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I can't help wondering if the new one will look less like Star Wars in Star Trek uniforms and more like Avengers in Star Trek uniforms.
Hey Paramount, if you don't want it to be like Star Trek then maybe you could make a new franchise instead of bastardizing an existing one.
Exactly- and that goes for so many 'reboots' and whatnot.
Paramount, if you didn't want to make a ST movie- then you shouldn't have. Quit insulting fans of such a vast property by putting out shit movies and calling them ST.
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A quoted reaction in the article mirrored what I was thinking when I read this.
"I read that last bit and I say to myself… oh, they just want to make it like the original Star Trek TV show. A show that was pitched as Wagon Train To The Stars, a space western. A show that had episodes where Kirk and Spock found themselves on a planet ruled by 1930s mafioso, a show where the spirit of Jack the Ripper took over Scotty and a show where one of the greatest episodes is a submarine battle story. They had episodes that were courtroom dramas and episodes that were love stories. To me that is Star Trek – a bunch of different genres and story types into which the Trek characters are inserted."
Star Trek is at its base a format, not a story: a big part of the reason for its success over the decades. It can be many, many things and still be Star Trek.
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Jul 21, 2015 - 7:02 AM
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Ado
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Did Roddenberry really pitch Trek as "Wagon Train to the Stars"? I seriously doubt he believed that. He must have been trying to speak in a dialect the suits would understand. Trek certainly didn't become that, as the "Big Three" made that show great. That's what Star Trek has always been to me: those characters and their interactions with one another and how they deal with whatever adventure they're involved with at the moment. As long as they don't betray the characters--which they already have with the Spock-Uhura romantic relationship--as we've always known them, Trek is Trek--at least as I see it. However, if I don't like what they do to those characters I always have the original series and those six films, which is fine with me.
Nicely stated Jim.
I always thought that the built in history of these characters, as well as these friends in real life, always paid off. Even when they were given silly circumstances and awkward lines and in the worst script challenges presented in something like Star Trek V these characters always worked. There was a palpable chemistry and shorthand communication that worked brilliantly. There are very few Hollywood properties where the same actors might work together in the same roles for 30 years, and there started to be something pretty remarkable about the time of Wrath of Khan, where the actors, and the characters started to state on screen that they (both) had been together a long time. The fire side chat on Wrath of Khan, and Final Frontier, (forgetting for a moment the awful singing) are poignant where these guys look out at life realizing they are a family.
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