Berman Confirms Star Trek Prequel Film Project 554
Steve Krutzler writes "TrekWeb can break the news STAR TREK producer Rick Berman has confirmed that work on a new STAR TREK feature film project has begun. Speaking in the new Dreamwatch magazine, Berman describes it cryptically as a "prequel" and says he's working with two other producers on the project."
OK (Score:1, Funny)
Hhmmm - like a beta version? Perhaps the mother ship will blow up like my motherbord did the other day...
Script Excerpts (Score:3, Funny)
What did Spock find in the toilet? (Score:5, Funny)
~SpermanHerman
Re:Script Excerpts (Score:5, Funny)
In related news... (Score:5, Funny)
This is going to require some time in makeup (Score:4, Funny)
I've seen the rushes and they're cool! (Score:5, Funny)
A prequel to a prequel? (Score:4, Funny)
They could call this film... "Trekkies".
Sorry. forgot. someone already did this.
How about Star Trek: Borg War (Score:5, Funny)
You want to see money fly? Have Q amusing himself by bringing the Borg there.
Why do you torture us so? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:What did Spock find in the toilet? (Score:3, Funny)
on topic, i laughed. =)
/.ed (Score:3, Funny)
Geroge Lucas REVENGE (Score:3, Funny)
What kind of story will it be?
Star Trek: 0.5 - The Trouble With Jar Jar, think of all the horrible possibilities! With only a modicum of chance for success.
Stop beating a dead horse... (Score:5, Funny)
A Prequel. Egads! Could that mean Scott Bakula meets Kirk? Lots of CGI will be needed to remove 200lbs from the now-flabby Shatner.
They might even waste the whole CGI budget on keeping Kirk trim. Let's just pray that Data is dead for good. Ohh look I'm an ass now that I have emotions.
I never got a chance to watch Farscape, and honestly I don't think much will ever match Babylon 5 for depth and quality.
"B&B Really Excited" (Score:5, Funny)
Plot Overview (Score:2, Funny)
Somewhere in the story, the governer of California is going to be involved too. (You vill be Ahhhhsimulaht, Ahhsimu...Ahhsim. Vot the hell, you vill be TEHHHHMANATED!)
Re:To TNG or not to TNG? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Script Excerpts (Score:3, Funny)
I hope you're happy now.
How about one of the Capts. BEFORE Kirk! (Score:5, Funny)
Lets face it - we NEED a show with some good space battles, NO cutesy-poo whimps like Wesley, or that Hyena-freak on Voyager. The eugenics wars when Kahn came into power would also be very good to cover - much of the Earth was trashed.
Re:In other news (Score:5, Funny)
Because each time they whack the horse's corpse, it coughs up another wad of hundred-dollar bills.
Long live TNG on DVD.
I agree. I need to invest. TNG was the best series by far.
Slashdot speed, Scotty! (Score:4, Funny)
Re:In related news... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Prolly Not TNG (Score:4, Funny)
They could have a scene where an Excel user drops a VBA worm into Chekov's helmet!
Re:To TNG or not to TNG? (Score:5, Funny)
They already made that movie. It was called Star Trek: First Contact [imdb.com]. Unless.....
Star Trek: Attack of the Boring Vulcan Ambassador Clones!
Re:Prequel? Oh boy... (Score:5, Funny)
What I'd like to see: a compelling movie about Q. Think about it, the first episode of TNG -- we meet the Q race who puts humanity on trial, the *last* episode of TNG, Q puts humanity on trial *again*, picard of course saves the day and warns picard "You don't get it do you? The trial never ends, We'll be watching you." You could easily make a *great* movie or two about that.
Second of all, I'd like to see a movie/series about the beginings of the borg. That would be a *GREAT*.
If anyone knows mr berman tell him I work cheap :)
Re:"Starfleet Academy" (Score:4, Funny)
"Might have" is right on the nose (Score:3, Funny)
If only Star Wars had made that sense, we'd all be so happy.
Personally I see some room for a crossover film: one where the kid Anikin from Episode I is involved in a transporter malfunction and has a black goatee, Jar Jar speaks the king's English, and there's a tiny shred of dramatic tension. Oh, for a temporal anomaly right about now...
