Star Trek XI

[Bubba Grizz]

http://www.syfyportal.com/article.php?id=1764

Next year, it will be 40 years since Gene Roddenberry's vision of "Star Trek" first came to life on the small screen.

Through those years, there's been plenty of ups and downs for the millions of fans who have followed the adventures of Capt. James T. Kirk, Capt. Jean-Luc Picard, Capt. Benjamin Sisko, Capt. Kathryn Janeway, and even Capt. Jonathan Archer -- whose time aboard "Star Trek: Enterprise" ends early this May on UPN.

With Star Trek not pulling in the viewers and the revenue as it once did, is Paramount still willing to keep the Roddenberry torch burning?

Erik Jendresen thinks so. Name doesn't ring a bell? Soon it will, as he has been commissioned by Paramount to write the 11th Star Trek film. And for the first time in history, a new slate of characters, as well as a new cast, will be introduced on the big screen. But that's just the beginning of the new Star Trek.

There is more to the article.

[Marbus]

I read somewhere recently, I think on slashdot, that Straczynski had approached Paramount about doing a new Trek Series. Personally I think that would rock. They can get him and Ira Steven Behr together and I bet the series would be even better than BG and I'm pretty damn impressed with that as a SciFi series... I'm just ready for B&B to turn it over to someone else.

Marb

[Voronwë]

i'd agree with Marb, but i didnt understand wtf he said

[Marbus]

Straczynski wrote Babylon 5. Which I personally HATED the when it first came out. It was just too damn cheesy, the costumes, the sets etc... Then they started replaying those and nothing else was on so I started watching them... closley. Like the original Trek everything but the space flights were pretty cheesy but over time the character and what they were dealing with, fighting for etc... got very deep. There was so much mythology, religion etc... regarding the human condition that I became totally hooked.

Ira Steven Behr wrote, produced etc... Deep Space 9. Which started out as a space soap opera but grew into, IMHO, the best Trek other than Next Generation... on some levels even better. The story became real and the character and storyline were more important that what red shirt is going to die this week.

Brannon and Braga have run Trek, except for DS9, since Roddenberry passed away and each series and movie have gotten progressively worse. The only Next Gen movie that was even worth renting was First Contact. Over the past 5 years or so both of them, B&B, have pretty much done exactly opposite for what the fans wanted, expected etc... Cotto (think that is his name) has done most of the last Enterprise season and most of it, the few I've seen, were much better than previous seasons. They have argued for years that they know where ST needs to go and noone else does... now they say it needs a rest. The truth is THEY need a rest. If you read the article posted above you will see that one of the old Next Gen, DS9 guys is who helped bring Battlestar Galatica back and it's freakin' awesome and has the ratings to prove it.

Trek has a future but only if those morons give up the reins and let someone else take over. IMHO the depth of character from Straczynski's writings with Behr producing would be a great series... in whatever universe they put it in. Paramount needs a successful Trek and they could bring that...

That explain it?

Marb

[masteen]

That explain it?

Very well, and you are 100% correct.

B&B were able to do fine with the last seasons of TNG because it already had an established stable of characters and loads of potential poltlines. When it came time to make the movies and try some new ideas, they failed horribly. WE NEED NEW BLOOD!