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Posted on 09/16/2012 12:01:04 PM PDT by EveningStar
Geek favorites Bryan Fuller and Bryan Singer have been forthcoming about their hopes for bringing Star Trek back to the small screen, after the release of J.J. Abrams’ elusive sequel to his Trek movie reboot next summer. However, it turns out those two aren’t the only ones with big dreams about a new TV series set in that sci-fi universe – Michael Dorn is also taking steps to reprise his signature Trek role on a spinoff, tentatively titled Star Trek: Captain Worf.
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I do.
And one who thinks prune juice is a “Warriors Drink”
I remember the multicultural space Marines with the cool theme and neat looking hammerheads.
Overall I liked SAAB but some episodes weren’t too great and it was in a lousy time slot.
It finally starts to move and do some things and of course it got killed.
Not quite. Spartans were pedophiles. Hence, Sparta no longer exists.
Worf was my favorite Star Trek Character, especially the meeting with his son.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFxGPI1Uvlg
Just saw Dorn in a commercial during the football game (don’t remember what it was for). He looked really OLD.
Was he finally able to get a McDLT? It’s a regional thing. / Family Guy reference.
It was because Roddenberry was a WWII bomber pilot turned LAPD motorcycle cop turned hollywood radio and TV writer. Being a writer was his third career, not his first. He went and did something REAL with his life before he became a writer. And those experiences enriched and informed his skill as a writer. People want to become writers first without having done anything with their lives other than having gone to college. Is it any suprise the writing sucks?
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I’m not a big star trek geek, but I did like him. I’d watch that show.
Nope and well stated!
Maybe 10 years ago at a family reunion, a cousin was complaining to me that her son wasn't getting any traction as a “writer”. Now this son either was still in college, had dropped out or had just graduated. I no longer remember which “state of being” he was in. I just remember blurting out, ‘What the heck does he have to write about? He hasn't done anything!” Of course later I got a lecture from my mother, my father & my wife for my lack of couth and how I had gotten that side of the family all mad at me. I told them I didn't care and since I lived 10 hours away from the part of the family I really really didn't care. I got another lecture on how I can't go through life so unsociable. Well I have and I will continue to be so!
I think it was that they realized a coherent long term storyline was a winner, because B5 was real competition.
William Shakespeare didn’t “do” anything except churn out the greatest body of literature the world — not just the English speaking world — has ever known.
There is no evidence he ever met a king. Or a prince. Or even an Italian. Or had been to a magic island. Or a magic forest.
He made it all up.
That’s what good writers do.
George Lucas, if you want to stick to sci-fi, didn’t “do” anything except go to college — and then create “Star Wars.”
Oh, and about your cousin’s son? The greatest writer America has produced, F. Scott Fitzgerald, graduated college and started writing. He was a successful novelist at age 23, after a brief failed stint in advertising.
Your thesis — that writers have to somehow “do” things to write — is unsupported by the facts of who successful writers are and what they’ve done.
Man some people need to just let it go.
Agree. Enterprise became a rehash of TNG and Voyager and bombed. So of course they plan another rehash. Einstein’s definition of insanity comes to mind.
My new rule for sci-fi “space epics”: if it relies on “ion storms”, anomalies, or otherwise “unusual space weather” as plot devices I don’t want to hear about it. Those are marks of weak writing. Trek has been using those as a crutch for way too long.
If it relies on the same old, tired, “you’re the only starship in the sector” plot device just bring in a bigger empire and kill them off already. A Federation so myopic as to not maintain a robust military deserves to be annihilated. This probably rules out any plotline originating in California due to the writers involved—perhaps they need to open an office in flyover country.
If it relies on “evolved human sensibilities” (code for SOCIALIST) then I’ll happily ignore it as political propaganda. People haven’t changed in 12,000 years and we’re not going to. The words “governments are instituted among men to secure these rights” are in the Declaration of Independence for a profound reason—it is a statement about a fundamental and unchangeable part of human nature. Assuming a change in human nature is once again a mark of lazy writing. It takes effort to write about actual human nature.
Babylon 5 was far better wtitten, perhaps because the writers didn’t try to create fairy-tale people.
And there is no evidence that Shakespeare didn't do something! Very little is known about his early life!
There is an interesting new theory regarding “The Bards” early life, which would give him a lot of “experiences (mostly bad!)” to write about.
Writers who haven't “lived” 999/1000 have nothing to say, other then their own personal “angst”. Which I could care less about! We all have that!
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