New Star Trek series

[BrucePartington]

I knew it would return.

http://the-daily.buzz/new-star-trek-tv/2/

[Eichhörnchen]

http://i.imgur.com/DPkOUuu.jpg

[Reece]

Excellent news, lets hope it's in the old tradition (clean, no sex or violence):yep:

[Oberon]

:hmmm: Colour me skeptical for now. After what Abrams did to the Trek canon I have my concerns about what timeline this will be set in. Will be happy to be surprised though.

[Betonov]

I'd put it in the primary timeline, after the events of the destruciton of Romulus, (http://memory-beta.wikia.com/wiki/Star_Trek:_Countdown) which is set in a federation weakened by the Dominion war, Romulan empire on the verge of collapse and the Klingon empire in internal turmoil.
Which makes every power in the alpha quadrant to weak to start wars and makes more room for exploration and intrigue.

[Jimbuna]

Fingers crossed Patrick Stewart will return.

[BrucePartington]

Fingers crossed Patrick Stewart will return.
I'm with you. I always found him to be the most dignified and eloquent Enterprise Captain. But reality is, it's been 20 years, and TNG actors aren't getting any younger. We clearly saw that in the last episode of the Enterprise series. While Marina Sirtis still looked reasonably good, Jonathan Frakes looked like he needed a strict diet. Star Trek heroes needn't look like they neglect their health.
TNG left quite an impression on me. Every episode, every story, tried to convey a message, get a point across, for the betterment of the viewers. I grew to like Enterprise a lot, but TNG remains the best in my book.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3RNsZvdYZQ

[mapuc]

My response to this news :woot::yeah: :woot:

My next response due to where I live :wah::wah::wah:

Denmark and Sweden are so ANTI-sci fi. especially when it comes to Star Trek.

One of the Danish public service channel was so kind to show the first 12 episode of season 1 of ST TNG and that was it. We were told there weren't any more episode.

Can only hope one of the German channel I have, will air this new series.

Markus

[vienna]

The US audience is not going to be in any better a position regarding the series. The show will premiere on the CBS broadcast stations (free TV), but thereafter will only be available on the CBS online streaming service. So, if you're not connected to the Net, you're SOL ...


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[GT182]

I won't be the same without Spock.

Live long and prosper.

[Buddahaid]

Welcome to this modern world where all entertainment and software is by subscription.

[Aktungbby]

I won't be the same without Spock.


Life is for the living! Spock had his resurrection, Now: what about the Orion Slave Girls (alas Susan Oliver is also no longer with us!) http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--dKPUHKZ5--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/17f82s2qptppfjpg.jpg
Her offscreen accomplishments were not inconsiderable: Overcoming an almost crippling fear of flying (caused in 1959 when the Boeing 707 she was aboard plunged 30,000 feet towards the Atlantic before leveling out just in time), Ms. Oliver quickly became obsessed with flying single-engine planes in 1964. Earning far more than the standard amateur flight certifications, she eventually set out to become the first woman to fly a single-engine plane from New York to Moscow in 1967. The dangerous journey became even more so due to numerous delays with the plane and with Soviet officials, leading her to embark in early-winter conditions. Despite successfully making the most dangerous legs of the journey (from Canada, through Greenland and Iceland, and on to Scotland), she was stopped in Copenhagen when the Soviets decided not to allow her to fly the final leg to Moscow. The U.S. press dubbed her journey "The Flight That Failed," trivializing what should have been recognized as a major achievement (during which Ms. Oliver set five world records). Her love of flying continued despite this lack of acknowledgement, and in 1968 Bill Lear invited her to become the first woman ever flight trained for his new Lear Jet (an offer she gladly accepted).

[vienna]

As a side note re: Spock: The TV series "The Bib Bang Theory" is going to address the passing of Leonard Nimoy tonight. Nimoy had made what could technically be termed his last appearance as Spock on the show some time back when he provided his voice for a Spock doll that figured prominently in a dream sequence involving the 'Sheldon' character on the show...


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[STEED]

We ran out of ideas years ago what shall we do?

How about re-vamping Star Trek yet again?

Sounds good lets do that..We can always cancel the show if the viewers still show signs of oh no not more Star Trek and give it another five years.


:shifty:

[Betonov]

We ran out of good writers working under patient directors working for uber greedy network owners years ago what shall we do?



Fixed :O:

[STEED]

Fixed :O:

That too. :)

[Wolferz]

http://i.imgur.com/DPkOUuu.jpg
Who let that Tribble in here?:haha:

The original series never lived up to the hype spewed during the intro.

