New Star trek movie in the works

[CptStern]

More than three years after the last "Star Trek" movie crashed at the box office, the venerable sci-fi franchise is being revived by the director of the upcoming "Mission: Impossible" sequel, Daily Variety reported in its Friday edition.

The as-yet-untitled "Star Trek" feature, the 11th since 1979, is aiming for a fall 2008 release through Paramount Pictures, the Viacom Inc. unit looking to restore its box-office luster under new management, the trade paper said.

The project will be directed by J.J. Abrams, whose Tom Cruise vehicle "Mission: Impossible III" will be released by Paramount on May 5. Abrams, famed for producing the TV shows "Alias" and "Lost," will also help write and produce.

Daily Variety said the action would center on the early days of "Star Trek" characters James T. Kirk and Mr. Spock, including their first meeting at Starfleet Academy and first outer-space mission.

:O Kirk, Spock, Bones played by other actors? wow this should be interesting to say the least ...although I cant help but think going into the past (star trek history) is a mistake ..they should be trying something new ..not rehashing the old

 

[brink's]

Just...let...ST........die!

 

[pomegranate]

Woot!

 

[bvasgm]

They're casting new actors to play the old characters?

This movie automatically fails.

 

[pomegranate]

They're casting new actors to play the old characters?

This movie automatically fails.

Nah... ten years ago, maybe. But now, the original Star Trek is just that old, that the characters are becoming more mythical archetypes, that will be played by different actors for many years to come.

Or something.

 

[Dr. Freeman]

:O Kirk, Spock, Bones played by other actors? wow this should be interesting to say the least ...although I cant help but think going into the past (star trek history) is a mistake ..they should be trying something new ..not rehashing the old

agreed.
they should have just tried making a sequel to the last Star Trek movie...or something but going into the past will make it a bigger disaster then the last movie.

but yeah...its fashionable to re-make and re-hash classics in Hollywood these days.

 

[DeusExMachina]

I hate Star Trek with a passion.

If they can make this watchable then well...maybe I'll watch it.

 

[CptStern]

heh if you didnt like it before I doubt you'll like it now ...star trek first contact is still a great movie, regardless if you're a fan or not

 

[DeusExMachina]

I just...it was so boring. I watched a few episodes on TV once, the ones from the 90s with Patrick Stewart, and it was just...incredibly retarded. One episode they were playing cards or something and Data kept saying stupid phrases...and the old show...oh god.

 

[CptStern]

agreed.
they should have just tried making a sequel to the last Star Trek movie...or something but going into the past will make it a bigger disaster then the last movie.

but yeah...its fashionable to re-make and re-hash classics in Hollywood these days.

ya I just fear this

James t kirk played by:

spock played by

uhura played by

bones played by

 

[DEATH eVADER]

They're casting new actors to play the old characters?

This movie automatically fails.

Jack Ryan was played by 3 different people in the Tom Clancy film adaptations

In order of appearance:
Alec Baldwin
Harrison Ford
Ben Affleck

The thing is the films were not shown in the order of timeline, so we have different actors, at different parts of their lives, not performing films in the right order

But yeah, I just couldn't see the movie working, look how the SW prequels worked out

 

[CptStern]

I just...it was so boring. I watched a few episodes on TV once, the ones from the 90s with Patrick Stewart, and it was just...incredibly retarded. One episode they were playing cards or something and Data kept saying stupid phrases...and the old show...oh god.

philistine!

you cant like sci-fi without liking star trek next gen ..it's sheer blasphamy

 

[Gray Fox]

philistine!

you cant like sci-fi without liking star trek next gen ..it's sheer blasphamy

Next gen is pretty boring to be honest. Picard is the only good thing in it.
Voyager and Deep space nine are far better.


Now on the Movies, the only one I liked was Star trek VI, the others were pretty unintersting and boring to me. The thing is, what makes Star Trek a succes are the incredible orginal and wierd plots in the episode, dealing and exploring all
kinds of (pseudo)scientifical matters. But with the movies they basicly remove everything that makes Star Trek well Star Trek ,and put in some boring onoriginal plot that would have been rejected out of shear crappines for an ST episode.
Best thing would be to make a movie about Deep Space Nine.

 

[CptStern]

oh come on neither voyager nor DS9 can touch TNG ..there's no memorable characters in either of them compared to TNG

 

[Gray Fox]

oh come on neither voyager nor DS9 can touch TNG ..there's no memorable characters in either of them compared to TNG

Why not, cause they did not serve on the enterprise, cause they were not the subject of movies, cause none of those series revived star trek. It does not make them any less, they had a wonderfull cast of characters with Elim Garak beeing probably the most charismatic character out of all the ST's, that many ST fans loved, they just were't givin a chance by the suits in charge of Paramaunt.

Besides that, the characters do not make or brake a movie or series alone, the stories and the setting's are a big part too.
And thats where Deep space nine deserves the top spot. It had a great plots, combining the signature ST wierd stories with incredible and detailed political elements that truley revealed how in part the ST universe works, and I can tell you it is every bit as intersting and devious as our Universe. It added so much dept to the factions and maturity to the series and could have drawn and enterteinad more then the usual ST geeks like me if it were givin a chance.

