Trek's Marina Sirtis States the Obvious

I find it interesting that Marina also fails to state the obvious with the last several movies she and the other TNG starred in. They were all crap. The only GOOD movie TNG cast made was First Contact.

While I agree that no one at Paramount "gets" ST anymore, the best thing they DID DO was get rid of Rick Berman. The reason that no one "gets" ST is because Berman turned it into such a mess. If they want one more ST movie to help resurrect the name and the franchise - bring in Nick Meyer who saved ST2 and ST6, get a good story (minus the time travel and comsic clouds and scaffeling) and find a way to bring back as many of the remaining old crew/NG crew and others as possible - find a way to weave them all into the plot and have them check their EGOS at the door so they don't squabble over the amount of lines they each get or screen time. Do it for the fans for once!!

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Deep Space 9: The Movie. Look at some of the people that worked on that show, and how great the show was. Ronald Moore went on to Battlestar Galactica. It took Star Trek where Star Trek hadn't gone before. DS9 was by far my favorite Star Trek series. And it would be very easy to include TNG stars into a DS9 movie.

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hi, i'm paramount and i'm very interested in pissing off every star trek fan ever.

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The problem with going back in time is that, they (the writers) forget about the history of the show, the comments of what and how things hapened. How far would you have to go? Kirk as a lowley officer battling the cloud creature when most of his shipmate died? including his captain. Or Spock serving with Captain Pike for what, over a dozen years! Creating a believable story from already established history and making it marketable, with new basically untried actors. Good Luck, suggestion, bring back the Borg, have them resurrect/Clone Kirk, send him after Earth, which would lead to a battle with Picard and the Enterprise and Riker with his ship. That would be worth seeing.

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I would have to agree, this trend to go back in time is a mistake. Star Trek has inspired so many stories hard to think we can’t find a 24th Century Star Trek Story to view on the big screen. Star Trek Deep Space Nine would be great as a Major movie. I recommend the Excalibur Star Trek Novels by Peter David. Not every Trek film has to be about Kirk and Spock

TechnoMage

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What's wrong is not going back in time. I loved Enterprise. When they got in trouble, there was no Star Fleet to back them up. What's wrong is repackaging and remaking the original. If they wanted to make Star Trek Babies (an idea they floated once before) they could start with brand new characters instead of ruining the ones we have all come to know.

The current batch at Paramount long wanted to get rid of the idealism of the Roddenberry crowd and replace them with Star Trek Lite, which is the real reason Enterprise got sabotaged. Now we are seeing the shallowness of their imaginations.

By way of contrast, DS9 showed how you could take the basic universe and really go to town with it. In the very opening episode, they revealed the horrible consequences of the Picard borg and introduced us to a race of demigods. Talk about daring! It was the best of the Treks, dark and mature, though it may take years for most to realize it.

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Deep Space 9 was by far the best. The show ended with the War but we know little of what happened next. Voyager ended a year or so after the end of the war, but not much was said about it, other than Torres getting pissed because she couldnt fight in it. A TNG/DS9/VOY movie would bring in so many people. Having the Enterprise-E dock a DS9 along with the Defiant, or fighting side by side. AWESOME. Plus they could introduce new characters and a new ship and continue with a new show after the movie. And I agree, Bring back Nick Meyer!

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Hey Cath, I seem to recall that after Gene Roddenberry's death, his widow claim that Gene never
wanted any of the producers to take over the Star
Trek franchise because they only were wanting to
have control of the show and were not even remotely
close to the real vision of what makes Star Trek so
wonderfully great.

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I would rather see STNG make something than nothing.

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I just hope that this 11th movie turns every thing around, am missing all things trek, new ship designs, new star fleet technologies the lot!!! i want to know how the federation are coping after the dominiom war, i want to know if the new technologie that voyager brought back from the delta quadrant would be used on the fleet.

i think paramount should bring out a mini start trek series, a kind of catch up on what s been happening after the war

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A DS9 movie could stand on its own and it build into a couple movies including characters from TNG and VOY. DS9 was way ahead of its time, a forerunner to the current BSG (Ronald Moore). There is so much to explore on DS9 at any point of the series, it doesn't just have to pick up where DS9 ended. But even so, it ended with Sisco "dying" and being with the prophets. A new movie could start with Sisco coming back. I miss the DS9 characters, I want to see more of them and more of DS9.

