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[thebitterguy]

Thanks to the ever vigilant gamera_spinning, I was pointed to this proposal for a new Trek series by Joe Straczynski and Bryce Zabel. JMS was the creator of Babylon 5, and Zabel created Dark Skies and the TV version of The Crow, so they both have strong groundings in genre TV.

It looks like a cool bunch of ideas. I think it would be strange to see other actors playing the cast, but it still would have been more enjoyable than Enterprise. I'm pretty sure they wouldn't have turned Trek into "attack of the Space Arabs", either.

Of course, we could have ended up with another actor whose greatest desire was to become a real boy as Captain, but then again we might have ended up with Chairman Kaga's nephew as Spock. So, yeah, some good, some bad.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I, personally, would be desperately afraid that such a series would dip all too often into the "what if tribbles had teeth?!" well. Frankly, I don't want to see a pastiche of TOS, or a postmodern TOS: I think, fundamentally, that this is a creatively bankrupt notion. IMHO, the new BSG works despite the original series, not because of it, and is probably saved because the original series was so damn thin to begin with that there really wasn't all that much to "refer to".

If a reboot could really apply referential riffs sparingly, and avoid the horrid side-streets that do little more than ask "what if" questions based on the original series, then I might be inclined to like it. But I found these moments far and away the weakest elements of Enterprise (a series that I, otherwise, found quite interesting). And I highly doubt that a new creative team could resist the tribble-with-teeth.

I don't want to see what would amount to televised fanfic. (I recognize that some folks like fanfic; I do not.)

Please: if we're going to convince studios to sink money into new SF series, can we please not mine other creative seams? Think of all the established SF written properties that don't yet have a TV or film treatment (Lensman? Ender's universe? Robinson's Mars? Piper's Fuzzies? Sector General? New Sun/Long Sun/Whorl? The Culture?)

Think of all the really creative minds out there that could give us a fresh universe! I don't want to see Captain Kirk Redux, unless it's really well done. And I highly doubt that the project could really get off the ground without the frequent appearance of tribbles with teeth...