Star Trek movie in the works?

[bull]

http://entertainment.tv.yahoo.com/entnews/eo/20060422/114577548000.html

I thought they would have decided enough was enough. Guess not.

[Brock Samson]

 looks like another four door... 

[Khyron]

I'm looking forward to see how this pans out personally.

I won't cast negative comments just yet

[greenpigs]

I think it will bomb.

[TheAutoArchaeologist]

Most of todays generation don't really know Kirk and Spock, they want action.  I don't see how Star Trek 90210 would be better.  Perhaps if they made a good movie with plot and good starship battles, it would do better.

Ryan

[Lowprofile]

In Hollywood, nothing gets to rest in peace. 

[AKcharger]

I hope the BORG win this time and kick the federations butt! they deserve it with what they pulled on Omaga 9 prime! 

[Mike DC]

 
The 1960s TV series with Kirk & Spock is the only ST series or movie that I can watch.  I'm just not a Trekkie by nature.

Those old episodes feel so much less like the other ST stuff . . . They feel less like a character drama (or even an action show) and more like a "Twilight Zone" or "Outer Limits" show in space.  They kinda remind me of the "X-Files" episodes (back when the plots of that show weren't totally centered on the conspiracy stuff).

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Stupid obscure trivia related to Chargers:

Willie Shatner's stunt double on the 1960s ST series was a guy named Paul Baxley.

A decade later, Paul Baxley was responsible for the entire stunt department of the "Dukes of Hazzard" series.  Hiring/firing/managing the whole stunt team & cameramen, overseeing & co-ordinating the stunt/FX shots, actually directing most of the footage . . .  the works.
 
 

[CaptMarvel]

Why not? It sounds kinda cool. I was hoping for a reunion flick or TV movie at least to finally wrap up Lost in Space & see the Jupiter 2 either home or Alpa Centauri, but with the deaths of Irwin Allen & Guy Williams years ago, it kind of put that on the back burner. When the 1998 LIS movie (yea, sucked) came out, they started planning again, with the remaining cast (Kevin Burns I think was going to do it) but when Dr. Smith (Jonathan Harris) died recently it looks like they will be adrift in space forever now. They were even talking about doing it fairly serious (like the early B&W 60's episodes) Yea, I'm kind of a nerd, but I think a new Trek flick with the old charaters would be fun...We dont always have to see new ideas, entertainment is all about re-hashing (& it's always good to see familiar characters)..

[TheAutoArchaeologist]

This would be Kirk and Spock, before "Star Trek" as in when they were in the academy.  Would be new actors and such.

Ryan

[bull]

It didn't really work with 'Enterprise' where they predated Kirk's Enterprise but hey, if they think it'll make money they'll do it.

[mikepmcs]

As my father would say "Can't wait to miss that"

[6pkrunner]

The franchaise has run its course and beyond. This is just a plain old money grab.

[Lowprofile]

In the Immortal words of Dr. McCoy..........He's [It's] Dead Jim.   

[SirNik73]

I like Star Trek, I always hated prequils, but i watched Enterprise, and I actuly liked it. it wasn't the best show, but it was worth watching. I think that this movie could be really good. They could smooth over some of the bumps that Enterprise caused in the Star Trek time lime. I still hate prequils, and i'm not happy that the decided to a prequil, but there is a chance it could be good. It is going to be dicrected by the guy who is making Lost. and I love Lost. so I'm still hopping for the best, but bracing for the worst.

[Big Lebowski]

       "Dammit Jim what am I, a doctor or a moon shuttle conductor."

    Or my favorite...General order 24 Scotty says "In two hours, the entire surface of your planet will be destroyed."

[ChargerAndy]

So long as they bring back that hot green alien slave chick  ....... I'm all for it!  Andy



<------------ you know, this one! 

[bull]

I think the ST franchise has a deeper problem. Roddenberry was too hung up on the Utopian, humanistic outlook on Starfleet and as a result the stories are not edgy enough. Look at some of the ST movies that have done well, it's the ones where all the stops have been pulled and Kirk or Picard have had to bend some morals (ie. Prime Directive) to save themselves or get things done.

This is the direction I think the Star Trek series should have gone after Voyager: they should have explored the vast story potential of Section 31 -- that "secret Starfleet organization that protects the Federation from threats by any means necessary" which first came to light during the Deep Space 9 series. I think there is the potential for some great material there. The writers could have created a show surrounding the missions carried out by a team of Section 31 mercenaries made up of various flawed characters including a Jem'Hadar warrior, a human, a Bajoran, a Klingon, a Vulcan and whatever other characters who might ramp up the tension amongst the team and its opponents. It would go against the Utopian mindset of Starfleet but I think it would make for exciting television, whether or not the audience believes them to be good guys or not.

