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edited February 2012 in Ten Forward
could be: http://www.airlockalpha.com/node/8940/bryan-singer-could-direct-star-trek-on-television.html seems these 2 have more of a ST pedigree that that sw moron abrams. hopefully something will come of this
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  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2012
    I read something about it over at SYFY and the following site:

    http://www.aintitcool.com/node/53245

    The SYFY site quoted this part:

    Fuller tells AICN exclusively that the two Bryans, who have long (but separately) contemplated new Star Trek TV series, have discussed the possibility of pooling their resources to take a new corner of Gene Roddenberry's multiverse to the small screen. Hopefully J.J. Abrams and Les Moonves will give them the keys to Starfleet HQ.


    One can only hope, and while your at it cross your fingers and toes that this turns into something good.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2012
    Krenn wrote: »
    could be: http://www.airlockalpha.com/node/89...television.html seems these 2 have more of a ST pedigree that that sw moron abrams. hopefully something will come of this

    Your link is brokern I think, I got a "Article not found" notice
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2012
    Id be happy with that.

    much prefer it to be in the prime universe but i just want some trek right about now.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2012
    Your link is brokern I think, I got a "Article not found" notice

    is now, fix't. just don't use the one in you quote
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2012
    Hit the link I posted CAP, I think it's still working. When you get there, you have to read past the Munster news lol.

    I believe they said this new ST if it helps, will be set in the Prime Universe, past Voyager I hope.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2012
    Sir-Cedric wrote: »
    Hit the link I posted CAP, I think it's still working. When you get there, you have to read past the Munster news lol.

    I believe they said this new ST if it helps, will be set in the Prime Universe, past Voyager I hope.

    Even jj abrams has said hes intrested but not yet i think even cbs would rather have jj involved. I think it will be some time if we do get a series i hope so cause i love star trek.

    I hope they just dont do the same as they did to enterprise cause i enjoyed that yet they cancled it so waiting game
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2012
    A couple of problems ...

    1- The article itself says this thing hinges on The Munsters remake. Ouch. Strike one there. Turning the Munsters into something for the Twi-hards isn't going to to go over all that well. We all know this.

    2- JJ Abrams. He's still at the forefront of all things Trek. Getting a TV Series made around what Abrams is doing is like starting with one foot stuck in a bear trap.

    As much as I'd like to see a new Trek series on TV, I'm not that sure I want the guy responsible for butchering The Munsters for the new post-Twilight Generation to be the guy that brings it to me.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2012
    superchum wrote: »
    A couple of problems ...

    1- The article itself says this thing hinges on The Munsters remake. Ouch. Strike one there. Turning the Munsters into something for the Twi-hards isn't going to to go over all that well. We all know this.

    2- JJ Abrams. He's still at the forefront of all things Trek. Getting a TV Series made around what Abrams is doing is like starting with one foot stuck in a bear trap.

    As much as I'd like to see a new Trek series on TV, I'm not that sure I want the guy responsible for butchering The Munsters for the new post-Twilight Generation to be the guy that brings it to me.

    maybe so, but they know ST, even if it was voyager for one of them, and abrams is still a sw fanboi. they'll be making a mistake if they tie the success of one series to launching another.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2012
    I don't envision 2 as a problem, Abrams has already excused his movies from needing to gel properly with existing canon, so all Singer and Fuller have to do is set their series in the "not ****ed with by Nero prime-universe" to avoid any problems. It's actually my personal observation that most Star Trek fans would prefer any new material to be set in the prime-universe rather than the Abrams-verse anyway.

    I certainly don't see why Abrams or Paramount would have a problem with it. Having a Star Trek TV series, even one set in a different continuity than the current Abrams movies, would surely only help gain a new audience for the movie series, right?

    1 is obviously going to be an issue if that creation doesn't take off, though.

    I'm not ultra enthused by Bryan Fuller. He was a writer, executive story editor and eventually co-producer on Voyager, which at this stage I view with dispassionate ambivalence for the most part. It had some really good and bad moments, but a lot of it was just plain pedestrian and unmemorable. DS9 or TNG it wasn't.

    Okay, by the time he was doing more than contributing to individual stories and scripts (season 6-7), Voyager was what it was and he couldn't really do much to change it, but it still doesn't fill me with confidence. He's got writing credits for a couple of real stinkers ("Spirit Folk" anyone?) and most of the rest of his Voyager repetoire is 'meh', imo.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2012
    I think CBS is waiting to see what the new movie will draw, befor ethey green light anything from Bryan Fuller and Bryan Singer. But will JJ let it happen without him? I just hope this doesn't turn into a huge fight for rights.

    I wonder is CBS is looking at STO population as a gage in numbers and interest too? hmmmmmmmmm
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2012
    Sir-Cedric wrote: »
    I think CBS is waiting to see what the new movie will draw, befor ethey green light anything from Bryan Fuller and Bryan Singer. But will JJ let it happen without him? I just hope this doesn't turn into a huge fight for rights.

    I wonder is CBS is looking at STO population as a gage in numbers and interest too? hmmmmmmmmm

    well, from what i read, CBS has TV rights, paramount big screen. hopefully there won't be a fight, but it's entirely likely abrams and his lot would object to something CBS has in mind
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2012
    Well tell JJ for me to stick with the movie side, and let the two Bryans do a TV version.

    BTW Bryan's Singers 1st draft version was summed up like this:

    Somewhere just beyond the 30th century.

    The Klingons are less warrior-like and more political.

    The Romulans and Vulcans completed reunification and are busy with that.

