OT: (barely) New Star Trek Movie on its way

[Slick]

http://www.cnn.com/2006/SHOWBIZ/Movies/04/21/leisure.startrek.reut/index.html

[narf poit chez BOOM]

I hope it's good.

[geoschmo]

Daily Variety said the action would center on the early days of "Star Trek" characters James T. Kirk and Mr. Spock, including their first meeting at Starfleet Academy and first outer-space mission.




So, how long will it take for the really picky Trek fans to start complaining that the story idea is flawed since Spock was a member of the Enterprise crew before Kirk took over command from Captain Pike, so presumably their respective first outer-space missions would have been separate?

Oh wait, I guess I just did. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif

I suppose it would be possible to write a back story that wouldn't conflict with the established canon where they meet at the academy and then go their separate ways before meeting back up on the Enterprise. You'd have to ignore the Trek books to do it, but nobody pays attention to those anyway. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/laugh.gif

[Azselendor]

Star Trek Academy movie? If that's the film they release (instead of the Star Trek Romulan War movie) then I'll take back every bad thing I said about Brannon Braga.


Seriously, there was a proposed idea about doing a set of films focused on the Romulan Wars called "Star Trek The Beginning" or something. The idea got killed with the viacom merger/dissolving/osmosis ordeal. I liked that idea a lot more.

[Atrocities]

Didn't they learn their lesson with Enterprise? This is, at this point, just a rumor and is NOT an official work in progress. I have read this same "Acadamey Movie" thing at least 10 times over the last eight years. Do not put any stock into it until you see the movie trailer.

Edit:

Looks like Brandon Braga is involved.... BAD mojo here guys. Just look to Enterprise to see example. While I am highly skeptical of the report, it does look more authentic than the ones I have read in the past. If they do make this movie, It too may bomb. I don't understand why they simply do not make another Us vs. The Borg movie with an all star cast, great story over a 3 hour movie. People have learned nothing from the LOTR movies have they? If the material is solid, the movie is sound, and the script and direction are air tight, they will come.

[ZeroAdunn]

Considering all the recent changes at paramount I don't think it is all that unreasonable to believe this movie could be good.

They do just need to try and make a boxoffice success, instead of making a "true" to trek movie, as trek is the most rediculously butchered franchise out there.

[Black_Knyght]

Came across this link - Report: 'Star Trek' set for '08 revival (http://www.cnn.com/2006/SHOWBIZ/Movies/04/21/leisure.startrek.reut/index.html)

[Atrocities]

NOTE TO PARAMOUNT: LET IT DIE! FOR GODS SAKE PLEASE DO NOT RUIN THE MEMORY OF STAR TREK BY MAKING THIS MOVIE!

[PvK]

Maybe George Lucas can buy the IP rights to all of Star Trek and then release only Gold editions of the old shows, where his CGI team adds in floating robots to every scene. And maybe employs some New Orleans refugees to voice some Gungans in Federation uniforms to add side-comments.

[Atrocities]

PvK, that comment is coming across as being a bit racist. They are not refugees, they are people who's lives have been shattered. So the humor you are trying to envoke comes acrossed as sarcasim with a hint of racism. Thats my $0.02 opinion any ways.

And for the record, why would GL want to frell up the star trek franchise when he did a bank up job of doing that to his own franchise.... ?

The updated special effects would be nice though.

[PvK]

I'm racist against Gungans only. Or, against George Lucas' portrayal of them. I'm not sure what southern cultural group exactly Lucas' folks imitated in creating Gungan dialect, but I sympathize with them that it was used to make an utterly annoying sci fi space alien culture. Imagine being told you talked like a Gungan...

... as for why GL would do it, it was just a sarcastic joke about GL's tendency to mess stuff up with stupid overdone pointless CGI, like the extra flying robots in the new and abused edition of Star Wars Episode IV.

[Artaud]

I don't know why they don't base a movie on one of the ST books.

