Should Star Trek Die? 703
securitas writes "The New York Times Television reporter William S. Kowinski writes about questions of the Star Trek franchise's viability due to overexposure, audience fatigue and creative exhaustion. Star Trek actor and director LeVar Burton (Geordi La Forge) is in favor of a hiatus, and is quoted as saying, 'Star Trek's just not special enough, not anymore.... They need to shut the whole thing down, wait five years, create an interest, an excitement, a hunger for it again.' Also quoted are Leonard Nimoy (Spock) and executive producer Rick Berman. The article is particularly salient given the recent announcement of Star Trek Online, a massively multiplayer online game scheduled to launch in 2007. Remember that Activision sued Viacom over the Star Trek franchise last year, ending the license despite a 10-year licensing agreement that originally expired in 2008. So the question is: Should Star Trek die?"
I think it died (Score:5, Funny)
Yes... (Score:5, Funny)
ST XX: Return of the Franchise (Score:4, Funny)
Anyone else find it amusing? (Score:5, Funny)
Sorry this is so cruel, but it made me laugh.
YES! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Yes... (Score:5, Funny)
*cough*Berman*cough*
Re:Yes... (Score:5, Funny)
The good of the money outweighs the needs of the few.
Seems applicable (Score:3, Funny)
Personally I agree, it's already dead. Voyager sucks, and theres not a big following of Enterprise. The last movie sucked.
Re:should star trek die? yes (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Anyone else find it amusing? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:McCoy (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Star Trek is dead, has been for awhile (Score:5, Funny)
My opinion may be unpopular... (Score:2, Funny)
You can get into a big discussion wether it should be historically correct based on the previous series' but IMHO it isn't so important that anyone should get desperate about it.
Personally i dont like the original TOS.. its so cheesy and artificial. I am an early adopter so I like to play around with new things all the time.
A new star trek episode every week is exactly the thing i need
Play well..
Rick
after RTFA (Score:3, Funny)
Original cast, from left, Grace Lee Whitney, Majel Barrett, Walter Koenig, James Doohan, George Takei and Nichelle Nichols and the astronaut Neil Armstrong
WTF?
wrong topic (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Yes... (Score:5, Funny)
put a red shirt on it (Score:0, Funny)
Re:ST XX: Return of the Franchise (Score:5, Funny)
Hey! Hey! Hey! (Score:5, Funny)
I mean, come on!
Re:If you don't know... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:YES! (Score:5, Funny)
And if Microsoft would die, we'd be all out of topics.
(From the Netcraft-confirms,-yada,-yada,-yada-dept.)
Re:Star Trek is dead, has been for awhile (Score:5, Funny)
And this is different from any of his other star trek appearances how?
Re:I think it died (Score:1, Funny)
"It's DEAD, Jim!" (Score:3, Funny)
Re:yes (Score:3, Funny)
The time travel is hokey, the metaplot is mediocre, but don't throw out the baby with the bathwater.
That's not a baby in the bathwater, it's a turd! Lose it!
Re:Star Trek is dead, has been for awhile (Score:2, Funny)
As described at some length in this [slashdot.org] post, the phenomena known collectively as 'Star Trek' should preferably be brought to an end as quickly as is practically possible.
The crew of Voyager are still in peril, and any actions taken in your timeline towards bringing about the end of 'Star Trek' would be most beneficial to our survival.
Re:Yes... (Score:5, Funny)
In fact.... (Score:3, Funny)
"Diamonds, rubies, emeralds. I would trade them all for a hand phaser or a good stout club."
You da man, Kirk. You da man!
-Iowa
Re:Star Trek is dead, has been for awhile (Score:3, Funny)
He isn't dead, Jim
Re:Yes... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:yes (Score:3, Funny)
Star Trek Porn (Score:5, Funny)
Re:If you don't know... (Score:5, Funny)
ISO was a Spock vehicle, a spinoff meant to explore the mind of our favorite Vulcan. Week after week he would show off his latest research; giving us a sense of what he was doing, peering into that scope of his while Kirk was seducing the alien babes.
