Re: ATTN JMS: Humans build communities


"Vorlonagent" <jt@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> "Jeffrey Kaplan" <rastb5m@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> It is alleged that Vorlonagent claimed:
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>>> It's juch a rich universe and so little of note was done with it...
>>>
>>> Hit the reset button and start fresh branching off classic trek if you
>>> ask
>>> me.
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>> Hitting the reset button exemplifies all that is wrong in Trekland.
>> Don't hit the reset button, and don't do another prequel series. If
>> anything else is to be done in Trekland, start it either contemporarily
>> with DS9 and move forward, or start it sometime after DS9's timeframe.
>> In either case, don't let it be run by Berman, and show some real
>> character and plot development over time.
>
> I disagree. Very empatically.
>
> The Franchise has so many sillinesses and stupidities built into it and
> its history so as to constrain any future Trek both in terms of continuity
> and of fan exepctations.
>
> Hit the reset button. Make it well-known that you are starting fresh.
> Then pay attention to continuity and productions values, such as
> screenwrtiing.
>

I don't think that you can unring that bell. The only successful example of
ignoring a sequel and continuing that I can think of is Highlander 2, and
that's only because it was so bad it's too painful to think of and only
a few people saw it anyway.

Most people have already accepted the stories into the Trek universe.
If you thought the silly "Who's better, Picard or Kirk?" debates were bad,
imagine what would happen with

"Yeah, but Picard never existed!"
"Did too!"
"Did not!"

Of course I suppose you could hire Patric Duffy for a scene in a holo shower
and say it was all a bad dream.

Carl

"You better cut the pizza in four pieces because
I'm not hungry enough to eat six."
-- Yogi Berra








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