riley_dude

There's always the tribble home planet idea.

starman9000

I think someone just posted a story about how Legend of the Seeker was doing very well. Probably not up to Star Trek standards for ratings, but I guess I have no idea how previous Trek shows have done.

chuckd21

Books should and will be written about how badly the Trek franchise was botched. I still cannot fathom the need and desire to go back in the past and muck everything up. JUST. KEEP. GOING. New ships, new crew, new races, new conflicts, new exploration.

It boggles my mind that no one thought they could make a go of it if they just continued to progress the Trek storyline. I'm not an Enterprise-hater, but it was just so unnecessary and all it served to do is muck up the timeline when you could have just kept going in the 24th-25th century and everything could have still been fresh.

Thrush

Isn't this the exact premise that enterprise was built on? The return to the spirit of the original series. Seemed like a good idea in theory. But in practice, not so much. I love pretty much anything Fuller does, but not really excited about the prospect of another Trek show. Unless they have a new premise.

milo bloom

I never had a problem with Enterprise's going into the past, nor do I have a problem with the new movie going to the past. I've always said it's the execution, esp ENT's non-sense with the Temporal Cold War, the Xindi, the space Nazi's, what have you. If they had stuck to the hints of the past that TOS had given us (the Romulan and Kzinti wars), they might have done a smidge better. Don't just pick a vague time period and say "this is our setting", pick a setting and say "how did our people react to all this?"

Jimmy James

I'd personally like to see an Enterprise B or C-era show, or perhaps one set in the post-C but pre-D era. I'd like to see a show that doesn't feel like it has to advance any awesome mythology, either. The thing that has bugged me about Star Trek even starting with DS9 is the one-upsmanship. It was particularly terrible when it came to Voyager if you ask me. Not every good story has to be about how the Captain is the biggest badass diplomat or the greatest asset Starfleet has.

Heck, put us on the Sutherland in the time just after its last missions to DS9. That's a nice Nebula-class vessel that doesn't have complications due to being destroyed by the Borg at Wolf 359 or anything.

calhoun07

I always wanted to see this back after Generations came out. Bring on Alan Ruck!


A little green, but some of the novels featuring him and the Enterprise B were among my favorites, especially Captain's Daughter.

There was also talk of some made for TV Excelsior movies with Captain Sulu as well that never transpired. Bummer.

I still say advance the story line. If Johnathan Frakes doesn't want to come back for a new series where he is captain, then so be it. There's plenty of other ships in the sky.

We got a series that explored the Alpha Quadrant in Star Trek and Next Generation. Deep Space Nine explored the Gamma Quadrant and Voyager got to the Delta Quadrant. All we know of the Beta Quadrant are the Klingons...but why not have a series that explores that part of the galaxy?

chuckd21

Obviously never happened, but sounds like a good idea to me. I'd watch.

http://www.slashfilm.com/bryan-singe...ails-revealed/

milo bloom

This is actually a complaint I started hearing while TNG* was still in first run. During TOS, you had people that had not only lived through things like Korea/Vietnam and race riots and such, but some had actually participated in them. TNG and later series writers grew up on these TOS stories, but didn't always get the idea to use real life stuff as their examples.

I'll be honest, I love internal world-building episodes, but they can get parasitic after awhile. I'd love to see a series like this. There was also a pitch for a far-future set animated series that went around a few years ago. If the Abrams verse movies don't go to series after they're done, the next TV series should make a big jump like this.





*I've also seen this charge leveled at later Simpson's seasons: at first the writers were writing about real life using the Simpsons characters, but over time it just became stories about the Simpsons characters without enough "real life" influence.

superdeluxe

Didn't the guy who also created Bablyon 5 pitch a star trek series?

Michael Corvin

I'm not a Trek fan(did like the new film though)*, but that actually sounds interesting.

*for whatever reason I give each new series 5-6 episodes to hook me in. They have yet to succeed.

TGM

love JJs relaunch, but this sounds good too. It should still happen.

Red Dog

Now that I'd like to see.

Groucho

Not sure how a tv series where every character has a Christ complex would play.

chuckd21

I still don't understand why they weren't prepping a new series when the reboot hit theaters. Strike while the iron is hot, that kind of thing...

Fist of Doom

Sounds good. I'd definitely be down for a new Trek series. Maybe the movies will gin up interest.

(I don't think they should name the commander Kirk, though),

Red Dog

I wasn't a fan of the reboot, so I'm glad they didn't.

Tracer Bullet

As I heard it, essentially Paramount feels they overexposed Trek last time and made some decision to never have a TV show and a movie series going at the same time again.

This is essentially bullshit, of course, because while TNG was on the air the TOS movies continued to be successful, but there you are.

aintnosin

Not exactly. I think JMS expressed an interest in it, but never got the chance.

Of course, he did pitch B5 to Paramount, and then they filed off the serial numbers and gave us DS9.

bluetoast

Jonathan Frakes discussed this recently as well:

http://www.aintitcool.com/node/49206

Shazam

Only 5 and 6 were released while TNG was on the air.

dstrauss

Yes, but not what you'd think.

http://bztv.typepad.com/newsviews/fi...2004Reboot.pdf

Tracer Bullet

I know that. There were Trek movies released when TNG was on the air, and TNG and the movies were both successful. What's the issue, exactly?

wz42

Reboots like the ST movie are lazy writing. Shatner is Kirk et al; the rest are just doing a Rich Little.

If they cannt come up with their own characters then I won't see it.

When Paramount starts green lighting ideas like this or the Frakes series I'll buy ST product again.

TGM

your loss. JJ's relaunch was superb.