 

[pomegranate]

oh come on neither voyager nor DS9 can touch TNG ..there's no memorable characters in either of them compared to TNG

I could not disagree more, the DS9 characters were worlds apart in complexity and compelling backstory than those on TNG - come on, what can you tell me interesting about Geordi LaForge? About Riker? About Dr Crusher? IMO the only compelling characters in TNG were Picard, Data and at a stretch Worf.
The characters in DS9 were played more as realistic people than the perfect-explorer-intellectuals-living-in-Utopia of TNG. Sure, they were nice people, it'd be fun to live in their world, but they were pretty boring characters. Most of what we knew about them was soap-grade backstory - Picard and his brother don't get on because his brother is a Luddite, Troi and Riker were lovers at Space Camp, Crusher's husband was KIA... wahwahwah yawn.
DS9's main cast had common crooks (one of who becomes his people's leader), a shapeshifter (who is an outcast from his own race), ex-terrorists, a beautiful young woman with seven lifetimes worth of memories, a (supposedly) ordinary man who becomes the prophet figure in the religion of an entire planet, a genetically engineered superhuman genius, a man trying to raise a family in a warzone... and on and on.
Honestly, if you really feel that way about DS9, I can only assume you've never really given it a chance.

Memorable characters? Come on, Stern...

 

[mortiz]

Why not, cause they did not serve on the enterprise, cause they were not the subject of movies, cause none of those series revived star trek. It does not make them any less, they had a wonderfull cast of characters with Elim Garak beeing probably the most charismatic character out of all the ST's, that many ST fans loved, they just were't givin a chance by the suits in charge of Paramaunt.

Besides that, the characters do not make or brake a movie or series alone, the stories and the setting's are a big part too.
And thats where Deep space nine deserves the top spot. It had a great plots, combining the signature ST wierd stories with incredible and detailed political elements that truley revealed how in part the ST universe works, and I can tell you it is every bit as intersting and devious as our Universe. It added so much dept to the factions and maturity to the series and could have drawn and enterteinad more then the usual ST geeks like me if it were givin a chance.

I liked Voyager but DS9 was a snooze fest, mostly because it had a large story arch that pretty much ran through the entire show, where with Voyager and TNG it was split up into a lot of shorter stories. Personally TNG was the best series to come out of the "rebirth" of Star Trek, except for the first couple of seasons (which I'll admit, were a little naff) the writing was the best, the characters were the best and it introduced some great antagonists such as The Borg and Q. I didn't find the Dominion interesting at all, and Sisco, for that matter Janeway was not a patch on Picard and neither had a core character set stronger than TNGs that gelled so well. OK, not every character in TNG had a huge back-story but they didn't need one with such good chemistry. Seasons 3 through to 8 of TNG were pure Trekkie goodness.

You do realise we're arguing about which Star Trek is the best? That's probably one of the most nerdiest things on the intranets.

 

[CptStern]

I could not disagree more, the DS9 characters were worlds apart in complexity and compelling backstory than those on TNG - come on, what can you tell me interesting about Geordi LaForge? About Riker? About Dr Crusher? IMO the only compelling characters in TNG were Picard, Data and at a stretch Worf.
The characters in DS9 were played more as realistic people than the perfect-explorer-intellectuals-living-in-Utopia of TNG. Sure, they were nice people, it'd be fun to live in their world, but they were pretty boring characters. Most of what we knew about them was soap-grade backstory - Picard and his brother don't get on because his brother is a Luddite, Troi and Riker were lovers at Space Camp, Crusher's husband was KIA... wahwahwah yawn.
DS9's main cast had common crooks (one of who becomes his people's leader), a shapeshifter (who is an outcast from his own race), ex-terrorists, a beautiful young woman with seven lifetimes worth of memories, a (supposedly) ordinary man who becomes the prophet figure in the religion of an entire planet, a genetically engineered superhuman genius, a man trying to raise a family in a warzone... and on and on.
Honestly, if you really feel that way about DS9, I can only assume you've never really given it a chance.

Memorable characters? Come on, Stern...

I found most of the characters in DS9 to be one dimensional bores ..Odo was depressing, kira was annoying, sisko's avatar thingy got repetative, the only character I thought stood out as unique was Quark ... bashir wasnt all that bad. And I have given it a chance, I've seen most of the series, as well as all of Voyager, most of Enterprise, every episode of TNG, the original series and every movie, plus documentaries, books, video games etc

I agree with mortiz ...all though he's absolutely wrong ..the nerdiest debate is: which is cooler: star wars or star trek? (star wars is teh ghey)

 

[pomegranate]

Fair enough then.

 

[Sulkdodds]

Next gen is pretty boring to be honest. Picard is the only good thing in it.
Voyager and Deep space nine are far better.

I agree. Although, that said, I'm not really qualified to make such a judgement as I've seen...what, five episodes?

First Contact wins. Even DeusExMachina should watch it!
At the line "Assimilate THIS!" I laughed out loud.
Also because of Cochrane, 'THE LINE MUST BE DRAWN HEYAH!', tommyguns and having half the film Picard and Worf shooting Borg with phaser rifles. "Borg? Sounds swedish!"

 

[CptStern]

watching the shows in chronological order from Farpoint on (first episode) helps ..also helps if you watched them when they first came out so you dont have a million things to compare it to since it's first release.