XPost: alt.startrek, alt.tv.star-trek, alt.tv.star-trek.enterprise   
   XPost: rec.arts.startrek.current   
   From: sjek@cox.net   
      
   Kweeg wrote:   
   > "Flip Wilson"  wrote in message   
   > news:pan.2007.01.16.02.32.06.529452@cha.com...   
   >   
   >>On Tue, 16 Jan 2007 01:02:54 +0000, Kweeg wrote:   
   >>   
   >>   
   >>>Indeed. Three words "The Next Generation" if that was not a remake /   
   >   
   > reboot   
   >   
   >>>of the franchise I dono (by "Anybody's logic) what was.   
   >>   
   >>I would say it's more of an extension of the franchise, not a remake.   
   >>After all, this was not adventures of Kirk & Spock we were seeing. This   
   >>was a new crew in a new time period. TNG didn't wipe out what happened   
   >>before. It didn't (intentionally) try to change or invalidate what already   
   >>happened. TNG blazed it's own path.   
   >>   
   >>This, on the other hand is a reboot/remake/reimagining or whatever they   
   >>want to call it. I'm sure Kirk and Spock are the most recogniseable names   
   >>in Trek. A high Q rating does not necessarily lead to "I'd sure pay $9 to   
   >>see that in a theater". I'd also have to say that the characters are   
   >>popular in no small part because of the actors who played them, which are   
   >>now being replaced.   
   >>   
   >>At any rate, this is crap. I'll probably not be seeing this movie.   
   >   
   >   
   > Hey that's great! I know that's one thing Trek promotes is to keep one's   
   > mind on the straight and especially narrow.   
   >   
   > I believe that there is hope for new Trek. It is a fact season 4 of   
   > Enterprise was headed out of the vacuous abyss that Voyager, the last 2 TNG   
   > movies and Enterprise's first 3 seasons drove it into. To be fair to Ent   
   > though TNG's first 2 seasons were pretty damn painful.   
      
   ENT's quality ebbed and flowed but the fundamental problem wasn't the   
   story arcs, it was the lack of chemistry amongst the cast, which is the   
   key to any tv show of any genre.   
      
   of course chemistry isn't everything. 'firefly' had it in spades and   
   lasted about 10 episodes. you need the name, the finances, etc. ENT had   
   all that, but ...   
      
      
      
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