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Skriven 2006-06-24 20:33:00 av Robert E Starr JR (3245.babylon5)
Ärende: Re: Trek treatment is out
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skrbicb@gmail.com wrote:
> Just a couple of days ago I remembered the existence of this treatment
> and my speculations of what a JMS or partly-JMS Star Trek would involve
> (after a while it's inevitable that you'd try to derive those things on
> the way to work), which I obviously cannot share here as they would
> constitute story ideas. Since there absolutely *had* to be an arc with
> changing characters, the characters would certainly be looking for
> something, and a reboot would be inevitable, but I never imagined that
> the main characters of TOS would be seen as an essential component.
> 
> Star Trek is basically about the consistent opening monologue that
> doesn't change regardless of characters. As David Gerrold put it the
> purpose of Star Trek is simply "to explore strange new worlds, to seek
> out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no man has gone
> before!" Whatever else it was in the specific original incarnation,
> Star Trek has its roots in anthology shows such as "The Twilight Zone"
> or "The Outer Limits". The initial concept is a thin layer of glue
> attempting to bind an anthology series and one with recurring
> characters. Need a different universe for a different short story? No
> problem, just travel to another planet and say your mission is to
> explore strange new worlds.
> 
> The notion of the Kirk-Spock-McCoy trio, while an interesting aspect of
> Star Trek, had evolved to the point of completely supplementing the
> anthology by the time of the movies, and afterwards science fiction
> began to take a secondary role to character development, which is one
> of the weaknesses of later shows when compared to the first season of
> TOS. Science fiction aspects became degraded into technobabble, the
> necessity to have something that made it "sci-fi" without really being
> science fiction.
> 
> I'm not going to comment at this treatment because judging a final
> product by its treatment is quite impossible. There are a number of
> possible permutations for the basic concept, but as with any TV show,
> it would have been watched or not watched based on its week-to-week
> execution. Star Trek succeeded because it was a good TV show and its
> incarnations were no longer household words when they became bad TV
> shows. I have Region 1 and Region 2 releases of nBSG DVD's and can't
> wait for the season two DVD's, but there would have to be a pretty good
> reason for me to waste the required number of hours to watch the old
> series. The reality is that only a small specialty audience cares about
> the specifics of canon and continuity -- for anyone else it would just
> be a new and different Star Trek.
> 
> I'm actually a part of that small audience, yet it doesn't bother me
> that there would be another show. Being that small audience, it is
> quite obvious that Gene Roddenberry's Trek is not the same as Gene
> Coon's Trek or Nicholas Meyer's Trek or Michael Piller's Trek or Ira
> Steven Behr's Trek or Brannon Braga's Trek. There were a lot of
> different showrunners over the years, all of whom have had a variety of
> different POV's on the show. The fact that they officially belong to
> the same universe doesn't mean that one or the other showrunner won't
> choose to emphasize or ignore completely different aspects of it. Some
> shows are more character-oriented, others are more situation-oriented,
> some want to maintain continuity with TOS, others don't feel it
> necessary to even mention anything from TOS. I may not feel it
> necessary to recast the original characters, but then again it's just
> another TV show that I would watch if it is good and not watch if it is
> bad. 
> 
> Boris

I think everyone would watch this rebooted trek, if only to bitch about 
it in their blogs.
                                                                  
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