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I agree. If the Series was pre-TOS, I think it would, the story-line would be boring because of the lost of so much technology which has been developed over the past series.
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Star Trek: The Prisoner would be kick ass, by the way, if only due to its lineage.
This "concept that doesn't require the name Star Trek" thing has me totally confused, though. What the heck does that mean? A Trek series that isn't a Trek series? Maybe Braga is planning a trip into postmodern metafiction as pioneered in "Far Beyond The Stars." Which, actually, might make for a pretty good series, but I really doubt that's the concept.
I thought it might be a ploy to make the show more appealing to the major networks, if these rumors of NBC or ABC interest are true. Again, it's a pretty big leap, as no reliable source has said anything about those networks being interested. Plus, it seems that in today's wintery TV SF climate, having a brand name would be a good thing, not a bad thing. But who knows?
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Mole: 1. a small destructive pest, often blind, that lives in dirt. 2. an unsightly, precancerous growth on the skin. 3. a source of highly dubious information. 4. a lame survivor-based Tv show.
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Actually, my source is Dennis Bailey -- you might know of him, he co-wrote Tin Man and First Contact, and almost got hired as a staff writer for TNG (he submitted Tin Man as a spec script with David Bischoff), and did the re-write on First Contact.
Er, First Contact the episode not the film, that is.
I'd lay odds on his "mole" being Mike Okuda, actually.
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A prequel is something that should have been done before Voy, or even DS9. Now that there are three, maybe four series' ahead of this "prequel" (if in fact that is what it is), then there are too many boundaries that have been laid down. The future is certain, and though there is alot of space to make good story telling, it isn't enough in my opinion to base a series off of. I think, or perhaps hope, that your "source's source" is just spreading disinformation.
By the way, what is this 'Star Trek: The Prisoner" idea you keep talking about? I haven't heard of any such thing.
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I vaguely remember an interview with, eh, someone on the DS9 writing staff who said that they had discussed whether they could take the Star Trek name off of DS9.
I don't think they ever seriously considered it, but they wondered whether to go whole hog for a different audience. The type that, say, don't watch Star Trek, but will watch B5, or Farscape.
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Has anyone noticed the amount of hologram episodes... I'm picturing a series featuring a large amount of holograms... sort of how ds9 had the maquis to set up voyager and tng had bajorans to set up ds9...
Robert Picardo could be the lead!?!
Holoship? A la Red Dwarf?
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Technically, an Enterprise B or C series would be a prequel to the TNG era stuff. I've always thought an Ent B series would be great. It could fill in the gaps in Klingon/Federation relations as well as round out some things with some of the TOS era aliens and events. A "C" series would run into problems as we all know how it ends. A "B" or "C" series would also eventually come up against some continuity problems.
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I have decided to maintain my aura of complete non-belief until the first screencaps and pics start coming down the pike.
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