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Posted 06 March 2015 - 05:57 AM

Wow..... Sad period in Star Trek world.... Famous producer of Star Trek Films like Wrath of Khan died on March 4th. Harve was 84...

Please forgive Harve's misspelled name in title.... Darn auto correct!!

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Posted 06 March 2015 - 09:20 AM

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Posted 06 March 2015 - 02:29 PM

I saw that yesterday. Very sad.



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Posted 06 March 2015 - 04:38 PM

wow. the bad news keeps coming. RIP Harve. You figured out how to bring fun and entertaining star trek stories to the big screen without breaking the bank that people loved.

 

I think its safe to say Harve built Paramounts Star Trek Film Franchise into a powerhouse. Thank you for all you did.



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Posted 06 March 2015 - 07:29 PM

R.I.P. Harve Bennett. I only know him from seeing interviews and also from reading Bill Shatner's "Star Trek Movie Memories" but I have a lot of respect for the guy for basically, along with Nick Meyer, saving Star Trek after TMP and helping to give us some of the best Star Trek films ever made with the Wrath of Khan/Search for Spock/Voyage Home trilogy.



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Posted 13 March 2015 - 11:51 PM

Didn't know about this until I saw this topic. After looking at IMDB it appears that Harve Bennett died 2 days before Leonard Nimoy did, on February 25th. I am shocked that I didnt hear about this sooner. Harve Bennett produced many shows that I grew up watching in the 1960's and 1970's. Six million dollar man for instance. Loved his shows, especially the Star Trek movies. He will be missed.

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Posted 14 March 2015 - 09:41 AM

I'm starting to feel like Trek is loosing all its old "Captains" and that its like a ship with no one left to mind the tiller :-(

 

I really hope someone new, that loves the franchise, can be found to step up and make something of it the way Harve did.



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Posted 14 March 2015 - 03:53 PM

I really think Berman was one of those people but sadly he was chased out of town :(

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Posted 14 March 2015 - 05:37 PM

Berman absolutely was. Deep Space Nine is still, critically, to me the apex of the Trek Series. If Harve gave us some of the most successful Trek at the Box office, and Berman did a fantastic follow on. But Berman, made some mistakes. Probably starting with Insurrection,  through ENT and finally with Nemesis. It was probably just too many to over look. In the end I think Berman redeemed himself when he found and enlisted Manny Coto.

 

Manny would by pick to carry the franchise forth.



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Posted 14 March 2015 - 11:02 PM

I don't understand the hatred of Rick Berman. I don't like Voyager or Enterprise in terms of watching them (love the ships, etc), but that doesn't make me hate him, especially as he was at the helm of the better half of TNG, and DS9.

 

My hope is that in future, they pick someone who firstly 'gets' Star Trek, and doesn't confuse it with Star Wars (...JJ lol). That being said, I feel like Star Trek has been dead for a while now, and I'm okay with that. I could talk until I'm blue in the face about how the two new films left me, a massive Trekkie, feeling utterly insulted, but I find it a lot better to ignore them completely, as I still get a ton of pleasure out of watching TNG and DS9.

 

There's two people who I'd love to see be given a shot at running Star Trek, as I think they'd do it right. Sadly, I think the chances of them doing so are slim to zero.

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Ronald D. Moore, and Ira Steven Behr. Hand on heart, they would be my dream team. These two are responsible for the best episodes of The Next Generation, and Deep Space Nine. They had no hand whatsoever in Voyager or Enterprise, and man does it show (in my opinion). So yes, they would be my ideal choice. :)



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Posted 14 March 2015 - 11:43 PM

Ronald Moore and Ira Behr are amazing.... I think the combination of Berman at the Helm with Moore and Behr always pushing the boundaries of the Trek world is what made TNG and especially DS9 special. Berman was hand picked by both the studios and Roddenberry as a torch bearer..... He constantly had Roddenberry's vision in mind but with Moore and Behr Berman I think was pushed out of the comfort zone and thus some great sci-fi was made.

Cotto was like Moore and Behr but as Gothneo said it was "too little too late" by that point.

I also think that Berman's strong suit was the small screen as evident with the failures of most of the TNG films.

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Posted 15 March 2015 - 01:19 PM

Yep. Nothing but love and respect for Berman for everything he did for Trek from me.  What we need is someone that is young enough that can really take on trek for 2 or 3 decades the way roddenberry, Berman, and even Bennett did.

 

We all hoped that JJ was going to be that person, but its clearly that he's really more passionate about fantasy and occult then he is with Sci-Fi.

 

I'm going to go bold and maybe suggest that the Nolan Brothers could actually be really good choices in this area. Interstellar was really the kind of movie Star Trek should be... with regards to the big thoughts... and it suggests that they could take the franchise in an entirely new direction.

 

But even if they aren't the right pick... we need people born in the 70's or later to have a go at it.






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