    And the Federation has expanded through a huge portion of the galaxy — so far in fact, transmissions from the frontier to Starfleet HQ takes years at subspace frequencies.

    Ships sent to these distant areas of the galaxy are near autonomous, expanding the Federation while exploring new worlds and civilizations unknown to the Trek universe.

    If you stick with that basic template, you can write all types of angles from it. One big one being the Rompulans looking toward the Vulcans to help rebuild, but factions with in the old Empite still having issues with that.

    BTW would and should STO be tied to any new series?
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2012
    Sir-Cedric wrote: »
    BTW would and should STO be tied to any new series?

    Do you mean in terms of possible shared storyline?

    If the new series is set in the 30th century then the events of STO would be largely irrelevant, and there'd be no real way to tie it to the new series like that. Unless a time travellers from the 30th century was brought into STO, but my personal preference is that it shouldn't be.

    If it was set near or at the same time as STO, and the two Bryans (or whomever gets it going) actually liked the STO & Path to 2409 storyline enough to respect the canon it establishes/borrows from the Countdown series, then I guess there could be some story overlap.
    I'm not sure that'd happen. I certainly can't imagine anyone writing an episode for the TV series and stopping and saying: "Wait, this didn't happen in STO or it screws up something that's supposed to happen in STO. Scratch that plotline!"

    At the moment, I'm quite happy for STO to have it's own little corner of the timeline to work with without directly retelling or contradicting any TV series. If anything 40 years is probably a little too close to TV timeline.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2012
    Krenn wrote: »
    is now, fix't. just don't use the one in you quote

    Much thanks. Interesting ideas, but first let's see how badly they mess up Munsters
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2012
    Sir-Cedric wrote: »
    Well tell JJ for me to stick with the movie side, and let the two Bryans do a TV version.

    BTW Bryan's Singers 1st draft version was summed up like this:

    Somewhere just beyond the 30th century.

    The Klingons are less warrior-like and more political.

    The Romulans and Vulcans completed reunification and are busy with that.

    And the Federation has expanded through a huge portion of the galaxy — so far in fact, transmissions from the frontier to Starfleet HQ takes years at subspace frequencies.

    Ships sent to these distant areas of the galaxy are near autonomous, expanding the Federation while exploring new worlds and civilizations unknown to the Trek universe.

    If you stick with that basic template, you can write all types of angles from it. One big one being the Rompulans looking toward the Vulcans to help rebuild, but factions with in the old Empite still having issues with that.

    BTW would and should STO be tied to any new series?

    I was worried about this "reboot" word mentioned in the article. Because that's what Abrams did although in an alternate universe. Now if they move forward from the shows we already seen, then yeah no problem but 30th century? Too big of a time jump from when they stopped (or even the disappearance of Nero/Prime Spock aspect of 2009)
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2012
    I was worried about this "reboot" word mentioned in the article. Because that's what Abrams did although in an alternate universe. Now if they move forward from the shows we already seen, then yeah no problem but 30th century? Too big of a time jump from when they stopped (or even the disappearance of Nero/Prime Spock aspect of 2009)

    I'd prefer it set closer to the 24th century than that. I can easily see them TRIBBLE it up by showing insufficient progress technologically and socially in the 600 year gap, and creating something that'd make much more sense set in the 25th or 26th century, but for some reason is instead set in the 30th.

    Or maybe they'd get it right? Who knows...
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2012
    Hot-Cancer wrote: »
    I'd prefer it set closer to the 24th century than that. I can easily see them TRIBBLE it up by showing insufficient progress technologically and socially in the 600 year gap, and creating something that'd make much more sense set in the 25th or 26th century, but for some reason is instead set in the 30th.

    Or maybe they'd get it right? Who knows...

    Plus they talk about going back to the TOS feel. They'd have to work out what happened in the 500-600 years.

    Yeah, I'd rather there be a similar gap from TOS to TNG. Because you know they will be hit with fans asking "So what happened to this character?" To which I guess all they can reply is "He's dead, Jim."
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2012
    Hot-Cancer wrote: »
    I'd prefer it set closer to the 24th century than that. I can easily see them TRIBBLE it up by showing insufficient progress technologically and socially in the 600 year gap, and creating something that'd make much more sense set in the 25th or 26th century, but for some reason is instead set in the 30th.

    Or maybe they'd get it right? Who knows...

    Same here, I want to see a new star trek series set in 24th century, post nemesis! Hopefully on board a sovereign class. Not because i'm a sovy fan boy, sovy is my favourite ship and i love all the ships but i feel that we still don't know enough about the class personally and there is still alot they can do in that century. As long it is post nemesis and at the most set in the beginning of the 25th century if not the 24th. This way they can keep the older fans still interested while bringing in new audiences. Don't mind JJ Abram helping out.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2012
    They said they were looking to bring back the fun. That pretty much rulkes out the 24th century.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2012
    How many tries are there going to be haha? Every other month there is a thread like this :o
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2012
    How many tries are there going to be haha? Every other month there is a thread like this :o

    So can we book it for one in April? :D

    Also will we get X-Men Bryan Singer if it happens or Superman Returns Bryan Singer? If we get X-men type Bryan then cool. Superman Returns type Bryan, well we'd be better off with JJ. I may rag on 2009 JJ but I enjoyed it a LOT more than that snorefest Superman Returns that's only good for curing insomnia.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2012
    WarpVis wrote: »
    They said they were looking to bring back the fun. That pretty much rulkes out the 24th century.

    lmao, that includes the 24th century my friend. Either way any star trek tv series i see on tv will make me happy.
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