[CaptMarvel]

I think the ST franchise has a deeper problem. Roddenberry was too hung up on the Utopian, humanistic outlook on Starfleet and as a result the stories are not edgy enough. Look at some of the ST movies that have done well, it's the ones where all the stops have been pulled and Kirk or Picard have had to bend some morals (ie. Prime Directive) to save themselves or get things done.

Yep, & it's those that were generally more entertaining. I always far prefered the old series with Kirk and his "cowboy diplomacy" In other words, try to make peace when beaming down, but if things go sideways, have phasers on kill. Picard seemed way too hung up on diplomacy & not enough on the exploration and excitement. I look at Picard as kind of a 20th century French leader, not willing to ruffle anyones feathers  & Kirk as a 19th century American leader who shoots first and asks questions later.(way more interesting character) I too think Roddenberry allowed that utopian theme to eventually rule & (kind of) ruin his franchise. Irwin Allen, for all his creative faults, at least never quit having fun with his four SF series..Screw the prime directive, all it ever did was get the Enterprise into trouble..

[dkn1997]

There a few lessons to be taken from the numerous star trek series

1.  You gotta have the ship to have a good show.  I feel that was a major shortcoming of ds9, no ship, just a stupid space station, an ugly space station.

2.  gotta have a strong  captian with a cool ship.  Voyager was not the "flagship" and while the captian was pretty tough, the first officer was a weenie.  Enterprise had an ok cool ship, but the captain was not "cool" enough for me.

3.  you gotta have one male character who will bang anything with a pulse (kirk, riker)

I, for one, am looking forward to a new star trek movie. 

[SeattleCharger]

Original StarTrek was awesome show.   



   

[bull]

A night at the Holodeck:

[SeattleCharger]

 

[Danny Gutierrez]

The new Star Trek trailer is on You Tube. It's a bootleg copy but I like it. Check it out here. http://trekmovie.com/2008/11/15/star-trek-trailer-hits-the-net-unofficially/

[Slantback_66]

I grew up with all of them and I'm sure i'm in the minority here, but I thought "Voyager" was the best of the post 60's Star Treks.

John

[dkn1997]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBQyjrRgE4c

[tan top]

Original StarTrek was awesome show.   



   

  yep agreed ..still good to watch when the  Re runs are on     

So long as they bring back that hot green alien slave chick  ....... I'm all for it!  Andy



<------------ you know, this one! 

       

[Dodge Don]

Looks promising....however

[TheAutoArchaeologist]

The butchered the Enterprise and Made it TeenTrek... makes it look like something from the WB.  I'm a fan of Star Trek, and I'll pass on this piece of junk.

Ryan

[Khyron]

The butchered the Enterprise and Made it TeenTrek... makes it look like something from the WB.  I'm a fan of Star Trek, and I'll pass on this piece of junk.

Ryan

WHAT?!?!?! They're making Starbuck a woman??!?!?!?!

seriously, dont prejudge just yet.

[Khyron]

I grew up with all of them and I'm sure i'm in the minority here, but I thought "Voyager" was the best of the post 60's Star Treks.

John

nope, I agree 100%. It went back to the original Star Trek. Exploration in a underpowered ship.

[dkn1997]

Next generation was the best of all star trek. Patrick stewart's character was great and Data was the perfect ancestor (in the context of character development) of spok.

This new movie looks very cool.  any fan's of the tv show heros will recognize the dude they got to play spok.  it's syler/gabriel.  I will be seeing this when it comes out.

[TheAutoArchaeologist]

The butchered the Enterprise and Made it TeenTrek... makes it look like something from the WB.  I'm a fan of Star Trek, and I'll pass on this piece of junk.

Ryan

WHAT?!?!?! They're making Starbuck a woman??!?!?!?!

seriously, dont prejudge just yet.

Lol, you brought up BSG.  A show that lasted for one season 20 years ago.  Star Trek as it was, had hundreds of hours of story and history.  Throwing that all out to make another Star Wars movie is horrible.  And I do mean Star Wars.  Kirk has a "destiny" now.  Next thing you know, Kahn will be his father.

Looks like someone took a 12 year old and told him to make a movie with space ships.

