XPost: alt.startrek, alt.tv.star-trek, alt.tv.star-trek.enterprise   
   From: anybody@anywhere-anytime.com   
      
   In article <10fttsl97ndbl93@corp.supernews.com>, "Don"  wrote:   
      
   > "Stan Jensen"  wrote in message   
   > news:f6ltf0d7lmsffkgs338qjvvildeduafs43@4ax.com...   
   > > Berman Talks New Trek Film   
   > >   
   > > Rick Berman, who has been shepherding the Star Trek film series, told SCI   
   > > FI Wire that he has had "very, very early" talks with Star Trek: The Next   
   > > Generation star and director Jonathan Frakes about a new Trek movie, but   
   > > one that takes the franchise in an entirely new direction. "I spoke to   
   > > Jonathan about a half an hour ago," Berman said in an interview July 20 at   
   > > UPN's fall press preview in Los Angeles. "He's in Japan, and he's coming   
   > > here [because] his film [Thunderbirds] is premiering Saturday here in Los   
   > > Angeles. There are very, very early conversations going on about a film   
   > > project. But they're so early that it's really kind of silly to talk about   
   > > it now."   
   > >   
   > > Berman added that the movie would not center on the Star Trek: The Next   
   > > Generation crew, as have the last several movies. "The movie that we're   
   > > having very early discussions about would have nothing to do with any of   
   > > the characters that have ever existed on any of the Star Trek series,"   
   > > Berman said. "It would be an entirely new setting and an entirely new set   
   > > of characters, and it would take place prior to any of the series,   
   > > including [UPN's Star Trek:] Enterprise."   
   > >   
   > > In the wake of the disappointing box-office performance of the last Star   
   > > Trek movie, 2002's Nemesis, there has been little movement on a new Trek   
   > > movie, and Next Generation cast members have said they are ready to hang   
   > > it up.   
   > >   
   > > If Berman's idea comes to fruition, it would mark the first Trek movie not   
   > > based on a television series.   
   >   
   > Ugh, why do they keep doing this.  You would think after going back in Trek   
   > time with Enterprise being a flop they would have learned their lesson.   
   > These guys seem to be going out of their way to kill the franchise.  No one   
   > will watch the movie so they will use the excuse that the market is   
   > saturated with Trek and that it is therefore time to give it a break.   
   >   
   > Whatever happened to going with what works.  How freaking hard can it be to   
   > put together a series with a strong male character type as Captain and   
   > ensemble cast for a space exploration show like TOS, TNG, DS9 and even   
   > Voyager.   
   >   
   > Douchebags!   
      
   Bevais & Butthead who are current;y in charge of Star Trek haven't had   
   any clue since before they started. It's NOT the crew that's the   
   problem, it's the bad ideas in the writting, directing and producing by   
   those two fools that cause the movies to "bomb".   
      
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