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No-one knows exactly what it will be, but the most prevalent rumors are that it will be the original characters with a new cast - basically, like Paramount is doing a movie version of a forty-year-old TV series. Supposedly, it will be in-continuity, but no-one will really know until scripts or...

I think Voyager showed the producers as being low on ideas, myself. Given the technology available today, actual creative people could put amazing things on-screen if they really wanted to talk about exploration. Also, part of the reason American TV shows have long seasons is that it allows...

Everyone says that. Then they realize that they don't actually own the role or franchise in any binding sense and accept the easy money that the studio is willing to pay them for a day or two of work shooting a cameo.

Sure, I'd be willing, but Paramount knows that I (and folks like me) are pretty easy sales. Star Trek isn't really at a point, commercially, where it should necessarily be stretching into new or relatively oscure areas - it's time to fortify the core.

Beautiful sentiment, and true from Picard's perspective. For a number of reasons - the science content of Trek's science fiction getting more and more abstract and the background civilization becoming too civilized - the Star Trek franchise has hit a storytelling point of diminishing returns...

Then they make other movies with the new cast. TOS isn't continuity-heavy, so they can probably fit four or five movies into the original series timeframe, which takes us into 2016 (the fiftieth anniversery) or or so. The hardcore fans can have fun trying to fit it into known continuity (or...

Works for me (and I'm willing to happily ignore Enterprise - The First Adventure). A good starting point for a new series and a fun bit of backstory if the fans let it be.

Well, it's not like we ever really doubted that the characters would survive any given episode of the series.

How in the hell do you make that leap?

What makes you think that? I mean, they haven't had a new Kirk/Spock movie in twenty years, and the ratings for TNG and DS9 had spikes for the Spock, Scotty, and Tribble episodes. As much as I like DS9, it was the show that strayed the furthest from the original concept, and was the least...

What do you gain by doing that? For every fan who appreciates the effort to reconcile it with prior series, there'll be one who feels upset about taking a wrecking ball to quote, Roddenberry's vision, unquote. You just add a little exposition. And commercially, what do the people you're...

It's not nostalgia - it's that once you get much past the TNG timeframe, there's too much magical technology to really make things relatable - how many times can we hear "elevated levels of chronoton radiation" before our eyes glaze over. I don't want a TOS-era movie made with deliberately...

Shatner's 75 now, so he was 35 when he started playing Kirk. And I can completely see Damon in the role. Physically the same type, but different enough in looks and manner to make the role his own.

Eh, you go by the opening credits of TOS, and there's only three - Kirek, Spock, and McCoy. Which, actually, is part of what made the movie translate relatively well to film; it didn't have to maintain the illusion that everyone in the ensemble needed something important to do. (Heck, by that...

Why not? As of right now, it just hasn't been done; that doesn't mean it can't be done well. Like I always say, saying one can't imagine anyone else in the a says more about one's imagination than the performance in question.

Man, I'm glad people didn't say that about the first person to play Hamlet, or Sam Spade, or Sherlock Holmes...

Enterprise was an incredible show at times, especially once Manny Coto took charge. The middle two seasons, however, deserved their scorn.

Probably, but they'd be wrong.

Have Spiner play some previously unmentioned Soong relative. :) (Seriously, though, the guy has just aged too much to play an ageless android)

And more importantly, it was developed by Robert H. Wolfe, long-time DS9 writer who specifically stated in one interview that it was what he would have pitched for Trek Series 5, except everyone knew that job was Ron Moore's to refuse. --sigh--

That idea's been done. It's called Andromeda. You could say that about any of the various non-TOS shows before they were cast/shot/screened, though.

Berman hired Piller, and went to bat for him with Paramount (and Roddenberry?) when he nudged the show in a more character-oriented direction. Berman & Piller created DS9 together, too. Unfortunately, Berman didn't have the "I'm not doing my best work so it's time to move on" epiphany Michael...

I'm not opposed to the idea; that sort of attitude could have killed TNG, the current Battlestar Galactica, etc. But, I think you'd need a darn good reason, aside from "they'll work cheap" - a situation that both benefits from being set in the Star Trek universe and for which the established...

That's a rather human-centric definition of "normal", isn't it?

None listed on the IMDB, though I suppose there could be someone on the stage she didn't want to be confused with (given her dance background an paucity of non-Star Trek credits, I assume she spent a good chunk of her career there). Or she just might not like her first name. "Cheryl" is kind...

Figuring out that Rick Berman and Brannon Braga wouldn't find other work despite having nothing left to contribute shouldn't take ten years. And "audience burnout" is just another way of saying "I'm sick of it". If Paramount produces good Star Trek now, you can wait until you've purged your...

Why? Someone explain to me why hoping someone will do a good job ten years down the line is more likely to produce good television and movies than hiring good people to do it now.

Why should I give a rat's ass about other people being burned out if I'm getting decent movies/TV? I'm not arguing for complacency - far from it - but I think it's a far more sensible plan for Paramount to just keep producing the best TV and movies and manga and books and whatever else they can...

Blackmail was involved. I'm sure of it. :)

You know, Jack, "I told you Jay would come and rebut all my points" isn't the best argument. :)