I am through with debating the merits or demerits of the JJ movie since the final film will speak for itself. The picture will be locked according to JJ a few days back in about a week.
So the movie is finished and in the can and will be on hold to next summer.
Should i start a new thread about the rumored plans for a new trek tv series from cbs/paramount or should I just ask here in this thread what everyones thoughts are for a sixth tv series.
The idea they were throwing around was a far in the future dark Star Trek like Battlestar Galacticas reboot. I'm sure it would be the entreprise F. I heard these rumblings on trekmovie so they probably are not true and are only the site owners own fanboy dreams.
I don't even think i can find that old thread anymore anyways,lol.
I thought Ronald Moore already tried the dark thing on enterprise with allusions to the war on terror in the Xindi earth wars. Was not that already a huge fail with the fanbase because trek is supposed to be positive and a hopeful future. The same reason for some trek fans ds9=fail.
They supposedly even had a proposal from JMS who created Babylon 5 for a fifth tv series before they went forward with enterprise. He already tried his dark series b5 spinoff which was cancelled in its first season.
So because Batman Begins and Dark Knight were so sucessful and because of the 90's love affair with anti heroes and darkness all movie studios and tv people are going that route.
They already tried it on the star wars prequels which was a fail. But the original prequel story was a downer anyways. They are doing it with the star wars novels since 1999 vector prime all the way up to the legacy novels.
and are currently doing it in the legacy star wars comics. Remember how Lucas learned his lesson that dark does not reach audiences making THX 1138 and reversed his way of thinking on graffiti and star wars.
Star Wars the original trilogy is overall positive and has traditional heroes and is more black and white right and wrong than the prequels modernistic shades of grey.
The Lord of the rings trilogy by peter jackson reached that same audience and told a story that connected with the people watching it. Overall positive stories and an everyman the audience can relate to.
These new hollywood pics are all out to make you depressed, and are all in a state of self loathing, or loathing of humanity. You get emo goth nihilists like Anakin Skywalker of episodes 2 and 3.
Even though JJ's Star Trek is not canon, and is designed to look different. IMHO
It still is in that Hopeful future roddenberry dreamed of, according to JJ.
He rejected going dark like Batman. I think he said that is not what star trek is about and would not work. People have said the same about Superman yet warners is still going forward with a dark superman in time for a christmas 2011 release date.