New, Canon-Faithful Star Trek Series Is In Pre-Production 401
An anonymous reader writes "Star Trek veterans such as Walter Koenig (Pavel Chekov), Tim Russ (Tuvok), Robert Picardo (the Doctor) and others are busy in pre-production of a professionally produced pilot episode for a suggested new online Star Trek series named Star Trek: Renegades, which will be faithful to the original Star Trek canon. The events of the series are placed a decade after Voyager's return from Delta Quadrant. When the pilot is complete, they'll present it to CBS in the hopes that it'll be picked up. They have also opened an Indiegogo campaign, seeking more funds from Star Trek fans to help make the production even more professional. They've already reached their primary funding goal."
Beam me Up (Score:5, Informative)
Lately I've been on a Trek retrospective (Trekrospective?) thanks to Netflix and by Evil Spock's beard do I miss Star Trek
All power to the engines!
Re:How? (Score:5, Informative)
He's playing Doc Zimmerman. He didn't want to reprise the role of The Doctor because he's aged too much, but when it was suggested that Zimmerman would have aged the same as he did, he was onboard.
Re:YES PLEASE! (Score:4, Informative)
Well, it sort of depends on how you define "time travel."
First, you have the "real" time travel episodes: City on the Edge of Forever, Tomorrow is Yesterday, All Our Yesterdays, and Assignment: Earth. These are episodes where people are supposed to actually be in a different time.
Second, you have the "pseudo" time travel episodes: Patterns of Force, A Piece of the Action, Spectre of the Gun, Plato's Stepchildren, The Paradise Syndrome, and Bread and Circuses. While these don't actually involve time travel, they take place in environments that are the same or similar to Earth history. Patterns of Force and A Piece of the Action take place on planets where, due to human interference, the inhabitants have adopted the dress and demeanor of Nazi Germany and 1930s Chicago. Spectre of the Gun is an illusion of the Old West, Plato's Stepchildren takes place on a planet modeled after Ancient Greece, The Paradise Syndrome is inhabited by people who look and act like Native Americans, and Bread and Circuses takes place in a 20th Century Roman Empire.
Third, you have a few of "time traveler" episodes: "Who Mourns for Adonais," where the crew of the Enterprise meets the ancient god Apollo, "The Savage Curtain," where Kirk meets simulations of Abraham Lincoln and Genghis Khan, and "Requiem for Methuselah," where they encounter a man who has been alive since 3500 BC and was Leonardo DaVinci, among other historical figures.
So if you consider "real" time travel, only four episodes had anything to do with time travel. Out of 79--I'd hardly call that a "main plot element" of the show. On the other hand, if we throw in the six "pseudo" time travel episodes and add in the "time traveler" episodes, you come up with about 16% of the episodes having something to do with known Earth history. I'm still not sure I'd call that a "main plot element" of the show--hey, it's no "Time Tunnel" or "Quantum Leap"--but it's definitely noticeable.
Re: How? (Score:3, Informative)
Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979)
Budget: $46,000,000 ($134,178,424)
Box Office: $139,000,000 ($405,452,196)
Gross Profit: $93,000,000 ($271,273,771)
Gross Margin: 66.91%
----
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982)
Budget: $11,200,000 ($24,572,366)
Box Office: $97,000,000 ($212,814,248)
Gross Profit: $85,800,000 ($188,241,881)
Gross Margin: 88.45%
----
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (1984)
Budget: $16,000,000 ($32,612,563)
Box Office: $87,000,000 ($177,330,816)
Gross Profit: $71,000,000 ($144,718,252)
Gross Margin: 81.61%
----
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986)
Budget: $21,000,000 ($40,546,214)
Box Office: $133,000,000 ($256,792,693)
Gross Profit: $112,000,000 ($216,246,478)
Gross Margin: 84.21%
----
Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (1989)
Budget: $33,000,000 ($56,373,265)
Box Office: $63,000,000 ($107,621,689)
Gross Profit: $30,000,000 ($51,248,423)
Gross Margin: 47.62%
----
Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991)
Budget: $27,000,000 ($41,996,653)
Box Office: $97,000,000 ($150,876,867)
Gross Profit: $70,000,000 ($108,880,213)
Gross Margin: 72.16%
----
Star Trek: Generations (1994)
Budget: $35,000,000 ($50,014,641)
Box Office: $118,000,000 ($168,620,790)
Gross Profit: $83,000,000 ($118,606,149)
Gross Margin: 70.34%
----
Star Trek: First Contact (1996)
Budget: $45,000,000 ($60,908,869)
Box Office: $146,000,000 ($197,615,442)
Gross Profit: $101,000,000 ($136,706,573)
Gross Margin: 69.18%
----
Star Trek: Insurrection (1998)
Budget: $58,000,000 ($75,976,862)
Box Office: $112,500,000 ($147,368,914)
Gross Profit: $54,500,000 ($71,392,052)
Gross Margin: 48.44%
----
Star Trek: Nemesis (2002)
Budget: $60,000,000 ($71,141,000)
Box Office: $67,000,000 ($79,440,783)
Gross Profit: $7,000,000 ($8,299,783)
Gross Margin: 10.45%
----
Star Trek: Space Cadet Nukirk's Little Adventure (2009)
Budget: $150,000,000
Box Office: $385,500,000
Gross Profit: $235,500,000
Gross Margin: 61.09%
As you can see, Star Trek 2009 didn't even make as much as Star Trek: The Motion Picture and fell well below the profit margins of all but The Final Frontier, Insurrection and Nemesis. In fact, the only reason that it even did as well as it did is because they throw a fuckton of money at it. Give me $150,000,000 and I could do the same; it's easy to make money when you have money. That and there hadn't been a Star Trek film for seven years at that point, so the audiences were starved. Little did they suspect the platter of steaming excrement that they were about to be served.