tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4462319611268738133.post4780694684438301913..comments2024-03-02T06:53:21.726-05:00Comments on View From Heaven: What I Want in a New Star Trek TV ShowJDWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08374898731256570812noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4462319611268738133.post-50189301976054716402010-06-15T00:21:25.703-04:002010-06-15T00:21:25.703-04:00in a perfect world, yes, the film cast should do a...in a perfect world, yes, the film cast should do a TV series. but alas, i tried to think of a logical solution. ;)JDWhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08374898731256570812noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4462319611268738133.post-87092109001425012192010-06-14T15:56:14.811-04:002010-06-14T15:56:14.811-04:00Well, I suppose you do have a point that, with the...Well, I suppose you do have a point that, with the film writers involved, they can help oversee it and keep it from going too far away from what they may want to do in the films. And, on the one hand, that could even be beneficial, as it could allow them to basically test certain ideas that they have, and see which ones the audience reacts to most favorable, before they introduce it to the big screen.<br /><br />Still, I see drawbacks, even with a whole separate cast. If they try to do anything really major in the series, it would odd that the Enterprise is not involved. Something I used to wonder about during the Dominion War, while the TNG crew were offlimits because of their movies. <br /><br />Plus just in general, it still feels to me like anything really new should be debuting in the movies first. We still haven't seen this new timeline's Klingons or modern-day Romulans, and how those empires interact with the Federation. I think stuff like that should be left for the films. <br /><br />Although, though I know it's not possible, I kind of do wish that they could scrap the sequels, for now, and just get the whole cast of the New Enterprise to star in a weekly series. Then they could do all of your ideas. Then after 7 years, they can move on, and come back later for movies, like the original cast did.J.R. LeMarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13060796760117717968noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4462319611268738133.post-50161252298533547732010-06-14T12:49:40.818-04:002010-06-14T12:49:40.818-04:00Thanks for commenting J.R. but that's exactly ...Thanks for commenting J.R. but that's exactly why I proposed that at least have Orci/Kurtzman/Abrams as executive producers, so that they're still in control of what's going on with the timeline, but at the same time get other writers in there to see what they have to say.<br /><br />This is also why you have a completely different crew, so that the movie can do what it wants, but at the same time this other ship is doing its own thing. They would co-exist, but possibly never interact.<br /><br />And yes, I remember the books being cancelled, but I'm sure that's because, as you say, they dealt with the Enterprise crew. By removing that connection, I see no reason why there can't be a new time-line TV series.JDWhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08374898731256570812noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4462319611268738133.post-77375648909188345062010-06-14T10:16:34.892-04:002010-06-14T10:16:34.892-04:00The big problem with trying to do a TV series feat...The big problem with trying to do a TV series featuring the new movie timeline is that the new timeline is still so fresh. Both the future AND much of the past is open to interpretation now, but it makes more sense to leave it for the movie producers to explore, since that it the more potentially profitable franchise than a TV series would be. <br /><br />So if, for example, the movie producers get some great new idea for introducing Khan or The Borg or whatever in a future sequel, but its different from how the TV producers have already done it in the new show, the movie producers will have to either stick with the TV version whether they like it or not, or skip it and have to think of something else. <br /><br />The same goes for the past. I'd be interested in seeing a show based on Captain Robeau and his First Officer George Kirk on the USS Kelvin, but we also don't know how much of any of that might later be used as story points in future films, like some enemy of George Kirk's might return to get revenge on his son. <br /><br />So, again, the whole point of the reboot was to free-up the franchise to not be bound by any other "rules" of established Trek continuity, and new show could end up sticking them right back where they started. I think Paramount realized that, since last year i09 reported that 4 new commissioned novels that were to be set in the new timeline were abruptly canceled, though some may have already been finished. I think they didn't want to step on the new films' toes. <br /><br />Now, they still publish novels and comic-books set in the original timeline, but I think it would be a mistake to set a new TV series in the original timeline, since that is more high-profile, and could lead to viewer confusion with two concurrent "realities." So it's best to leave TV alone for now, I think. Though I do wish they would speed up the sequel, and not always wait 3-4 years inbetween further film installments.J.R. LeMarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13060796760117717968noreply@blogger.com