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   From: elvisgumpNO@SPAM.bellsouth.net   
      
   in article 2ucp1iF27f5m1U1@uni-berlin.de, Wouter Valentijn at   
   WouterValentijnwisheshewas@home.nl wrote on 10/28/2004 12:38 PM:   
      
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   > "Elvis Gump"  schreef in bericht   
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   >> in article 2uaju0F295h9bU1@uni-berlin.de, Wouter Valentijn at   
   >> WouterValentijnwisheshewas@home.nl wrote on 10/27/2004 04:58 PM:   
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   >> I say some variation on the kind of stuff the Reeves-Stevens were doing with   
   >> the books they were ghost writing for Shatner to add his name to were   
   exactly   
   >> the sort of thing we need for the next Trek. Add Q to the mix who brings   
   back   
   >> Kirk in someway to help fight Tiberius from the Mirror Universe, bring the   
   >> Enterprise-B forward in time with Sulu replacing Harriman as it's Captain,   
   >> Chekov as his XO; Picard & Co. on the E-E; Riker on the Titan (or whatever   
   it   
   >> was called and not yet seen) and spread the rest of the casts around as   
   >> available and willing and there'd be a rip-roaring good time.   
      
   > Sounds good to me.   
   > One big problem I had with the 'Shatner' novels. Okay actually two.   
   > 1. The connection between V'ger and The Borg. Not canon and I'm glad about   
   > that. If the Borg had *that* kind of power....   
   > 2. The connection between Kodos and Sarek. Plain evil in my book.   
   > From these type of things they should stay away.   
      
   The entire series is chock full of enough ideas that it could take another   
   40 years of feature films to plow through half of them. There are plenty of   
   omissions like the two you make that I'd agree with. I did like the angle of   
   explaining why there were so many humanoid species in the galaxy which was a   
   great arc and way to do something other than this years mega villain. Even   
   bringing Tiberius finally to the screen while we still have Shatner to do   
   the scenery chewing would be a tricky proposition, but it might be the last   
   best option to save the franchise.   
      
   What they need more than the basic formula they settled into in the last two   
   TNG films which really weren't very different from the super-villain stuff   
   done badly in ST V & VI.   
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