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2006-11-01 -Short Attention Span Theater-
Star Trek Creativity Put On "Cruise" Control
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Posted by Zenster 2006-11-01 02:17|| || Front Page|| [11129 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 As wid many other shows, STAR TREK: ENTERPRISE was canned too early, just when the plots, characters, and quality of script/dialogues were getting interesting. Now that the MSM has officially finally discovered that BIG CINEMA is slowly going the way of the Dodo, the rush is on to conquer nano-moments of [high-speed/HD] TV screen time + YOUTUBE-style mediums.
Posted by JosephMendiola 2006-11-01 03:59||   2006-11-01 03:59|| Front Page Top

#2 Moore, whose Battlestar Galactica is more recreation than revival,

And sucks more than the original ever did.
Posted by Robert Crawford">Robert Crawford  2006-11-01 05:14|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/]  2006-11-01 05:14|| Front Page Top

#3 And sucks more than the original ever did.

As if that were even humanly possible.

[Bart Simpson] This sucks and blows at the same time.[/BS]

the rush is on to conquer nano-moments

With Joe's usual astonishing prescience, he nails the evolution of the sound bite culture dead-on. Welcome to a society with the collective attention span of a fruit fly.
Posted by Zenster">Zenster  2006-11-01 05:24||   2006-11-01 05:24|| Front Page Top

#4 You know, ST:Enterprise ran for two seasons longer than the original series did, Joe.

Why does it need five years to "just get started?"
Posted by Abdominal Snowman 2006-11-01 10:26||   2006-11-01 10:26|| Front Page Top

#5 I want a Galaxy Quest series.
Posted by DoDo 2006-11-01 11:40||   2006-11-01 11:40|| Front Page Top

#6 Trek has been on cruise-control creatively since Voyager. Enough with the prequel stuff. They've built a rich backstory and they refuse to use it.

They should create a multi-movie story-arc the spine of which leads to war with the Klingons. Everyone loves the Klingons and thematically you can have all sorts of fun with chunks of the Federation that think the war is stupid (Vulcans) and others that want to slaughter the Klingons once and for all (Tellerites). Politics and repurcussions far beyond the one ship are key and our heros have to keep the Federation happy while beating back the enemy.

Base it around Admiral Sulu and Captain Checkov/XO Barclay. Include parts of the crews from Next Gen/Voyager/DS9 because that's the best time frame to use. Near the grand climax you have the Romulans get involved, but then the Romulans have a coup as Admiral Spock and his faction take over power.

This stuff writes itself if the folks involved are actually fans of the show.
Posted by rjschwarz 2006-11-01 11:47||   2006-11-01 11:47|| Front Page Top

#7 Let's write our own star thriller.
We could beam that rock monster up into the next democrat national convention. The teachers union could be eaten by their own Klingons. Scrub your annus, it's the only cure.


I'll get right on it.
Posted by wxjames 2006-11-01 16:54||   2006-11-01 16:54|| Front Page Top

#8 Ok that is enough! The new Battlestar Gallactica does not suck. It was very quirky at the beginning but it has grown into a first-rate Sci-Fi drama. On the matter at hand I do hope that Cruise gets a part on Star Trek XI but as a red shirt that gets eaten or killed in the first 30 seconds. I guess I am weird because I actually enjoyed Battlefield Earth, mostly the way a human got the better of alien conquerors.
Posted by Cyber Sarge 2006-11-01 17:27||   2006-11-01 17:27|| Front Page Top

#9 I also like the new Galactica (and the old). I can't stand beside you on the Battlefield Earth one though. The book was enjoyable light fluff, the movie a stinking pile of dutched camera angles and compromised story elements.
Posted by rjschwarz 2006-11-01 17:33||   2006-11-01 17:33|| Front Page Top

#10 The new Battlestar: Galactica rocks on toast!

Compared to the original it is head and shoulders above even Star Trek. Edward James Olmos as Adama is absolutely brilliant.

Yeah, sometimes there's a little too much angst amongst the characters, but as a whole the series just friggin rocks!!!

Posted by FOTSGreg">FOTSGreg  2006-11-01 18:22|| www.fire-on-the-suns.com]">[www.fire-on-the-suns.com]  2006-11-01 18:22|| Front Page Top

#11 The Star Trek franchise is dead. Drive a stake through it's heart. Or cast Tom Cruise in the next Trek movie. Same thing either way.
Posted by DMFD 2006-11-01 19:13||   2006-11-01 19:13|| Front Page Top

#12 >Include parts of the crews from Next Gen/Voyager/DS9<

Sheesh. I've always believed that the original Trek was like the UN in Korea - brash, violent and led by Americans; TNG was like the UN in the Balkans - weak, incompentent and full of Europeans.

Shows like B5, Farscape, Firefly and BS Galactica show how lame the ST franchise became with TNG. Enterprise could have been a good show if they had shown the actual history from the Original Series (Bad Klingons, Romulans, etc.) but they couldn't get away from the TNG taint.

davemac
Posted by davemac 2006-11-01 20:02||   2006-11-01 20:02|| Front Page Top

#13 I'm still a Firefly/Serenity fan
Posted by Frank G">Frank G  2006-11-01 20:18||   2006-11-01 20:18|| Front Page Top

#14 take my love
take my land
take me where I cannot stand
I don't care
I'm still free
you can't take the sky from me

take me out
to the black tell 'em I ain't coming back
burn the land
and boil the sea
you can't take the sky from me

have no place
I can be
since I found Serenity
but you can't take the sky from me

Posted by lotp 2006-11-01 20:25||   2006-11-01 20:25|| Front Page Top

#15 Inara. Companion. Nuff said. ;->
Posted by .com 2006-11-01 20:28||   2006-11-01 20:28|| Front Page Top

#16 Loved Firefly and liked the old/new Gallatica, and I would luv to see a star trek movie where the federation and klingons at war it would be awesome.
Posted by djohn66 2006-11-01 20:30||   2006-11-01 20:30|| Front Page Top

#17 the whole year is on a 4-dvd box set - well worth it. LOTP - continually surprised....
Posted by Frank G">Frank G  2006-11-01 20:33||   2006-11-01 20:33|| Front Page Top

#18 Oh and the scene I liked best in a star trek episode was in DS9 when the klingons showed up to take out the space station and the commander turn it into a battle station, my eyes poped out my head i never saw so many phaser cannons in one place :)
Posted by djohn66 2006-11-01 20:33||   2006-11-01 20:33|| Front Page Top

#19 indeed, .com. indeed.
Posted by lotp 2006-11-01 20:42||   2006-11-01 20:42|| Front Page Top

#20 :-)

I would dearly love to see more quality SciFi, such as Firefly. AFAIC, nothing else on-air now comes close.
Posted by .com 2006-11-01 20:45||   2006-11-01 20:45|| Front Page Top

#21 I want a Galaxy Quest series.

And I want a "Wallace & Gromit Meet the Romulans" series, but that doesn't mean it's gonna happen anytime soon.
Posted by Zenster">Zenster  2006-11-01 23:20||   2006-11-01 23:20|| Front Page Top

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