The five year mission plot to seek out new life and new civilizations wasn't always followed. Instead it was always some border dispute or other flaming duck that the Enterprise crew was sent to mediate or stomp on. Always a protagonist/antagonist confrontation with copious amounts of phaser and photon torpedo exchanges.

I'd rather see Stargate SG-1 make a return.

[Betonov]

The original series never lived up to the hype spewed during the intro.



At least DS-9 was honest about that :haha:

[vienna]

At least DS-9 was honest about that :haha:

I actually liked DS-9. The whole concept of a bunch of individuals way out on the fringes of the galaxy, most, if not all of whom, really weren't at all happy with being there or were forced to be there, having to deal withe each other over matters personal and organizational was intriguing. I mean, even the Captain didn't hide his deep dislike of his new command; he wasn't another of those bold, heroic, straight-shooters captains in the other series. The fact they were on a station that was not the sharpest vehicle around made for even more interest since DS-9 wasn't some ultra-high tech starship with all the mod cons. The show kind of reminded me of those old war films where enemy troops face off on the front lines in an uneasy truce and have to deal with all manner of immediate problems and intrigue, including having to, at times, cooperate with the very individuals who are supposed to be your enemy. I think in the overall hierarchy of the ST TV series thus far, DS-9 is very much underrated...


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[Betonov]

DS-9 is shunned by trekies because it was too dark and gritty and too off of what Roddenberry envisioned for the future

buuuuut...

Exploration is not a comfortable business. Hillary didn't climb everest in shorts and grilled čevapčiči on top.


The show kind of reminded me of those old war films where enemy troops face off on the front lines in an uneasy truce and have to deal with all manner of immediate problems and intrigue, including having to, at times, cooperate with the very individuals who are supposed to be your enemy.

M*A*S*H

[Buddahaid]

DS-9 is shunned by trekies because it was too dark and gritty and too off of what Roddenberry envisioned for the future

buuuuut...

Exploration is not a comfortable business. Hillary didn't climb everest in shorts and grilled čevapčiči on top.

Actually DS-9 is rather liked in the Trek prop building community. It's Voyager that is disliked the most as a TV series with the JJ verse movies being the most hated of all, and it's the connection to the movies that is the most worrisome bit about the new series.

As far as TOS not living up to the hype of the opening narration, you do have to take into account it was a very expensive series to make and all those alien worlds, spacecraft and interior shots had to be built life size on a sound stage. That limitation, and the expense of adding in the special opticals, made finding writers of SF that could create stories the studio could afford to make difficult and more than one top notch author was pissed off by the script rewrites needed.

[Betonov]

Huh, I was always told DS-9 strayed the most from what trekkies percieve as Star trek. Apart from JJ (the two movies I thouroghly enjoyed though :) )

[Buddahaid]

Huh, I was always told DS-9 strayed the most from what trekkies percieve as Star trek. Apart from JJ (the two movies I thouroghly enjoyed though :) )

I guess it just depends on where one is then. I enjoyed the new movies but they are not of the old ones.
http://michaelstvtray.files.wordpress.com/2013/07/ted-cassidy-star-trek1.jpg

[mapuc]

Forget what other say or write, watch it for your self and if you like the series/movies then you buy it or you don't.

Markus

[Buddahaid]

Forget what other say or write, watch it for your self and if you like the series/movies then you buy it or you don't.

Markus

Right you are but here in 'merika we like to pre-hate things as Steve said. :hmph: :O:

[vienna]

...As far as TOS not living up to the hype of the opening narration, you do have to take into account it was a very expensive series to make and all those alien worlds, spacecraft and interior shots had to be built life size on a sound stage. That limitation, and the expense of adding in the special opticals, made finding writers of SF that could create stories the studio could afford to make difficult and more than one top notch author was pissed off by the script rewrites needed.