Ryan

[70charginglizard]

My favorite episodes...."it's green"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgLM21Auj0E   

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9VxrMK0cF4&feature=related

[SeattleCharger]

I like the new star trek show that is supposedly pre-original star trek in the time line.   with the captain from that old show quantum leap?  I think, ?    I like the beginning of show, also, the song at beginning with clips of flight/space history,   

[Drache]

I like the new star trek show that is supposedly pre-original star trek in the time line.   with the captain from that old show quantum leap?  I think, ?    I like the beginning of show, also, the song at beginning with clips of flight/space history,   

I was watching it for the longest time! For anyone that cares the theme is "Faith of The Heart" by Russell Watson:

It's been a long road
Getting from there to here
It's been a long time
But my time is finally near

And I can feel the change in the wind right now
Nothing's in my way
And they're not gonna hold me down no more
No they're not gonna hold me down

'Cause I've got faith of the heart
I'm going where my heart will take me
I've got faith to believe
I can do anything
I've got strength of the soul
And no one's gonna bend or break me
I can reach any star
I've got faith, I've got faith, faith of the heart

It's been a long night
Trying to find my way
Been through the darkness
Now I've finally have my day

And I will see my dream come alive at last
I will touch the sky
And they're not gonna hold me down no more
No they're not gonna change my mind

'Cause I've got faith of the heart
I'm going where my heart will take me
I've got faith to believe
I can do anything
I've got strength of the soul
And no one's gonna bend or break me
I can reach any star
I've got faith, faith of the heart

I've known the wind so cold, and seen the darkest days.
But now the winds I feel, are only winds of change.
I've been through the fire and I've been through the rain.
But I'll be fine.

Cause I've got faith of the heart
I'm going where my heart will take me
I've got faith to believe
I can do anything
I've got strength of the soul
And no one's gonna bend or break me
I can reach any star
I've got faith

I've got faith of the heart.
I'm going where my heart will take me.
I've got strength of the soul. And no one's gonna bend or break me.
I can reach any star. I've got faith, I've got faith, faith of the heart.

It's been a long road.

[SeattleCharger]

I like the new star trek show that is supposedly pre-original star trek in the time line.   with the captain from that old show quantum leap?  I think, ?    I like the beginning of show, also, the song at beginning with clips of flight/space history,   

I was watching it for the longest time! For anyone that cares the theme is "Faith of The Heart" by Russell Watson:

right on!   ya, that's the one,    great star trek version IMO   
                 

[bull]

My favorite Star Treks are the original series and the latter part of TNG, as well as the movies. Voyager was way too PC, although once you got beyond that it was pretty good. DS9 was pretty good here and there and got way better toward the end but you really had to keep up with it to understand what was going on. Enterprise was ok but they got desperate and tried too hard toward the end. I have the feeling the new movie is going to be like that too. I think they best thing that can be done to revitalize the Star Trek franchise is to toss out much of Roddenberry's edicts and have some fun with it.

[Mike DC]

   
It's funny that people rip on the original BSG television series special effects. 

Few realize that it was the head of the "Star Wars" SFX department that did that show.  John Dykstra defected from ILM immediately after finishing SW#4 because he didn't work well with George Lucas.  But the revolutionary computer-controlled motion control camera rig they invented for SW#4 was pretty much all his deal.   




BSG in '78 was weaker in effects than Star Wars in '77, but that had as much to do with TV production compromises as anything else.  Star Wars was a two-hour show, not an entire season of hourly episodes. 

The BSG show was still cancelled largely because it cost so much to produce.  Even as a decent hit it was hard to ever recover it and get very far into black ink.     

           

[Dodge Don]

The butchered the Enterprise and Made it TeenTrek... makes it look like something from the WB.  I'm a fan of Star Trek, and I'll pass on this piece of junk.

Ryan

WHAT?!?!?! They're making Starbuck a woman??!?!?!?!

seriously, dont prejudge just yet.

Lol, you brought up BSG.  A show that lasted for one season 20 years ago. 
Ryan

Ummm.....I wasn't referring to the old crappy BSG......there is a new BSG that has been on for 4 seasons and in my humble opinion is far and away better than any other space epics I've seen. 

[PocketThunder]

I cant believe i just read every post thru 2 pages of this.  You guys are all closet trekkies!      

[PocketThunder]

By the way this is the best post so far...           

3.  you gotta have one male character who will bang anything with a pulse (kirk, riker)

[moparstuart]

just saw the trailer at the new bond flick , looks like it may be ok ? may 09 release.

