Okay I am sure I will face a ton of name calling and scrutiny for this thread but I am man or nerd enough to take it. I am not afraid to admit I like Star Trek, I am not obsessed I can't point out flaws in scripts or plotlines and I don't attend conventions but feel it is entertaining. With that said I am excited and scared about JJ Abrams taking on the 11th movie. I feel he can save and revive the franchise or he can kill it.

According to reports he plans on using his MI3 team to write and produce..


Story
Star Trek to boldly go again
From: AAP
From correspondents in Los Angeles

April 21, 2006


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 lustre 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 centre 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.

The paper described Star Trek as Hollywood's most durable performer after James Bond, spawning 10 features that have grossed more than $US1 billion ($1.3bln) and 726 TV episodes from six series.


http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,18882942-23109,00.html

What scares me the most are the two propposed plotlines, the one mentioned above which takes the TOS crew back to before the series started, and the idea floated about by Abrams 6 months ago involving parts of all 5 series in one movie. I think if Abrams wants a fresh concept forget the prequel idea, it won't sell if he wants to be fresh he needs to be bold and do something that is unrelated to anything that has been done . The multi cast concept IMO is too complex and will involve time travel a played out concept in the Trek franchise. ANother thing that scares me about JJ is his love for Tom Cruise, I am affraid he may be tempted to attach a huge name. The only way I will accept Tom Cruise in a Star Trek movie is if it involves the Klingons destroying the Battlefiled Earth aliens and scientology founders.

STAR TREK FRRRRREEEEEEEEEAAAAAAKKKKKKK!!!! [smilie=2thumbsup.g:

whats wrong with liking star trek? wrath of kahn was a good movie on ANY level. Its a shame what this psycho no life trekkie fans do to make watching star trek a crime.

whats wrong with liking star trek? wrath of kahn was a good movie on ANY level. Its a shame what this psycho no life trekkie fans do to make watching star trek a crime.


I agree with Rorschach

STAR TREK FRRRRREEEEEEEEEAAAAAAKKKKKKK!!!! [smilie=2thumbsup.g:


I agree with Denny only not in so many colors.

Star Trek has to be something that I just never got. I hate that shit.
It's terrible. Bad acting, bad special effects = bad show. [smilie=2thumbsup.g:

Star Trek comes up not infrequently in the game threads. The only real thing keeping Star Trek down is the lack of interest in the real space program nowadays. As for the plots, they gotta do something since the NG movies have been stinkers and DS9 is pretty much a non-option at this point.

IMO they should do something on the fringe astronomic theories since simple "Space" doesn't get anyone's juices flowing anymore. Maybe something on Mother Universe Theory or cross universe interaction. Its pretty much the same route as another time travel movie without running out another time travel movie.

I don't get it either, but I still like JS.

Me too.

I'm not a fan of the franchise, I just don't see why it's bashed a lot.

Granted some loons give it a bad rep, but the same can be said for Star Wars.

And I think Star Wars is awesome (episodes 1 and 2 suck though)

I guess I like the idea/concept of the Star Trek franchise more than I like the shows.

Something that bugs me though:

No one can do Star Trek properly. Even if Abrams or some other guy wanted to do a new movie, they can't re-invent the whole thing.

So, since it was kind of lame from the start it's always gotta be kinda lame.

Take the movie the Island for example. The big deal in the movie is that the people inside the facility are clones, right? So why fucking tell me that in the preview?

Why have Mr. Pink explain to the audience and 2 of the clones that they are actually clones? The whole scene falls flat because um, I saw the fucking preview.

So, the big scene is a waste of time, slows the movie down and the audience is left sitting there for 5 minutes going "yeah, we know - move on"

That's fucking stupid.

The audience shouldn't have known they were clones. It changes the whole fucking thing.

When they find out - you find out. Then you actually want them to hunt down the real people.

Watch it again and pretend you find out when they do. It makes you care about them. It makes you want them to avoid capture. It makes you want to see them meet the real people.

No one can remake The Island for at least 10 years because it's been done and fucked up already.

Stupid fucking Hollywood.

I like Star trek. The plots in some of the movies have been good. some not so good. star trek voyager didnt get my attention nor did deep space 9. Enterprise is sometimes watchable. but next generation and the original are entertaining IMO. way more than all that other sci fi garbage floating around in the 6o's and 70's. Lost in Space for one. That show defines garbage. [smilie=arrgh.jpg]

The original Star Trek was bad assed, only because it was less a sci-fi show, and more of a "buddy" show. They didn't give a crap about "space continuoms"(did I spell that right, Anthony?) and "vectors" and "wormholes" and supersmart androids. It was about three old buddies having adventures in space, and Kirk getting mass alien poo-tang.

The newer series bore me to death. They're like those British films where the actors just talk, and talk, and talk... Everyone is smart, and explain every little detail to everybody else, who don't need to know all the details because they're smart, too (just like in the CSI shows). There's no emotion in the newer shows. Just a lot of dialogue and very little action.

Next generation was pimping man. it probally had the best written episodes out of the bunch IMO. i know alot of people loved deep space 9. but it didnt move me much. but theres nothing wrong with star trek at all. the only thing thats ever been wrong with it is this. is people like this.

http://jfcampbell.us/team/marconi/marconi_picard.jpg

and losers like this.

http://www.munic.state.ct.us/burlington/trekkies/frame03.gif

What's Professsor Xavier doing dressed up as a Trekkie?

I like Star trek. The plots in some of the movies have been good. some not so good. star trek voyager didnt get my attention nor did deep space 9. Enterprise is sometimes watchable. but next generation and the original are entertaining IMO. way more than all that other sci fi garbage floating around in the 6o's and 70's. Lost in Space for one. That show defines garbage. [smilie=arrgh.jpg]

You can copy and paste this for my opionion. Except add the fact that The Next Generation was very good too.