And the canonical differences are the things we were always arguing
about ANYWAY, which makes this reset brilliant.
A lot of the things we accept as Trek law is stuff that happened
under Berman and Braga. Let's not forget, if we follow the actual
timeliine of events, time had been changed by the events of "First
Contact" ANYWAY, so things were already different. I have an
analysis coming on things that changed that we hadn't considered,
and some of it's good, like the idea that "Voyager" probably won't
happen in this timeline, and that no Klingons ever join the
Federation. Having a leading science officer from the future with
knowledge of their mining accident will DEFINITELY impact how the
Klingons get down. But more importantly, it is quite possible that
either the Founders or The Borg WIN this time. The small advantages
the Federation had were due to the political climate in the galaxy.
Change those things (make the Romulans into allies, for example),
and everything changes. I believe that this new Trek universe is
going to be FANTASTIC for novels. All bets are off!
FOR THIS REASON, it's crucial that J J Abrams not direct the next
Star Trek movie. He can produce all day, I'm not saying the man
shouldn't get paid, but JJ has a habit of derailing something in
the middle and having it never recover (or is there someone here who
understands what's happening on "Lost"?)
On May 10, 2009, at 11:43 AM, Adrianne Brennan wrote:
I dunno. I don't see what they're doing as being any different from
the reboot of Doctor Who, except with more major canonical
differences.
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On Sun, May 10, 2009 at 10:31 AM, <gwashin...@aol.com> wrote:
In a message dated 5/10/09 4:24:35 AM, sincere1...@gmail.com writes:
My great fear is that this spawns a whole Trek series that won't
have some universal appeal because they adhere to any dynamic set
of principles, but a Trek universe where things get blow'd up real
good and the movie crowd can clap on cue. Too early to make that
judgment before the next film, so we'll just have to wait and see...
MHO
Sin/Black Galactus
I was about to stay silent on this but the paragraph above prompted
me to put my .02 cents in.
What Sin/Black Galactus stated is something I call "The Galactica
Syndrome". That is you got a show based on a earlier project that
while forming it's own audiance base is shunned by most-if not all
of the orignials show's base. Shows like this usually don't have
that much of a long shelf-life being period 'flashes in the pan".
Pre-new movie Star Trek (OST, ST:NG, ST:DS9, ST:V) while set
either/or different time periods, situtations, characters, etc.
could have went this way. Their was something about those shows
(and the movies based on them) that fans from other shows could
like and this brought in many fans from those shows. Which in turn
made the great. However the flipside of this is that it produces
'lazy' exicution, that eventually results in bad products which
angers and drives of the fans of those shows. Forcing efforts to
bring new life into those shows. Sometimes successful, sometimes
not. It depends on how much cannon they 'break' when doing it to
make the show new/hip to make it acceptable to both new/old fans.
This, IMO is why Enterprise was not well recieved by the pre-new
movie Star Trek community. It broke too much cannon, and many of
the stories weren't that good. Which is also why it didn't get
that many new fans (IMO if it wasn't for the ST name Enterprise
would have been canciled in it's first season).
while the new Battlestar Galactica was a somewhat hit. It was not
so by many fans of the old series who concider it broke too much
cannon (and the fact it's creators also had 'lazy exicution'
sydrome judging from it's later episodes) and this IMO the show
will probally fade over time. And in my opinion I see the new Star
Trek movie and it's alternate timeline will while finding intial
popular support will eventually go the way of new BG as it's new
fans will stick to this movie. While fans of pre-new movie ST will
eventually ignore it and continue on, asking for more stuff in the
pre-new movie ST background.
But hey it's only my opinon.
-GTW
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