Spock's facination with UFOs (naturally) later gave way to an obsession with Uri Geller and the Bermuda Triangle, by which time, most Trekkers left feeling that this show had jumped the shark.
RR was a prequel to the TNG storyline -- wherein a very gifted warp physics engineer shows his softer side by reading children's books, set at a time before he was blinded in a tragic e-book explosion. Paramount, for reasons that are not totally clear, decided to set this futuristic space adventure somewhere in modern times, and sadly, the pilot that explains the temporal anomoly was never aired and is lost to posterity.
Hope that clears things up.
Just Wesley Crusher... (Score:2, Funny)
(sorry Wil, I know you could use the work but they'll just edit you out again anyway).
Re:GameDev forums (Score:3, Funny)
That would be "SlashbotHiveMind". Or maybe Q'Ghaqrxla'ptah. I might be getting confused.
Re:Probably (Score:2, Funny)
Leisure Suit James T.?
You don't know Spock?
Re:Um... (Score:2, Funny)
(I mean, hell, I'll give you Voyager ;)
No! You can't make me take it! Nooooo!
Forethought (Score:3, Funny)
Geez. I really enjoyed TNG when I was in my early 20s but even then I quickly grew tired of foreheads being the only feature that differentiated races.
We need a ST series that doesn't care about warp. One that pop through universe bubbles and discover REAL NEW STUFF. Not just a forehead.
And for crying out loud, we could do away with the character repeats. Every ST series has had it's
comical doctor
bombshell bimbo
nerdy teen
over-compassionate captain
stick-shoved-next-to-spine emotionless moron
scores of NPG meat-grinder-ready ensign
Sick of it!
Bring back Spinner/Data. THAT was both a good actor and character wich doesn't need to be brought back through a stupid plot to appear in a show to spur up interest (Dysan sphere anyone? Nexus?)
Turn Voyager around damnit! They're explorers. Not whiners that ought to go back to mommy. They have deep space communications now. No need to go back home. Turn around damnit and see if there's more to this universe THAN FOREHEADS!!!!!!!
Arf.
Re:BERMANNNNNNNN!!!!! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:BERMANNNNNNNN!!!!! (Score:5, Funny)
You'll lust after whom Rick Berman wants you to lust!
Fall in line, ensign!
Re:"First Contact" with Romulus or Cardassia.. wha (Score:2, Funny)
What a staggering notion. It's almost like it was a piece of fiction, written by human beings!
Quote directly from Michael Dorn: (Score:1, Funny)
Star trek should die... (Score:3, Funny)
Get a life (Score:1, Funny)
kill -9 star* (Score:3, Funny)
stopping starwars...
stopping stargate...
"kill -9" 'em all!
Top Ten Bad Things About Star Trek (Score:3, Funny)
Top Ten Bad Things About Star Trek [simplemachines.org]
It's obviously written by someone who has watched too much star trek
Captain Wesley Crusher (Score:2, Funny)
After several years of surfing the galaxy with the Traveler, Wesley returns and graduates from the Academy. He spends several more years working his way up to where he's finally captain of a starship.
Anyway, give him a character VERY MUCH like Captain Kirk, and give us a ONE YEAR series of We don't need no steenking political correctness!
Captain Crusher hits on every female of every species he encounters. This, of course, constantly gets him in trouble with the PC folks in the Federation, but it helps him make great friends among the Klingons and Ferengi. Whatever mission the Federation assigns him, he blatantly ignores the red tape, and uses bottom-feeding-scumbag tactics to Get the Job Done.
Make the series just barely tame enough for American Television. Make the spin-off movie very R-rated. The whole thing should be raw, over the top, and generally offensive. I don't know if that approach would revive the franchise or seal its demise. It would certainly be fun while it lasts!
Long Live Captain Crusher!
Re:What series' did you watch? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:BERMANNNNNNNN!!!!! (Score:2, Funny)