XPost: alt.startrek, alt.tv.star-trek, alt.tv.star-trek.enterprise   
   From: elvisgump@NOhotmailSPAM.com   
      
   in article gz8Cb.1934$rr4.1263@nwrddc02.gnilink.net, Eric Furniss at   
   e.furnissfam@verizon.net wrote on 12/11/03 7:09 PM:   
      
   >>> Can you say Cap'n Crusher?   
   >>>   
   >>> :-)  Too 'young', but 'Science Officer Lt. (or Lt. Cmndr.) Crusher sounds   
   >>> very, very likely.  He has proven himself, /more/ than adept, at science to   
   >>> hold a fine rank in that position.   
   >>>   
   >> I agree. I think he would be better in the acting department now as an adult   
   >> anyway. He was not directed very well as a child actor.   
   >>   
   >   
   > Has it come to this? We would actually like to see the return of Will Wheaton   
   > over Enterprise? If this is the best we can do it's time to give Trek a rest.   
   > I'd have no problem following Riker and the adventures of the Titan but I   
   > always hated Wesley Crusher and I've never seen anything from Will Wheaton   
   > that would lead me to believe he could carry a show.   
      
   I might have felt that way about Wheaton had I not seen him on TV or read   
   his online blog these past few years.   
      
   What you're responding to was a really egregiously bad act of writing for   
   his character rather than Wheaton himself. I know I used to 'hate' him too,   
   and still don't enjoy very many episodes with him in them, but it's the   
   writing, not him. He's convinced me he's a really cool dude as his own   
   person.   
      
   We owe Wil Wheaton the actor a big break because any of us trust into that   
   situation of bad writing like he was wouldn't have done much better.   
      
   > How do you feel about a show featuring cast members from TNG, DS9 and Voyager   
   > with a few new bloods thrown in? Riker could be captain, have a new alien   
   > first officer ( anything but a vulcan), have Bashir or the Doctor from   
   Voyager   
   > (the real Zimmerman this time), Chief O'Brien, Geordi, Ezri Dax and maybe   
   > Paris or Kim. Kim would be easier as you wouldn't have to write in a part for   
   > his Klingon love interest.   
      
   Right, that's sort of what I was suggesting. I can't really speak to who is   
   good from other series because all I know is TNG and a little Voyager. I'd   
   like to see Colm Meany as Chief Engineer O'Brien but I don't know what   
   happened to him at the end of DS9 or even that he'd want to do more Trek as   
   may be the case of many of the wished for actors we'd want.   
      
   > One or two of the new characters could be fresh out of the academy assigned   
   to   
   > the Titan, the cream of Starfleet's crop (other than the decommissioned   
   > Enterprise). This young Ensign would be like John Carter in the early days of   
   > ER. Learning what it's like to be a Starfleet Officer.   
   >   
   > There..that's my idea...have at it kids and tear my idea apart.   
   >   
   > Eric   
      
   That's somewhat the idea I had. I don't know how much I like the "just outta   
   the Academy" idea I like. I hated the cadet thing in TWOK for instance which   
   was silly. OTOH say finding great actors like the then young Ashley Judd as   
   Lefler was great and more of that kind of stuff could and should happen.   
      
   ENT almost managed that once with the wonderful actress whose name I forget   
   that just recently died which was a great shame. She was a real standout.   
      
   There are things I would miss if ENT goes like the guy who plays Trip. I   
   think he's better in his part than anyone on ENT but it's somewhat still a   
   letdown like the writing for him and Blalock.   
      
   The cast of ENT isn't really that bad but the writing is pure crap and the   
   concept hasn't really lived up to the billing. They have basically dumbed   
   down the entire concept of TNG and not really told the story from a more   
   limited technology or frontier kind of view.   
      
   What is really need is a lot of pink slip for the current writer/producer   
   team to see what can be salvaged of ENT and then when that has run it's   
   course take us back to the future of the TNG era I think.   
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