(Actually isn't it easier to do a prequel when there's no plotline? Not much tension to whether Obi Wan's going to make it through, when we know he grows up to be Alex Guinness.)
Re:SPOILER (Score:2, Funny)
Queer Eye for the Trek Guy
Re:Star Fleet Command? (Score:3, Funny)
More Hollywood creativity:
Pro Nanny - Fran Drescher as an annoying, but lovable kinky prostitute.
Au Pair - Fran Drescher as an annoying, but lovable kinky prostitute (rated NC-17)
Paranoia - (Working title, "The Martha Stewart Story")
Star Fleet Command - James Kirk as a young cadet. Starring Eminem as the brash rule-breaking young officer.
Stranger in a Strangeland - Hmmm, I thought someone wrote this already.
Homeland Security - Now, a low budget NBC "rushed out once we caught wind of this in movie production" mini-series.
War Magician - The real Iraq war story. By Matt Drudge
Warriors - Prequal to "Road Warrior"
an untitled Johnny Knoxville project - Jackass, the Musical
Re:I've seen the rushes and they're cool! (Score:3, Funny)
Who is then strangely killed by a bouncing apparition that looks suspiciously like a flashlight shining through a shower curtain.
Prequel quite possible... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:To TNG or not to TNG? (Score:3, Funny)
Originally Walt really was cryogenically frozen, but then there was that terrible day, very much like the Eddie sequence in Rocky Horror Picture Show.
Re:Script Excerpts (Score:3, Funny)
(For those who don't get the joke, go here [frogstar.com] and listen to Shatner's "Mr. Tambourine Man". As a bonus, download the "Seven" video after listening to MTM.)
Re:Script Excerpts (Score:5, Funny)
I hope you're happy now.
Nope, you got modded funny. I think for it to have been like Khan's scream you would have to do it so well as to get modded as flamebait.
Re:How about one of the Capts. BEFORE Kirk! (Score:5, Funny)
I thought he only got one light... he had to blink it once for yes, twice for no.
I need to get laid.
Re:Script Excerpts (Score:4, Funny)
It's like Tubgirl for your ears.
Re:Prequel? Oh boy... (Score:5, Funny)
OK, here's my pitch:
Captain Data and Seven Out Of Ten are on their way to some long-deserved shore leave on an apparently paradise-like planet. A special anomaly suddenly appears and they travel into an alternative dimension - an evil one - where everyone has beards. Just as they are about to solve everything by using cronaton particles and a polaron beam, they get stuck on the holodeck in wild west outfits. They are captured by the evil sheriff - Q - who threatens them with a long telling off. It turns out that Q is possessed by the ghost of a long-dead (but English-speaking) civilisation. Just as time is about to run out - and they will be viciously shouted at - the Borg (ie: the good guys in this dimension) turn up and rescue them. Data and Seven return home by making a communicator out of sulphur, charcoal and potassium nitrate. The final words are "beam me up, spocky".
I have some drawings of Seven in a sexy wild west outfit if you think they would help.
Re:To TNG or not to TNG? (Score:5, Funny)
Captain: "Number one, you don't suppose we should write all this down, do you?"
First mate: "Why would we want to do that?"
Captain: "Well, what if some time in the future people might want to know these borg things still exist."
First mate: "Who would want to know that?"
Captain: "Well. Maybe if our first space exploration vessel runs into two of them, they might want to know what they're dealing with. Or if the fleet flagship was flung across the galaxy by an omnipotent being and brought face to face with these things. Or if the captain of that ship is perfectly fine for years, even helping out the borg a few times, and then for no apparent reason develops a Moby Dick-like obsession with them. Or perhaps another space ship could be flung across the galaxy by another near-omnipotent being and the captain of that ship could end up in a contest with the borg queen to determine who has the bigger ego."
First mate: "You're drunk, aren't you?"
Captain: "Like a skunk."
First mate: "Besides, wouldn't that first exploration vessel record their contact with the borg? Then that fleet flagship would know what they were facing. That would be the smart thing to do."
Captain: "Somebody else's problem. I like it. Have a drink."
Or maybe not. At least that would finally explain why the borg had an unhealthy obsession with Earth.
