Posted on 09/16/2009 3:26:44 PM PDT by EveningStar
OK, so JJ Abrams, Roberto Orci, Alex Kurtzman and a talented cast (to whom, if things are really fair, a lot of the credit must be given) successfully rebooted Star Trek. Obviously there will be another film, and if nearly thirty years of films in the franchise have taught us anything, it is that making a crappy Trek film is all too easy. So what next for the series? More Shakespeare? Or something else? Based on recent comments, it sounds like Star Trek 2 (or whatever it will be called) could get all sorts of modern, at least from a thematic standpoint...
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Just when we thought the Trekies would die out a new generation is born.
“pointed modern commentary” is codeword for an unwatchable megaexpensive awful piece of pedantic dreck.
The Federation of Planets elects its first *Romulan* president and Kirk and the crew of the Enterprise are sent on an expedition to locate his birth certificate.
The subject could be a kind of Vulcan Zionism and the ups and downs that happen with it.
Not a bad idea if you ask me.
Cola out the nose thanks
A future ACORN dealing in Green Slave Women?
Will Galactic Emperor Chimpy McBushitler be blamed for the invasion of the “peaceful” planet Islamastan?
At this point I’d much rather see more Star Trek: Enterprise. The theme song was great too.
Seen enough Shatner and Kirk to last a lifetime.
I think the new BSG got pretty darned pretentious around the point of New Caprica to the end.
Wasn’t it the liberal social commentary that did in Star Trek to begin with? I really hope they don’t go down that path again.
Gene Roddenberry and Gene Coon were quite adept at allegory but today’s hacks lack the capacity for nuance.
This is why they excel at comic book adaptions but fail utterly at ‘serious’ fare because they can’t make their point without hitting the audience over the head.
Especially since Vulcans and Romulans are supposed to be ethnic cousins so to speak. Maybe Sarah Palin could get the role of Romulan Queen...
Live long and prosper, GunRunner.
That sounds interesting.
If they handle social issues the way the original series did, it could work. But I’m not sure I want a young Captain Kirk lecturing aliens on the meaning of war, humanity, or any other issue.
The Ferengi Reserve Board replace gold pressed latinum with a copper and nickel alloy and freely printed Latinum Certificates which they say are just as good.
Could be, I hope not....this new reboot Abrams did in May, was the best ST movie since Wrath of Kahn...I cant wait for the blue ray to come out in November.
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