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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

[aarondb.livejournal.com]

As long as it isn't "God" that's the ancient progenitor, I couldn't much care what JMS does. But the sheer religious weight that featured so heavily in Babylon 5 really should be absent from any Star Trek reboot. I don't know any Christians now apart from my Grandma (outside of American online acquaintances, that is) so I always have vast difficulty believing that all these futuristic folks 250+ years in the future are so religious.

I'd like to see a Trek that reflected humanity in the future, not America. Even Firefly made a huge deal about faith, which ground my gears a little.

7% of British people attend church and the figure isn't that much different across Western Europe. I think it might be time to reflect in sci-fi the effects of the slow erosion of religion in the more developed parts of Earth. Outside America, that is. And surely even America will rise from its New Dark Age at some point.