QUOTE(Cpt. Phil T. Berns @ Apr 12 2007, 10:07 AM)
@ Jules and all other Trekkies and Trekkers:
Does "all" other trekkers mean an acceptance that you're in the minority?
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Remember this is the last chance we've got for future Star Trek outings. If this one flops, NO MORE STAR TREK!
For the time being. And in any case, I don't consider a remake of Kirk & co to be
Star Trek at all. Trek was always about "boldly going forward" and not rebooting the past because they ran out of ideas.
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Don't live the illusion that by boycotting this move they might go back to the TNG era and make a post-Nemesis movie or series. That won't be done.
***NEWS FLASH*** We
know there won't be any more TNG movies. Most of us got that point right after
Nemesis flopped, even though there is a damn good story there waiting to be done. I never saw Riker and the
Titan as a contender.
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Don't hurt yourself the way I did by hoping that if TNG would flop we could have gotten more series and movies set just after TUC.
I may love Trek, but even I don't take it that seriously. If you ever thought that there was going to be any more TOS after TUC then you must have been on some kind of interesting substances! Especially since TUC was made well after TNG was an established success!
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They could have made an Excelsior series instead of DS9 or VOY, but they didn't.
No they couldn't. Apart from a few fanboys who saw the
Excelsior as the only way to keep TOS alive, most of us knew that George Takei and his secondary character simply did not have the pull for a major movie release. There was no need ever to have returned to TOS characters after DS9 and VOY, they had
Enterprise up and running by then.
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They could have made a Titan series instead of ENT but they didn't.
They didn't because TNG was the movie franchise and
Enterprise needed to build up a solid fan following before a big screen adventure. It didn't. Then again, your chronology is out.
Enterprise was devised in the very late 90s. The script development for
Nemesis was not finalised until 2001. In other words, the
Enterprise premise preceeded any idea of the
Titan.
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Bottom line, in Hollywood either you get wat they want to make, either you get nothing at all.
I think the vibe you ought to be getting by now is that many of us don't care for much of what Hollywood offers these days, and save our pennies accordingly. Most of us don't care. Whether you support a movie or not is an individual decision, and in many cases naysayers won't be swayed by people wringing their hands and flaming fellow fans for not supporting a crap idea. The same blame game happened after
Enterprise got cancelled, but people who know how to be discerning consumers will put that attitude down to the psychology of people who are suddenly having to face a time in which no new Trek will be released for them to look forward to. If people in general don't like Abrams' movie and it performs badly at the box office, Hollywood won't go on insisting that that is all Trekkers can expect because it doesn't work. The franchise will either take a long nap, or they'll be forced to think outside of the box. Either way, I have my DVDs to enjoy, so I think I'll manage.
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Paramount has decided in 1991 that the TUC timeline won't be continued.
Poor Berns, that decision ruined your life didn't it? Maybe it's time to accept that and move on?
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In 2002 they decided that the Nemesis timeline won't be continued.
Nope. In 2002 ~
before the movie was released, Spiner and co had the outlines for a direct sequel lined up.
Nemesis wasn't even released until mid December 2002, and in
2003, when it became clear just how poorly it had done,
that was when TNG officially ended.
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Even the cold reception ENT got didn't push them into making a Titan series.
Trust me, there was never going to
be a
Titan series other than in books.
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So if this movie is going to be a hit, we'll get plenty more Star Trek.
But probably not
Star Trek that many of us are interested in watching.