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I loved the original Star Trek, and Next Generation.
I learned to love the people who played these characters, and give them credit for their abilities to bring them into our homes and theaters, they kept us coming back for them.
But, Gene the Great One, would, I believe, want us and the directors and producers to go forward. Possibly even sideways? Therefore, I put forth that they look into Peter Davids books he has written, we do remember Selby don't we? Or the set that is based on the engineers. Even though our beloved Scotty is now gone, it could still be done.
Let's be attuned to Gene, and look forward and beyond what has been.
I always have, and always will appreciate the intelligence of Mr. Roddenberry!

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Its a lot harder to keep going forward than to make a prequel. Making a prequel means that you have an idea of where the characters eventually need to end up, since you already have the ending down. Whereas going forward means making everything from scratch.

I think that, with Enterprise, ST: Nemesis (which essentially was a replay of The Wrath of Khan) and now with this new movie, Paramount is taking the easy way out instead of bringing along people who have the imagination to keep going forward. (Lord knows Rick Berman has run out of ideas, and needs to be put out to pasture ASAP).

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Star Trek Next Generation, boldly showing us a fantasy world where a bald, french, Kofi Annan shows us week after week how in a fantasy world it is just possible to negotiate with other cultures and belief systems - only pulling out the photon torpedos for rating periods.

Deep Space Nine, boldly going around in a circle. (with that guy who used to say "SPENCER!" And a show showing once again that all you need to invent a new sentient species is another rubber thing on the head.

Voyager, Lost in Space only done not as well and without the comic relief of Dr. Smith.

Enterprise, proving conclusively that there ain't no more blood in that turnip. DOA but lingered on a while and nobody noticed.

Berman and company, without an ounce of creative thought in their heads, like lampreys sucking on the dead dead corpse of the Enterprise, are finally chased off. Good riddance.

Star Trek is like the Beatles, it/they aren't coming back. Any attempt for anyone to bring them back is like asking a Beatles tribute band to be the Beatles. Not going to happen. Leave it alone, let it rest in peace.

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TNG will always be my favorite. With Data gone, a new feature film with the focus on TNG crew will be hard for any of the writers to build up. You cant just write in that B4 miraculously comes out of a coma and starts believing he's Data, therefore everyone changes his name.

As for moving backward, BAD IDEA. I hope the writers know what they're doing. DS9/Voyager/TNG movie, great idea!

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Maybe it would be instructive to see what began and led up to the Eugenics Wars on Earth and what the higher order recently discovered (or announced, they had that religious director of the human genome project on "Charlie Rose" prior to the "announcement"). I still recall sitting in the Grace Corp. donated building of the CUNY Grad Center library a number of years ago, looking at fly legs growing out of a fly's eye in species drosophelia, the "fruit fly" I think, Seven of Nine?

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I loved DS9 for it's complexity and Enterprise for the fact that they didn't have all sorts of crazy future tech that could save them from whatever terminal they were in front of.

Look the movies, save for the first one, Kahn & First Contact were all awful. the series have been a 50/50 split... and while I would love a movie/tv movie exploring Sisko's return, but you just can't keep going back to that well. Once these shows are over, let them go. leave them alone and let it be.

I say let them go back and do a prequel, the Lost dude is a Dork with a capital 'd' apparently and I believe he gets it and could probably do a great job as long as 'the suits' (who don't and never get it) stay out of his way.

A young Kirk/Spock/Starfleet would mine the richer territory Enterprise did: a lack of cool tech.

Though wasn't there rumors of a Riker based Trek where the federation was falling apart? Talk about possibilities.

Until then, bittorrent the David Tennant Doctor Who's... he is the best Doctor EVER! Fanboys (and girls) of the world unite and takeover!

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