Re:In other news (Score:1, Funny)
I can.
Borg Queen: We must waste our resources in continual charges against Earth.
Borg Drone: Why? Wouldn't a more organized war against the Federation make more sense?
Borg Queen: No.
Borg Drone: But why not? And when did we get a queen anyways?
Borg Queen: Do not question the writers. *long pause* They're too high to answer anyways.
language follies (Score:5, Funny)
Well, StarTrek did begin with TV's most flagrant split infinitive. ("...to boldly go...")
Re:To TNG or not to TNG? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:How about one of the Capts. BEFORE Kirk! (Score:5, Funny)
The are FOUR LIGHTS!
Re:To TNG or not to TNG? (Score:5, Funny)
Haven't you learned anything from watching Star Trek.
Wrath of Kahn: While fighting in / near a nebula, Spock makes the ultimate sacrifice, bathing himself in radiation from the ship's reactor, ultimately dying to save the crew. However, not before "backing up" his personality in Bones' thick skull.
Nemesis: While fighting in / near a nebula, Data makes the ultimate sacrifice, being destroyed in a radiation blast eminating from the enemy warship's reactor, ultimately dying to save the crew. However, not before he uploaded his entire neural pathways, memories, and experiences into the dummy-data.
Star Trek is an admin's wet dream. Backing up can even bring back the dead
Re:To TNG or not to TNG? (Score:2, Funny)
Perhaps you yourself could be frozen until modern science invents a 'sense of humor' transplant.
Frozen Walt (Score:3, Funny)
It was both. You mean you never saw Walt's final film appearance in the 1976 live-action children's film in which he rode a Harley through Dexter Reilly's lab as a human icicle? Kurt Russell and Jodi Foster also starred in this one all-but-forgotten film.
Star Trek Prequel!? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:To TNG or not to TNG? (Score:3, Funny)
No problem. Working title:
Star Trek: RETCON.
Re:Frozen Walt (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Prequel quite possible... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:To TNG or not to TNG? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:To TNG or not to TNG? (Score:3, Funny)
You mean you expect the various story lines to be consistent! That has never stopped Berman and company before. Why would they care now?
Re:To TNG or not to TNG? (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Script Excerpts (Score:3, Funny)
Klingons, Ferrengi, and Borg (Score:2, Funny)
Re:sorry to say this, but... (Score:3, Funny)
This new movie will probably get $150 million. How much is that in Gold Pressed Latinum?
Re:How about one of the Capts. BEFORE Kirk! (Score:3, Funny)
One for "yes," one for "no," one for "my diaper needs changing," one for "please kill me now."
Re:To TNG or not to TNG? (Score:2, Funny)
Wesley could freeze time, man (Score:3, Funny)
Hey, cut the guy some slack...hasn't he suffered enough.
Re:How about one of the Capts. BEFORE Kirk! (Score:3, Funny)
Re:How about one of the Capts. BEFORE Kirk! (Score:4, Funny)
Re:To TNG or not to TNG? (Score:1, Funny)
A few paragraphs into reading that post, my "inner voice" became that of the Comic Book Guy.
Dude, you remind me of the Comic Book Guy. This is not a good thing.
Re:To TNG or not to TNG? (Score:3, Funny)
Yes, of course! Why didn't I see it before:
The Cardassian occupation of Bajor is still in full-swing. The Nexus Ribbon from ST:Generations passes by the planet, and out pops Captain Kirk, wood-chopping axe still in hand. Immediately he is set upon by the Borg Queen, who was disguised as a Bajoran in one of the internment camps. She recognizes him, you see, because... uhh... of what will happen in the *next* Star Trek movie!
Anyways, the two duke it out, the Queen knocks the axe out of Kirk's hand, and is about ready to Borgify him, when a young Kira picks up the axe and beheads her! Kirk then enjoys a hearty meal of Hasparat with Kira's family, has a make-out session with the future Ensign Ro, then is off to kick some Cardassian ass...
Then stay tuned for the sequel to ST:TNG:DS9:KvB... KABUC!
Thanks for the idea!
- Rick Berman
Plot Leak (Score:3, Funny)
- The Klingons, in the early days of interstellar travel, bump up with the Federation starship USS Ronald Reagan.