I've become a big fan of Trek novels over the last few years. There are many that qualify as great sci-fi, not just great Trek fiction. I'm amazed at the quality of some of the writing.

[Caduceus]

Why not do a "Dark Mirror"/"Mirror, Mirror" movie with the Borg? That'd be cool.

[Suicide Junkie]

Hippie Borg?!?

That would be even scarier than the regular borg!

[Urendi Maleldil]

Maybe Borg that only want to be your friend.

I'm not sure how they're going to pull off Kirk, Spock, and the rest of them with new actors. And the old ones are um... old, fat, or dead. Nimoy and Shatner are still great actors (just look at Boston Legal and the um... Priceline.com commercials). But A Trek prequel without them?

Startrek Episode 1: The Phantom Frontier

Ugh.

Startrek needs a re-imagining along the lines of the new Battlestar Galactica.

On the other hand, I'd also love to see a Trek movie about Khan.

[Black_Knyght]

<font color="red"> PvK </font> : http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/mad.gif I have to agree with AT on this one !!! I'm from the south myself, and have many friends and relatives in and about New Orleans who are in dire straits right now. Your comments sounded VERY callous and rascist to me, too. And to be honest, your attempted justification didn't help your case much, either.http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/mad.gif

I'm not trying to stir up an argument here, but I did feel I needed to express my thoughts about your careless commentary. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/mad.gif

[dogscoff]

Urendi Maleldil said:
Nimoy and Shatner are still great actors



Shatner... great actor... Shatner... great actor....

<font class="small">Code:</font><hr /><pre>Does not compute - Does not compute - Does not compute </pre><hr />

*Dogscoff head explodes messily, spraying beer-soaked positronic matrix all over the place.



(As for the whole Gungan/ New Orleans thing, all I'll say is that after reading PvK's comments on these boards for several years now I find it very hard to believe he would have written anything intentionally derogatory about the ppl of NO.)

[Azselendor]

Geroge Lucas was making fun of Caribbeans with the gungans. Jar Jar I believe has a jamacian islander accent.

However, Atrocities, the displaced population of New Orleans and Katrina-Disaster zones are refugees. They've had a terrible disaster hit their homes and communities and lives and are now scattered. We american's don't like to call them refugees, but that's what they've been reduced to. My home town here has recieved a number of them - for what reason I cannot fathom because we are in a hurricane strike-zone.

Anyhoo, Star Trek The Beginning - a trilogy following Tiberius Chase (One of Kirk's Ancestors) in the romulan wars and the actual formation of the federation script was apparently greenlighted and then shelved by the new regime at paramount in favor of stand-alone film, apparently the Star Trek Academy film.

I hope they reconsider, the trilogy was supposed to be the reboot film.

[Urendi Maleldil]

dogscoff said:
Shatner... great actor... Shatner... great actor....

<font class="small">Code:</font><hr /><pre>Does not compute - Does not compute - Does not compute </pre><hr />

*Dogscoff head explodes messily, spraying beer-soaked positronic matrix all over the place.




Well, I didn't mean 'great actor' as in Paul Newman, or even Johnny Depp, but his Danny Crane is one of the best characters on non-cable TV.

[PvK]

BK, I'm sorry if you got upset about what I wrote. I didn't mean it in any kind of a racist way. I was trying to sarcastically comment on the way public figures and media companies try to cash in on the suffering of others in really stupid ways. I didn't mean to peeve anyone except maybe Lucas. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif

[Renegade 13]

Personally, I think the Star Trek film franchise needs to die, at least for a time. Frankly, it's old, it's all been done before; they haven't thought of anything new in 20 years.

[Azselendor]

I agree, let the fields lay fallow for star trek for 10 years (20 is too much).

[Randallw]

It looks like a Star Trek movie will be made, but the guy supposedly writing it hints that it won't be about Kirk and Spock

http://www.imdb.com/news/wenn/2006-04-27/#2