Re: 10 Classic Science Fiction TV Shows that Could Become Hit Movie...

[David E. Powell]

On Dec 21 2011, 10:30 pm, BillV2...@webtv.net (Unifarva Skrewj) wrote:
> Re: 10 Classic Science Fiction TV Shows that Could Become Hit Movie...
>
> Group: rec.sport.pro-wrestling Date: Wed, Dec 21, 2011, 6:57pm (EST-3)
> From: David_Powell3...@msn.com (David E. Powell)
> On Dec 21, 7:43 pm, BillV2...@webtv.net (Unifarva Skrewj) wrote:
> David_Powell3...@msn.com (David E. Powell) Always thought a DS9
> movie could be out and out huge. You just knew at the end that peace
> with the Dominion would not last forever, and the alliance the "good
> guys" had was a bit shaky to say the least. Plus the Klingons had taken
> a huge beating on losses and there were all kinds of questions there.
>
> >Well, DS9 always kind of played bastard stepchild to TNG in THe Day and
>
> never earned cred from a lot of trekkies.
> The Situation in THE alpha quadrant is pretty weird now, with romulus
> gone and the feds and klingons weak from the war.
>
> >I really didn't like the removal of the Rommies. I thought the dynamic
>
> that existed after DS9 offered so much opportunity and was thrown away,
> plus Spock on Romulus and the Dissident movement.
>
> it seems there was a pseudo-malicous intent to kind of erase the
> berman-braga stamp on trek and a 'galaxy wide supernova [?] was a
> perfect opportunity
>
> >i imagine the dominion is not that big an immediate threat to them
>
> because half prophet ben probably has the wormhole with an
> 'anti-dominion' filter on it to keep dominion ships out of the alpha
> quadrant.
> Maybe. The Aliens acted one time ot stop a Dominion fleet.
> The cardies and breen are down and out.
> this may pave a way for 8472 or Borgs or others to make a move.
>
> >Or for other powers (Feds, Roms, Klings) to jockey for positions of
>
> influence, like Europe or Asia after WW2. Though again the Rommies are
> now apparently out of the picture.
>
> Well, i don't think the destruction of romulus marks a COMPLEAT wipeout
> of the romulan sub-species, but hurts them immensely. besides they may,
> at some future date retcon all of Abrams stuff out and restore romulus.
> There are Tholians who might make moves or some species as yet
> uninvented, or who knows, a mass Kelvin invasion from Andromeda.

I think I just need to say about Star Trek the same thing I did about
Terminator after T2. T3 was fun, and there have been some things since
DS9 that were OK to watch, but for me the Star Trek "canon" has to end
somewhere, at least before the latest reboot. The Romulans and
Klingons and such didn't go back to Berman and Braga, who did do a lot
of quality stuff with them before, (I'll admit, Voyager and Enterprise
had problems, DS9 was the last "must watch" ST show for me) they went
back to Gene Roddenberry. Nemesis sucked but then again it went pretty
far from the canon stuff about the Roms anyway. There was literally so
much they could have worked into Nemesis. Recurring characters from
the show, as was done with Star Trek II, the whole Spock on Romulus
angle from the show, and they messed up the movie. It seems they
figured they messed up on the "classic" aliens once and rather than
get a better writer they'd just burn the whole canon down. The new
effects and origin story were neat, we'll see if it goes any distance.
Because as much as people criticise Berman and Braga, they got a whole
lot of years of good stories out of Star Trek. Roms in colonies or as
a Diaspora might be neat but we will see if they can make any kind of
run of it past the first movie.