaegr is infected with a contagion that could threaten the Alpha Quadrant.
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Yes, there are many theories. Just to make it clear, are there NO hints from Paramount about starting or preparing production of this movie? No booked actors?
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Those ideas for a Voyager/Tng movie sound good. However I honestly think is time to bring Q back. I have a few ideas for a Q movie, but I would hate to disclose them because I don't want somebody else taking them.
As for Star Trek XI (Insurrection), maybie it's just me, but I thought it was just as good as ST:FC.
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There are rumors that there will be a giant space battle. But in my opinion I would like to see only yhr eEnterprise and perhaps a few other ships maybe a Galaxy or two but nothing like in the hundreds. This givesthe audience thinking "Ok if the Enterprise blows up they got plenty more" The one on one battles like in Star Trek II (my favorite movie of all Star Trek) In this movie I loved the feel of it that's all.
If they make a action-packed movie then it wouldn't be Star Trek at all. Yes the orginal Star Trek was supposed to be like that but the TNG crew isn't. I loved Glaidator and if they make Star Trek like that then the fans who loved TNG becuase it was a smart and popular series will no like that movie.
By the way extremely understated how bad Star Trek 5 was. "Bahhhh.....not good" It's more like "the worse peice of $%^&* in movie history.
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I'm still pulling for "Star Trek X: First of Two Conquers the Universe"
or "Star Trek : Voyager : Survivor" bringing back the old 'audience-interactive' gimmick... every few minutes, you get to choose which Voyager crewmember gets assimilated, blown out an airock, fried by an exploding conduit, etc.
but then, I'm insane.
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I read a story called Star Trek: Assimilation and it went with the idea that the Dominion was created to protect the Founders from the Borg. Mind you, the story took place during DS9, before the war was over. Voyager and the E-E were involved, and our old buddies Hugh, Riley, Wesley, and The Traveller were involved, too
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To claim that Star Trek V belongs among the ranks of the truly awful indicates a lack of experience. Does ST V feature a powerful sorceress who wears nothing but a red tie and flies around with a magic glowing vagina? Visible boom mikes? Tire tracks on the moon? Torgo?
No, The Final Frontier may be a bad Trek movie, and it may be stunningly mediocre, but as far as truly bad films go, the history of cinema is replete with movies so awful your retinas will seperate in order to save the rest of your body.
I remain unconvinced that a Trek film can be directly connected to events from an episode and succeed. The idea sounds doomed to failure, like plans for a Sliders movie. If you want a successful Trek film, and a TNG one at that, you need to look at the best episodes and then say "Like that, but bigger".
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Ok, so it can't be connected to an episode, then it fails. But a TNG-movie can look at it's episodes and say "like that, but bigger" and succeed. Hmm...
I think ST:II did it pretty good. And FC was linked to BoBW in many ways.
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