[Khyron]

FULL TRAILER OUT!!!!!!!

http://www.apple.com/trailers/paramount/startrek/

[Big Lebowski]

  Dammit Jim, what am I!! A doctor or a moonshuttle conductor??

[TheAutoArchaeologist]

 

[Khyron]

o.k.... we get the point.

[Khyron]

I cant believe i just read every post thru 2 pages of this.  You guys are all closet trekkies!     

have you SEEN the Battlestar Galactica thread? A lot of us are closet ST geeks too

[bull]

Closet? Who's in the closet?

[A383Wing]

Sounds like some here need to come out of the closet.....oh, wait....

[Drache]

[Orange_Crush]

I think it looks great and I can't wait to watch it.  I think that it is the perfect way to show the person that Kirk became.  I think it will also fix a lot of what I thought was "wrong" with all the Treks which was not enough action.  My favorite trek is till Next Generation. 

[Khyron]

LMFAO!

[bull]

Amen to that cartoon. I've been saying that stuff about Lucas for years.

Now if they could only pry the Star Trek franchise out of Roddenberry's cold dead hands and put it in the hands of a guy like Ronald D. Moore or Joss Whedon we'd all be in business.

[Mike DC]

   

The Star Wars situation has amazed me.

There's so much dissatisfaction and demand for a GOOD new Star Wars movie or two.  The disappointing prequels left the air literally thick with it in the sci-fi/fantasy world.  I can't think of another example of such a blatantly profitable niche remaining uncovered by a mainstream franchise. 


I would have thought sooner or later even George Lucas HIMSELF would look at the situation and think, "Well, I don't wanna make that kind SW movie, but it would probably rake in half a billion dollars.  Maybe I can find someone else to do it for me.  Maybe I can work it into some peripheral area of the main SW universe that's not too dear to me." 

[bull]

This is one direction they should have explored with the Star Trek franchise: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_31

"In the Star Trek fictional universe, Section 31 is the name of an unofficial intelligence and defense organization. It is presented as a special security operation, manned by United Federation of Planets citizens, that is not subject to the normal constraints of Starfleet ethical protocols.[1] The organization appears, or is mentioned, across eight episodes of Star Trek: Enterprise and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine."

Could you imagine someone like Ronald Moore doing a TV show about Section 31? You wouldn't be forced to operate within Roddenberry's utopian edicts because Section 31 doesn't operate within the Federatiuon's utopian edicts. I imagine the cast including a Jem'Hadar, a Cardassian, a couple humans of course and a Klingon, among others.

[Big Lebowski]

    It's amazing how our history and Star Trek's history are similar in a few ways. A madman named "Khan" from the India/Pakistan area starts WWlll, then escapes the Earth in the 1990's...And here today in 2008, the world has a real nuclear weapons scientist named "Khan" from the Pakistan area. Our 2008 "Khan" has spread the word to the bad guys on how to build a nuke. That's wonderful.

    In other ways we are way behind in the Star Trek timeline. All we have is a wore out old space shuttle, a big orbiting solar battery called the ISS space station (missing a tool bag by the way), and we can't even get back to the moon to dig for black rectangle monoliths, oops, wrong movie.
   

[Khyron]

and we can't even get back to the moon to dig for black rectangle monoliths, oops, wrong movie.
  

"My god.... it's full of stars..."

http://www.palantir.net/2001/tma1/wav/stars.wav

[Brock Samson]

that link didn't work.. 

                         http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6yAEvnoCPs

this is my latest cruise yesterday in my charger, where I came back as this guy...

[Khyron]

it's a wav file...

[Mike DC]

Man, they don't make movies like that anymore. 


They still make endings just as stupid and illogical, but nowaways they always try to present some half-assed attempt at a reason for the whole thing.  Back in the day Stanley Kubrick just said "F*ck it, I'm gonna eat this little piece of paper and then try to put the experience on the screen." 


 

[Brock Samson]

  it took me a minute to get what you were driving at... 

[JoeyGowdy]

My friend Jason Vaughn (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2535313) is in it,
check out the photos: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0796366
   

[CB]

The new Star Trek trailer is on You Tube. It's a bootleg copy but I like it. Check it out here. http://trekmovie.com/2008/11/15/star-trek-trailer-hits-the-net-unofficially/

Danny is that you?? Nice to see you back dude!!!
CB
(sorry for the hijack)

[jackel440]

I finally got to see the trailer.definatly a different spin on the prequill thing.I thought it was funny the guy playing spock is Sylar off of Heroes.I love that series.even though i have only swa the 1st and 2nd season.Sucks working second shift.