- Fast forward several years, and the Klingons are shown in peace treaty negotiations with the Feds.
- Admiral Dumbass of the Reagan opens a mail attachment from the Klingons and nudges it in his SUN 3-D file browser he keeps aroud for nostalgia. The ancient ELF binary he executed exploits a new mmap() bug previously unknown to humankind. The Federation starship computers still have fragments of the memory management code from an old computer system kernel called Linux, which the Klingons obtained by extracting from one of millions of old CD-R's they detected in landfills while touring the earth's surface.
- The bloodthirsty Klingons attempt to terminate humankind turing their computers against them, adapting the instructions in the Linux Coffemaker-HOWTO to generate saber-wielding androids from scrap Macintoshes and Mr. Coffees.
- After a long battle, the Federation regains control of earths computers by writing a worm which replaced the infected computers' kernels with a Mach microkernel-derivative.
- Richard Stallman, who became a member of the Q continuum, appears to Admiral Dumbass to congratulate him for his part in saving humanity (his Spock/Data variant character, of course, came up with the viral cure, but gets no credit). He proceeds to tell Admiral Dumbass that the Federation should really be called the GNU/Federation...
but no more spoilers. You will have to go see it.
Live Long and Prosper
Re:How about one of the Capts. BEFORE Kirk! (Score:2, Funny)
it's not too late [b3ta.com]
Maybe A Potpouri? (Score:5, Funny)
The Vorlons return from beyond the rim and drag Babylon 5 into a seperate reality. When the 1701-E stumbles upon it, they request aid from Admiral Janeway who sends Voyageur (with her on board) and she also commands the crew of DS9 to arrive with the Defiant in case we need Worf to make rude noises. O'Brien happens to be on the 1701-E, as Picard missed his old transporter-chief and decided to liberate him from Starfleet Academy.
So, we have all these crews here, but we're missing two. Sisko, while speaking with the wormhole aliens, asks them to drag the NX-01 and the NCC-1701 from the past to the planet where Babylon 5 is orbiting. All hell breaks loose. Sisko materializes on the bridge of the Defiant and begins to command the fleet (while Picard quietly plots his death, feeling upstaged). Babylon 5 launches it's fighers, and the harrowing corpse of Sheridan begins to emanate a strange energy signature. All of a sudden, three Spacing Guild ships appear above the station, and the fighters of Muad'dib begin to use their illegaly-taught Bene Gesserit teachings to subdue Starfleet. Babylon 5 lays waste to all Starfleet ships with the White Star, and subsequently becomes entranced themselves by the wily ways of the Fedaykin.
Afterwards, another Guild Highliner arrives carrying a delegation of the Bene Gesserit who tames the Vorlons with lessons they've learned from The Scattering.
The movie ends with Captain Kirk in an escape pod singing "Row Row Row your Boat"
Re:How about Star Trek: Borg War (Score:3, Funny)
On an All new Episode of "Sick Bay"
HoloDoc: Please state the nature of the medical...
Bones: Would someone please shut him up? We've got a patient here! Dr Crusher...
Beverly: Sorry, I can't help you. This is one of the rare episodes that I get to act all hot and sexy.
Bones: For gods' sake!
Beverly: Sorry, Dr. McCoy. They only come every 3 seasons or so.
Julian: [leering] She does have a point...
Flox: [observing Julian] The human sex drive is fascinating. Why, the Slorfian Dungbeetle only mates...
Julian: [still leering at Crusher]Later, Flox
Bones: Damn purple blooded Denobulan...
Flox: Actually, it's the Florgmath of Alpha Tau Gamma Chi that have purple blood. Denobulan blood is actually...
Bones: Dammit, I'm a doctor, not a Xenologist!
Polaski: What can I do to help?
All: GO AWAY!
HoloDoc: Well, if you want my opinion...
Bones+Julian: We Don't.
Polaski: I think we should hear him out.
HoloDoc: Oh Dr. Polaski, are you still here?
Julian: Pardon me, but the patient appears to be arresting.
Flox: I have some wonderfully fresh Plarnian leechmice that should...
Bones: [checks readout]He's dead, Flox.