The most notable, and notorious, example of this is the TOS episode, "The City on the Edge of Forever":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_City_on_the_Edge_of_Forever#Controversy

Ellison still fumes over the whole re-writing of his original story and I have heard him many times, in radio interviews, detail his dissatisfaction. He also tells the story of how he first presented the story to Shatner. Shatner was to go to Ellison's home in the hills above Los Angeles to get a first look at the script. Ellison says he was at home when he heard a roaring sound; looking out his window, he saw Shatner, on a Harley, coming up the steet. While making the turn into the driveway of the home, Shatner los control of the bike and laid it down. He picked himself up and walked the bike in the rest of the way. After the usual hellos, Ellison gave Shatner the script and left him alone in the living room to read it. Ellison would occasionally sneak a peek at Shatner reading to see if he could gauge Shatner's response to the story. Ellison was sneaking a peek when Shatner had just finished reading; Shatner closed the script, gazed off into the distance and sighed. Ellison thought "Oh, good, the story has moved him." Shatner then reopened the script and started to move his finger deliberately down the pages. It was then Ellison realized Shatner was counting the character lines to see if any other character had more lines than Kirk...


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[Betonov]

the decision to cast Shatner as Danny Crane in Boston legal was perfect because they just let Shatner play himself :)

[Wolferz]

KHAAAAHNNNN!:haha:

[Schroeder]

I enjoyed the new movies but they are not of the old ones.

I watched the first and tried to watch the second. The first one was good for 2/3 of the movie and then fell completely apart in the last third of it. I never could get into the second one. It was just to far off of TOS. I could not connect the new characters to the old ones. To me that weren't the Kirk, Spock, Uhura etc. that Iknew from my childhood but completely new characters that only had the names of the old ones. I quit the second movie after about 20min as I just couldn't relate to it. To me that wasn't Star Trek but just another action movie.:(

[Oberon]

DS9 is my favourite because it dares to delve into the darker side of human nature with a couple of fantastic episodes dedicated to it "In the Pale Moonlight" and "The Siege of AR558" are two that stand out to me, and indeed there are those who feel that it stood at complete opposites to what Roddenbery set out in his utopian future for humanity. I can understand their viewpoint, but there's only so far you can go with it, I mean even Star Trek VI probed the consequences of inbuilt hatred against a species with Kirk having to face his hatred of the race that killed his son in order to secure peace between the Klingon Empire and the Federation.

In regards to setting the new series after the timeline split (aka just after Spock and Nero went to the Abramsverse) that could work, there's a whole wedge of novels and such which are set after the events of Nemesis and a vague timeline for the rest of the 24th century that can be sketched in.
Alternatively they could always put it in-between the original series and The Next Generation, I mean there's 71 years there which can be explored. First contact with the Cardassians, war with the Cardassians, the Tomed Incident, the battle of Narenda III and so on. Of course, like Enterprise you do have the problem of making sure that the ends meet up, which can put a bit of a limit on story-telling, so perhaps setting it after 2379 or 2387 would be better (I would prefer 2379 since it's before Romulus gets obiliterated and would open up interesting storylines regarding the power vacuum that Shinzons coup and subsequent death created within the Empire).

/nerd

[STEED]

http://img02.deviantart.net/c1d5/i/2012/099/8/5/star_trek_alert_signs_by_freaky333-d4vkom2.png

Trekkies have been located on Subsims. :ping:

[Betonov]

"Let me tell you something about Hew-mons, nephew. They're a wonderful, friendly people – as long as their bellies are full and their holosuites are working. But take away their creature comforts... deprive them of food, sleep, sonic showers... put their lives in jeopardy over an extended period of time... and those same friendly, intelligent, wonderful people will become as nasty and violent as the most bloodthirsty Klingon. You don't believe me? Look at those faces, look at their eyes..."

[Buddahaid]

Trekkies have been located on Subsims. :ping:

I'll never let you take my phasers away! :arrgh!:

[STEED]

I'll never let you take my phasers away! :arrgh!:


http://giffiles.alphacoders.com/800/8002.gif

Trekkies do a Charlton Heston!

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5167/5338479902_accb2870df.jpg
Spock what is Yellow Alert?

[mapuc]

I have been a Trekkie's since I saw raumschiff enterprise on German TV in the early 70s

I have no certain favorite ST Series ´cause each one is OK in its own way and I don't compare two series or the captains.

Markus

[Buddahaid]

http://giffiles.alphacoders.com/800/8002.gif

Trekkies do a Charlton Heston!


I'm sorry Steed..... We can't return you.......You've seen the future!
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/e/e6/STTomorrow_Yesterday.jpg/270px-STTomorrow_Yesterday.jpg

[STEED]

^ "NUTS" :/\\!!

[Betonov]

^ "NUTS" :/\\!!

Now you have about 250 season of dr who to watcg trough

[STEED]

Now you have about 250 season of dr who to watcg trough

A upside? :hmmm:

[Betonov]

250 years worth of series means there's at least 50 writters on the job. Should make for pleasatn surprises